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  2. EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH.

    Gent. " Hullo, Charles! have you been fighting? That looks rather a black eye you've got." Waiter. "Fight, Sir? Yessir. Black eye, Sir? Yessir—p'raps it is a little dark. But talking o' black ...

    Article : 64 words
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    Advertising : 5,310 words
  4. GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

    His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief has been pleased to make the following appointments in the Volunteer Military Force, raised under Act No. 2, 1854, viz.:—Bloomfield Douglas to be Captain ; Thomas Plummer Addison, to be ...

    Article : 66 words
  5. PROGRESS OF THE BALLOT IN ENGLAND.

    It is impossible to deny that the cause of the ballot is making progress. We do not rely upon the feet that the division on Mr. Berkeley's motion has reduced the majority against it to the paltry figure of 3, ...

    Article : 751 words
  6. PRIVILEGES OF THE GUARDS.

    "What are the Privileges of the Guards ?" exclaimed a Belgravian beauty, who little suspected that the question was asked only in a military point of view: " Why, I can tell you that the Guards ride the most beautiful ...

    Article : 145 words
  7. DISTRICT CONSTABLES.

    Gottleib Falkenberg, farmer, of Krondorf; August Steinwedel, farmer, of Langmeil; and Heinrich Julius Wilhelm Mai, of Tanunda; have taken the oaths as District Constables for the district of Tanunda. ...

    Article : 33 words
  8. IMPOUNDING NOTICES.

    Impounded at the Public Pound, Clare—One red and white bull, no brands visible; one yellow and white heifer, white tail, no brands visible; one red and white cow, blind near eve, no brands risible; one red and white heifer, no brands ...

    Article : 2,175 words
  9. WHAT MAT BE DONE IN FIFTY YEARS.

    An American paper is eloquent upon the many inventions and discoveries for which the. world is indebted to the first half of the nineteenth century. Amongst others may be enumerated the following:—Punch, steamers, ...

    Article : 167 words
  10. KITCHEN AND PARLOUR MAGIC.

    An advertisement in the most fashionable of papers informs the higher orders that— " Mr. Adolphe Didier (the Somnambule) gives his Mesmeric Seances every day, from 1 till 4." ...

    Article : 218 words
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    Advertising : 748 words
  12. HOW THEY MANAGE MATTERS IN THE CORPORATION OF LONDON.

    The papers to hand by the late English mail describe a ridiculous scene in that august civic body—the London Court of Aldermen. The question was as to the election of a Governor of Holloway Prison, ...

    Article : 1,195 words
  13. SCRAPS AND TRIFLES.

    A gentlemen observing that he fallen asleep during a sermon preached by a bishop, a wag remarked " that it must have been Bishop the composer." However great a personage you may think yourself, ...

    Article : 642 words
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