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  2. A CATALOGUE OF HOBRIBLE ATROCITIES.

    We employ no figure of speech when we' say that we are at a loss for words to convey to our readers any adequate conception of the barbarous acts imputed to the Argentine ...

    Article : 1,098 words
  3. FACETIÆ.

    The following speech was made a few days since by a farmer in the east of Cornwall, at an agricultural dinner: Gentlemen, I thank you for what you do do, that is, in drinking my ...

    Article : 78 words
  4. DIEFERENCE OF OPINION.

    As Pat Hogan sat enjoying his connubial bliss upon the banks of a southern creek, he espied a turtle emerging from the stream. "Ochhone!" he exclaimed, solemnly, "that ...

    Article : 55 words
  5. RAILWAY COMMITTEE.

    The chairman and committee sat on the Equinoctial line as usual, and proceeded with the engineering evidence. The first witness called was a surveyor. He ...

    Article : 214 words
  6. GOLDEN RULES FOR MENDICANTS.

    1. Always carry a box of lucifers in your hand. It is the Egis of a beggar's life, and shields him from the invasion of policemen. 2. Never be lame and blind in the ...

    Article : 438 words
  7. EVILS OF WAR-EFFLECTIONS OF A WOUNDED OFFICES.

    I found that had been carried into the town and placed in the Military Hospital. My first impulse was, to examine whether any of my brave fellows had shared my misfortune; out alt around me were French wounded in ...

    Article : 696 words
  8. MATHEMATICAL.

    A wag having been informed that Honi Heki was nearly fifty years of age, calculated that his pa (pah) must have been seventy. ...

    Article : 24 words
  9. AN AMERICAN COLONEL AND HIS SWORD.

    A colonel of the United States army having refused to obey the commands of his superior officers, was sentenced by the court-martial by which he was tried to "be deprived of his ...

    Article : 115 words
  10. PARENTAL ELOQUENCE.

    A friend of ours, while rambling t'other day a few miles westward of Darlington, was aroused from a reverie into which he had fallen by the following pathetic exclamation, addressed by a ...

    Article : 65 words
  11. AN AMERICAN BALL SHOOTING.

    I'll tell you of a peculiar cheap shot as I had with a single bullet. In at Farmer Spovin's, I see a coop ready to go to Brooklyn, with seven and forty ducks in it. So I said to ...

    Article : 142 words
  12. A COUNTRY QUARIER SESSIONS OF THE OLDEN TIME.

    Three or four parsons full of October; Three or four squires between drank and sober Three or four lawyers; three or four liars; Three or four constables; three or four criers ...

    Article : 88 words
  13. A GOOD STORY.

    One day a sturdy peasant in the environs of Tyreaux was at work in the fields amidst storm and rain, and went home in the evening thoroughly tired, and drenched to the skin. He ...

    Article : 191 words
  14. RECIPE FOR MAKING EVERLASTING SHOES.

    A nobleman of Gascony for all Gascons are noblemen) complaining that his pumps did not last Jong enough, toe humble shoemaker asked him of what stuff his lordship should ...

    Article : 124 words
  15. WAR, ITS ATTENDANT HORROR?. AND UNCHRISTIAN CHARACTER.

    This wisdom has asked me, how it is possible for Christian kingdoms in the neighbourhood of one another to preserve themselves, unless the strength and weapons of war are ...

    Article : 337 words
  16. THE DATS WREN WE WENT SMOKING OUT.

    Oh 1 the days when we went smoking out, a long time ago. Were cert inly the nicest days a Iran could ever know ; We eat and puffd Alvarez' best, and pushed the pot ...

    Article : 269 words
  17. LOSING A DINNER.

    One evening, Sheridan not knowing what to da for a dinner, sat down by Michael Angelo Taylor, in the House of Commons, and said: " There is a law question likely to arise ...

    Article : 163 words
  18. WARS OF THE CHRISTINS.

    Tike world advances towards its assured and ultimate destiny by slow degrees. Over a large portina of it men have learned to abhor the cruelty and impiety of offering human victims ...

    Article : 1,216 words
  19. BATTLE SCENES.

    The following is an account given by Major Bevan in his work " Thirty Years in India," of a scene which occurred at the conclusion of a battle in which he was engaged:— ...

    Article : 1,188 words
  20. A DUTCH WITNESS.

    The following rich scene recently occurred in one of our Courts of Justice, between the Judge and a Dutch witness all the way from Rotterdam:—Judge—What's your native ...

    Article : 111 words
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