THE TABLET

... and art to he the dupe of every wag, and the butt of every 'prentice humourist that chooses to try his hand at making April fools all the year round. The whole establishment (with one or two exceptions) is built up in blockheadism. Writers and ...

Published: Saturday 14 October 1843
Newspaper: Tablet
County: London, England
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... the Snit blew was halt the battle, his head on a lamppost on London-bridge if their illustrious Liberator did not make April fools of Peel. Wellington, and letter opening Graham. (Great cheers.) Mr. W. J. O'Connell, after a lon address, anti stating that ...

Published: Saturday 21 December 1844
Newspaper: Tablet
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1252 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

A SOLVENT ARISTOCRACY,

... these notorious individuals will go down into their several counties, and try to win the confidence of their tenants before April-fool day, in order to wheedle the corn into the ground for this year's harvest; when we see hopes held out that they may reform ...

Published: Saturday 06 March 1847
Newspaper: Tablet
County: London, England
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... n.ctuher of a brotherhood, and daring Penton Week appeared clothed penitential sackcloth. The Army of the Potomac was April fooled by a report that the Confederates were making a night k The troops bed been got uoder roma before the boas was discovered ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1863
Newspaper: Central Somerset Gazette
County: Somerset, England
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... The bast illustrated monthly of the day. Thseaarar• ings are worth double the price charged for the vials periodical. April Fool in the present number is first. class. Our Entertainment is an amusing sketch of a couple of Enilishmen, who being cessiderel ...

Published: Saturday 16 April 1864
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
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INVEST

... missing, and is remorseleasly despatched to the nearest kiarque, whence he comes back with the physiognomy peculiar to April fools or to verdant schoolboys sent for the man of the undiscovered islands, and informs his client' that its mis a rindex.—[To ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1866
Newspaper: Central Somerset Gazette
County: Somerset, England
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THE TABLET, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1866

... was prepetrated on Easter Sunday at the expellee of several hundreds of holiday makers, who fairly earned the cognomen of April fools. Some mischievous persons appear to have had printed tickets of admission to the Zoological Gardens on this Ist of April ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1866
Newspaper: Tablet
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1921 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

BUTLEI(H

... it I have no doubt whatever. The Universal Exhibition in Paris which is to open on the Ist of April—the day whenwe make April fools of one another (and ounelvm), and the French make each other meant. of poiesoss Arra—will no dont. incidentally produce ...

Published: Saturday 19 January 1867
Newspaper: Central Somerset Gazette
County: Somerset, England
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EARLY MARBT WES

... pretend to endorse it ; and my only reason for giv'ng it lies in the fact that ever so many years ago last Apr', two young April fools, of whom the wu one, fineing they had a Ilttle over one hrnd•ed dollen between then, and beside that, a great golden bridge ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1867
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 851 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Contspainact

... admitted, a wee small voice was heard to congratulate the visitors on this being the Ist day of April, or in other words April Fools' Day. Need we say more ? A lecture was delivered in the Town-hall on Monday evening, 30th inst., in connection with the ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1868
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2719 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TH ORC.% DIA N

... March, and this lent ilete better than the first of ApriL He who voluntarily defers planting until the last-named date is an April fool. Suppose they grow early, and the haulm is destroyed by frost in May ? It does them so little harm, and they recover so ...

Published: Tuesday 16 February 1869
Newspaper: Orcadian
County: Orkney, Scotland
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