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In answer to the enquiry of Reader, have to state, that although the mechanic who may be engaged in

... manufacturing the component parts of an Engine, is in common parlance called an Engineer, the term, when used, is, strictly speaking, misapplied, in as much as design and contrivance are implied on the part the individual styling himself Engineer, and ...

Published: Thursday 10 December 1846
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 75 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DEFINITIONS FROM THE COUNCIL OF FOUR

... g. Marriage— The only «lottery not put down. Superstition—The swaddling-clothes worn by Society in his cradle. Letter—A speaking-trumpet, through which the voice may be heard at any distance. Home —A place where the world seeks your character. Night ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 1848
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 306 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Dinner to Sheriff Grant.—The gtff • ers of Falkirk entertained this gentleman, who ed to the office of sheriff ..

... we are unable * ' '' ed report of the addresses. We cannot, oj . me ntion of some remarks which fell from ' , ari side ' speaking of the present condition Hf. c the town of Falkirk, as compared with tlio/ - and ought to present. The learned Sheriff, u ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 1848
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3630 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Difference between Americans and Englishmen. Our mercurial and excitable American race, with its cold English ..

... regions to separate them again into distinct types. They did not mix genially first. They never can mix sympathetically again. Speaking the same and with the same common ancestry for the of cetnb ' ries, we are now two as distinct people as any beneath the ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 1848
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 758 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CURIOUS SUMS FOR THE CALCULATING MACHINE

... (From the Comic Almanack.) Calculate the number of English ladies who understand French thoroughly, can read it, but cannot speak it. Deduct the amount that has heen lost at railways from that which has been made by them, and state what article of value ...

Published: Thursday 10 February 1848
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 301 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Multum in Parvo

... of a lucid signification, you will not approx in this crowd. And if you can speak simple if?, and don't choke.— Boston Chronotwe. jV me in tins crowd. Ana you can speaK simpie ipj and don't choke.— Boston Chronotype. WJ Soft you ! Word or Two.—Mr ...

Published: Thursday 09 March 1848
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1658 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

unknown to the English language in thl standard English writers. It f T nor by the translators of the

... A literal anynightwhen ° any invention. But such lnex gance and an abridgement The undescribabie part of Wn ™ Instead of speakingfrom his his action actionright over to the t' he upon it, balancing himself on one , Ut P laces elbows eagerness at the ...

Published: Thursday 13 April 1848
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 600 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Hint Amusement Denouncers. —There are people ■who would say, Labour is not all; we do not object to the

... Play, are that people. They took their all work Froissart) M aft / their fashion „ We W noTask what nation Froissart was speaking.— Friends in • p You buy flag, and you hasten cnmasse State Government, which, alas! has so many seto the P rovlsl esta blish ...

Published: Thursday 13 April 1848
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 464 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

PERSONAL SKETCHES OF THE MEMBERS OF THE FRENCH PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT

... addressed the multitude at the Column of July, on Sunday last, » Listen, shouted Arazo is eighty years of a pure life that speak to you ,»- a far better expression than the forty centuries looking down from the Pyramids on the French Army. M. Araoo, Minister ...

Published: Thursday 13 April 1848
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1565 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Weather and Crops.—The weather, which has set in warm and genial, is rapidly changing the face of the country ..

... remain over from last year's crop, have served to restore the confidence of the farmers in this district; and, generally speaking, they have set apart fair breadth of potato land. The fruit crop everywhere promises to be abundant; at least, a finer show ...

Published: Thursday 11 May 1848
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1229 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LITERARY AND LIBERAL PHYSICIANS

... not a medical name connected with literature which is not that of generous man in regard to money matters, and, commonly speaking, in all others. Blackmore himself, however dull poet and pedantic as a moralist, enjoyed, we believe, the reputation of the ...

Published: Thursday 11 May 1848
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 660 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

the Editor ok thk Falkirk ' tfi Sir,—Allow me, through the medium of your » 9 draw the attention of

... miintained, >» feared, a certain extent, the public expense) f frf ostensible purpose than that .annoying and peaceable public. I speak advisedly, from an acci.le* J t»' curred yesterday at the soup kitchen tor the ,e unemployed. Some of the youths who came ...

Published: Thursday 11 May 1848
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 447 | Page: 2 | Tags: none