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TT. • *ere, (Otraltte! that Coursers are hourly ant out to watch the diretfion of the french Army, and we

... Prufia, happened on tbiatrft of April ! ! ! This, to fay the lcaft of it; ii rather an unpropitious coincidence. Why is the April fool no query. May Day is the Chimney Sweeper's Jubilee, aad on that day, dreffed in their regal habili nients they had a fplendid ...

Published: Saturday 10 May 1794
Newspaper: Cambridge Intelligencer
County: Cambridgeshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1044 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HUMOURS OF AND APRIL-FOOL DAY

... it Pie) HUMOURS OF AN APRIL-FOOL DAY, © has that a parti- a been appropriated, Ai Means exclufi vely, to the and why the deftined to that pur- at inveftigation of anti« yen. 8 Only one conjecture, the “Y remote period the wor- gs defs Folly y, the idlers ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1795
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 499 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS

... Britain, none the leaft remarkable or ludicrous is that relic of its priftine pleafantry, the general pra«stice of making April Fools, as it |S called, 011 the firft day of that month '■> but this, Colonel Pearce, in a paper in the fecond volume of the A' ...

Published: Monday 01 May 1797
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4024 | Page: 46 | Tags: none