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THE FIRST OF APRIL; ALL-FOOL'S-DAY

... frequent than formerly; for I can recollect the time when half the people in my native village were employed in either making April fools, or being made so themselves. I have known a lubberly boy sent a wild-goose chase of many miles, and of several hours' duration ...

Published: Thursday 01 April 1824
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6704 | Page: 57 | Tags: none

THE WITNESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1841

... a playful mood, told defendaut that Ida shoe-string was untied, which was not the case, and that she then called him an April fool. Ile immediately ran up to her, and after knocking her down, kicked her upon the loins and legs. She was conveyed to the ...

Published: Wednesday 07 April 1841
Newspaper: Witness (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7259 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

11. 4i 0 Vicuna, EMI,. El‘sr.. 10 3

... gentleman's former labours, and, after standing for sonic time in the midst of a heavy fall of rain, found out that they were `April fools. After the vast number of persons who took the pledge in Dublin within the past year or so, the crowd on Thursday ready ...

Published: Wednesday 07 April 1841
Newspaper: Witness (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 131 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ILLUSTRATED BY _LEECH

... _11 . DECLARATION OF WAR between Two of the Great Powers of Europe . 12 . _MOIIAL ALCHEMY . By _Horace Smith , Esq . 13 . APRIL FOOLS' _DAY ALL _THE YEAR ROUND . By Laman BIanehard , Esq . 14 . A DAY ' S _SHOOTING IN THE VALLEY OF LOYOLA . 15 . EASTER FEASTS ...

Published: Wednesday 03 April 1844
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 258 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TUIE NEW MONTHLY _MAGAZINE and fl LrrF . iiA'iYJou . nyAr _. for April , _contains , among other _interesting

... A . Le _Brim , &c . ; XVIIL _Lines on _visiting the lluins of _Leicester Abbey ; XIX . The Family _Journal , No . 5 , April _Fools . White ' _s Chocolate House ; Perukes of King Charles tlie Second ' s time , _Epifirams , &c . ; XX . Review of New P ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1825
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 358 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SELFA . TED _THKTR-

... SELFA . TED _THKTR- _APRIL _FOOLS . _( From _ilic _. Sh ' dhng _Afu _^ _usine of _1845 _. ) HE w ! iu roournctli day by day That _his y ...

Published: Saturday 12 April 1845
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 250 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CoLnun _^ s _HEW _Mo-vrnLY _MAGA' / ISB FOR APRIL . — Tlio famous _Tliomas _In _^ oldsby _opens this

... tlio _Courta _of _Vienna , _Austria , and _Constantinople . Mr _Lamtin _BInncbard _fi ivea _us a pinuant article called April Fool'a ; Day _all the _Year , _Itound ; and the _humorist department or tho _magazine 11 also _farther _supported by two _clever ...

Published: Wednesday 03 April 1844
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 508 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE LATE HORRID MURDER IN MARYLEBONE

... apartment provided for her at thle hotel, and she is now going on well. She is the wife of a gentle- maan residing at Norwich. APRIL FoOLS.-About the middle of Miatl sum- monses were served upon about 40 of the inbabi tants of Putney, to attend the Kingston Assizes ...

_PREJUDICES _. —Every country _lias _particular _prejudices witli ' regard to _acccIeratin _^ _pcrsonal . ..

... Lifo of a _Gambler ; and _last . _but not least , _T'athcrProut ' _a playful song , ** I _. es Poissons _iTAvril _^ or April Fools _, _which will be read and quoted by _every body _. Thus , for _half _^ _i-crown , we have in the _preiicnt number of _this ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1837
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2094 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LONDON , SATUIIDAV , April 12

... certainlv _apl'ropriate _enough—and that is _, that llie Noodle year _is _fixed , by Act of Parliament . to ciiinmenca oa April _fools' _Day . — _Sttdluad Otmw . _THE ST ' Gii _. ES ' . STuanEii . —At the _eittiriK ' of the Central _Criminal Court on Saturday ...

Published: Wednesday 16 April 1845
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2668 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

It is computed tha *h are the commencement of 1843, the valise of railway property in this country has inert:aged

... cleared off ; and there stood the forty Putneyites as a laughing stock to the town of Kingston, and the largest batch of April fools on record. The session of the Central Criminal Court, at the Old Bailey, is to open on Monday next, with an unusually heavy ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1844
Newspaper: Witness (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1933 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

11 IOTS AT _GLASGOW

... ike . s it nol _impossible th : > t the poor radicals _have _been hoaxed , and Iliat they ; _'re _nothing b- ter than April fools , The _address _farther enjoined _th ' e _prolongation of idlcnc _' _-s . until _corruption is swept fromshure , and power ...

Published: Saturday 08 April 1820
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4505 | Page: 5 | Tags: none