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A DAY IN CALCUTTA

... indifference (as the case may require), to the lively but foolish chit chat of a dashing cavalry officer, who is always present. Now may pass, perhaps, an elegant chariot, with a hliaidsome family, but darkish tiiged; yet still time proud Anglo- Indians ...

Published: Friday 28 November 1851
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 662 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

A SANGUINARY MYSTERY

... a ook Rcw, ColeshL-strest, lived a Mr. Gleo.'Bug, head master w6 ave ofl the a~tiona1 school'6rineoted with' St.'Philip's Chuirh,1 hei and and a-youn'r.journeymaun hai'rdresser named Alfred Paynfe, bol was a nrative 'of London, but ...

Published: Saturday 11 June 1859
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 872 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

CATCHING A SALMON

... the cabin, a rude brick buildiiig, within a few yards of the river's baik. I startled wits uinaffected surprise at the ' sight of a gaunt ragged figure, partially covered by a still more ragged counterpane, and lying like a dead body upon ...

Published: Saturday 15 October 1853
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3876 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

A SEANCE OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY

... to make a silk purse out of loy' a sow's ear, the, reverse of this exploit-the making of a T1 sow's ear. out of a silk purse-is not wholly unmteritorious. M( The art of sinking is also an art; and M,. NiBARDo is by art many regarded as a ...

Published: Wednesday 09 June 1852
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2701 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

A DAY WITH BYRON AND SHELLEY

... 'sve found-a table, with' -in wine: and calces Proi hence ~we procemided into the W 'vineyard at'thle ' back.- The nservant' brougist we ~brac'e bt o4f pistols, a ?? svsek in the_ ground, and a live-paiul os piece, the size` of .'halfl;a icrown, ?? ...

Published: Saturday 20 March 1858
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1378 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

A GLIMPSE OF SHERWOOD FOREST

... and stow into its convenient recesses those essen- 'es- *rd- tiale to a pedestrian's comfort,-a change of linen, a razor, a itig brush and comb, a couple of favourite volumes, and a few tee 1 primeros ( ...

Published: Saturday 24 September 1853
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2317 | Page: 10 | Tags: News 

A GOLD DIGGER'S DIARY

... size of a young crab. They are said to insilict a very severe sting, and I suspect it was one of these gentry, or a centipede, that stung my foot. Of animals we have seen very few, the largest being a quadruped called a wombatt, about cthe ...

Published: Saturday 22 March 1856
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2335 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

A BIT OF MY MIND

... asses, wvho, I hope, will show a their proper merits of his Lordship's goodness, by present- ing him with a costly piece of plate, or some such token.' It~ isn't often, Goodness knows ! that a reel nobleman Vjump into a gulf like the Roman Curtis,-and ...

Published: Tuesday 25 June 1850
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2432 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

DEATH OF A BOY FROM MECHANICAL INJURY

... oln Thursday nssruig, aned fonud him a a seml-cematose state, evidently labauring uder an affection of the brain caused by some mechnical hijry. This Injury was the Cause of death, and the result either of a fail or a blow-Mr. Cariss, ecretary to the Mehanucla ...

Published: Monday 10 December 1855
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 756 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

A BIT OF MY MIND

... lmnowr what a soul-upraising, cmtd ti Igheart overflowing cleligitt it is, as Mr. Stiffneck says-(and j e a- then Mousaer put ta wortd hipon Stiffisochc Ctat the ink wotmit iv ho turni red if I u-as to try to put it upon paper)- what a. ic e- glowc ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1850
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2610 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

DESTRUCTION OF A MILL BY FIRE AT OLDHAM

... store-room. A few words here as to the mill itself,-a very rambling structure, consisting of a centre, or body, fronting westward into Wallsbaw-street, and at each end a wing, turned back behind the body at a right angle. There is thus ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1855
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1438 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

A SUMMER DAY'S RAMBLE

... lay, and loft the fixing of the route to my friend, who has a C a turn for exploration, and who hns the taste of a Lander or ? Livingston, a Marco Polo or a Mungo Park, hut who fa from excess of patriotism prefers exploring his own oh ...

Published: Saturday 17 September 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3449 | Page: 3 | Tags: News