... realising fortune from a broken leg! An April Fool.—The UeforiH speeches terminated at a quarter to one o’clock in the morning of the first of April. An appropriate ending to so foolish a beginning! But the real April Fool in this protracted practical joke ...

... of the truth of I have doubt whatever. Universal Exhibition in Pari* which la open the Ist of April—tho day when we make April fool, of on. another (snd ourselves), nnd the French mnke each other presents of t Arril—wUl doubt incidentally produce severs ...

... admit that the gravity and experience of persons of mature years are necessary to keep the whole working system in order. April Fools of the Army. The Times remarks that Regiments serving in India have not at this day received the clothing to which they ...

... tenacity of a Chancellor of the Exchequer will give way. If the people of England bear the tax after April 1857 they are April fools for their pains. It has long been matter of regret that diplomatic relations should have ceased between this country and ...

... Isis screens, And fools on fools still ask what Toby means. The veil shall be removed from the Isi», and ihe fools (only April fools a little post dated) shall know what mean. Listen—World! Had yon supplied the unfinished warning of last week, when wrote ...

... The captain had the first fire and missed, but tbs Pole killed his adversary on the spot. The Army of the Potomac was “April fooled” by a report that the Confederates were making a night attack. The troops had been got under arms before the hoax was ...

... missing, and is remorselessly despatched to the nearest kiosque, whence he comes back with the physiognomy peculiar to April fools or to verdant schoolboys sent for the map of the undiscovered islands, and informs his ‘client’ that it is mit a index.” ...