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MISCELLANEOUS

... comparison with the German ghost. Barbers Wig-makf.rs.-A Berlin correspondent of the London papers tells the following.ludicrous story, showing the absurd extent to which division of labour is carried Prussia :- The new trade laws, and the restrictions they ...

Her Majesty, it is announced, will prorogue Parlia ment in person. Mr. Macaulay has abandoned the charges ..

... by drinking immoderately. gentleman, whose house they had been working, gave them brandy; he left them in the parlour for a short time, and they took the opportunity to drink large quantity of spirit from the decanter. The boys and girls in the Cork Union ...

The Archaeological Society

... first the Cathedral, which he observed,contained within itself two sources of history. In the first place, it marked its own story tlie way in which the stones were put together, and which' would enable them to tell the parts succeeding each other, but in ...

Published: Saturday 02 August 1851
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 3976 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Literature

... and the Priest we shall review shortly. We have, however, great arrear of books upon our table. The First Cousins, or My Own Story. —The moral seems to be that Women need not be inferior. If this to be one of the disgusting George Sand exhibitions of women ...

Published: Saturday 02 August 1851
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 8365 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Miscellaneous

... publicly met and disposed of. In the different courts of Middlesex, Herts, and Gloucestershire it was pushed as far as possible short ot trial. In every instance the hon. member for West Gloucestershire appears to have endeavoured to induce his accusers to ...

Published: Saturday 02 August 1851
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 6273 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Paris Chit-chat

... to disengage it from the mud. ll e succeeded in short space of time, and returned high glee, bearing it triumph before him. His terror may be conceived, when, upon reaching the spot he had quitted so short a time before, he found it deserted—not a trace ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1851
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 2232 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A Railway Train Fire.—On Sunday last, the jassengers by the 9*30 up train from Liverpool, consistng of nearly ..

... ignited carriage—a work of considerable labour and danger hut many passengers voluntarily lent their assistance, and in a short time the separation* was effected. The two portions of the train were pushed far enough away to allow the burning carriage ...

EXCURSIONISTS AND THEIR RAILWAY CARRIERS

... Dover, the ports, the dockyards, the watering places, the universities, cathedral cities, manufacturing towns, every spot, short, containing or promising object interest, is opened to visitors at few shillings ahead. Englishmen are beginning live on railways ...

CALIFORNIA

... this season, the communication destructive element was rapid, and soon became uncontrollable. The fire originated in twVi story framehoiwe, pear the corner Powell and Pacific Streets, occupied .Mr. Lesserl, a residence, which there was neither fireplace ...

Literature

... Emperor Theodosius himself, hastened to visit the cavern of the Seven Sleepers, who bestowed t heir benediction, related their story*, and at the same instant peaceably expired. The origin of this marvellous fable cannot be ascribed to the pious fraud and ...

Published: Saturday 23 August 1851
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 7538 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Law

... doubt that the plaintiff was entitled to their verdict for year's salary. His lordship having summed up, The jury after a short absence, found a verdict for the defendant. *** [This is a very discreditable expose for the provincial press in general. We ...

Published: Saturday 23 August 1851
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 2779 | Page: 6 | Tags: none