MERTHYR

... In this town your correspondent was made an April fool by a little urchin, on Easter Monday, very innocently. In revenge, he declares his belief that one Yohanna, or perhaps better, Yahoo, made April fools of a great many respectable persons at Pont- ...

Published: Friday 05 April 1861
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 219 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

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... correspondent had the misfortune to be made an April fool that day in Ebbw Vale, by a gentleman very young and extremely black, but he can affirm, with a clear conscience, that there were no April fools at that entertainment. Every one had his shilling's ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1861
Newspaper: Star of Gwent
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 605 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

LITERARY NOTICES

... lovely. The story The ordeal for Wives is well continued, and we have an amusing and well-written storiette called An April Fool ' with a good moral, and a happy ending. After some pages on Easter Eve at St. Petersburgh and My rowing days, we ...

Published: Friday 08 April 1864
Newspaper: Carmarthen Journal
County: Carmarthenshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 952 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SCRAPS. --+-

... Your hand, sir.- Passenger (Promptly). Yes, sir, as you shall feel.- (Boxes his ear.a).-Little boy: I wish there was no April Fool Day.—(Howling). How TO FIND THE CAB FARE TO ANY tPAST OF LONDOST.—Ask the cabman how much he wants, and give him half the ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 718 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

LI ritliAkY IP.X 1' &Acre

... would netarally afford subjects tor the spectacles. Hence is supposed that the French substitute for our plain-spoken April Fool, which appears as Phi. nay have sprung from an ignnant corruption el the word Passion, as applied to the salving ...

Published: Saturday 19 April 1862
Newspaper: Newport Gazette
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 997 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE ATTEMPTED MURDER BY A LUNATIC

... alr Sheppard's window opposite.— Charles Dart, a young lad, said he took a box to complainant's thop on the Ist of April, April Fool Dar. It was the ostler at the Parrott sent him, but Mr Isaacs .aras preeent with the ostler before he had the box. Mr Isaaea ...

Published: Tuesday 12 May 1863
Newspaper: Cambria Daily Leader
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1326 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Poetry._ THE DEATH OF

... meed of praise to the portrait of Lovely Lady Coventry; which Is lovely indeed; nor to bliss Claiton's illustration of • An April Fool,' which is beautifully drawn ; nor to Miss Eduards's ' Dream becomes Reality,' which contains two exceedingly elegant figures ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1864
Newspaper: Cambrian News
County: Cardiganshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1100 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

OUR LONDON OORRESPONDENT

... fuller information by the nine means and at similar expense. If I remember rightly, it is not legitimate fun to make an April fool after noon on the first of April; hot oroae. buns, too, are not orthodox on the following day ; but valentinea, it seems ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1867
Newspaper: Star of Gwent
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1127 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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... Sons, 4 Co., of Wolrerhampton.lhr young acoundrel obtained truatthatwe shall hear of hisarreat thorlly. It ippeon, that on April Fool»' thi* c-lrrcr “Jmmr DiddWr arrirad at the George Hotel, Chepatow, in the forenoon, presented printed card to tha landlord ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1861
Newspaper: Chepstow Weekly Advertiser
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1097 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TENBY

... ignorant of any language except the mother tongue, arrived at Paris, from whence he was recommended to Geneva, and like an 'April fool' of our own country sent further on to Chamounix, where he was met by the rev. gentleman's party, rambling about without ...

Published: Wednesday 06 February 1861
Newspaper: Potter's Electric News
County: Pembrokeshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1386 | Page: 2 | Tags: News