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... arms, and for an hour and a half remained in anxious expectation, but finally learnt that General Mitre had been making an April fool of General Polydoro in honour of the day. At last dates the fleet and army were reported to be making a heavy bombardment ...
... of Jane Hoskins, as she did not remember the prisoner's name.—Cress examined,—They told her to say it was the day before April fool day, but they did not tell her to say anything else.—Rebecca Castle- burg, the daughter of Lyons Castleburg, pawnbroker ...
... were blew (blue) on. Why does an ill-shaped girl resemble an architectu- raladomment P-Beoaue she's a gal-a-wry. Cox.—BT ax APRIL FOOL.— Why is wet weather more pleasant than dry ?—Because it is more in-door- Able. Snooks says the reason he does not get married ...
... appeared that the defendant had got helplessly drunk, and was found lying down in the street, thus making himself a complete April fool. Defendant did not appear. Fined 5s. and costs, or seven days' im- prisonment. John Evans, who on Christmas day last had ...
... able and talented companies of the day. SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.—In Household Words of last month there appeared a strange April Fool take-in, performed in a railway-carriage by a sedate man nar- rating a striking tale to a traveller, the groundwork of ...
... an excellent concert provided at Nebo on Monday night, and though it was the 1st of April, lovers of music were not made April fools of. At Tredegar, a converted Arab Yohanna, gave him- self a benefit by performing certain antics which, had Dean Swift been ...
... wotch sod anuounced the dawn of April, politely re- questing them to take their hats off again an 1 acknowledge t»ey were April fools. This caused some laughter and a comparing of watches, all finding to their chagrin that the midaight hour had passed. The ...
... was fetching him from Wakefield to undergo the remainder of his sentence, which expires in August next. FATAL OASE OF APRIL FOOLING.—A melancholy occurrence, arising from the foolish habit of practical jokes which are played on the first of April, has ...
... In these works we have had our fair share of the good things going. ON Monday evening, the 1st April, we were not made April fools of, because, though Mr. Price did not bring Garibaldi with him, every British workman had him in his pocket, and it was ...