... (indignant): Too short! Why it's my greatest beauty if I was to grow a hinch I should get the sack. (From Fun.) Con.—By an April Fool. —Why is wet weather more pleasant than dry ? Because is more in-door-able. Remarkable Effect of the Late Easterly Winds ...

... under arms, and for hour and half remained in anxious expectation, but finally learned that General Mitre had been making an April fool of General Polydoro in honour of the day. At last dates the fleet aud army were reported making heavy bombardment of Humaita ...

... gentleman ?? ?? lost an envelope on the t street containing $300, on the 1st inst. Several people passing, supposing it to be an April Fool joke, kicked it and poked it, but no one lifted it up until a boy came along, took it up and developed its contents, which ...

... when, his surprise, the solicitor reading told him go quietly home, the letter eom Pj*J* , hoax. *nie joke of making an April fool has seldom been carried far# —Dmulcc Defalcation by a Friendly SoorfciY s Teeasdejer at Blaoebdrn —On Tuesday, at the Blmkirorn ...

... literature” I fascinated the far too yielding hearts of the vestry. thinks the Vicar. Well, the Whigs shut me just after April Fool Day. and certain Tory visiting justices contrived to prevent my clerk seeing me with my papers, to enable me to apply’for ...

... a mother-in-law, dare lay a finger on him. Not if he be mad? No, not if as mad as a March hare, or two March hares,. an April fool, a Michaelmas goose, and a honey-moonomaniac rolled into one. Is Stewart mad? Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend ...

... plea-ing that the musicians of Italy pride themselves on k'lowing and singing them.— Beeton’s Ihctionary f jT April, part 4. April Fools. —Antiquarians have striven long and diligently furnish satisfactory answer to our inquiries as to the origin of the pranks ...

... several dialogues and pieces had been recited in pleasing manner, amongst them being '• The trials of a patient man,' ar.d April Fool Dab' Mr. Cowl addressed the meeting. The customary votes of thanks brought the meeting to a 'lose shortly after ten o'clock ...

... province. So that 'our Lord was thus derisively dragged, from one tribunal to 'anotherforhoursi 'Asin French, to make an April fool, is expressed by the phrase deans,' snpononr ?? etymologit' havfe re'. garded the word poUJOZ as a'criuptlon of pasison ...

... Portland (U.a) lost an envelope the street containing $3OO, the Ist instant. Several people passing supposing it to be an April fool joke, kicked and poked it. but one lifted it until boy came along, took up and developed its contents, which were returned ...

... through having nothing to cat after death was that £133 iu bank Fifty-three reported last making a total of 716 the year April Fool of jokes in connexion with the April been perpetrated on the British public this year number of free admissions to a grand ...

... any of the hundred and one farces of Lopez de Vega translated by the noble lord :—A she mad March hare running off with an April fool Fox, as ran the joke of the hour. Incidents of that kind did occasionally rouse the Dundrearys of the moment to a momentary ...