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PICKINGS FROM P UNO ^ S ALMASAC

... Shanldin Chine . • Larks ,, coxcombs ,, and fair game . Magpie , piebald ,, and madcap puddiBsr ; Mot codlins , gooseberry and April fool , puffs and flummery . •• Sweets'of office . ' Vegetable ivory and . evergreens . Brawn and muscles . . Greenwich rolls ...

Published: Saturday 26 December 1868
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 787 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

LETTER FBOM PARIS

... ' ovar . ' .-1 am not sorry , for the PailtlftBB do delight . teulhly in making of one B . j ) 0 t ' s ...

Published: Monday 06 April 1868
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1372 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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... ( inc . 71 b . ex ) _, _Daniels 0 Betting—Even on _Bandana ; 5 to 1 each _against April Fool ana Bald Pate Bagman _. _Won by ten _lengths . _S'l'ck between _second A _BTUKDTiE HACE HANDICAP of 3 _BOTH . _each . 1 ...

Published: Tuesday 06 April 1869
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2634 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

NUilt-mEcIOrTARIES OF sTATZ

... we had never before given him the slightest credit, ere it dawned upon his mind that be was helping to make himself as April fooL Disturbed at length by the laughter which could no longer be suppressed, he laid down his pen, solemnly took out a chet ...

Published: Tuesday 19 April 1864
Newspaper: Daily Review (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5351 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Ix _Mandcr's _menageriethe otherday _, _the _lioness _Alexandra _gave birth to nine _Hue _cubs . The _usual ..

... _three of his _works on slavery have _been crowned _, by the _Academy . - - • - - As . _Amu _. Ilo . \ x . _—Three nunarca April _fools purchased _, _penny tickets to _witness a _, procession of the animals _-in the Zoological Gardens , London , on the ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1866
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 299 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

16 FREDERICK STREET

... made to reinstate the principal amount. April Fools.—A very stupid hoax perpetrated in London on Kaater Sunday at the expense of several hundreds of holiday-makers, who fhirly earned the cognomen of “April fools. Some mischievous persons appear to have ...

Published: Friday 06 April 1866
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 517 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

The Volunteers

... had great difficulty in getting any one to believe that de- cased was drowned, as they said that he was try, ing to make April fools of them. The coroner said that there could. be little doubt that deceased had committed suicide. The Jury returned a verdict ...

LORD DUNDREARY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY

... having, of course, no personal recollection of the fact. And of all the days in the year it was the first of April - April Fools' Day-(laughter). Those in- genious folks fond of occupying a spare moment by tracing causes and effects have in this c ...

Published: Tuesday 21 April 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 575 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE LAW OF HYPOTHEC,

... d'Avril to this day. Why this should be so is not very clear, inasmuch as the jailers and not the prince would have been the April fools on the occasion. later version of the same story would appear to be the correct one. Here the prince and his wife, escaping ...

Published: Saturday 27 March 1869
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1839 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

had just before its capture fallen victims to relentless cruelty and sarp.g? hatred ; and, men of the 78th! this

... lot of April —(laughter and cheers; —and the result tbis was, that many of my gallant comrades around me, than be made April fools by Colonel, shaved their beards off—(renewed laughter). I don't know who it was who spread this most abominable report, ...

Published: Wednesday 25 April 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1418 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... radio se a paused to this this should be so is sot vary clear, inasmuch as His jailers and not the prim would have hews the April fools lies ,amass. A Woe version the same aka weabi to be the owes. em. Here the prime wife, the diegales of se the lot at April ...

Published: Monday 29 March 1869
Newspaper: Daily Review (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1738 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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... Tait Paris Exhibition is to be opened on the let of April 1867. Those who believe in omens rosy think the selection of April Fools Day ominous. Tza Italia says that the late insurrection in Palermo was intended to extend to Naples, and that a great many ...

Published: Tuesday 20 November 1866
Newspaper: Daily Review (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1889 | Page: 2 | Tags: none