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... 20 seconds. The Palatine Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 5 ft. and 100 added. Once round and in. 13 suts. 1 Duke of Richmond's Jellyfish ( 2 Mr Pedley'’s Mysticle 3 Mr B. Green’s Cigarette Won easily by nearly a length. Run in 2 minutes 37 seconds. The Mostyn ...

Published: Thursday 03 May 1849
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5498 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Spirit of the Press

... Conservatism soon yields to il- lusions of a more definite and genial character. But let us awake and grapple tvitli this huge jelly-fish, this nebulous atmosphere, this dissolving view of something that neither is, nor wvas, nor is ever to be. There is nothing ...

Published: Thursday 23 October 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4285 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

HUNGER AND THIRST

... of that sensation known to us as hunger. All animals need ad food, but we have no ground for. supposing that polypes x- jelly-fish and other simpler animals destitute of a nervous In- system; ieel the sensation of hunger; we must therefore seek for-some ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1858
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3318 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

A LAST LAUGH WITH THOMAS HOOD

... cupboard with a loaf of sugar, and you can see whether he will break it up with his suppers. Besides crabs, I used to find jelly-fish on the beach, made, it seemed to me, of sea-calves' feet, and no sherry. The mermaids eat them, I suppose, at their wet ...

Published: Thursday 13 September 1860
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1287 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE WEAKNESS OF THE OPPOSITION

... for praising reform, and with the Whigs for clip- ping his praises, Sir Georgo Grey with every- body in the House for his jelly-fish obstinacy which yields to a squeeze but rises against an i;upression, Lord Ularendon with everybody out of doors for not ...

Published: Wednesday 22 June 1864
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1156 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SWIMMING OR FLYING

... water on a float and used paddle, has now lifted himself and an engine out of water and off the earth, to float in air as a jelly-fish floats in the sea. Surely the next step on the ladder to learning is toimprove the shape of the float by studying fish and ...

Published: Saturday 11 April 1868
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1787 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THREE WEEKS IN THE WEST OF IRELAND

... to be taken, an ThOee Aous 3tarted for a beautiful beach a rbe far °,ile off, the one drawback to which iuter .,s r with jelly-fish. On our tha Itwe assailed -sucessively by two read 6e with one boot an-d one barefoot, cooitirg ?? f ourpatronagefor a days ...

Published: Tuesday 29 September 1874
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4654 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

CAPTAIN WEBB'S SWIM FROM DOVER TO CALAIS

... i-assed away, and Par' 5then some alarmn was caused by the captain exclaiming, wh' I've got stung on. the shoolder by a jelly-fish. How! war 3ever, aL minute after he called out, 'Right ; the smart has ito] now passed. The tog Ramibler crimeuip at ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1875
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1498 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE COURT

... Harvie next read a paper on The Alterna- th tion of Generations. He confined his remarks TI t chicily to the medusa or jelly-fish common in we our own seas, the gradual development of which na he had obseryed. ' After describing the EO F medusa, he traced ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 1876
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3620 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITION AT ABERDEEN

... after b. °t~wing harboulr the surface nets began rr ., lbring in beautifual specimens of vw pie commao blue and oranlge jelly-fishes, and n not a few of the still more beautiful etenophores oi lcssY balls, movingt by means of meridian t badS of vibratingt ...

Published: Monday 14 July 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 439 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION

... defy all the powsroi toe microscope, all tb* resources the laboratory, to detcct a difference, one can develop only to a jelly-fish, the other only to a man, and oondusioa alone here possible— that desp within them there must a fundamental difference which ...

Published: Thursday 21 August 1879
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7324 | Page: 3 | Tags: News