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ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. ST. SIDWELL'S WARD. To the Editor of the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. Sir, —I well ..

... himself, or whether ladies wear monkies the horsehair roundabouts, that present light contrivance which is as elastic as a jelly-fish and not subject to the accident I saw happen to a lady with a bustle; —it slipped on one side in waltzing, and the lady ...

Published: Saturday 06 November 1841
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1670 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FIRESIDE READINGS

... the weed had smoothed the surface of that part of the sea, and these creatures— Medusa; as they are properly called, or jellyfish commonly—are never seen except in a calm still sea. When it is rough they keep below the surface, where the water is undisturbed ...

Published: Saturday 12 July 1856
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 4699 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FROM PUNCH'S ALMANACK FOR 1858

... the sun was in his eyes. We never tasted oysters opened by an. amateur without fancying we werepwallowing a mixture-of bad jelly-fish and gritty gravel-walk. We never knew a maiden' lady of past thirty years of age who could see a misletoc suspended without ...

Published: Thursday 31 December 1857
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 523 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE BRIGHTON RAILWAY ACCIDENT

... And the very best novel she frivolous calls- Little Amy the blue. get her to go for a stroll by the sea, She describes jelly-fish ; Sertularioe really are nothing to me— I respond with Fish with her in the woodlands I dream of my love, She makes an addition ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1861
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1725 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE OCTOBER MAGAZINES

... Popular Natural History comes very opportune at this season, with its minute and interesting information about sea-shells and jelly-fish. The Illustrated Penny Readings, edited by Tom Hood, gives wellexecuted portrait this month of Charles Kingsley. This is ...

Published: Friday 11 October 1867
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3231 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DISTRICT NEWS

... rough seas have driven them out of the bay, but should the weather become steady no doubt tbey will reappear. Many large jelly-fish have been washed ashore here, the sea being full of them. The Waterloo Benefit Club had their annnal celebration on the ...

Published: Friday 26 June 1868
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 9979 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

EXETER NATURALISTS' CLUB

... the Mediterranean, and in several plaoes on its shores they are sold as articles of food One of the largest species of jelly-fishes that visit our seas ia sometimes cast ashore here. In 1866 I measured the umbrella ot some which were nearly two feet across ...

Published: Tuesday 01 June 1869
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 5258 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

EXETER NATURALISTS' CLUB

... the Mediterranean, and in several places on its shores they are sold as articles of food. One of the largest species of jelly-fishes that visit our seas is sometimes cast ashore here. In 1866 I measured the umbrella some which were nearly two feet across ...

Published: Friday 04 June 1869
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 9116 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

THE POWER OF FAITH

... produce any creature in the transition state, changing from one to another of those innumerable stages between the primeval jelly-fish or even the gorilla, and monkey, or baboon, from which all men originally 'rung, according to Mr.' Darwin's remarkable theory ...

Published: Wednesday 26 April 1871
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 470 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SELECTIONS FROM PUNCH

... in the crab-shell, and ate him hot. Fust-rate ! Thought I'd like some sweets after dinner, regular swell style. Found a jellyfish. Ate him. Any pastrycook might be proud on him. Supper. —More sea-weed. Made pancakes of starfish, Ate five or six sea anemminies ...

Published: Thursday 05 October 1871
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 738 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SELECTIONS FROM PUNCH

... in the crab-shell, and ate him hot. Fust-rate ! Thought I'd like some sweets after dinner, regular swell style. Fourd a jellyfish. Ate him. Any pastrycook might be proud on him. Supper.— More sea-weed. _ Made pancakes of starfish. Ate five six sea Little ...

Published: Tuesday 10 October 1871
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 726 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Western Wmm TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1875. The Pope has a very faithful ally in the Bits'. Organ of Exeter. It

... o*s0* s Is it not because he so well * tr farming interest requires and » t Lo former declarations, that he couia . fl a jelly-fish of a Bill as that now » ' The letter of Mr. Read's ol & column will shew that he is plea. Uf this measure he has, not* official ...

Published: Tuesday 20 April 1875
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 4128 | Page: 5 | Tags: none