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[THE TWO MUNCHAUSENS.]

... [ THE TiO Mbl'TfCHAOSENS.], IY A VETMUAN: the atl P° imd nt ofI Tig-ht Draoons, were, two ot i)rs pr'e'sonq who wxrdnominated the regiT menil larsa dst' nctinc to wh~ich, giving ev-ery menj his due, thely avere Ucinuehtly' enitled. Th1egraan fundallnenvi I ieraeqisies Theatnphha yi a1cn, ceave t, b SOe 7a gpsc l tl l;na.Sbtda?2 , t e ag m-i , a *er ide !' . y, a ready . it,; Fieresic of speech ...

Published: Saturday 10 December 1842
Newspaper: The Odd Fellow
County: London, England
Type: News | Words: 907 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

REVIEW OF THE DRURY LANE COMPANY

... DREIT OP THE DRURY LANY COMPANY.- MR. BRAHAL. The triascendent powers of this greatb vocalist are but; little deteriorated by age. His songs, anif rmore especially those of a sacred nature, have stilt the msame mrg d, int-.- fluence on his auditory as they Lad twenty or tlirty yeas since. One fault Mr. Brabam nlib fallen iuto-ttisais, im. parting to certain melodies he executes a tei great ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1839
Newspaper: The Odd Fellow
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1596 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

FATHER MURPHY

... Lieutenant John Shipp, in the account of his amusing military adventures, describes several rencontres he had with baboons near the Cape of Good Hope. On these hills, says he, whole regiments of baboons assemble, for which this station is particularly famous. They stand six feet high, and in features and manners approach nearer to the human species than any other quadruped I have ever seen. ...

Published: Saturday 02 November 1839
Newspaper: The Odd Fellow
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 753 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

THE BITER BITTEN

... AN INCIDENT FOR PRACTICAL JOKERS. AUl the world would fain be wits, And mitlions miss for one that hits.-Swi'T. UMyfellow-countrymen, the whimsicaldean ofSt. Patrick's has left in bis motley assortment of poetry no few caustic observations on men and manners; yet, there are scarcely, I think, in his whole collection, two lines which convey more truth than those I have selected as a quotation. ...

Published: Saturday 02 November 1839
Newspaper: The Odd Fellow
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1750 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE RECOLLECTIONS OF A HACKNEYCOACH

... tiTHE RECOLLECTIONS OF A HACKNEY- | ,1 I ~~COACH. I IThere an more things iu heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'-SsaupxaBs. ?? Tez F=11r. It Was August; and the fashionable parts of London-the i tsqusres and May Fair -were just beginning to wear that I look of melancholy sad desertion they ever assume upon the- termination of the ' season.' For some weeks past, ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1839
Newspaper: The Odd Fellow
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3169 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

GIN-SHOPS

... G I N-SHOP S. It Is a very remarkable circumatanne that different trades c appear to partake of the dlisease to which elephants and dogs are especially liable, and to run stark, staring, raving mada periodically. The great distinction betwveen the animalsc and the trades is that the former run mad with a certain derreo of propriety-they are very regular in their irregu. lariliss. We know the ...

Published: Saturday 18 May 1839
Newspaper: The Odd Fellow
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2143 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE WORLD WE LIVE IN

... NO. XXVIII. THE OLD MAID, There is no person, in giving whose character, we, the L Zo~daS, have been so ungenerous to as we have with the p11t. old maid. She has been spoken of as hard-hearted, sullen, cruel, and fond of nothing but tea, cats, and scandal. So ,t as the original picture been drawn, and thousands of copies have been struck off, not only in novels and other tales of fiction, but ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1840
Newspaper: The Odd Fellow
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1633 | Page: Page 1, 2 | Tags: News 

LORD NELSON

... LORD N1ELSO~.W On the 1st of Augnst, 1793, Captain Hood, of the Zealous, made tiae.signal for the Flrench fleet. For many days preceding Nelson had hardly taken either restor food: lie now ordered dinner to be served, while preparations were made for battle; and when his officera rose from table t and went to thpir iteveral stations, he said to them, I Before this time to-morrow I shall have ...

Published: Saturday 14 December 1839
Newspaper: The Odd Fellow
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 445 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

RESTITUTION

... AESTITUyTION. In 1814, when the allied.trosps occupied the Bressan, fire of their officers entered a chateau, the owner of which ivaa absetnt. Ills s'ivants gays tbem sowte ref'resbmeiste.ts. In tbe rnean times, the mnaster~ hI tle hoibtse hrdve~i, rird shier dpolob dig to his r,teath for tbeir ig.t hai'ing mtne with as reeeption suitable to ibeir rsak5t invited ithem tts a splendidl dinner. ...

Published: Saturday 11 April 1840
Newspaper: The Odd Fellow
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 486 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE IRISH AND THEIR DWELLINGS

... ~ser a Ira. It was impossible, says the author of 'The Angl]r in hl i of Ireland,' to travel even one day through the interior of ri Ireland without being forcibly reminded that I was in a m ,ere perfectly different country, and among a totally dissimilar ol lay people, from those on the Saxon side of the Channel. The l ely general aspect of the country through which I this day P passed, as, ...

Published: Saturday 19 December 1840
Newspaper: The Odd Fellow
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 850 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

NEWSPAPER NOTABLES

... ANOTHER ARGUMENT FOR THE CHARTER. It is a sad, but not a singular fact, that when a class of individuals bad once succeeded in establish- ing itself between the labourer and his hire-as in the case of the coal-whippers-the more oppressive the exactions, the more injurious the interference, the greater is the indifference with which its pro- ceedings are viewed by the authorities; it matters ...

Published: Saturday 26 June 1841
Newspaper: The Odd Fellow
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1650 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

MODERN CIVILIZATION AND A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE

... Society, such as it is at present, will not continue to exist. As instruction descends to the lower classes, these will discover the secret cancer which has been corroding social order ever since the beginning of thie world ; a complaint which is the cause of all popular discontentand commotions. 'Ihe too great inequality of conditions and fortunes has been able to uphold itself so long as it ...

Published: Saturday 21 March 1840
Newspaper: The Odd Fellow
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 343 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News