Cleaves Penny Gazette (Newspaper) - September 4, 1841, London, Middlesex XV 47.) 4, 1841. No. 9D4 A TORY THE FIRST OP Old Rare sport this We'll clip their and taare to bdg ' a few of my Tain worth pills will 'em down like a sliding arc so that take another day to for a slap at that Irish Hollo else I've is capital It puts me iu mind of the good old shooting when used to catch the old birds with and bag ex officio the till the breed became THE A girl who has a Is continually beset by a of dance around her like around a If tbe beauty is possessed of more than an ordinary quantity of very harm comes of it. But flattery Is too apt to turn the head of and she thinks more of fashionable society than bf her father's quiet Then perhaps aii unhappy match with 5ome worthless and the result is misfortune and through the remainder of her ' I am as the dry traveller when he 10 tbe tavern Why are two men treading on each other's heels 5..it far enough apart Because they have four feet between my how tbe vind blows ' it does else as I knows ' it sometimes U don't it ' you know your catechism Yes I some of * the end of hia ' f don't but I how it must the latter Lore if thou dost not want it for thou mayest for It is wholesome for thy and good for thy An absent minded man went the other morning to shut up some Late in tbe afternoon he had not and after some search he found squealing in the he having shut himself in and let the pigs A cat of extraordinary says a writer in was lately seen feeding a kitten with to make it stand upright This reminds ns of the housemaid who drank a pint of to make her rise early in the The most ridiculous figure we ever was a dandy mad with the awkward appearance of his and endeavouring to tread on it. recent case is that of a young lady at who intending to take out her purse give a pulled out her and threw it into The She did not discover her error until her verted her on account of her poor man attempted to 01 at in presence of after he had made the leap got half wav he became frightened and jumped back This tellow climbed a 70 foot and on reaching sprang and took the pole with all circumstances langh dull care away 0or.'t be In a hurry to get out of the a very considering tbe creatures who inhabit it is about as fun as it can You never av a man cut his throat with a broad grin on h'm face 11a grand preventive of a man in Pittsfield advertises a slate pencil Another for girls with active jaws to chew In a a man has money he has every thing body and nobody enquires how he came by the inducement to follow the old man's advice to Squire money at all Ephraim says that when a constable is in pursuit of the heads of both are filled with exchange paper says that the most and lovely work of nature is next to her and then Why was Lots wife a nautical person Because she an old What sea would make a good Adriatic dry 1 An auctioneer is rather a singular Like a consumptive he is often a long while going before he is Like an he pays little attention to the first Like a good hie sacrifices worldly affairs in hopes of a glorious Like a he knocks down without A coupie of sons of the Emerald Isle met near the Custom one after the usual one said to the poor Horton's to one of their acquaintances who had died ' O replied with the ' O it's very sickly a great many have died this year that never died A Yankee in Connecticut has succeeded In making mirrors so perfect that tbe tbe glass will answer any question which the sees proper tp There is an editor down east whose ideas are so tame that they are never seen away from Politicians will make fools of will make fools of and women with pretty faces will always make fools both of themselves and the In Hungerford a lady laying her hand on a joint of said to the I this veal is not so white as on your said the polite ' and you'll think Paul Johes hoisted the first ensign of. a regular American man of on board the 17 7 H. The ensign was a a pine tree a rattlesnake coiled at its with the Don't tread on A who was very fond of her notwithstanding his extreme ugliness of once said to a ' What do you think My husband has gone and laid out fifty guineas for a baboon to ' The dear little man cried the it it just like A lady promised to give her maid as a marriage The girl got married to a man of low and her mistress on seeing was and what a very little husband you have ' ma'am exclaimed the ' what could you expect for five pounds If a newspaper H is worth paying especially if it costs but three Newspaper borrowing is devilish small In the laws of England there are somewhere about one hundred and fifty laws by which a poor man may be but not one by which he can obtain justice for Mew Error oe Supposing the Injured to be Upheld by a Sense of weir own in the habit of committing vast quantities of is a little too apt to comfort itself with the idea that if the victim of its falsehood and malice have a clear be cannot fail to be sustained under his and somehow or other to come light at which say they who have hunted him though we certainly don't expect nobody will be better pleased than Whereas the world would do well to reflect that injustice is in to every generous and properly constituted an injury of all others the most hard tD and that many clear consciences have gone to their and many sound hearts have because of this very knowledge of their own deserts only aggravating their sufferings and rendering them the less VARIETIES AND There are human beings who have no compunctions of whom nothing but the world's censure and neglect can and this they care about only so far as it affects their own selfish Nothing is more wholesome than to expose such persons to popular Of all knowledge the knowledge of the human character is the most useful and the most All the all the obliquities of the head and can only be penetrated by the lamp of a powerful Disguise of the main machinery by which j wickedness succeeds to draw off the veil is consequently the best mode of defeating it. When a man's true character is he if more than half It is a silly conceit that men without languages are also without It is apparent in all ages that some such have been even prodigies for ability for it is j not to be believed that wisdom speaks 10 her disciples j only in Greek and I A happy disposition finds materials of enjoyment every ' the or in the or in tbe or the the hum of the or the silence of the alike materials of reflection and elements of It is one mode of pleasure to listen to the music of D. n in a glittering with and crowded elegance and it is another to glide at sunset over tbe of a lonely where no sound disturbs the silence but the mation of the boat through the A happy disposition derives pleasure from both discontented temper from It is the worst of malice to intermix praise with that the accusations may gain the firmer A malignant praise has always been the most successful vehicle to insinuate as poison is never more artfully conveyed than in consumption op animal Food in the quantity of cattle disposed of in Smithfield the numbers are ascertained to amount to 156,000 21,000 and 29,000 This does by any means form tbe total consumed in as large quantities of meat in particularly are daily brought from the counties round the The total value of cattle sold in Smithfield annually is calculated at The quantity of poultry annually consumed in London is supposed to cost between and that of game depends upon the of the There is more surprising than the sale of rabbits one salesman in Leadenhall during a considerable portion of tbe is said to have sold 14,000 rabbits It is that a million is expended on fruits and The consumption of wheat amounts to a of quarters annually of this are supposed to be made into being a consumption of sixty-four millions of quartern loaves every in the metropolis The annual consumption of butter in London amounts to about 11,000 and that of to 13.000 The money paid annually for milk is supposed to amount to nearly No one should suppose that real enjoyment of life consists in living a long That man and that animal lives the longest that passes through the greatest variety of and who is capable of feeling in a lively manner both joy and sorrow and no one can feel what true joy who is not quick in perceiving The toad has been found enclosed and alive in the a where it must have remained more than fifty year's and there is a wonderful instance related of one that was discovered in a block of which it would be useless to guess how long it had been Now can any one think that those two animals could have been as happy as the which flutters so giddily over the and drinks the dew from the and honeysuckle and now and when he is will sleep upon some sweet and lay his wings at rest upon That little tender has many more enemies than the long-living toad if it should escape them lives but a few We do not say that the toad in an unhappy for we believe that God has given more happiness than misery to all bis we only wish to show the reader that the in its short but very varied experienced fully as much delight as the toad during its long-drawn and monotonous The beautiful flourishes of oratory and ornaments of rhetorical diction are more often employed for pernicious ends than Truth is generally expressed in unornamented There are two lives to every on at the same time scarcely connected with each life of our the life of our the external and ward the movements of the the deep and ever restless workings of the They who have know that there is a diary of the which we might keep for years without having even to touch upon the surface of our busy the mechanical progress of our existence yet by the last we are first is never History reveals not There is a secret self that has its own rounded by a There are few doors through which liberality and will not find their Roger many obstacles to the discovery and diffusion of there was a visible intellectual to which that great luminary of the thirteenth Roger most effectually This prodigy of bis age recommended bis contemporaries to interrogate Nature by actual in lieu of wasting time in abstract says can be so thoroughly convinced by argument that fire will burn as by thrusting his hand into tbe Bacon himself spent two pounds great sum in those in constructing instruments and making experiments in the course of twenty years and it is a well-known that by these experiments he made many discoveries which have excited the astonishment of succeeding He despised magic incantations and other as criminal impositions on and affirmed that more surprising works might be performed by the combined powers of art and nature than ever were pretended to be performed by will says mention some of the wonderful works of art aud nature in which there is nothing of and which magic could not Instruments may be made by which the largest with only one man guiding will he carried with greater velocity than if they were full of chariots may be constructed that will move with incredible without the help of an imals instruments of flying may be in which a sitting at his and meditating on any may beat the air with his artificial after the manner of a small instrument may be made to raise depress the greatest an instrument may be fabricated by which one may draw a thousand men to him by force and against their as also machines which will enable men to walk at the bottoms of seas or rivers without Most of the wonders here indicated have been accomplished in modern though by means probably very different from those imagined by Roger Wade's British Singular Thomas some time amongst of fat his one which produced a fine and being wishful to slaughter the progeny to Mr. John on receiving the little had it immediately suckled by a it. is no less singular than that the though of distinct have ever since formed so strong an attachment for each that it seems quite so long as life shall to part as several ineffectual attempts recently made can still more the from first has defied the whole ingenuity of human contrivance to stain d stream of milk from while she continues supply her adopted offspring in the Licentiousness possible that the occurrences of this reign would be intelligible without a. brief advertence to its secret The mistresses of have often more on public measures than their Lord Halifax is described as seeking the treasurer's staff by Madame with money and Paul aud lurd of practices and the George I. require to be judged by a moral standard different from the The counts of the Continent were at of gross debauchery and atrocious treatment of queen Dorothea and the tragical end of count himself an tolerated in the electoral occurrences strangely repulsive to modern All Europe at such a judicial sacrifice as that ascribed to Peter the Christina of Sweden ordered the murder of her secretary jn the palace of without the French authorities cognizance of the though of public or the heing expelled from lis such crimes could not have been perpetrated with though and thanksgiving were much more in vogue than at manners more openly and Most men of either had or lived pn intimacy with those of Martha Blount it is known the poet was audacious enough Wortley tue Henrietta of was vain of the made himself generally has been reproached spending nights with poor little Swift's amours were selfish and You may peep of day tothe midnight about spirit aid and but experience has taught me that aa idle fellow is more likely to be caught by the gold jingling purse of a marine and a country clown by the feather in the cap and the stripes on of a than by tbe desire to be shot at the rate of thirteen a for the good of his The warriors of the world must not look to Ephriam Holding for congratulation and on the he is more disposed to ask if no love of of good and of military mingled with their on entering the and when they talk of having their they are quite sure their object has not been to serve themselves When War is in with a cocked hat on his and a pair of golden epaulets on his when he rides a fine and prances the blast of the the roll of the the clash of the and the flourish of tbe with a banner of victory waving over no wonder that Hundreds should gape and and volunteer to follow him in the hope of one day a figure if the poor simpletons would only look at the other side of the they would see War in tbe character of an old lying on the cold with a bayonet through his it might in some damp their military Religious and How ill do pride and bitterness accord with Christianity I have just reading pamphlet of a church directed against The writer is ill and not over scrupulous Jn his life and if he were St. Paul he would authorized tp ponr out more unsparingly the vials of his holy indignation on the beads those he affects to despise he breathes persecution in the place of godly and blows the clarion of rather than proclaims the gospel of I have also before me the pamphlet of a directed against Churchmen if the writer had tried to equal or outdo the clergyman already alluded in the neglect of argument aud Christian and the indulgence of and he scarcely could have been more This work is a barbed and poisoned hand thrown into the camp of an to promote confusion and rather than a message and brotherly to to to to and to The sentiment expressed by these two towards those whom they amounts only to I am a wise and you are How little is such a sentiment calculated to do good 1" Scarcity of were inaccessible to all but the extremely None but and monasteries could have and the libraries of these were neither large nor At the beginning of the fourteenth century there were only four classics in the royal library at these one copy of the rest consisted chiefly of books of and with and This collection was principally made by Charles and consisted of 900 which were kept with great care in one of the towers of the In 1425 it was purchased by the Duke of Bedford for 1200 and probably was the foundation magnificent library established in the University of Oxford by the then literary Humphrey Duke of A single work was of importance in those The prior and convent of Rochester declared that they would every pronounce sentence of damnation on him who should purloin a Latin copy of Aristotle's or even obliterate the title and the impediments to study were so even in the reign of Henry that by one of the statutes of St. Mary's it is that no student shall occupy a book in the library above one hour at the so that others may not be hindered from the use of the Even the kings of England were often obliged to supply the scantiness of their libraries by borrowing books of their Henry who had a taste for borrowed several which were claimed by their after his the same anxiety as a landed - British
