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CRICKET match between Greenwich pen- | lowed to be fine striking through the whole sioners, eleven with one arm against eleven performance, and the longest peal ever rung with one leg. The one legs beat by 103 in that part of the country.—Magnis tamen runs. In the course of the match there excidit ausis ! were five legs broke, four in running, one by the blow of a bat.

AUGUST 22, died at the Bald Buck, Lichfield, the noted Jack Lewton, chaise-driver. He was buried on the Wednesday following in St. Michael's churchyard, and by his own request as near to the turnpike road

1796. FRIDAY, August 20, was rung a complete 5040 grandsire triples at St. Mary's, Kendal, in three hours, twenty minutes, by the Westmoreland youth,-being the great-leading to Burton as possible, that he might, est number of changes ever rung upon that noble peal at one time. The peal was divided into ten parts, or courses, of 504 each. | The bobs were called by the sixth; a lead single was made in the middle of the peal, and another at the conclusion, which brought the bells home. Distinct leads, and exact divisions were observed throughout the whole of the peal.

SUNDAY, August 28, was rung at Kidderminster, a compleat peal of 5012 grandsire triples. The peal was conducted through with one single, which was brought to the 4984th change, viz. 1267453. It is allowed by those conversant in the art to exceed any peal ever yet rung in this kingdom by that method. The same peal was composed and called by Stephen Hill. Time, three hours and fourteen minutes.

An old ringer of Milford (Southampton), left three-fourths of an acre, the rent to be applied in the purchase of bell-ropes for the use of the church.

MONDAY, September 12, 1796, was attempted to be rung by eight Birmingham youths, some of whom were under twenty years of age, a compleat peal of 15120 bobmajors. After they had rung in a most masterly manner for upwards of eight hours and a half, they found themselves so much fatigued, that they requested the caller to take the first opportunity to bring the bells home, which he soon did, by omitting a bob, and so brought them round, which made a compleat peal of 14224 changes in eight hours and forty-five minutes; and was al

as he said, enjoy the satisfaction of hearing his brother whips pass and repass. He particularly desired that he might be carried to the grave by six chaise-drivers, his late companions, in scarlet jackets and buckskin breeches, the pall to be supported by the like number of hostlers from different inns, and the mourners to consist of six publicans with their wives. The procession on their way to the grave were desired to stop at the Old Crown inn, and refresh themselves, each with a glass of Hollands, his favourite liquor.

MARGARET YCH EVAN, of Pennllyn, who inhabited a cottage on the borders of Llanberris Lake, was the greatest hunter, shooter, and fisher of her time, rowed stoutly, played the violin, was a good carpenter and joiner, and wrestled so well at seventy, that there were few men who dared to try a fall with her.

IN some parts of Italy they make holes in the ground, and put in them conical caps of paper bird-limed, with meat at the bottom; the crows come to the bait, and are hooded.

RATS, it is said, will forsake a house if their road is bird-limed so as to besmear one

of them.

A PITMAN'S wife in Northumberland suckled two lambs whose dams were killed

in a storm.

1799. A GENTLEMAN in Herefordshire

is said to have lately married his grandmother. It is thus related :-" On Friday Mr. John Palmer, second son of Mr. William Palmer of Yatton Marsh, Aymstrey, was married to Mrs. Mary Palmer, relict of the late Mr. John Palmer of Leinthall Earls, who was grandfather to her present husband. The bride, though she may be properly called grandmother to the bridegroom, is no more than thirty years of age."

Ar Alnwick, every burgess who takes up his freedom goes in procession to a large pond at some distance from the town, dressed with ribbons, makes a jump into it, and gets through as he can. A party generally perform at the same time, and then gallop back to the town, the foremost in the race being pronounced winner of the boundaries. They are entertained with ale at the gate of the Castle by the Duke's steward,-a holly tree is planted at the young freeman's door, and the day ends with such merriment as is usual-dancing, drinking, and sports.1

the madness of vying with each other in the quantity of game killed. Game book. List of the killed at Woburne. One of these homo's had 800 head of game in his larder at one time.

THE three sweet fire-side sounds - the song of the tea-kettle; the chirping of the cricket; and the purring of the cat.

"J'our un jour bien naifvement un enfant de grande maison, faire feste a chascun dequoy sa mere venoit de perdre son procés, comme sa toux, sa fiebvre, ou autre chose d'importune garde."-MONTAIGNE, vol. 8, p. 344.

1824. THE steam-engines in England represent the power of 320,000 horses, which is equal to that of 1,920,000 men. They are worked by 36,000 men, and thus add to the power of our population 1,834,000 men.Morning Herald.

"THERE is a house on London Bridge Courier, July 18, 1814. "REAL red-built entirely of wood, without any mixture legged Partridge-eggs. Noblemen and gen- of iron nails therein; therefore commonly tlemen may be supplied with any quantity called Nonesuch, for the rarity of the strucjust imported from France, by applying to ture thereof."-FULLER'S Pisgah Sight, p. Mr. Joseph Clark, Poulterer, South Audley 261. Street."

THERE are odd persons all the world over, but in other parts of the world they die and their oddities with them. In England every man's oddities find some faithful chronicler. Thus a chapter of Obituary Anecdotes.

WANT of churches in large towns. Marybone contains not less than 60,000 inhabitants. Pancras in the same predicament -very populous, with only one church. Yet we found Catholic colleges, and have no money for churches!

Projected Contents.

NEW System of Education.
Young Roscius. Missions.
Religious Magazines. Gipsies.
Strolling Players. Sandemanians.
Parliamentary Reform.
Catholic Emancipation.
Public Schools.

Astley's, Royal Circus, &c.

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PRESERVES the main cause of poaching; of this nation.

The miry pool is called the "Freeman's

well," and the custom still exists.-J. W. W.

Gas Lights. Insurance Offices.
Police. Prostitution.

O. P. The Green Man.

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WHEN or where did this character originate?

Charles the Fifth had an excellent fool, Don Frances; he was staunch to the last, for when some assassins had mortally wounded him, and his wife hearing a disturbance at the door, enquired what was the matter? "Nothing, Mistress," said he; "they have only killed your husband." A fool, Perico de Ayala, who was his friend, begged him to pray for him in the next world, Frances replied, "Tie a string round my little finger, lest I should forget it."-FLORESTA's Espanola, p. 123.

Perico de Ayala, the Marquis of Villena, once ordered his wardrobe-keeper to give the fool un sayo de brocado; the man only

gave him the mangas and faldamentos. Away went Perico to the court brotherhood, and requested them to bury one who had died at the Marquis's, and then away went the funeral procession, with the little death bell tinkling before them. The marquis seeing them at his door, asked why they came? "For the body," said the fool," as the chamberlain only gave him the trimmings." -Ibid. p. 125.

A knight once asked him what were the properties of a turquoise Pl "Why," said the fool, "if you have a turquoise about you, and should fall from the top of a tower and be dashed to pieces, the stone would not break."-Ibid. p. 124.

It is a good remark of DAVIES (Dramatic Miscellanies), that fools seem to have been employed to supply the want of free society. A jest from an equal was an insult; yet conversation wanted its pepper, and vinegar, and mustard.

DURING Lockyer's reign at Bristol, 6000 houses were planned; an increase which would have required at least 60,000 inhabitants, they were houses of such size. It was like the South Sea infatuation.

SPERMACETI manufactory. No dog was safe in the neighbourhood, and no horse.

DEBAT and his Sermons. My Uncle T., having heard the text of one, could name the texts for the next six weeks; which he did once for a wager. When Debat was told this, he readily answered, "I am very glad to find that any one of my congregation is so attentive."

My Uncle T. made a good stand against erecting the pulpit so, as that the preacher should have his back to the altar. "I shall live," he says, "to see a great many asses

The turquoise, it is well known, was thought to possess the rare power of giving warning to its owner, as it looked pale or bright. True as a turquoise became a proverb, and is used by Ben Jonson.-J. W. W.

get up in that pulpit; and I should not like to hear them braying at the congregation, and at the Altar and the Decalogue."

LACK of employment for females.

GEORGE LUKINS. Man walking on the water. Colliers. Penpark, Hol, and Tucker. Mr. Levi. A conjurer at Mangotsfield.

MORAVIANS.

CHEDDAR. The whole parish clubbed their milk to make a cheese for the lord of the manor (the late Lord Weymouth, so called, 1772), when he came of age. Tasting it, it proved not good, and was therefore not presented. When it was scooped out, the cavity was large enough to hold a girl of thirteen.

GLASTONBURY waters. The history of one patient here is very remarkable. When a

ENGLISH loyalty. Vivat Rex et Regina lad, he was so terrified at the ghost of Hamon the play bills.

CRIMPING.

let at Drury Lane, that in consequence of the shock, a humour broke out, and settled in the king's evil. After all medicines had

PRYNNE was imprisoned at Dunster under failed, he came to these waters, and they Cromwell.

MINEHEAD in 1772 a place of respectable trade. A West India trade in connection with Barnstaple or Bristol, and pilchards to the amount of 300 or 400 barrels arrived and exported to the Mediterranean.

USE of saffron in old times.

OUR fashionables might almost keep Ramadan all the year round, without altering their present mode of life.-Koran, vol. i. p. 34.

FOR low-born gentry I heard T. Southey use a strong expression :-" Fellows," he called them," who have not nails enough to scratch their heads with."

GEORGE ROBART's mother died during the great election at Bristol, and her death was kept secret till it was over, because he was too active a man to be spared. Just when this had been settled between him and T. Southey, T. went to the post office and found a letter to tell him his own mother was dead. That also was not made known till after the poll was closed.

On the authority of James the waggoner's son, it is stated that every Bristol apprentice must draw a truck, in order to acquire his freedom.

effected a thorough cure. Faith cured what fear had produced.

JAPAN ink and Japan blacking.

THE celebrated Belleish convent soap can only be had in a fair and unadulterated state at the original Opificium of C. Mason & Co., No. 116, Pall Mall.

RUSSIA oil, which restores hair on bald heads, and prevents it from growing grey; and of which no bottles are genuine unless they have the Russian eagle on the outside, and are signed in red ink by the proprietors, Mochrikufsky and Prince, to counterfeit which is felony. May we not hint that the difficulty of counterfeiting would be greatly increased if Mochrikufsky would sign his name in the Russ character.-Mockery en verdad.

BAJAZET'S Oriental depilatory. Athenian wiggery.

Bloom of Circassia. Milk of roses. Violet soap. Almond paste. Palmyrene soap. Pearl dentrifice.

The man who makes pearl soap advertises for old pearls.

Udor Kallithrix, or Circassian water. Neureticopeklicon.

The celebrated Polish vegetable soap paste, prepared by M. Delcroix in Poland

Street, from a recipe of M. Brufkosky, his friend, an eminent chemist at Warsaw, the sole inventor of this precious composition, which has been universally approved of by persons of the first rank inhabiting that blank and frozen country.

ATHENIAN Wiggery.

HIGH beds. Feather bed.

MRS. K. knew a servant man, remarkably parsimonious, who gave an itinerant female quack ten guineas for a bottle of stuff, which was to bring hair on his head (he having been bald twenty years), if he rubbed one tea spoonful every night, and took another, as long as the bottle lasted. He bargained very hard to let it be pounds.

PATENT elastic India cotton invisible ticoats, manufactured for the spring.

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OLD Winstone! benefit advertisement at Jacob's Well," that on that night Cynthia would appear in all her glory.”

TURNER knew a man retired from busi

pet-ness, whose daily employment was to angle
in one of the round citizen-garden fish-
ponds, where he had some unlucky gold and
silver fish, &c. One fish, which had once
lost an eye by the hook, used to bite so
often as to provoke him. Hang that fel-
low," he would
say; "this is the sixth time

BEAUTY improved, preserved, and rendered permanent by the habitual use of the Sicilian soap, or Italian washing paste, prepared from cosmetic flowers, balsams, and herbs collected in Sicily and the fruitful plains of Italy. The use of this soap renders the operation of shaving most luxuriously agreeable.

"By Divine Providence,"-Wither's balm of Quito.

The Reverend Mr. Barclay, of the antibilious pill, and solvent nervous specific drops, is now metamorphosed into Barclay

oni.

Ar Brough, four bells the largest in the county. One Brunskili, who lived upon Stanemore, and had many cattle, said one day to one of his neighbours, "Dost thou hear how loud these bulls low? and if all these cattle should low (crunen is the word), might they not be heard from Brough hither?" The man said yes. "Well then," said he, "I'll make them all crune together." And he sold them, and bought these bells for the church.'

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BLACKBIRD is the commonest name of a horse in Somersetshire.

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