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Just Resting
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On Tuesday last, a dead Parrot of a Lady in Rose-Street, after lying in State some time, was put into the Ground, with great Solemnity...
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Death in 1728
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The DISEASES and CASUALTIES this Year. Abortive...55; Aged...1768...
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Monkey Business
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A Merchant of this City trading to the West-Indies, having wrote to his Correspondent to send
him two Monkeys, which Word he spelled too, the Correspondent took it for Number 100, ...
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The Course of True Love
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Whereas Elizabeth the Wife of John Danford of Martlesham in the County of Suffolk, Blacksmith, hath lately Eloped from her said Husband, and
carried with her several Houshold Goods and some Money...
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The Perils of Drink
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Last Wednesday Night one White, a Barber in Salisbury Court, Fleet-Street, laid a Wager that he drank four Half Pints of Geneva, one at a Draught, in eight Minutes;
and at drinking his second Half-Pint, dropt down dead...
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Bullocks
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On Thursday Evening some Butchers were driving a Bullock into a Slaughter-House which
broke away from them very furiously, and ...turn’d into a Cheesemonger’s Shop...
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Swift’s Exploding Mountain
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Dr. Swift computes that in three Years, about the 13th Day of November, it must burst the Belly of the Mountain, and emit an Inundation which will ...greatly endanger the City of Dublin.
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The Old English Way of Living
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An old Gentleman, near 90, who has a florid and vigorous Constitution, tells us the difference between the Manners of the present Age, and that in which he spent his Youth.
With regard to eating in his time, Breakfast consisted of good Hams, cold Sirloin, and good Beer, succeeded with wholesome Exercise,...
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A Race Against Time
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Last Sunday Morning about Eleven o’Clock the Lord James Cavendish started from Hyde-Park Corner, on a Horse a little above a Galloway ...and rode to the Lodge in Windsor-Forest, which is above Twenty-one Miles and a half, for a Wager of 200 Guineas...
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Tea Smuggling
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The Practice of running Tea is grown to such a height that there is no stoping it, and the fair Trader suffers extremely by it; however the Smuglers have been met with at Seven Oaks in Kent, where last Week 2400 pounds weight, and 100 of row Coffee run from Ostend was seized ...
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Fire!
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On Sunday Morning, a Fire broke out in a Back-House or Workshop of Mr. Brown a Hatter, on the North-Side of Wapping-Street by Wapping-Dock; the Flames immediately catched hold of Timber Piles in the Yard adjoining to the said Shed, thence to the Houses ...
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