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    • THE INTERNA TIONAL BIG GOOSEBERRY COMPAN...
    • RESPECTABLE POISONERS.
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      60 The Tom Ah A Wk. [August Is, 1868.

      60 THE TOM AH A WK . [ August is , 1868 .

      The Interna Tional Big Gooseberry Compan...

      THE INTERNA TIONAL BIG GOOSEBERRY COMPANY .

      Incorporated, &C, &C. Capital, &C, &C. D...

      Incorporated , & c , & c . Capital , & c , & c . Directors . & c ., & Prospectus c , & c . , & c . iJLi This inio Company \_^ vj > j . j . xj _/« a . ii ^ Provincial 10 is projected j _» j . vjjc ^ li-u . for iui the iiit with . purpose ^ uijjuov the finest ^ of « jjl supp isu ^^ ii l ^ ying & the iuv /

      berries Metropolitan that can and possibly be Press grown during the green months goose of - August It being and an September acknowled . ged fact that the public will insist on having cheap and dail nasty y served paper up , at to least them five in a times dirty the condition amount , of and intelli on a - twenty gence that hours can , it possibly has been be determined collected , in with an a interval view to of ensuring four-and a - police supply reports of subject , sensational matter paragrap for leading hs , & articles c , & c , , controversies c , ,

      i . —To thieves enter , and into arrange negotiations with with them several for a series celebrated of periodical London appoint burglaries . to be committed as the directors shall hereafter 2 . —Communicate politicians , and with settle distressed for the husbands perpetration , lovers , of and several Irish 3 . —Offer effective a prize and for ingenious the finest murders specimen . of suicide , either with itS or X without VV XtllU Rules U . W mania IXlCbllia of , a CU the preference |_/ X W . « . \ --X VHU ^ being UWUlw to shown OUU be VV XX sent for X \ JX the L-I . XW J latter . C 4 . L Lti .

      families chairmen N . B . , sporting of J oint youths Stock competition , Companies and dramati , clergymen c authors . with grat large is to 4 . —Get subject up a or weekl other , such controvers as the " Back some of hi the ghl Moon y interesting , " " the fundamental undomesticated princip flea les , " and treacle "loco , " motion " the average by gunpowder age of /' 5 . —Exp Science lode Congress a quart of , nitro or publish -glycerine the speeches in the midst in ex of tenso the Social . 6 . —Dig up an " undiscovered " poem and send copies of the Raise orig uiigii inal xai jLTJ MS -k ^ . . about to lu Hanwell xiaix the woiX j , Colney \ s \ sj . j . j . \ jt * xxcvtv Hatch of the , and axiu jl Bedlam -fv-uxcixxx * .

      7 . —a cry immorality age , and send agents overwhelming to Ramsgat evidence e sands in refutation and Brighton . beach to gather S . —And purpose three , lastl at of a y birth , p establish icking , railway up agencies news accidents about all commercial , over relig the ious country meetings frauds for , twins , the esbad caped champagne tigers , political , missionary manifestations enterprises , exploding , and coal coming mines , divorce cases , & c ., & c , & c . and Possessed exciting b information y these means the directors of an im « J mense confidentl fund believe of orig that inal

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      Respectable Poisoners.

      RESPECTABLE POISONERS .

      Of ' London 1''He Lancet To The Calls Ou...

      of ' London 1 ' ' he Lancet to the calls our inions attention of our ,-by ancestor some extra s five cts from hundred Memorials s be ago the caug beg on inning the ht , adulterating proper of the op punishment fourteenth food or century of offering such , trading at putrid a time meat bri when gands for antibilio sale as mi year . In us marvellous pills were unknown civilisation , the exhibited penny-a- by liner modern not dreamt museums of , not and even the hoped invent for second j at prices a time for when inferior there goods was , no no co Times -operative to appeal society to , no to a Teleg baker raph who to sold lash light a horrible bread KJX 4 \ was tale sent , no enced Zoo to to \\ walk be drawn in ; at on that a hurdle time

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      days Sweetl , when y , being Brass , not is requested King , that , but pink forced of vintners to swallow , Mr all . Nod the wine which could be proved allied with any product but juice of the Buttons grap standing e , * or imag on the ine pillory for an while instant Mr . Calcraft Messrs . handed Ditches them and bumper Verily after , our bump ancestors er of were strong more military advanced ditto . than we are at the present shine over \ J day our VS with path the l full in 11 life light ! of The Maynes baker who and sells fl Pakingtons XlO a loaf \ half to

      an OXXIXXV ounce ^ V \* X short U-X wei £ SC 4 , g ht , rob XJLJ s I * the * . poor XX \ + UUXY man ^ X W ; the . KJ ^ rich does XJCLX XXCIXJ not the know street it , and by a cares roug little h , and if he loses does a . pocket The - rich book man containing is stopped half in - education a-crown . , The such roug as it h , untutore , in prison d but . The crime baker , gets , reading six months and ' half writing an well ounce , knowing weight save enoug d in h every arithmetic loaf sold to , count and well the profit enoug on h V off / JLJl to WU have HO . V V a Cb h seat ? V ^« -VW in XXX , and church V ^ llUl is fined 1 , « robs X \ JU * J the WJLXV' poor YJ which \ J \ JX pinching UXXXV'Xl-l-XJ be deducted famil XUX . Ll . XXjr y of WJL

      from the food the profit pays of the , year witho a ut sum causing much may uneasiness , and To bring producing the no argument necessity still for nearer altering home the system : a poor of starving baking . wretch calls for , with food nothing from a sick full " but wife his and heart famine , while -struck his children ears ring , takes with the he meets first loaf . This he can man put is his a hand robber on , is from roug th e y firs treated t baker by ' X shop 99 , who has and just after dined bearing at somebod in XXX hunger y else ^ l the ' tXlV s expense vituperations lbUJl in O . bl . WlLiJ the of adjacent baker VU . JA . UJ .

      police area CLlWCt , j dLiVL , and CLIU public ^/ X U \* , is LX XXlj hustled ^ XXUUg off to prison V , while ^ V ,, the wife VJ . and , famil The baker wait in returns vain for to succour his spotless , and counter fall a prey , and to within the parish five . demanded minutes sells a loaf some blown other starver with excessive who has water got the to a twopence fair size but sustenance lacking , . nearly a quarter up its weight and corresponding , small small If he fine fine is found is is inflicted inflicted out he but gets . bless bless a scolding his his dear dear from eyes eves a m ! ! he " ag he istrate is is no no robber rnbber , and a .

      price What ! the a thief man , while who , takes the , man a loaf ( in re without spectable giving circumstances its equivalent , it take is true s mo ; which ney without makes giving a vast its difference equivalent all loaf the is world not over subject ) who to have the same said above obloquy our nor ancestors the same were punishment nearer the ? truth Verily than , as we we are ! , the lxivo Few parochial as their boards mvhxuiS parish which beadles block \ may \ have i / been woo now xiuw in c - a m - days p arison —and to

      | yaxuuxuax vvxxxv ^ xx K * xs ~ , r * up uj . -s progress £ / x ^ -L a j g axxu authority Dogberries enoug seem h to when multi the ply fourteenth instead of disappearing century was — in there its teens was , with good sense to back it , to punish the vendors of putrid meat The with weak proper -headed severity wretch . who stole the loaf gets out of prison neath at last , and eyes finds , without wife and a hope last of child change perishing or a k miserabl nowledge y be of - Watts ' s hymns . He invests his last penny in " Food for Rats , "

      leaving and and This administers administers odious scarcel ruffian y enoug a a dose dose h whose to sufficient sufficient despatch onl for for sense himself his his wife wife after a future and and . child child is th , , but but it obliterates the present , , isa Poisoner y . When he recovers from his a niche vain in agonies the te , m le finds of T , himself ussaud recogni and a s ed ear as for somebod his y with from Calcraft . p , memory But Weevil and Co ., who sell whole carcases of diseased flesh that bllUb kjj sicken . v ^ i-v ^ iJ to . s wj the bixv make salesmen uuivMiiivii sale who rruu wash yya , ^ xi . it 11 , with VVJ . bJ . jl salt £ ) Cl > J . k and CU 1 U water waiVJ . or \ JL

      " Condy" a possible , who knowingly disseminat only r e eprehensible typhus in all I its Their fearful ears forms won ' t of be death nailed and to sickness their doors , are , as even happe pilloried ns even , much among less the called Turks Poisoners and heretics . ; they won ' and Thi it s is hot a real weather benefit too to you your must race sell to your get rid m of eat a to surp somebody lus popu- , lation , without getting your head into a noose . Poisoning pered indeed br J utes If they can buy can ' fer me good nting m fru ea it , t which a little will tainted onl , the iv pa the m m -

      | cholera / U 1 VU Ul , UbWd a worse V * fcVA * p lag Ujr u e th UAW an 14 bAMg typh us MAV any VV AAXWJLJ day , VV . AX J , \ Poisoners J 11 LJ y g £ X V e W iliVlli ! we will and bring win it an too action . for libel against the man who calls us SO 7—And WIN it too ! ! ing The some doctor poor orders sick mother a bottle round of port . as H the alf- onl a-dozen y means glasses of bring will - which do it . on Th ly ere rep is lenishes , p erhap itself s , only during half- a-crown health in the the small wom till an ,

  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Aug. 15, 1868, page 60, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_15081868/page/2/