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      April 16,1870.3 The Tomaha Wk. 153

      April 16 , 1870 . 3 THE TOMAHA WK . 153

      Ojvzv Ahalfpenny.

      OJVZV AHALFPENNY .

      The Youngest Of Bur Daily Newspapers Is ...

      The youngest of bur daily newspapers is sold in the streets for the ridiculous sum of one halfpenny . Eccolo , " The Echo , " for one halfpenny . magazine Every kind and , genus publication , style has , class now , or been denomination tried except of the journal half- , penny magazine , . We intend to publish a Halfpenny Magazine ! ! That is to say—on approval . We shall give our readers , gratis ing , to , the all purchasers first number of , the herewith Tomahawk presented for , as the an current Easter week offer- . We are only at the last moment ( owing to the fact that our artists had partaken too freely of peas at the annual spring dinner given by the editor to the staff ) obliged to suppress the illustrations which have not come to hand as promised faithfully for many weeks before . tions The of ' the Apeny monthlies : a New in a compressed Magazine , combining formwith all the the superior attracadvantages of economy and brevity—being , neither a tax on time nor a burden to the pocket . Illustrated by all the first artists disengaged , and contributed to by all the most celebrated writers in their own opinion . The purchaser , after wi skippi ll arrive 7 ig ten at pages the of advertisements , Editor ' s Address to the Public . Buy ! buy ! buy ! We're only a ' apeny . Prime cuts for a 'apeny !

      Short And Sweet. A Novel. By The Author ...

      Short and Sweet . A Novel . By the Author of "Cut it Shorter , " " Sharp ' s the Word , " & c , & c . Chap . I . —The wind blew . The room was dark . Maud Smith waited . The bell rang . The door opened . Maud was in "John J ohn ! Grove death ' s will arms come . Tears !" on their cheeks as Maud cried , Chap . II . —Scene changes . Old Sir Giles knows when gout is present . But guilt is worse than gout : conscience worse than guilt . Why does he groan ? Why that pallor ? Can John what death Grove will tell not ? conceal And if he ? can , how can Maud ever hear

      Pills : An Essay. We All Know What The G...

      Pills : an Essay . We all know what the gourmet said ; of grapes : " He would princi not take ple his is rig wine ht . in How pills . often " Though the world the tale makes is no us test take , the its goods in pills when we might enjoy them in detail ! How often or honour men appear give advice in other in pills form ! How than seldom as pills 1 friendshi Leave p p , ills love to , the doctor , and never give them but in jam .

      To Jane : An Ode. For Thee The Rose We S...

      To Jane : an Ode . For thee The rose We see Disclose In blushing heat A tear Of dew , In fear Lest you Should prove more sweet !

      Chuck : A Comic Tale. In Three Parts. By...

      Chuck : a Comic Tale . In Three Parts . By the Author of " Tommy Dodd , " " Odd Ideas , " & c , & c . Part I . —Chuck was screwed . You'd like to know Chuck ? we You go shall again . . Reader By the , Chuck way , was ; Chuck Chuck , the screwed Reader ? . On There reflection . On no . Stop a bit . I'll tell you a tale of Chuck's half aunt . But , will that will Chuck come better was screwed in the . next part . So , for the present , we say

      Whelks. There Are Few, If Any, Of The Mo...

      Whelks . There are few , if any , of the molluscs so rich in nutritive qualities as that elegant univalve , the whelk . Whether enjoyed at home with the humble accessories of a pin and a pinch of salt , or met with on the luxurious stall of the nocturnal the restaurateu whelk is equall garnished y sure with to be a fork palatabl and e decorated and as certainl with vin y egar cer- , whelk tain of , but producing the whelk indi doesn gestion 't like to us the . Alas consumer , ! who . does We ? like the

      The Night Owl . By Ouilp . Screeching , bleaching , Sad truths teaching , Through the air I hear him sing . Fowling , prowling , Cheek-by-j owling , With the bat on leathern wing .

      Acrostic. The Shortest Company I Know : ...

      Acrostic . The shortest company I know : An animal whose sigh is low . 1 . A Limited Edition of my first . 2 . My last , and not at all my worst . Answer to Acrostic . —Co . ox . I . c .. o . o .. . x .

      Twelve More Pages Of Advertisements And ...

      Twelve more pages of advertisements and the cover all for one halfpenny . Shall we succeed ? We pause for a reply . yearl N . B y . . —Accompany the reply with subscription . Sixpence

      Hard (Telegraphic) Lines.

      HARD ( TELEGRAPHIC ) LINES .

      The Following Paragraph, Which Has Gone ...

      The following paragraph , which has gone the round of the papers , surely needs some explanation : — on " Monday The order at Jersey of Mr . . Bruce The , steamer Home . ' Secretary Caroline , ( with was Mr carried . Henley out Telegrap on board h , . as Companies director ) of was the , expedition on arrival of at the Greve Channel -cle-Lecq Isles , boarded by Government officials , and the master prevented from landing the cable . A sentry was placed aboard the vessel at St . Helier ' s , where the Caroline went soon after . " The circumstances under which a steamer arriving at its on useful destination a contraband task , , should after hav mission be ing treated successfull , must as be if it y indeed were performed a grave smugg a to ler difficult justif employed y and the Home Secretary in actually endangering the safety of a telegraph cable pending the settlement of a law suit . The least that could be done under the circumstances would surely be to take the cable into safe keeping until some conclusion as to its is rights evidentl and wrongs determined should to be leave arrived his mark at . Mr on . the Bruce Home , however Office , as the most y erratic of Home Secretaries of modern times ; and doing this , with a great Mr deal . Wal . pole ' s vagaries fresh in our memories , is

      What Will Tuby Do With It9

      WHAT WILL TUBY DO WITH IT 9

      The Foreign Office, If It Has, By Its Re...

      The Foreign Office , if it has , by its recent inquiries , effected telli nothing gence else on , has the subject certainly of elicited continental some very domestic entertaining economy in- . According to the testimony of many members of our distant Legations , expatriation from Piccadilly does not involve only the loss of the attractive blandishments of a London season , but also a very serious charge upon the pocket as well . Indeed , civilization appears to be the cheapest thing in the end , for the farther one gets from Pall Mall the more one has to pay for the privilege . The other side of South America , for instance , affords the least possible comfort at the greatest possible cost , and though we have not at hand any statistics to which we can refer for the price of butter or bootjacks along the Pacific Coast , parativel still , we have y low read market enoug value h on of the those subject useful to appreciate commodities the in com the - Tottenham Court road . But this is a digression . What we wish to be " down upon " in this article is our old friend the paragrap Kingdom h o h f as Greece again , reminded of the existence us : — of which the subjoined care " For a single instance man , our mig Minister ht contrive at Athens to live within states , , the that annual with some sum to of , suppose £ 400 , and Mr at . Erskine an hotel ignorant for £ 600 of or the £ 700 fact a that year . young It is men difficult do live in the best hotel of Athens for about half-a-sovereign a day , and that French attache ' s generally manage their daily necessary expenses for ten francs . What Mr . Erskine and all the reporting envoys mean is the total expenditure of young men

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), April 16, 1870, page 153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_16041870/page/11/