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      are every day so thickly studded are attributable to influences no such mea as , ns these difficult , it is to of conjecture course impossible . And if the to assert proprietors . But of it these is by publications would only recognise the connection between the seed they are scattering and the harvest the community is reaping , we strongly suspect that even the monstrous greed of gain sense that of its can moral evoke cannibalism such agencies , and as die these of shame , would and awake surfeit to . a

      May 23, 1868.] The Tomahawk. 205

      May 23 , 1868 . ] THE TOMAHAWK . 205

      Ossified Asses.

      OSSIFIED ASSES .

      Travellers Who Are Detained For An Hour ...

      Travellers who are detained for an hour or so at Oxford are often surprised at the excessive inanity and imbecility of utilise facial is uncalled expression the skeletons for . Not in the of very cats average long the University ago handles , the attempt of -man tooth . Their - was brushes made surprise & to c hoped by extracting might prove therefrom nutritious a gelatinous , . An unhappy condiment batch , which of prisoners it , was , was deterioration selected . for What the experiment failed to — support the result the was convict intense -body physical can what scarcel intellectual y be expected strength to do can much be looked for the for University from men -mind who ; feed and almost entirely on old Bohn 's ?

      Jpa Ul Bedford's Benefit.

      JPA UL BEDFORD'S BENEFIT .

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      crowd the theatre to suffocation : — MR . ROBERT ROMER'S FAREWELL OF THE STAGE { Heaven forbid that such a misfortune shoitld be realised ) . Under the distinguished patronage of & c , & c , & c . Othello .

      Mr . Creswick will deliver the speech to the Reverend Signiors , The Field of the Cloth of Gold . Mr . James will sing " The Galloping Snob . " Little Bo-Peep Will be recited by Miss Neilson .

      Box and Cox . Mr . Buckstone will toss up his two-headed halfpenny . Romeo and Jtcliet . Mr . Clarke will cross the stage as Peter . Hamlet .

      Mr . J . L . Toole will read the part of the Second Gravedigger . After which a performance by the Early Village Cock . School for Scandal . The Screen will be up knocked again by down Mr b . y Miss Farren Herbert . and picked

      Black-eyed Susan . Mr . Burnand has kindly consented to read the Prologue . Game of Speculation . Mr . Charles Mathews will work his fingers with an invisible string .

      Macbeth . Miss Glyn will give the daggers to Mr . CbMPTON . King Lear . Miss Pauncefort will gather samphire half-way down . Tr 7 te to the Corps .

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      the tower window . Hit and Miss . Miss FiJRTADO will say Roo-too-too-it . To conclude , if time will allow , with The Bedroom Scene from No Thoroughfare . Mr . Fechter with will eight look knives into during five beds the , open performance six boxes . , and play After which Mr . Robert convulsivel Rome ;* . will bless the audience y

  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), May 23, 1868, page 205, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_23051868/page/3/