effectual
in poisoning flies as the solution of arsenic, generally sold for that
purpose.

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There may now be seen, written on a board on a new house in the
Blackfriars-road, the following words:--"Hird robeish may be had heare."

BILLY.

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NO JOKE OR RIDDLE.

A house with wings extended wide,
A racket-ground to play in,
Two porters' lodges there beside,
And porters always staying
To guard the inmates there within,
And keep them from the town;
From duns as free as saints from sin,
And sheriffs of renown.
To get white wash'd it is their plan,
'Tis such a cleansing thing--
Then out they come with blacker hands
Than when they first went in.

P.H.H.

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The following lines are copied from a seat in Greenwich Park, written in
chalk; and from their style, they may be supposed to have been written
by one who meditated suicide:--

Oh! deaf to nature and to heav'n's command,
Against thyself to lift the murd'ring hand,
Oh! damn'd despair to shun the living light,
And plunge thy guilty soul to endless night.

Written also in the same hand:--Charlotte Rumpling, you did not use me
well, but I forgive you--God bless you.

EDWIN W----.

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WANTS A WIFE.

She must bee middel eaged and good tempered widdow, or a Maid, and
pursest of propertey, and I wood far reather have a Wife that is ever so
plain then a fine Lady that think herself hansom; the Advertiser is not
rich nor young, old nor poor, and in a very few years he will have a
good incumb. Can be hiley reckamended for onestey, sobrieaty, and good
temperd, and has no in combranc, is very actif, but not a treadesman,
have been as Butler and Bailiff for meney years in most respectable
families, and shood I not be so luckey as to get me a wife, wood be most
willing to take a sitteyeashan once moor, wood prefer living in the
countrey, under stands Brewing feamosley, is well adapted for a inn or
publick hous. Please to derect W.W., 268, Berwick-street, Oxford-roade,
or aney Ladey may call and have a interview with the widdow that keeps
the hous, and say wher and when we can meet each other. All letters must
be pd, no Ofice-keeper to applygh. My fameley ar verey well off and
welthey, far above the midling order.

This is a good joke upon _Matrimonial Ad