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HUMOROUS SHORT ARTICLES OF THE DAY --
1815
ENGLISH LADY ACCOSTS LAWYER
London -- July 7.
We are credibly informed (says a contemporary) that a female, in Clare Street, observed a barrister on Sunday last, about five o'clock, who had made a very conspicuous statement in a late crim. con. trial, had her carriage drawn along side the flags, and instantly alighted, when she accosted the lawyer, and at the same moment seized him by the nose, which, with some difficulty, she relinquished, after reproaching him in the most violent manner with stating various transactions on the trial alluded to, which she said could only be supported by the vilest perjury. The lady was double veiled. -- Freeman's Journal. (The Edinburgh Evening Courant -- July 10, 1815)
CRIME & PUNISHMENT
There is now a man of fashion, in Vienna, actually sweeping the
streets, with an iron collar around his neck! His crime was
forgery on the Government bank. (The Edinburgh Evening Courant --
July 10, 1815)
FIRST CALCULATOR
Arithmometer
A French artist, M. Thomas of Colmar, had obtained a patent for a machine of calculation, to be called the Arithmometer. By it a person unacquainted with figures may be made to perform all the rules of the Arithmetic. The most complicated calculations are done as readily and exactly as the most simple; sums in multiplication and division of seven or eight figures require no more time than those of two or three. (Minerva -- June 1, 1822)
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-Napoleon Bonaparte
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