A Hundred Years Ago
In a lonely part of Lambeth, the other night, a youth had. a plaster placed upon his mouth, and was at the same time robbed of his watch and a few shillings. A mischievous fellow placed a plaster upon the month of a sleeping watchman in the Borough. to his great terror. As he could not use his own tongue, he instinc tively sprung his rattle; and some of his brethren came round hine; removed the plaster, and restored him to utterance. A. booby. who annoyed anaequaintence by following him to a public-houseand drinking his liquor, had a piece of paper besmeared with treacle, stuck upon his mouth, out of revenge. He ran to a police-magistrate, with his tale of terror ; and was censured for the conduct which provoked the joke. These stories have the effect of preventing alit more timorous from venturing abroad in the evenings.
FLYING.
A writer in the Mechanic's Magazine announces that he has succeeding in constructing an apparatus for flying, far exceeding, in strength and lightness, anything produced by nature ; and offers to dispose of a fourth share in the profits of a discovery so important
for 1,5001. _ . .
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