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Chit Chat.
MARRIAGE . —April 17 , at Leamington Spa , by the Rev . John Craig , vicar , Mr . JAMES SHARP , jun , etlitor of the Leamington Spa Courier , to Henrietta Elizabeth , youngest daughter of Mr . John Gearing , of London . BIRTHS . —May 15 . —At Oxford , the wife of Bro . RICHARD JAMES SPIERS ( W . M . Alfred Lodge , No . 423 , Prov . S . G . D ., Oxfordshire ) , of a daughter .
Lately , the wife of Bro . FRED . MAY ( P . M . 327 , Prov . G . D . ) of a daughter . April 10 . —The wife of Bro . J . B . BULVILLE , NO . 1 , of a daughter . April . —The wife of Bro . W . H . CARLIN ( P . M . No . 30 ) , Ludgatestreet , of a son .
Obituary.
Obituary .
GRAVE IMPERTINENCE . —In a village of Suffolk is the following epitaph on a tombstone . It has no name , no date , and no one knows over whose remains it was placed . " Reader , pass on , nor idly waste your time On bad biography or bitter rhyme ; For what I am—this cumbrous clay ensures ; And what I was—is no affair of yours . "
THE following inscription is copied from a stone lying in the chancel of the church of Conway , Carnarvonshire : — "Here lyeth the body of Nicholas Hooks , of Conway , gent ., who was the 41 st child of his father , William Hookes , Esq ., by Alice , his wife , and the father of 27 children . Who died the 20 th day of March 1637 . "
March 15 , set . 73 . —Bro . JOHN DYSON , formerly a painter , was initiated , 1803 , in No . 168 , Chelsea—a contributing member for seventeen years—unfortunate in business—and visited by several attacks of illness , and some severe wounds . His ease was approved , and in July , 1839 , he was admitted to the benefits of the Asylum for the Worthy Aged and Decayed Freemason . The misfortunes of life have generalla tendency to depress the
y animal spirits , but our Brother had much elasticity in his nature , and looked on his altered position with some philosophy . He had not only encountered the misery which want of success in trade entails ; but when he would gladly have fallen into the ranks as a journeyman , he became totally incapacitated by having been twice bitten by mad dogs ; in one instance he himself cut out a large portion of flesh much larger than was necessary—the dog died , our Brother recovered . Some few years after
he was bitten b y a large Newfoundland dog that had bitten several , two of whom died afterwards ; our intrepid brother was again his own surgeon , and boldly cut down upon his wrist to the bone , inflammation ensued , and Messrs . Astley Cooper and Brodie ( it was before these eminent surgeons were raised to the dignity of the bloody hand ) visited him and performed a difficult operation , to which he not merely submitted with patience , but held his own wrist and explained the manner in which ho had previously operated . The two gentlemen were much pleased with
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Chit Chat.
MARRIAGE . —April 17 , at Leamington Spa , by the Rev . John Craig , vicar , Mr . JAMES SHARP , jun , etlitor of the Leamington Spa Courier , to Henrietta Elizabeth , youngest daughter of Mr . John Gearing , of London . BIRTHS . —May 15 . —At Oxford , the wife of Bro . RICHARD JAMES SPIERS ( W . M . Alfred Lodge , No . 423 , Prov . S . G . D ., Oxfordshire ) , of a daughter .
Lately , the wife of Bro . FRED . MAY ( P . M . 327 , Prov . G . D . ) of a daughter . April 10 . —The wife of Bro . J . B . BULVILLE , NO . 1 , of a daughter . April . —The wife of Bro . W . H . CARLIN ( P . M . No . 30 ) , Ludgatestreet , of a son .
Obituary.
Obituary .
GRAVE IMPERTINENCE . —In a village of Suffolk is the following epitaph on a tombstone . It has no name , no date , and no one knows over whose remains it was placed . " Reader , pass on , nor idly waste your time On bad biography or bitter rhyme ; For what I am—this cumbrous clay ensures ; And what I was—is no affair of yours . "
THE following inscription is copied from a stone lying in the chancel of the church of Conway , Carnarvonshire : — "Here lyeth the body of Nicholas Hooks , of Conway , gent ., who was the 41 st child of his father , William Hookes , Esq ., by Alice , his wife , and the father of 27 children . Who died the 20 th day of March 1637 . "
March 15 , set . 73 . —Bro . JOHN DYSON , formerly a painter , was initiated , 1803 , in No . 168 , Chelsea—a contributing member for seventeen years—unfortunate in business—and visited by several attacks of illness , and some severe wounds . His ease was approved , and in July , 1839 , he was admitted to the benefits of the Asylum for the Worthy Aged and Decayed Freemason . The misfortunes of life have generalla tendency to depress the
y animal spirits , but our Brother had much elasticity in his nature , and looked on his altered position with some philosophy . He had not only encountered the misery which want of success in trade entails ; but when he would gladly have fallen into the ranks as a journeyman , he became totally incapacitated by having been twice bitten by mad dogs ; in one instance he himself cut out a large portion of flesh much larger than was necessary—the dog died , our Brother recovered . Some few years after
he was bitten b y a large Newfoundland dog that had bitten several , two of whom died afterwards ; our intrepid brother was again his own surgeon , and boldly cut down upon his wrist to the bone , inflammation ensued , and Messrs . Astley Cooper and Brodie ( it was before these eminent surgeons were raised to the dignity of the bloody hand ) visited him and performed a difficult operation , to which he not merely submitted with patience , but held his own wrist and explained the manner in which ho had previously operated . The two gentlemen were much pleased with