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Sportsman May 282: ‘The Juwawb’d Club,’ asked Elsmere, with surprise, ‘what is that?’ ‘’Tis a fanciful association of those melancholy candidates for wedlock who have fallen in their suit, and are smarting under the sting of rejection.’. Sportsman 9 Sept. 6/1: The shire of Brummagem buttons and Waterloo relics [...] boasts most excellent shooting, hunting and coursing. Sportsman 15 Sept. 2/1: Notes on News [...] Stephens, the Fenian head centre, seems, in Yankee phrase, ‘up a tree.’ Some say he is a patriot of the purest water; others that he is [...] a British spy. Sportsman 30 Aug. 2/1: Notes on News [...] Of what potent ingredients ‘All Nations’ is compounded know not. Probably it is not unlike mixture we ourselves once tasted [...] called ‘Landlord’s Own Punch,’ which [...] ‘made a man wink his eyes fit to knock an omnibus over’. Sportsman 25 Oct. 2/1: Notes on News [...] [D]evices worthy of the bystanders at Lancashire ‘up and downer’. Sportsman 1 Nov. 2/1: Notes on News [...] The French are ‘going in baldheaded’ [...] for eating horseflesh. Sportsman 13 Oct. 2/1: Notes on News [...] ‘A hair of the (spirituous) dog that bit you’ is [...] said to be a good cure for ‘hot coppers’ [...] the morning after a ‘wet’ night. Sportsman 11 Oct. 2/1: Notes on News [...] Every cloud has [...] a silver lining. But every country Blowsalinda has not—a silver proboscis. Sportsman 29 Sept. 2/1: Notes on News [...] [M]any an otherwise quiet bona roba was sent for a month’s hard labour for ‘speaking to gentlemen’. Sportsman 17 Nov. 2/1: Notes on News [...] There was a duel the other day between two irritable scribes of minor repute, owing one having called the other ‘a bug’ in print. Sportsman 25 Sept. 2/1: Notes on News [...] Laughter out place seems peculiarly English [...] one might pretty fairly assume the unseemly cackler to be the biggest fool in court. Sportsman 4 Sept. 2/1: Notes on News [...] [W]hile public worship was going on [a] goose waddled in [...] the unwelcome cackler’s presence fairly put the precentor out of countenance. Sportsman 1 Sept. 2/1: Notes on News [...] [A]ny meat [...] however diseased, will do for the London poor, who at present high prices are almost forced to buy ‘cagmag’. Sportsman 16 Oct. 2/1: Notes on News [...] ‘The way the money goes’ on the London, Chatham, and Dover [railway] must be, in American phrase, ‘a caution to snakes’. Sportsman 13 Oct. 2/1: Notes on News [...] The ‘baronet’s daughter,’ [was]not so to be ‘choked off.’ She still worried the wretched young man at least to ‘go through the form of marriage’. Sportsman 16 Oct. 2/1: Notes on News [...] [Y]ou can get cogged dice, ‘goosed’ cards, swindling padlocks, and ‘convex mirrors,’ to enable vou to [...] ‘win any game’ . Sportsman 13 Oct. 2/1: Notes on News [...] ‘A hair of the (spirituous) dog that bit you’ is [...] said to be a good cure for ‘hot coppers’ [...] the morning after a ‘wet’ night. Sportsman 25 Oct. 2/1: Notes on News [...] [A] saloon ‘where they were treated to a mountain dew’. Sportsman 29 Sept. 2/2: Notes on News [...] Why should the [...] magistrates pass sentence on the ‘soiled doves’ of the West-end four times heavier than others of the sisterhood would get for creating ten times as great a nuisance at Clerkenwell. Sportsman 13 Oct. 2/1: Notes on News [...] Are his feelings those of [the] ‘heavy father’ [...] or of that curious avuncular relation [...] a ‘Dutch uncle’. Sportsman 27 Sept. 2/1: Notes on News [...] [P]eople who once chaffed the tall Emeralder as a limp ogre [...] with heart no bigger than a bee’s knee, will have to own that the ‘great O’ is at least not quite so ‘soft’. Sportsman 29 Sept. 2/1: Notes on News [...]Two unsexed women fought like wild cats [...] backed by their ‘fancy men’ [...] and using language that might have been tolerated in Gomorrah the night before it was burnt down . Sportsman 29 Sept. 2/1: Notes on News [...] [The centenary] in honour of ‘the divine Williams,’ as our French friends call Shakespeare, was a miserable ‘fizzle’. Sportsman 27 Dec. 2/1: Notes on News [...] [O]ne of those excessively ‘fly flats,’ who [...] signs himself ‘One who has never been Bitten’. Sportsman 11 Sept. 2/1: Notes on News [...] 50,000 francs went to fee his Yankee legal advisers, and 20,000 francs were fobbed his interpreter. Sportsman 18 Sept. 2/1: Notes on News [...] For a forty-tongue power of unblushing Iying commend us to the Hebrew ‘knock ’em down’ gentlemen at one of those many mock auctions. Sportsman 16 Oct. 2/1: Notes on News [...] An example superfine writing [...] from the Nottingham Guardian [...] the reporter, in a burst of gushing ‘gag’ and an easy flow of sublime balderdash, winds up in this style [etc]. Sportsman 29 Sept. 2/1: Notes on News [...] [A] crusade was set foot by the Regent-street tradesmen against the painted ‘gay ladies’ of that vicinity. Sportsman 13 Sept. 2/1: Notes on News [...] The teetotallers have been ‘going it’ at Chester. Sportsman 4 Sept. 2/1: Notes on News [...] N.B. As Artemus Ward might phrase it, this is intended for a ‘goak’.