NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... and wide for her, he can learn nothing except that she has emigrated. Her baby is born on her voyage to Australia, and named after the emigrant ship. He is afterwards adopted by a Scotch merchant, who marries Lois. Tressant, after he had lost all hope ...

THE HORSE SHOW

... names as Hercules, Mrotor, Priarn, and Ajax. One is Pompey and another is Caesar; one Mercury and another Diani. Some aro named after the dead, such as Palmerston and Biohelieu; and otheri of the living, oneh as Marsbal Mauxabou. One rmjoices in the nname ...

LITERARY GOSSIP

... Countess of p Chinchon, and Vice-Queen of Peru, A.D. 1629-39. A The plant which yields the fever-dispelling a quinine is named after, and was first brought v into use by, the Countess of Chinchon. a M. Henri Taine is engaged on an elaborate i History of ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... and sO also are the Ietalian Opera-house and the Varietes; the Gaite is devoted to .he manufacture of clothes; the Gircus named after the Eaipreas is busy with the preparation of cartridges. M. Gonuod, the eralneart compos3r, has taken a house at Bleekheath ...

M. RIVIERE'S PROMENADE CONCERTS

... was dwelting (whea out of her watergirt crystal mansion) on one of the strange-shaped rocks on the borders of the Rhine, named after her and known to this dty as ?? The Lorely. There she used to sit in all her resplendent beauty, singing to her golden ...

Published: Sunday 05 October 1873
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 850 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH'S ALMANACK FOR 1871

... Uranus, we find; When out of sigbt, thou art not out of mind. To Adams and Le Verrier thankful be, Neptune to have an Orb named after thee. WHERE THEY OUGHT TO GO. Our Fireman-to Berno. Our Brushmnaker-to Como. Our Sausageman-to Cateaton-street. Our House-dog-to ...

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... chivalry of Mewar, in Hindostan. A sword or dagger is a prevalent charge in Polish blazomy. Sicily is supposed to have been named after a root allied to sica., a sickle ; but may it not have got its name from a branch of the Saxons? Menestrier, the French ...

THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SHOW

... son of Prince G~eorge Frederick and Princess Mfary. Alexander, who is four months younger, has for his parents animals named after Prince Leopold and Victoria, Mr. H. Bailey, of Ten-. bury, end Mr. Lister, of Usak, took the first and second prizes in ...

BAZAAR AND FANCY FAIR AT STOCKTON

... through his exer- Et tions, and now he was appealing to them to assist II to place a spire on it, which he hoped would be le named after him, and known as the Carlile id . MrDoddsthen congratulatedthe mai- 0 hers of the Catholic body of England upon the re- ...

FASHION

... designs I of the costumes show great taste. Noticeable are i some pretty reception dresses, the designs of which t are named after members of the royal family. 1 The judges are Madame Roper, Messrs. J. H. I Sutton, and Mears. Selancourt and Coleman. ...

THE DRAMA IN AMERICA

... always had a great love of theatricals, and, with Dexter H. Follett, another Boston merchant, he built Selwyn's Theatre, named after its first Manager, the late John N. Selwyn. Selwyn only stayed for two seasons, and then the name of the house was changed ...

Published: Sunday 28 July 1878
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1039 | Page: 3 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture