... MINSTREL ENTERTAINMENT AT WALKER. On Saturday night last, Andy Merrilees celebrated female minstrels visited Walker and gave tbelr variety entertainment in the Mechanics’ Hall before fair audience. The stage was decorated for the occasion and the minstrels ...

... up the river. The Crinkle was built at Jarrow in 1867, and was 293 tons register. The Kentucky Minstrels.— Monday and Tuesday evenings, the Kentucky Minstrel Troupe gave capital entertainments the Mechanics’ Hall. The members certainly deserve great credit ...

... reason why the Moore and Burgess Minstrels should flourish as a limited liability company. The company is indeed already formed, and the favourite place of amusement henceforth begins a new era. Of course a Christy Minstrel entertainment is not on all fours ...

... excellent magic lantern entertainment embracing views of Ireland, etc., with piano recital intervale Mr Charlton. The Camptown Minstrels then gave a performance for the first time at Hebburn, and they made quite a favourable impreaaion. The songs were very well ...

... that this coloured troupe minstrels, which form altogether unique combination talent, are give one their popular entertainments Monday and Tuesday next. It is seldom that u company having the reputation the Kentucky Minstrel* visit snub towns ours, and ...

... Fen was the wish to sec the American crack, Donoffaue, skate. On the way the course I took cab (off waggonette which could not obtain full load) fur-coated, rubber-Iwmled young gentleman, whose twang betrayed him American. I remarked that I had come very ...

... Scribner) thepe home-made quilts are chiefly interesting because of the glimpses they giro of the makers and their lives. Minstrels and troubadours, and the glamour of distance, hove combined to surround the high-born lady of the age of chivalry with a ...

... grounds, North-road. The weather was charming, and there was a good attendance, the match between Miss Lottie Stanley, the American champion lady cyclist, and M. J. Hannigan, of Wallsend, bringing large number of the lovers of the sport to the grounds. ...

... and I hava reversed the natural course of things; you have risen by your gravity; I have sunk my levity. Twehtt different Americans are just now engaged in trying to invent flying-machines. It must tick!# the blizzards to see a man fooling away his time ...

... prospectus of a Suicide Club was published a magazine many years before the appearance of the Arabian Nights. And the ingenious American is no more likely to have plagiarised from Mr. Stevenson than is Mr. Stevenson to have borrowed from the extinct magazine ...

... the Paris fund is—“ golden wit.” see a gang of scavengers (Liliputians, suppose) on road scraper is—“muddy wit.” To see an American liner, with man on board, sailing along the streets of Jarrow is—“ Wit-at-sea.” To see doctor with drawn sword is—“sharp ...

... Board . gave her an open boat and a note to Schools, there being three booths. Polling was General Gales, commanding the American troops, very slow, although vehicles were brought into which was written on wet and dirty paper, recomreqnisition by the ...