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A RIDE IN A 'BUS

... A RIDE IIST A 'BUS. The neighbourhood of the People's Palace, in the Mile End Road, may be interesting, but it is certainly not enlivening, especially when, as now, a cold, drizzling sleet commences to fall, and the raw wind whistles round one, whipping inside one's upturned collar and up the sleeves of one's coat. There is some consolation in the fact that we are all being served alike as it ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1210 | Page: Page 40 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE WORK OF THE CAMERA: II.-MOUNTAIN SCENERY. BY H. SNOWDEN WARD

... THE WORK OE THE CAMERA. II.- MO UN TAIN SCENEli Y. BY II. SNOWDEN WARD. In no department of photographic work have the recent discoveries of the optician and the chemist been of greater service to the photographer than in the depicting of mountain scenery. The man who succeeds must he a good mountaineer as well as a good photographer. An ideal mountain photographer a man whose studies of ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 958 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Illustrations 

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... Sir Augustus Harris. Nita Corlyon. Herbert Campbell. Marie Lloyd. Little Tich. Mr. Collins. A PANTOMIME REHEARSAL AT DRURY LANE. Sketched by It. Ponsonby Staples. ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 24 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

Graphic

... Master Did you give tlie mare her brandy this morning, Pat Pat Sure, vcr Honour, it was a very covld morning, so we tossed for it, and, faith, the marc lost. V ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 32 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

THE KING VULTURE AT THE ZOO

... THE KING YULTURE AT THE ZOO. This bird, which is a native of the lowland provinces of South America is said to owe its distinguishing epithet to the fact that while it is feasting no other birds dare approach the carrion that furnishes the monarch with a meal. Many writers have doubted the truth of this, but it seems to rest on good authority, and a German naturalist says that lie has ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 263 | Page: Page 53 | Tags: Illustrations 

Graphic

... AIGUILLES VERTES AND PORTION OF GLACIER DES BOIS. ritOM A PllOTOGllAm BY MB. J. T. SAN DELL. ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 17 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

AN ADONIS OF THE SAWDUST

... . From the artisan with his orange in the sixpenny seats, where the tan flies in clouds, to the children leaning on their broad sashes from the boxes, there is a packed audience in Wolff's Circus at Hengler's. The hand is playing its wildest, most rapid galop with a clash of cymbals and a shout of brass; four liveried attendants have rushed in and spread a snowy carpet, scarlet-bordered, with ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1317 | Page: Page 45 | Tags: Illustrations 

A Cornhill Casuist

... ^omhilf (^,asv /sTr BA. CUrke circumstances that led to Ernest Marsden's withdrawal from London have never been properly explained. His disappear ance excited some com ment, for, although Mars den was by profession a subordinate, it had been his humour to occupy positions of direction in his spare time as relaxa tion from his more serious toil. He was a well-known political organiser and ...