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... we must now be conteut with a few leading performers, putting up as well as we can with mediocrity in the rest. If we want a Lady Teazle, we find her in one house, but we must go to another for Sir Peter, pick Mrs. Candour out of a third, and search in ...

THE DERBYSHIRE AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SHOW

... ('lues 4.-(Given by Lord Deinman.) For the best cow for da iTypurpoacs, 51. To be tested bh the quality and quan- tity of one meal of milk. The judges to take into their . ?? io any eptitude to fatten. 11 entries. Not awvarded by thie judges. Class 5.- ...

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... exceedingly amusing. Mr Arthur Palmer makes a very interesting Dame Trot, the grandmother of Red Riding Hood, who, although an old lady of ninety, displays a won- derful amount of agility. Mr Charlie Stuart atppears in the character of a parish beadle, end Mr ...

Published: Sunday 07 January 1877
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 22516 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Chats with housekeepers

... 800 p~ersons per dayi par leek of these t dinners, consisting only of vcgevtahies and fruit, sf1 for d which Sixpenceonl was ch-arged. Hundreds of people fi were perfectly aae to find that Such an appetisiog, d satisfying meal could be furnishe&d at such ...

FLOWER SHOWS

... Daley, G. Tarr, J. Hawkins, M. Marks. Best rt loat of homt-miado bread-I, PMrs. Cornish; Mrs. 3. fc Newteon 3, Prs. Rowland. Dish of boiled potatoes-I, E. rt Coenett 2,1 . Cornish: 3, M. Rowland. Dish or glass of e honey-i, F. Bradford. Special prizes were ...

BIRMINGHAM CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW

... average year, and which includes a number of quite exceptional growths. There are apples and onions bigger than babies' heads, leeks as thick ss a man's forearm, and a pine apple that weighs 14ib. Among the vegetables, visitors will be interested to see a ...