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... ^TbeS K^T Cfl No. 322.-- Yol. XXV. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29. 1899. SiflTnt ...
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CITY NOTES: MARKET NOTES
... CITY NOTES. The Next Settlement begins on April 11. Market Notes. Nineteen-day Accounts are never satisfactory, and the one now coming to an end has proved no exception to the rule. The very first sign of dear money seems to have dried up all spirit of speculation, and there will be no all-night working of Stock Exchange clerks to get balances out this time. It is probable that after Easter ...
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... THE SEDAN-CHAIR. ...
THE ART OF THE DAY
... . Never was there so good an opportunity of studying the greatest of Dutchmen. To go to-day to Burlington House is to live in Holland of the seventeenth century. The two hundred and fifty years which separate us from that time are a mist that rolls away, and we breathe a Dutch atmosphere. Rembrandt was the painter of his own time and country. The time was when religious freedom had just been ...
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... A MILITIA TRAINING. ...
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... OTheiS K^TC No. 321. Vol. XXV. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1899. SJ?JS2?' ...
PRINCESS CHARLES OF DENMARK (PRINCESS MAUD OF WALES)
... . THE LATEST POKTUAIT OF THE PRINCESS, TAKEN IN COPENHAGEN. ...
EDEA SANTORI AT LA SCALA
... . Midnight found me still waiting patiently for the performance of II Carillon, and rewarded my patience while disappointing my expecta tions. For the new ballet proved to be an unfortunate affair, scarcely worthy the high traditions of La Scala, with commonplace music, tawdry dressing, and a colour-scheme that set my teeth on edge. There was no dignity about the work of the pantomimists; ...
RUNNERS AT LINCOLN AND LIVERPOOL
... . MAJOR FENWICK'S COUNTY COUNCIL. Entered in the Grand National. MR. L. McCREERY'S PRINCE BARCALDINE. Won the Lincolnshire Handicap 1898 Entered in the Lincolnshire Handicap 1899 LORD STANLEY'S GOLDEN RULE. Entered in the Liverpool Spring Cup. MR. W. COOPER'S NEWHAVEN II. Enured in the Liverpool Spring Cup. LORD WILLIAM BERESFORD'S KNIGHT OF THE THISTLE. Entered in the Lincolnshire Handicap. ...
AN ACCIDENTAL INTERVIEW
... . Thot be a good one, thot be! Ah 'm sure! Aye, Ah must tell thot ter Mr. Raven-'Ill fer to put in his Poonch stories, thot Ah must. These words, accompanied by a loud bucolic guffaw, startled me (writes a Sketch representative) out of the half-slumber into which I had fallen on the hardest of hard wooden seats at Devizes Sta tion, and, rub bing my eyes, I inquired whether Mr- Raven- Hill, ...
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