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MAIDENHEAD: PAST AND PRESENT

... known every trout and jack and barbel between Bray and Marlow. I did not like those fishing-davs, for I was not allowed to speak for fear of disturbing the fish I had to catch 011 for dear life to every bough or withy when the spinning was going on and ...

Published: Wednesday 29 August 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1262 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

CITY NOTES

... balance-sheet comes out remarkably well. Within the last few days there has appeared the latest report from the country, which speaks in glowing terms of its prosperity. It must lie Colony. Public Debt. Per Head. New Soutli Wales £63,112,720 £47 4 11 Queensland ...

Published: Wednesday 29 August 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3144 | Page: 42 | Tags: Photographs 

ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES HOTHAM SUCCEEDS ADMIRAL SIR MICHAEL CULME-SEYMOUR

... MICHAEL CULME-SEYMOUR, Bart., G.C.B.-- first and principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to the Queen-- Mike, as everybody in the Navy speaks of him-- who is vacating the Portsmouth command, is one of the best-known figures in the British Navy. He is one of the few ...

Published: Wednesday 29 August 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 794 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

PEKIN, THE MYSTERIOUS CITY OF ASIA

... something like an area of thirty miles. It is enclosed by walls on all sides, and entrance is obtained by sixteen gates. Roughly speaking, it is in two parts, one a square, the other a parallelogram, the square being set, as it were, upon the parallelogram. The ...

Published: Wednesday 29 August 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 976 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

THEATRE GOSSIP: SWEET NELL OF OLD DRURY

... from the rehearsals, will be most realistic exponents of the more or less arduous characters allotted to them. Seriously speaking, however, undoubtedly one of the shrewdest engagements made by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Terry for their forthcoming Haymarket season ...

Published: Wednesday 29 August 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2384 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

THE SITUATION IN CHINA

... they have a 'sphere of influence.' They don't want to hurt anybody's feelings. Partition Oh, no nothing so mean as that. To speak more seriously, there is, at least,, one of the Allies which thinks very decidedly that there will be a partition, at any rate ...

Published: Wednesday 05 September 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 813 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

THE MAN ON THE WHEEL

... compared with men- riders, ladies are grievously unfortunate. Speaking roughly and without any statistics by me, I should say that at least six times as many ladies are injured as men. Generally speaking, ladies do not ride so well as men, and it seems to me ...

Published: Wednesday 05 September 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1280 | Page: 37 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK: The Queen's Life at Balmoral

... considered separately. The Russian official who has been in chief command of Russia's troops, and also of her policy, so to speak, in the Far East, has been and is Admiral Alexieff, the Govern or- General of Eastern Siberia. However, at the beginning of ...

Published: Wednesday 05 September 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 9178 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

THE POLITE LUNATIC AT CLOSE QUARTERS

... mine interventioner Interviewer, corrected Dicky, picking up his paper. You mean interviewer.' Interventioner vos vot my speakings vos howled James. Dis vos an interventioner from de Sketchings. Sir, please 'scuse. Pe-raps I shall bresently feel some ...

Published: Wednesday 12 September 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1195 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

MADAME ANTONIO DE NAVARRO

... well-known Hungarian composer, Francis Ivorbay, who is now living in London. Those who would care to listen to that vpice, speaking in song, will have the opportunity 011 Sept. 15, for on the afternoon of that day Madame Antonio de Navarro has promised ...

Published: Wednesday 12 September 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1126 | Page: 33 | Tags: Photographs 

OLD DRURY'S NEWEST PLAY

... and cruelly served his ill-fated substitute's wife and child. From this point there sets in a sort of double chase, so to speak, the aristocratic damsel and the malignant M.P. each seeking the missing wife and child, the former to succour them, the latter ...

Published: Wednesday 12 September 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1253 | Page: 3 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEW VAUDEVILLE PLAY AT MARGATE

... impulsive young Solicitor and his beau tiful young wife, who, although still under, the same roof, have drifted apart, so to speak. There has been no more serious reason for this than that the husband has gone mad over music., and that his wife has become ...

Published: Wednesday 19 September 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 815 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs