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... ran very well. There is not the slightest doubt that the ■£18,200 for a o 0 Sweep is run in a scrupulously fair manner. Workhouse Master. The draw is made on the Saturday preceding the Wednesday on which the great race is run, and the owners of the tickets ...
... Swimming on Dry Land. Workhouse or Prison.-- Some time ago a tramp called at a Bridewell in Surrey and asked the way to the nearest workhouse. A constable informed him that it was a mile off, whereupon the tramp replied, Oh this place will do me as well ...
... consumption, is of special interest to Londoners. It was he who gave the palace of Bridewell to the Corporation of London as a workhouse in 1553, and it was he who converted the old Greyfriars' monastery into Christ's Hospital. It was he, too, who placed the ...
... Mecklenburg- Strelitz. He obtained success in opera, but, for some cause or another, neglected his profession, and is now in the workhouse at Biitzow. AMERICA'S HUMAN ROOSTER: THE LATE HIRAM WOOSTER. Mr. Wooster, who died the other day, boasted that he had never ...
... the age limit, received a pension, and of that number 13,600 had a family to support. It may be mentioned that the Danish workhouses contained at the same time 100.000 poor, women and children included, or 4 per cent, of the total population, a great reduction ...
... face and forehead, the colouring of the neck, the adjustment of the wig, and I am ready to ingratiate the master of the workhouse and, I hope, the playgoing public, as the partik'ler pet. MR. CYRIL MAUDE BEGINS HIS TRANSFORMATION THE PAINT STICK AT WOF ...
... Chertsey Workhouse recently suffered from a scarcity of water, and a member of the Board of Guardians, Mr. S. Beesley, suggested that his daughter, Mrs. F. E. Chinchen, who possesses the faculty of water-divining, should try her art on the workhouse premises ...
... only too much reason to suspect that, except in regard to the gross coarseness of the Poplar machinery of corruption, that workhouse was a fair type of scores of others in almost all parts of the metropolis. There are, unfortunately, some bosses, apparently ...
... home with supreme comfort at the head of the field last week. These baffling changes of form keep the bookmakers out of the workhouse, if we are to believe their version of affairs. It can be accepted as an interesting fact that the majority of the bookmakers ...
... cen- tenarianism is still in vogue amongst the Parrs, for Joseph of that ilk still lives to enjoy life in the Newmarket Workhouse, where the Rev. J. Vincer-Minter is indefatigable in looking after his comfort. Joseph Ellery Parr was born at Fordham, ...
... backs the other sort one will, if one has really good information, win a comfortable in- come. If not, there is always the workhouse David James. THE DEATH OP THE POUNDER OF THE ECLIPSE STAKES THE LATE MR. HWFA WILLIAMS. ...
... board of directors. J have received a somewhat belated portrait of James William Defoe, who died some weeks back in the workhouse. I cannot resist the temptation to publ sh this picture of the last of the Defoes. I remember seme six or seven years back ...