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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 ...

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 ...

LITERATURE

... gallant spirit, tho' he kniovs He's but a mushroom, when compared With me, Ap Leek, who, if t eared To boast;, could backt my borazge trace yonrd tle filirt sO thie common race, And pre by Holy 'Writ that Leek Tius Adam emr is more aittiquie. Aly bitoed's ...

Literary Extracts

... 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 ...

LITERATURE

... H~ome, ?? by James P. Morgsa. ?? object is to present (. permissible saud 3athentic penpictures of the e home-lifo ef ladies fuoous in society, in art, in 1 letters, and in philanthropy. There are to be Id three portraits each month of notable women ...

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 

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... Illustrations by Frank Dadd.-Qs The Green Graves of Baigorrrie. By Jane i Helen Findlater. (London : MNethuen & Co.) it] A Lady oj Quality. By Frances Hodgson 1 Burnett. (Londonl: Frederick Warne & Co.)} The Second Opportunity of Mr Staplehurst. j o By ...

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.- ...