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The Australian Cricketers

... in the sides of the Hon. Ivo Bligh's Englishmen. His delivery is much of the Edmund Pcate style, but much more difficult. Speaking of bowling, reminds us that Spofforth was thus spoken of on the occasion of the last visit of the Australians to England ...

Published: Sunday 04 May 1884
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 573 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

STAGE WHISPERS

... in settling with his creditors, at the rate of ten shillings in the pound, claims to have lost much money in America. . Speaking of Marie Van Zandt and her appearance in London in opera comique during the season of 1885, I forgot to mention that she ...

Published: Sunday 04 May 1884
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2794 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

',THE UMPIRE

... into the town and returning at 815 booked to Birkenhead. Witness went by the same train. At the journeys end, Daly after speaking with a man whom he met, went by boat to Liverpool, where he went toward Chapel-street, looking back over his shoulder; and ...

Published: Sunday 04 May 1884
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 954 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

t Wl' • * i • Sarah Bernhardt refused the other day to play in Mons. Busnach's new drama

... future. Several dramatic licences have been recently applied for and granted. Mr. F. It. Benson's company, of which report speaks highly, has been doing a good week's business at the Royal. Princess Ida was presented at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, on ...

Published: Sunday 04 May 1884
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3765 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

G. Barrett. Morgan. C. Bowman. B. Lades. C. Wood. White

... the simplest way keep jelly from moulding on top 7 Shut a small boy up in the pantry for a few minutes. - A Berlin critic, speaking of a certain actress, states that her eye-lashes are as long as those of a cow. We trust the resemblance goes no further ...

Published: Sunday 04 May 1884
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2526 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SPORTING FANCIES

... betting men are not professional pedestrians by all that is moral, then we shall cease to think we know what pedestrianism is. Speaking of the amateur business, athletics thisi season bid fair to be exceptionally brisk, the meeting' of the London Athletic club ...

Published: Sunday 04 May 1884
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2226 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

;paper. PEN NY

... loft and the engineroom, by which he can order the wind on or off immediately. There is also electric communication and a speaking tube between the organist and the choir below. Up to within the last three or four years the organ was blown by water-power ...

Published: Sunday 11 May 1884
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1055 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

It STAGE WHISPERS

... is a little over-given to blinking, but I suppose that is part of the ingenuousness. I'm not ingenuous myself, so I can't speak positively. Mesdames Daisy England (flowery and patriotic patronymic !), L. Claremont, and Alice Spry are all good, better ...

Published: Sunday 11 May 1884
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3918 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

I.l' A FALSE MOVE. r; • TUEF EPISODE

... But occasionally they meet with a reverse which, once in a way, is thoroughly serious. It is now some years ago (I think, speaking from memory, in 1873), that I made up my mind, with my friend and colleague Jack K—, to do the Sussex fortnight, and to ...

Published: Sunday 11 May 1884
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 536 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

STARTLING DISCLOSURES

... Stowell & Sons, brewers, Birmingham, under whom McDonnell was landlord of the Royal Oak Inn, Wednesbury, was also called to speak to the handwriting of McDonnell. He said when a letter to Egan appeared in the newspapers cigned Wm. McDonnell,D.C..itist before ...

Published: Sunday 11 May 1884
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 669 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LUCKY JOCKEYS

... riding of Quicklime in the City and Suburban, is another of the northern school of jockeys, who for a long time has been, 90 to speak, hiding his head under a bushel. Kay Tomlinson has been more immediately connected with the Richmond- division, for whom ...

Published: Sunday 11 May 1884
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 459 | Page: 2 | Tags: none