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... forgot to shut off the reverse antagonism, with the result that both currents collided. The vehicle turned a somersault and rolled over Mr. Vanderbilt before it wrecked itself. He was stunned and bruised, but not seri- ously injured. In a few hours he was ...

Published: Friday 07 July 1899
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1509 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

WIT OF THE WEEK

... Enthusiastic Sportsman: Seen Carver and Scott d a shooting at the aquarium? Wilful Wag: Shoot r at the aquarium! Theymust be rnmufsif theycan't % hit that. Why, they might as well shoot at a h s haystack! a A TraE FOsa Evrsvram-G.--Cockney Sportsman n a (eagerly ...

Published: Saturday 26 March 1881
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1402 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

LATEST NEWS

... William I of John Legh, Mr. John Mulbolland, and Mr. John o Allan Rolls. . The Queen has been pleased to direct that the I e followinz be admitted to 'her Majesty's Most i 't Honourable Privy' Council:-The Right Hon. t Christopher Palles (Lord Chief Baron ...

Published: Friday 19 August 1892
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1761 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... last year's it ion to see what work be sent which has won him so much honour. He sent nothing. The catalogue of 1880 does not contain his name. He has. bean found out and honoured by the g /Fortvthattbey may showtheir superiorityto the t ac=lims of ignorant ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 1883
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1876 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

MR. PARNELL

... . ?? - - - On Mr. Parnell's arrival in the House of Commons last night, an informal conference took place b - tween the honourable member and about a dozen of his supporters, respecting Mr. Gladstone's notice of motion. The general feeling of the Irish ...

Published: Saturday 19 February 1881
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2440 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

LOCAL NEWS

... in'the report in the MI-A*J actI o. on the 10th instant. Chte hC, THF Couzs-Tr M.agirsnAa.-We are informed t., that since the roll of county magistrates was ecorn- t., piled as printed for 1893-4, there have been placed butt on the Commission of the Peace ...

Published: Monday 14 August 1893
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2978 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE GREAT EASTERN AT NEW YORK

... throng at - the Battery tim! and on the various piers in time North River was un- we bounded. Many s'alntee were fired in her honour, the she was decked with flags from bow to stern.. She I ruoved very. rapidly throuh the bay, only one of Wu the tnany ateatnors ...

Published: Wednesday 11 July 1860
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1811 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Borrowed Cristes

... earthquake at Marseilles, at 2-35 a.m. The telegraph reported at Paris, at 2, 35 shocks of an earthquake 1 A reverend sportsman was once boasting of his infallible ski'! in fnding a hare. If, said a Quaker who was.present, I were a hare, I would ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1855
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1640 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

FESTIVITIES AT LYTHA

... Parker, Cuer. den Hall ; Dr. White-; fid Mr. W. Lowtber (British Embassy at Berlin). On the chaiman'sleft ?? Honourable Mrs. W. Lowther; the Honourable J. B. Ogilvy; Mr. Edmund Birley, Clifton Hall; Rev. R. B. Robinson, incumbent of Lythani Mrs. Cross Colonel ...

Published: Saturday 10 March 1866
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 15211 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

MULTUM IN PARVO

... it wouldn't begin to tell how many ages long eternity we is. Why, my friends, after millions and trillions of years wi had rolled away in eternity, X would be a hundred thousand years to breakfast time. A woman of Driffield, visiting the Zoological Gardens ...

Published: Tuesday 17 August 1852
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2754 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LOCAL NEWS

... review of the session, which showed that the association was at present in a very flourishing state, havinE50 mem- bers on the roll. Thirteen meetings have been held, at which the average attendance of members and friends has been 70. A most enjoyable meet- ...

Published: Thursday 03 April 1884
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3240 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

RECOLLECTIONS OF CLITHEROE

... couple of ducks. One night Mr. Wilson was taking his glass at the Swan Ian, in the Commercial-rooim, when a young Lthe sportsman entered, and expressed his disappoil; meot at to anl having failed to secure any woodcocks-birds which he I and lied come ...

Published: Saturday 09 December 1876
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3175 | Page: 2 | Tags: News