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SMALL TALK

... shall be Beneath our gracious Mary (Three) The only Queen to own Our land would come to life once more, For is there need to state That England withered to the core When William landed on our shore In 1688 Perchance it seems a paradox, But j et the truth ...

Published: Wednesday 24 July 1895
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6428 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... to Win a Woman, being brought out by Mr. Willard at the Garrick, after the run of Alabama at that theatre, but no further details have been vouchsafed by these writers. I, therefore, supplement their information. The Way to Win a Woman was produced ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1895
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4604 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... it will be considered as final, but because it shows the possibilities of long-distance travelling. The two routes to Scot land from London are very different in character. That by the West Coast, which is run by the London and North-Western Company, ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1895
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6223 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

MISS LENA ASHWELL

... am grateful for the good notices I have obtained. At the same time, the part is a difficult one to play, as, speaking as. a woman, I think there are few of my sex who would have made such determined efforts to hold a recreant lover or to accept his lukewarm ...

SMALL TALK

... sovereign of the land. The dashing Prince's heart is glad; The wee bit German lairdie' s sad. Then Cumberland, in full command, Sets out to crush them all; Soon postboys fly in hue and cry With tidings to Whitehall, How Charlie's army, fierce and dour ...

Published: Wednesday 15 January 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6474 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... SMALL TALK. The Queen is expected to land at Cherbourg on March 9, on her way to Nice. She returns at the end of April, via Flushing. The Empress of Austria arrived at Nice on Wednesday morning, visiting the garden of the hotel at Cimiez where the Queen ...

Published: Wednesday 22 January 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6753 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... dense vegetation, which grows, rots, and kills. If the owners were compelled to keep their land clear of useless bush for about three miles round each town, the land would be placed in a cultivable condition, and there would not be nearly so much poison ...

Published: Wednesday 29 January 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7032 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

BURMA AND THE BURMESE.--III

... Burman smokes, man, woman. {Concluded from page 759.) and child, the most prodigious cheroots, ten to eleven inches long and three-quarters of an inch in diameter. To have a stall at the bazaar or a small shop at home, is a Burman woman's great ambition ...

SMALL TALK

... of war to wear Without its share of pain. After all, the Prince of Wales may personally disdain his honorary position in the army but it is imposed on him by the will of the three estates of the realm. Few people are aware of the thoughtful kindness which ...

Published: Wednesday 12 February 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6819 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

THE GREY MAN OF AUCHENDRAYNE

... his horse, unaccustomed to noise, ran away with him. By what freak of madness they resolved thus to charge, as it had been an army in position, it is beyond me to tell. In a moment these five were in the midst of the slicing steel and the flame of ordnance ...

Published: Saturday 28 March 1896
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 3085 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... Starting a lazar etto, she nursed, quite unaided, two hundred natives and twenty white patients, only losing one woman and two children. This brave woman, who is a member of the Royal British Nurses' Association, proves, if proof were needed, the value of training ...

Published: Wednesday 27 May 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5994 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... One old woman was discharged from hospital a fortnight ago. I don't like leaving, she said; I 've been very comfortable. What nice things what beef-tea I never tasted anything so strong. Tell me, sir, had it been galvanised? The poor old woman had probably ...

Published: Wednesday 03 June 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7500 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs