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CAPTAIN MACHELL

... . TO take rank in any pursuit or business as a self-made man is not the least among the claims to celebrity which most Englishmen are desirous of acquiring. Racing has been described as a pastime, but those behind the scenes can testify to the many anxieties and cares attendant upon its pursuit, of which the outer world, who may be said to enjoy the sport in its fullest sense, know nothing. A ...

MR. TOM TAYLOR

... . THE new editor of Punch, and author of some of the best stock dramas in our modern répertoire, was born at Sunder land in 1817. He was educated at the Grange School there, and went through two sessions at Glasgow Univer sity, in the course of which he received three gold medals, and other prizes. He left Glasgow in 1837 for Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a degree as a junior ...

J. M. RICHARDSON, ESQ

... J. M. RICHAEDSON, ESQ. THE subject of this notice, Mr. J. M. Richardson, who fills the first niche in our portrait gallery of distinguished steeple chase riders, was born on the 12th of June, 1846, at Limber Magna, in Lincolnshire, where he spent his time in the occu pations usual to the sons of country gentlemen until sent to Harrow, at which famous school he underwent the usual preparation ...

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THE FACTORY OF MESSRS. BENITES & CO.'S EXTRACT OF BEEF: FRAY BENTOS (RIO URUGUAY), SOUTH AMERICA

... THE FACTORY OF MESSRS. BENITES CO.'S EXTRACT OF BEEF, PRAY BENTOS (RIO URUGUAY), SOUTH AMERICA. THERE are few visitors to Buenos Ayres who will not, during their stay at what has perhaps been exaggeratedly termed the Athens of South America, have made excursions, of greater or less extent, up one or the other of the two great tributaries of the Rio de la Plata, the Parana and the Uruguay. ...