19 Jun 1895
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Newspaper
Man Of The World
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 19, 1895
Page
1
Quotation from Macklin's Comedy praising a man described as courteous and consistently fair in dealings with others. The line highlights character and integrity without implying any action or event.
Lord Witte Bertstonp has given up racing after marriage and the Jubilee races loom anew. A Brighton bookmaker plans to place his sixteen year old son as junior clerk at ten shillings weekly with free lunch. The Jockey Club met formally at Bridgewater House, Earl of Ellesmere presiding, with Goodwood hosting ill health. Nimrod Club decides members become owners with strong capital. Bricaron provokes a clash with police on West Street as a shop burglary prank ends with a threat. Dick Dunn travels to Lewes races by crutches and retires to a Canary Islands country house at Tuas Palmas.
A snatch of 19th century racing lore recalls the Hunt Cup’s grim past as a crate of 40 guineas went to horses that once carried owners to stag hunts in Windsor Forest. The piece notes London’s magistrate’s Ascot and Epsom visits, a royal order after a stone was shied at William IV, and mentions Hamilton Park’s annual race meeting by the Lanarkshire Yeomanry, with no fees listed.
Lord Wauxverton reportedly gave £3000 for Perfect Dream and Lingfield’s £1095 stake is noted as not bad for a new meeting. The piece riffs on cases like Cloister and Why Not, hints at the Wild Man from Borneo, and mentions Mrs Sauissury’s Gaiety past. It reports Henry Arthur Jones resting from playwriting after overtaxing himself with eight plays over six years, including Triumph of the Philistines, and postponing a Lyceum season piece for Forbes Robertson.
Tre Parisian theatre libre staged two plays last week Grand-Papa a three act work features a tipsy grandfather protected by his grandchild a Moulin Rouge prostitute and a blackmailing plot Si c est etait a one act piece about a rag picker family in a cold hovel whose dying daughter is revived by a visitor who is the Redeemer though the rag picker questions faith and charity and the title asks if it were possible.
The column mocks a fund raising joke involving Grace fund subscriptions and mentions managers using cricketing lingo. It notes top advertisers like Linotype Company for a Grace shilling testimonial and hints at wrestling bouts at the Alhambra with outsiders Belling and Ross, while commenting on social gossip about Bertie Ricketts and others.
A witty verse on women’s foibles opens a column of assorted notes from The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. The-page array includes remarks on Duke of Hamilton’s heir, Hamburg’s Alster island joke, wrestlers in England, matrimonial ad humor, Uganda Clapham Junction compare, Grace’s feats, and oblique items about Sir Samuel Wilson’s death, Captain Gordon Wilson, and Mrs Stetson’s Madonna painting theft tale.
The Eccentric Club plans its annual garden party at Hurst Park on July 14 amid a column of social mischief. The piece lampoons Afghan followers and Western receptions, contrasts Indian and British court rituals, and recounts society tales involving Mrs. Humphry Ward Edna Lyall Russell Sage and Mrs. Campbell Clark in Paris social headaches.
A sportsman who leaped from a moving elevated train in New York won a bat as the stake but lost both feet. He has not revived enough to converse with hospital attendants, yet he earned the bet and his friends extend their hearty congratulations.
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