Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, September 7, 1895

Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, September 7, 1895

Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, September 7, 1895The Rural District Council at Chester resolved recently...
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Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, September 7, 1895

Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, September 7, 1895

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Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, September 7, 1895

$17.78 $8.89
Author: Various
Format: eBook
Language: English

Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, September 7, 1895

The Rural District Council at Chester resolved recently to station men on the main roads leading into the city to count the number of cyclists, with a view to estimating what revenue would accrue from a cycle tax. Extremely high and public-spirited of the Chester authorities to take the matter up. These dwellers by the Dee ought to adopt as their motto, "The wheel has come full cycle." "Who is Sylvia?"An opera, from the pen of Dr. Joseph Parry, the famous Welsh composer, entitled Sylvia, has been successfully produced at the Cardiff Theatre Royal. The libretto is by Mr. Fletcher and Mr. Mendelssohn Parry, the maestro's son, so that the entire production is quite parry-mutuel. A new British sport has arisen, or rather has, after a seven years' interval, been revived within the last week or so, and the British sporting reporter, so well-known for his ready supply of vivid and picturesque metaphor, has, as usual, risen to the occasion. That large and growing class of sedentary "sportsmen," whose athletic proclivities are confined to the perusal of betting news, have now a fresh item of interest to discuss in the performances of favourite and rival locomotives. More power has been added to the elbows of the charming and vociferous youths, who push their way through the London streets with the too familiar cry of "Win-nerr!" (which, by the way, has quite superseded that of "Evening Piper!"). And the laborious persons who assiduously compile "records" have enough work to do to keep pace with their daily growing collection. Even the mere "Man in the Street" knows the amount of rise in the Shap Fell and Potter's Bar gradients, though possibly, if you cross-question him, he could not tell you where they are. However, the great daily and evening papers are fully alive to the occasion, and the various sporting "Majors" and "Prophets" are well to the fore with such "pars" as the following: ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 44976
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Editor: Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836-1917

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