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...would suggest the following conditions for your approval: First--That the meeting take place at the Queen's Club, London, on some date at the end of July, 1899, which may be most convenient to you and to the Queen's Club with regard to competitions...
...Queen Anne whiskey, $3.75 per quart...
...first it was the Queen's Plate, for, in 1859, Her Majesty Queen Victoria granted "50 golden guineas ... to be run for at Toronto or such other place in Upper Canada as Her Majesty may appoint." Because the tradition founded then is unbroken, Summer came to Canada last week after the running of the King's Plate before the largest race-crowd to assemble at Woodbine Park, Toronto, since...
...course the French Queen, King and courtiers were all hallucinations ? or were they? No one knows. Ludwig may have known that they did not exist, may have delighted only in pulling everyone's leg and in squeezing more money for his whims out of his Minister of "Finance than a sane king could ever have secured. Certain it is that he sometimes commanded lackeys to pick up objects which were not there, and, when they pretended to do so, caned them smartly. As a madman, King Ludwig demanded and obtained, among other whims: 1) lifesize clockwork peacocks made...
Died. Henry Edwards Huntington, 77, California railroader and art collector; in Philadelphia, after an operation. He bought Gainsborough's "Blue Boy," a Gutenberg Bible, the letters of Mary Queen of Scots, etc.; owned the most valuable collection of first editions in the world...