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Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1565, 24 February 1879, Page 4

On the 9th of August, 1878, P. CunlifFe Owen, Esq., Secretary to the Royal Commission, and several scientific gentlemen, were present in the Food Department, British Section of the Paris Exhibition, when Mr Hooker, F. 0.5., attended and succeeded in churning butter in a few minutes from a specimen of milk prepared by him, which had been exposed to the action of the air for a period exceeding seven years, having been prepared in May, 1871 Butter has been churned on several occasions from this sample of ancient milk before the food committee of the society, and the can of milk has been kept in the society’s house, except while it was removed to be shown at the various international exhibitions, since 1871.

A great fuss has been made of Dr, Hans von Btilow playing from man ry the last five Beethoven sonatas at his recitel the other day. Truly, it is the first time the feat has been performed at St. James’s Hall; but the gifted pianist himself thinks nothing of it. If an audience could be found patie t enough to listen, he could, with ease, play the whole of the Beethoven sonatas from beginning to end, without book ; and, if his hearers were not sated then, he could add all the concertos, and foliow on with any quantity of Liszt and Chopin, without a single hitch from want of memory. (dd English playgoers will be sorry to hear of the death of Mr W. H. Payne, the great pantomymist, who expired in Dover December 18th, after fifty two years’ hard work before the public. Hie daughters, Mrs Vurner and Mrs Ayn«ley Cook, and Mr Harry Payne being present, Mr Payne was in his 70th year. Hi« remains were interred at Highgate Cemetery.