The ringing of the curfew-bell was resumed at Stratford-on-Avon on the night of September 11. One of the interesting features of this revival of an ancient custom is the fact that the curfew is rung upon the bell which tolled at Shakespeare’s funeral. Two Cardinals found fault with Raphael for having, in one of his pictures, given too florid a complexion to St. Peter and St. Paul. “ Gentlemen,” replied the artist, “ don’t be surprised; I paint them just as they look in Heaven. They are blushing to see the Church below so badly governed.” A Norwich Doctor states that he has traced forty cases of illness in one parish to drinking milk from cows suffering from foot-and-mouth disease. .
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 29, 2 January 1884, Page 3
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118Untitled Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 29, 2 January 1884, Page 3
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