General News.
Captain Webb completed the task of swimming sixty consecutive hours in the largo tank of the Scarborough Aquarium a few days ago. During the whole time he was only absent from the water for about four minutes. He concluded his task in excellent health.
j A correspondent thus describes an interview of Mademoiselle Sara Bernhardt I with the Prince of Wales:—•• The Prince came the other night to pay his. compliments to the attress. He was accompanied by the King of Greece, whom he presented to the actress. 'My brother* in-law,' he said. -Mdlle. Bernhardt bowed, and remained teteatete with the King. She called him' Monsieur' all the time, and talked right and left in her usual cavalier style. Bat time pressed, 1 and she had to return to the dressing-room. ' Well,' said her colleagues,' what do you think of the King of Greet* P' 'What king?' she asked. 'The king to whom you hare been talking,' they answered. On this she ran off to the Prince of Wales. *Ah, Prince,' she exclaimed,• it was treachery not to tell me that it was the King of Greece.' ' But I told you it was my brother-in-law,' said the Prince. ' Your brother-in-law I* replied Mdlle. Bernhardt, * but how was I to know? He might hare been * tallow merchant.'"
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3648, 4 September 1880, Page 2
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218General News. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3648, 4 September 1880, Page 2
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