Mr W. S. Gilbert’s hobby is amateur farming. It was he, by-the-way, who drew the distinction between the amateur and the professional farmer. “ The one loses money for fun, and the other makes a business of it.”
Mr Sidney Cooper, the veteran painter of animals, developed his wonderful ability whilst quite a boy. When at school he used to get his sums done for him in return for sketching a horse or drawing a bird perched on the bough of a tree. M. Jean de Iteszke, the noted tenor, has on his Polish estate a magnificently fitted establishment for the rearing and training of horses. Last year he won a prize offered by the Tsar for the best stud, and he has been most successful this season on the turf.
The Empress of Russia, who is an excellent swimmer, has recently had a magnificent bath 'erected for her in the Winter Palace.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1290, 19 November 1896, Page 11
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152Untitled New Zealand Mail, Issue 1290, 19 November 1896, Page 11
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