Word: rice
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...salt mackerel and omnipresent corned beef taking the place of the meat which might be expected in a College not specially advocating the practice of a weekly fast. For several weeks the writer has been puzzled to know how an Irish stew and a dessert of very much boiled rice fulfilled the requirements of the constitution relative to furnishing three courses at dinner. This he leaves for others to solve. Before closing let me call attention to a remarkable property possessed by the turnip, - that vegetable described by a recent writer on food and dietetics as "possessing a low nutritive...
...needs for his first season a guide for each member of his party; then, as to provisions, there must be coffee, crackers, condensed milk, potatoes, rice, canned meats and vegetables, - in fact, whatever you want that is portable and will keep. The rod should be fifteen to nineteen feet long, split bamboo in three joints being rather the best, although the Irish poles of two joints are good. Tents, too, have to be taken, and tent-life is well enough as a novelty, although the experienced angler prefers the huts of the natives, when there are any. The line, about...
...have received from the publishers, White, Smith, and Perry, the "Evangeline March," composed by Mr. Edward E. Rice, of this city, for Mr. J. Cheever Goodwin's burlesque, "Evangeline," to be produced in a few weeks. It is a bold, spirited composition, and extremely effective as arranged either for the piano-forte or a full orchestra. It has been played at some of the theatres for the past fortnight with great success. The air of the trio is very sweet and pleasing, and the combinations in harmony throughout, many of them novel and ingenious, give the piece a very different...
...Monday evening the theatre was comfortably filled, the attraction being Charles Rice's drama, founded upon Dumas's "Trois Mousquetaires." Mr. Charles R. Thorne, Jr., appeared as D'Artagnan, and was well received. Possessed of a handsome face, fine figure, and excellent presence, he looked and acted extremely well. His performance was, however, marred by the excessive friskiness with which he trotted about the stage at all times and seasons, and by a too rapid delivery. Having virtue on his side, and a good deal of profanity in his part, it is needless to say that he created a very...