The Derby is a tabooed subject this year, the failure of Disraeli, the favourite, even to obtain a place, and the victory of Jeddah, a horse whose starting price was 100 to 1, rather upset everyone's calculations, and the only people who seem to have made money out of the event, besides the bookmakers, who must have reaped a golden harvest, ate the managers of the Palace Theatre of Varieties who, by the aid of their American Biograph, showed the finish, with Jeddah shooting to the front, on the same evening that the race was won. It was a wonder fully smart. piece of work and is said to have cost over £100; still, so crowded was the Theatre to see the accomplishment of the feat that I expect the management quite recouped themselves. They are certainly most enterprising and desorre success. At the present time they have a yacht lying off Cuba waiting for something in the shape of a battle or bombardment to coventuate—if it ever does they will at once take a series of photographs of it which will be dispatched with all speed to Eng-Jand and within 24 hours of their arrival Londoners ai mised a view of them through the medium of the Biograph.
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