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Show ' Cheese of Historic Interest. An object of considerable interest was sold in London the other day, no other than a preserved fragment of a "Protestant cheese." From the Inscription In-scription on the base of the glass shade we learn that in gratitude for his able vindication of the Protestant ascendancy in Parliament on April 25, 1825, His Royal Highness, the Duke of Tork, was presented by the inhabitants inhabi-tants of the County Palatine of Chester Ches-ter with the largest cheese ever made 149 pounds in weight of their own producing. The Iduke gave . a small portion of this cheese to Mary Isa-' Isa-' bella, Duchess of Rutland, and it is' this fragment, preserved by Professor Cumming, which came under the hammer, ham-mer, realizing $9. |