The parsimony of Queen Victoria has b9oome proverbial, but the last story illustrative of this unworthy trait of the English Sovereign caps the climax. It is to the effect that the Queen presented ;her servants at $almoral, Windsor, and Osborne with gorge« bus" liveries' on tho occasion of her Jubilee, but that she deducted the ooat of tho fino Clothes froyn the sonants' tfages,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1796, 22 March 1888, Page 2
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64Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1796, 22 March 1888, Page 2
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