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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 133, 8 June 1868, Page 2

The number of girls who presented themselves at the Cambridge local examinations held at 11 towns was 232. The first place was obtained by an Irish girl. The candidates were divided into juniors and seniors, the juniors being under 16, and the seniors under 18 years of age. Of the senior girls only one, the first, got a first-class, and only four a second. The winner of the chief place and her sister hold scholarships in the Ladies' College, Bedford-square, London. At the Newcastle Quarter Sessions a question arose whether the building occupied by a Scotch draper was a shop, or simply a house. The Recorder asked him, by way of test, *If I were to walk in and ask you for a yard of silk, would you sell it me?' The canny Scot replied, 'That would depend upon whether I thought I could trust ye.' 'No man is a hero to his valet,' is au assertion of frequent occurrence. Has poor maligned man ever had the* courage to hint that no woman is a heroine to her maid. The young lady who gives herself away loses her self-possession. Men slip on water when it is frozen, and on whiskey when it isn't. What is the difference between a surgeon and a magician ? — One is a cupper and the other a sorcerer. If a woman does keep a secret, it is pretty sure to be with telling effect. What nation produces most marriages? — Fascination.