GOSSIP.
The French Budget makes provision for taxing the owners of pianos. The Empress of Buss la has a cloak made of sable fur trimmed with gold and enriched with precious stones. It cost £9,000.
A Scottish gentleman bequeathed to his tws daughters their weight in £1 bank notes. The eldest daughter received £51,200 and the younger £57,344. . ■ .
At Dumfries a young woman, obviously from the country, was seen standing with a very perplexed air at one of the pillar letter-boxes. She was observed to knock several times on the .top of the iron pillar, but obtaining no response she passed round to the opposite side, and raising the cover of the slit in which letters are placed, she applied her mouth to the aperture and called out, “ Can ye let me hae a postage stamp ? ”
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 8, 20 May 1893, Page 3
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136GOSSIP. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 8, 20 May 1893, Page 3
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