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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2057, 7 August 1875, Page 3

A capital story auent Mr Eobert Lowe, ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, is just now going the round of the dinner-tables. At a dinner-party under the hospitable roof of the right hon. gentleman, the conversation turning upon the introduction of many unnecessary passages in the marriage service, Mr Lowe referred to the absurdity of a man who had no pro* perty whatever gravely declaring that he endowed his bride*with the whole of his possessions ! " Now when I married," said Mr Lowe, ''I hadn't a shilling in the world." "But," chimed in Mrs Lowe, "you had your slendid talents." "Well, but I didn't endow you with them," was the rejoinder of the .Right Hon. Boh. Gold Whathjgk in Amebioa.—Eels are leaving the water-pipes, and now go up the gas-pipes tothe burner to warm their noses.—American, |>apei\

We have been shown by Mr Frater a splendid specimen of "crystals" which was, we understand, presented to him by Mr Mclntyre. The specimen is remarkable for its size and weight, the latter being little under 21 lbs, and the size—had the crystal been in a compact mass—would have been about 15 inches either way. It has, on some parts of it, various metallic substances which have been pronounced, we believe, by those competent to judge, copper pyrites. The crystal itself was found in a crevice of a lodo in the Una min<?, and is to leave this afternoon for England, Mr Frater having given it to his brother, Captain Frater of the Fernglen, who is on the point of returning homeward. The crystal has been ceen by several of those interested in these matters, among others, by Mr Kernick, who is certainly an authority, from his experience in the Cornish mines, and he, we beHeve, states that the crystal will be worth a considerable amount at homo, should it arrive safely.