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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1766, 20 August 1884, Page 2

* A lady at the late Calcutta Exbibi- "' tion having bought several articles in )' one of the courts just before the exhiP bition closed, asked the Baboo in charge § when she might take away her pur--6 chases. "Not till the day of judg- '" ment," replied the Baboo, '" • A photographer has taken a group n picture of Queen Victoria, her daugh--18 ter, the Grown Princess of Germany, •* and her granddaugh i te i r, the Princess of e Saxe-Meinigen, aged five years, The '• group includes four generations"of the e female line. ') A Scotchman, having a waim dise pute with a London cabman about 6 his fare, said :—" I'd have ye ken Tam e a Mackintosh." To which the cockney 6 replied;—'.' You may be a hnmbrella " for all 1 knows j but my fare is e eighteenpence." e Record is responsible for the statev ment that, in 1770, the following edict * was solemnly passed and duly regisr tered in Prance under the reiga of Louis XV.; " Whosoever by means of " red or while paint, perfumes, essences, ■' artificial cotton wopl, n iron cors.ets, hoops, sl)oe \vitti high a heels, or false hips, shall seek tq entice * into the bpnds of niarr|age any male 3 subjeqt of His Majesty, aha)} be prqser 0 cuted for witchcraft and declared in? 8 capable of matrimony." The aspect of the Australian cricket team as seen the other day was curious indeed. Blackham had his right hand g in a wrap as big as a boxing glove, one il finger being put put of joint, Cooper e had bis let't hand similarly swathed, if Spoffortb had his right arm' in a sling. 1 Mr Murdoch wore a shade over one d eye, and limped with a stick, ijonnor h spofted'a blue bump on his forehead, a and a salvage of court-plaster on his y chin; while Midwinter, moved with a e bad thumb on.one hand and a strained s, finger on the other., And yet they win o two matches out of three against the flower of English cricket.