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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2274, 5 February 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

How is this for high ? From a tower 537 feet high a colossal statue of William Penn is to gaze down upon Philadelphia. The sculptor is Alexander Calder. The statute will be 37 feet high. There has been a competition in London in the art of hair dressing. In all sixteen ladies, sitting each before a mirror, were the subjects or models fin whom the artists expended their best skill. Saunterer, in New York Town Topics, says: Mr Jay Gould has become a willing victim to his pretty daughter-in-law, nvc Edith Kingdon. She keeps the family in roars of laughter, and Jay Gould declares she is just the element he needed in his home. He* stories of her adventures in different theatrical companies on the same railroads over which she now travels in grand style are Tery funnily given, and the contrasts she draws between the then and now is the source of constant merriment. "They are indeed wonderful roads," she said tho other day. "I'd like to own the whole system." Whereupon papa Gould mado her a present of $12,500 worth of stock, with tho remark, " I can't give you all of them, but here's a little piece,"