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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2379, 8 October 1887, Page 2

When the good Duchess of Leeds requested Dr. Drake to say grace at the dinner table at Hornby Castle he simply replied, "Madam, your Grace is sufficient for me.” An orchestra of women, who are all players of brass instruments, is making a sensation at Dresden. The ladies have an engagement for Vienna next winter, where they will play at a series of balls among the aristocracy, i It is profitable to be the medical adviser of an imperial family. For two visits to the Crown Prince in Germany, and for the directions of the treatment given from England, Dr Mackenzie hands in a bill for more than £2OOO. At a recent London party all the gentle men were arrayed in frock coats, white vests, knee breeches, silk stockings and /Windsor shoes. The result was that the guests did not call on each other for services, supposing that they were addressing the waiters. Just twelve months ago a young man named Saunder attempted to murder his sweetheart in the streets of Huntingdon by stabbing her with a sword cane. For that offence he was sentenced to fifteen years penal servitude. After a painful illness the girl gradually grew better, but she always insisted that a piece of the sword blade had broken off in her body, and was still there. Professor Humphrey, of Addeubrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. has just succeeded in extracting from the girl a piece of steel blade more than bin. in length. The most extraordinary fact connected with the operation is that, although the wound was in the girl's chest, the blade was extracted, broken end first, from her back. It must have thus turned completely round. Her recovery is now almost certain.