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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 167, 17 July 1868, Page 2

A Dresden letter says that . the Queen - of Saxony has expressed displeasure at • the c untidy, dishevelled' style of wearing the hair which has lately come into fashion. Having frequently to receive English and American ladies, who * sometimes appear with their hair hanging loosely about their shoulders,' her Majesty has established a regulation that all persons with such coiffuree shall not be .admitted at Court. The general impression produced by the horse dinner in London seems to have been much like that left on the Yankee after he won a bet that he would dine on crow: * Waal, stranger, I ken eat crow, but darn me if I hanker arter it.' At a large party the other evening, -while a young lady was playing the piano ■with peculiar touch, a bystander remarked: * I'd give the world for her fingers.' He was greatly taken back by her prompt reply that he might bave the whole hand — for his own. But then it's leap year you know. When Foote was at Salt Hill, he dined ■at the Castle . Inn, and when Partridge, the host, produced his bill, which was rather exorbitant, the comedian, asked him his name. * Partridge, sir,' said he. * Partridge ! It should have been Woodcock, dby the length of your bill !'