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New Zealand Mail, Issue 606, 15 September 1883, Page 4

A newspaper ouce contained the following notice ;—All notices of marriage, when no bride-cake is sent, will be set up in small type and picked in an outlaudisb corner of the paper. Where a handsome pieev of cake is sent, the notice will be put conspicuously in large letters; when gloves or other bride favors ore added, a piece of illustrative poetry will be given in addition. When, however, our editor attends at the ceremony in persoD, and kieses the bride, it will have especial notice—very large type, and the most appropriate poetry that can be begged, borrowed, or stoler. We clip the following amusing definition of a cant term from the Sydney Bulletin:—'‘The ‘Masher’h »s been analysed. Result:—’Bicarbonate of cheek, 990"230 ; essence of gall, 2*500 ; nitrate of stare, 2‘500 ; tincture of conceit, 3"500 ; oxalate of cuffs, *270 ; protoxide of collar, "230 ; acetate of toothpick shoes, ‘267 ; sulphide of smirk, "500 ; chloride of coat-tail, "002 ; Cyanide of hraiu (doubtful), •001 ; total, 1000.’” The deepest shaft in Victoria at the end of the year was the Magdala, at Stawell, which was 2409 ft deep; other shafts in the same locality were 1910 ft, 1830 ft, 1815 ft, 1770 ft, 1565 ft, and 1220 ft from the surface. At Sandhurst there were shafts 1800 ft, 16Clft, and 1563 ft deep respectively ; at Mddon one of 1220 ft from the surface, and at Clunes two shafts, 1214 ft and 1193 ft deep respectively.