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Wanganui Herald, Volume III, Issue 623, 2 June 1869, Page 2

Which is worth most, five pounds in gold, or a five pound note ?—The bank no.c; because you always double it when you put it in 3-our pocket, and you will find it always increases (in creases) when you take it out. Cross.—A man who had filed a petition for divorce was informed by his counsel that his wife had filed a " cross petition." " That's just like her," exclaimed the husband, " she never did a good-natured thing in her life." New Printing Machine.— Experiments with a new printing machine are being made secretly at the Times office. The secret is said to be that the paper is in one continuous sheet of great length, which the machine places, prints, cuts, and piles in heaps, and counts with the smallest amount of manual labor. This machine is expected to print 23,000 perfect copies, or 46,000 impressions in the hour.

Princess BACCioccnr. — There was much sympathy between the aged lady and her Majesty, and the best proof af the high esteem in which the former held the latter is to be found in tho terras of her will, where, after declaring her bequest of j the bulk of her property to tbe Prince j Imperial, is added in the lady's j own band and in pencil on the mar- j gin, " This measure will prove to I my dear Eugenic all my affection > much more forcibly than if I had • bequeathed the property to herself! personally. She wili understand the j meaning I attach to the gift." The ': only bequest left to the Empress is : a small diamond buckle belonging j to a Court pump, such as were worn j in the days of the Restoration. It! was folded carefully iv silver paper, | and sealed with almost official cere- j mony. Everybody, save her Ma- I jesty, was surprised to find thai; there was but one—useless, of course, \ without ir? follow. But the Em-! press forbade a search being mado; for the other, saying that ir, wus I useless, for she knew the history well.