_s._ _d._ To soldering and repairing St. Joseph, 0 8 To cleaning and ornamenting the Holy Ghost, 0 6 To repairing the Virgin Mary and cleaning the child, 4 8 To screwing a nose on the Devil, and putting in the hair on his head, and placing a new joint in his tail, 5 6 _Antiquity of Riddles._ Riddles are of the highest antiquity. The oldest one on record is in the book of Judges, xiv. 14-18. We are told by Plutarch that the girls of his time worked at netting or sewing, and the most ingenious made riddles. The following riddle is attributed to Cleobolus, one of the seven wise men of Greece, who lived about 570 years before the birth of Christ:— "There is a father with twice six sons; these sons have thirty daughters apiece, parti-colored, having one cheek white and the other black, who never see each other's faces, nor live more than twenty-four hours." _Cashing Lottery Prizes._ In the State Lottery of 1739, tickets, chances and shares were "bought and sold by Richard Shergold, printer, at his office at the Union Coffee-house over and against the Royal Exchange, Cornhill." He advertised that he kept numerical books during the drawing, and a book wherein buyers might register their numbers at sixpence each; that _fifteen per cent. was to be deducted_ out of the prizes, which were to be paid at the bank in fifty days after the drawing. The heavy percentage demanded occasioned the following epigram:— "This lottery can never thrive," Was broker heard to say, "For who but fools will ever give Fifteen per cent. to play?" A sage, with his accustomed grin, Replied, "I'll stake my doom, That if but half the fools come in The wise will find no room!" _Lottery for Women in India._ _Advertisement._—BE IT KNOWN, that SIX FAIR PRETTY YOUNG LADIES, with two sweet and engaging young children, lately imported from Europe, having roses of health blooming on their cheeks and joy sparkling in their eyes, possessing amiable manners and highly accomplished, whom the most indifferent cannot behold without expressions of rapture, are to be RAFFLED FOR next door to the British gallery. SCHEME: _Twelve tickets_ at twelve rupees each; the highest of the three throws takes the most fascinating, &c., &c.—_Calcutta Newspaper of September 3rd_, 1818. _Ancient Lottery._ In 1612, King James I., "in special favour for the plantation of English colonies in Virginia, granted a Lottery to be held at the west end of St. Paul's; whereof one Thomas Sharplys, a taylor of London, had the chief prize, which was four thousand crowns in fair plate."—_Baker's Chronicles._ _Child Played For._