Was Victoria Amused?

Was Victoria Amused? At the Kelvingrove Exhibition,1888, Victoria saw: A working dairy A Power Drop biscuit machine A giant Canadian cheese An oriental smoking lounge A balloon manned by Signor Balleni from Warwickshire Busts of her Royal Personage carved in soap A Dutch cocoa house A terracotta fountain A loom making hygenic woollen underwear A Bachelor's Cafe A stuffed polar bear Two Venetian gondoliers. ‘Signor Hokey & Signor Pokey' An Indian fakir on a bed of nails Thomson's Patent Gravity Switchback railway Did these wonders give her the shivers? Was she impressed by the red and cream striped walls? Did she thrill to its minarets, its oriental towers? This was a year Her Highness might remember The Great Sheep Panic of Oxfordshire The Ripper's Whitechapel murders The arrival from India of Snakes and Ladders The London match girls' strike Hailstones as big as oranges, killing workers in Uttar Pradesh Or more likely, be blown away by the fact that Lord Walsingham shot 1,070 grouse in a single day