ALL BOUND THE WORLD.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 163, 28 September 1881, Page 3

ALL BOUND THE WORLD.

A Determined Man. — At the Half-, way Bay, Lake Wakatipu, a man named William Payne gat hit leg broktn whil blasting a log of wotd. He crawle e down to the Jtooky Eiver, but owing td the flood was unablo to cross. He the©> crawled back to bis hut. It was twentu hours before he was relieved, haviny crawled back to the Xocky Eiver againg The skin was quite torn off his knees and ankles. His energy must have been very great. He is now m the hospital at Queenstown, Origin ai. Poetbt m Newspapers. — A San Francisco paper having been driven desperate by voluntary poetical contributions, sounds this note of warning : — " We don't know how newspapers were conducted at that distant period, but during some recent excavations m Assyria a poem on the silver moon was dug ud. It was engraved on a tile, and close beside it were lying a battered club and part of a human skull. Draw your ouwn conclusions.' 1 Simple Remedy por Smali,-pox.--^ Israels Identity Standed states that a Mr Hose, of Dorking, some time ago dis-* covered that cream of tartar was a specific.for BmaU-po? % via?, X 0z... dissolved m. a.

pnt of boiling water, and given to the patient m doses of one one wineglass, when cold ; and four such glasses effect a cure, and that out of 100,000 cases, only one did, viz., a boy, who had whoopingcought. In London, thirty children who had the disease m one ueighiiorhood were all made convalescent m three days by the same treatment. lavkke Advkrtising, — A new idea m theatrical advertising comes from America. A San l-YancLco Journal soys :— " Frank L. Gardner proposes to advertise his theatiical companies next season by a liberal free distribution of Revised New Testament. It will be m phamplu form, with the name of tiie manager and attraction on the first page, the cast within and the business cards on the concluding pages. This is a uovel idea, but it is doubtful if it will be well received by the public. Ingersoll has not quite rtvolutioned Christian sentiment yet. The Dramatic News, m its editoral comments, makes tbis apropos remark: — 'While the plan will undoubtedly be successful for the Legion of Honour Combination, it is needless for us to declare at tbis time that it will only bring failure to any theatrical combination not of the highest or.ler.' We might add that the idea is one conceived m consumate bad taste to put it m the mildest form. It is even more distasteful than the Passion Play." A Turtle Farm. — One of the strangest farms m the world is the gigantic terraphin farm of Mr Dorton, m Alabams vhieh is stocked at present with twenty thousand head of turtle that are reared and fattened for the New York market. They eat nothing m winter, and they can be fattened on crabs m summer at a cost of a dollar a dozen. Mr Dorton sells them at a dollar each m New York. Yet they have to pay a guinea a quart for turtle soup m London. Realism. — While Miss Pomeroy was speaking the epilogue to " As You Like It " the other evening, a hearty tribute was paid, if not to her acting, at all events to her personal charms when she arrived at the point where Bosalind proraises to kiss the men whose beards pleased her, one old gentlemen m the stalls got so excited that he oried out m a loud voice " Hear, hear." Very naturally his earnestness directed all attention to him for the moment, whereat the old fellow seemed somewhat ashamed of nil outburst of admiratiou. Polite Thieves. — "The lady who took by mistake" is m great force m London this season, and Truth is concerned to find that " the gentleman who took, by mistake" is now to the fore as well. This branch of piratical trade appears to be on the increase. It is a form of theft to be committed without much lisk. A. precaution that might seem needful m the eyes of a novice, viz , tbat of securing . some slight resemblance between the article " taken by mistake" and I that left m its place, is seldom observed. Ladies of experience m the ways of the fashionable world take care now to leave their more elaborate wraps m their carriage when they quit it, contenting themselves with a Shetland shawl, or other comparatively inexpensive protection, to be left m the cloak-room. They no longer entrust tHeir precious marvels of millinery to the honesty of their peers. " Experience does it," as Mrs Nickleby rather freely rendered the Latin dictum.. A Tasmanian Tragedy. — The Launceston (Tasmania) Examiner of August 26 says :— The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court at Launceston which opened yesterday, have been marked by a tragic incident unprecedented m the history of the Colony, and one which will long be remembered from the peculiar circumstances connected with it. A fanner named Patrick Linnane, who resides at Table Cape, where he has a wife and family, was yesterday after a lonsr and weary trial, and a lengthened deliberation on the part of the jury, found guilty of perjury, but 'recommended to mercy on account of his unfortunate wife and family, and shortly before the Court rose, at nearly 7 p.m., he was sentenced by his Honor, Mr. Justice Dobson, to 18 months' imprisonment -with hard labor. It now transpires tbat during the whole of that long and weary trial, and while the prisoner was receiving his sentence, he stood facing the judge and jury with a loaded revolver concealed on his person, with which he deliberately blew his brains out a few minutes after leaving the precincts of the Court-house. Linnan? was being taken to the gaol m a car. handcuffed by one hand to another prisoner wh«n he fired the shot. Death was instantaneous. He put the revolver into his mouth. Out or theis Depth.— A " Domestic Economy Congress, arot up m imitation of those for the discussion of social science, to enable the ladies of independent position to show their learning on such questions as food, servents' dress, health, and the like, is being held from day to day. An amusing incident is described by the Da.i 7 y News as occuring at tbe Society of Arts on June 24: — " There was much amused sympaty with Lord Alfred Charchhill, upon whom fell the duty of reading a paper on ' the Prevention of Disease ' sent by Miss Louisa Twining. His Lordship kept a tolerably grave countenance while discoursing upon feeding bottles, but began to falter over « tight stays,' and utterly broke down with confusion and merriment when the necessity was forced upon him of denouncing the feminine use of * compressing garters. 1 A few days ago similar amusement was caused by tbe attempt of Sir Henry Cole to read an absent lad'y's paper written so badly as ahnos to defy his efforts to decipher it." Kawhia Harbob. — The harbor os | Kawhia* which has hithfrto been kept \ closed by the Maoris, is one of the best along the West Coast of the North ' Island. It contains about 4000 acres two sides of which deep water up ro^tke very shores. The bar is not a sand, but a solid stone ridge of no great width, channels or entrances through which 1 could be easily made with dynamite. In the middle of the harbor is an island of some 1-50 acres m extent, which adds still more to the means of seenring shelter for smaller crafts. It is said that on the bar at present there is never less than 20ft of watey at half tide, German Cautiok. - When the British Heserve Squadron was at Kiel the German naval authorities gave a grand garairj rno.npq °-li pot? '?l 'iuj s.tauißajs pun sjij.xj fnß^j -sjajß.w m?o7j3s oj aojpunbs

shore and the British fleet, m order to enable visitors to inspect the ships. The flagship Hercules naturally attracted most interest, but the others were visited m turn by a large number of German officers, who sci-m. it was remarked, to stick pretty closely to Gorman rule — that is, to see as much «f (oeigu ships as possible, and show as little as thej cau tn fo eigneis. The (ji-rmnus Ijre rl tl't run over our ship- all d.iy l"ii^, whi'e tvo of their most iut rooii.i,,' \ts.-.ci-, with tut latest torpedo iuvetuious, have been carefully sent to sc:i. Tae fl.it w^i^h d anchor on July 18 fur Spithead. A Mystious hr Monster — The famous bun^ip, or vome other extraordinary animal, has turned up m the vicinity of a small salt lake, on the mail road, neurlv midway between Rocks and Beachport Victoria. According to the Border Watch " tbe lake, Mbich lies betweeu Mr Forester's and the sea, and i* a little over half a mile from the shore, is about five acres m extent, and is surrounded by a dense growth of the ordinary coast scrub and timber, and a large quantity of what is known as saltwater theatre grows m it. Its situation, as well as the thick growth of scrub m and around it, makes the lake one of tbe most secluikd Kpots that can be found m the locality. Occasionally for the hist four j'ear;?, it is said, and rather frequently of late, several residents at Mr Forester's have seen, apparently feeding at the side of the water a large animal of a dark brown color, which when disturbed, plungcl into the lake and disappeared. From the description given it appears to be amphibious m its habits, but the persons who have seen it were evidently too timid to make much inquiry. It is said to stand about two feet hich, and to be a good deal longer thau a Newfoundland dog. It moves on four legs, and leaves m the soft ground at the side of the lake footprints consisting of four claw marks. It makes a noise like the roaring of a bull, wbich noiae has often been heard at a distance when the beast itself was not visible. No one can even conjecture what the creature may be, and some a»*e inclined to fancy it ia the last surviving one of some species of '\ustraHan animal that is destined to become extinct with it. It is proposed to organise a 6trong party with dogs, either from Beachport or Forster'to have a good seach for the monster, and if possible, secure it dead or alive."