ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 143, 5 October 1876, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

There is more trouble in store forthl* school-boy (says the Pall Mall Budgetm* A society has been started in France fori 1 the formidable purpose of prosecuting! ? "voyages of study" round the world M. de Lesseps has interested himself ia the project, and next year a fine steamer of 1,200 horse-power will take a cargo oi boys, with tutors, regulations, and ejferj» thing necessary to enjoyment, o;a a long cruise, in which pleasure is to be dulj seasoned with instruction. The ship uriH weigh anchor at Havre, and sail in the, first instance for New York, touching at Lisbon, Madeira, and the Bermudas. From New York the students will proceed to Charleston, Havannah, Martinique, Para, Rio, and Bueno3 Ayres. They will avoid Cape Horn, sailing through the Straits of Magellan, on to Valparaiso, Callao, Tahiti, Auckland, and Melbourne. From Melbourne the floating school will make for Sydney, pau.se for a moment at Noumea, thence proceed to Yeddo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bombay, Aden, Alexandria, Naples, and Marseilles, when the young gentlemen will be let loose to cheat their aged relatives. Three brothers fcearins a remarkable resemblance to one another are in the habit of shaving at the same barber's shop, in New York. Not long ago, one of the brothers entered the shop early in the morning, and was shaved by a German, who had been at work in the shon-ojily for a day or two. About noon another brother came in, and underwent a. similar operation at the hands of the same barber. In the evening the third brother made his appearance, when the German dropped his razor in astonishment, and exclaimed, " Veil, mine Gott! Dat man hash dt fashtest beard I never saw ! I shaves him dis mornin', shaves him at dinner-times, and he comes back now rait his beard as long as it never vash !" An unprecedented telegraphic feat was achieved by the Dublin Freeman's Journal of the 21st July. The Elcho Challenge Shield had been shot for on the previous day at Wimbledon, where English, Irish, and Scotch teams of eight each competed —each man firing fifteen shots at three different ranges. The next morning the Freeman's Journal contained diagrams of each of the seventy-two targets. On the face of each target was not only shown in black the exact spot where each shot struck—this was done last year by the same paper —but this spot showed in its own centre in white the number of the shot which it represented. The most elaborate arrangements were necessary to secure this result. Special type for the shots had to be cast, special targets made, and in the course of the night the exact position on the targets of the 1,080 different shots ha 4 to be telegraphed, and then the shots in position in Dublin and printed.— Glasgow News also printed diagrams on the morning after the shooting Elcho Challenge Shield, showing the ex*&: Bpot where each shot struck the target.