ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 145, 7 October 1876, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Exaggerated notions are current aboi harem and harem receptions, notions bor partly of the seclusicn of the female poi tion of the household in the East, (j course, the majority of the harems i Egypt are simply the apartment of 01 wife and her children. The lady ul enters one of them pays an ordinary cal and finds no mystery whatever. If tha is more than one wife, a privileged visitoi able to converse with the inmates, migl find some skeletons behind the screw windows. It is also true that a foreig lady may enter one of the royal harem and be received with scarcely more cen mony than an ordinary call at home. Ti receptions, at which there is a great di play, at which crowds of beautiful an ugly slaves line the apartments, at whic there is music and dancing by almehs, an endless service of sweets and pipes an coffee, and a dozen changes of dress b the hostess during the ceremony, arero frequent, and are for some special oca sion, the celebration of a tj entertainment of a visitor of higVpS One who expects, upon a to a harem, to wander into the fpopnk dovecote of the Khedive, where languis t lie beauties of .Asia, the sisters from & Gardens of Gul, pining for a new robet the mode from Paris, will be most cruel! disappointed.— diaries Dudley Warner. The Hindoo girls are graceful andei quisitely formed. From their earlie childhood they are accustomed to can burdens on their heads. The water fc family use is always brought by the giii in earthern jars, carefully poised in ffi way. This exercise is said to strength the muscles of the back, Avliile the cha is thrown forward. No crooked backs ai seen in Hindostan. Dr. Henry Spry, on of the Company's medical officers, saj that "this exercise of carrying small va sels of water on the head might be adrat tageously introduced into our boardk schools and private families, and that i might entirely supersede the present m chinery of dumb-bel's, back-boards, skq ping-ropes, &c. The young lady oiightt be taught to carry the jar as these Hindi women do, without ever toucliing it mi her hands." The same practice of canj

ing water leads to precisely the suits in the south of Spain and in thj south of Italy as in India. A Neapolifel female peasant will carry on her head i vessel full of Avater to the very brim oye a rough road and not spill a drop of it and the acquisition of this art or knad gives her the same erect and elastic gait and the same expanded chest and we! formed back and shoulders.

A correspondent of the Evenement, affc relating how he was turned out of ft camp at Alexinatz by order of Priw Milan, describes a double execution whit he witnessed. A soldier who had deserts his post, and a gipsy woman accused c being a spy, were ordered to be shft The soldier demanded that he might t> executed musket in hand, and his requa was granted. He walked quietly up toi large tree and leaned his back against il The firing party took up its position a ten paces distant, and were about to le« their arms, when the condemned stretch* out his hand and cried —"Michel B» nicevanowitch, forget not that you ]»« mised my sister a silver chain." remember, and will keep my 'word, answered the man in the firing pas "Thank you. Render me also anolhe service, and cut my throat before I & buried." "It shall be done." T» officer gave the command to fire, an" Joblinowitch fell, but only wounded, * man stepped forward to finish him, Njj he cried, "Not that one—Michel." - Michel Branicovanowitch approached an< blew out the wounded man's brains. Tbß came the turn of the zingara, whom tw soldiers hung to the branch of the tre* She never uttered a word while the parations were being made, and merelj followed the movements of the execution* 1 with her glittering eyes.

The last years of Georges Sand's life a* described by the authoress herself in* old letter published in the Vie Isfc™}f " Nothing striking," says vant, " marks the last typenttfT&v&Jxaxst human life. Old age, calm and happy>; passed in the midst of one's family, andJ only disturbed by personal griefß. I h»J given up all the cares of the househw

fl ";,TiDtakiiig long walks and studyL Jp-*any, and writing novels when I can Pjpitftt two hoars morning »md evening. jfovel writing » & recreation to me_: my ; lord woe It in my correspondence, hmn--.! ,n«rabte people write t» me with the uu.'.*t ; touching requests, and when f cart do anything I reply •, if not, I *lt> not ".".'ww the letters. 1 hope, alter death, I go to a planet where there is neither writing nor reading. As to my financial ponitioß> I have earned rather over a milliou (£40,00©).. but I have given all uway except £B,OOO, which I have kept so as not tj coat my children anything if my lost illness is a lingering one. Should, however, any one really need this money, and I can earn more, then I certainty shall not keep it.'*— London Fiyan>. It >» tolerably well known that French nrtist sculptors are the most gay-hearted and careless of men. They were so in the days of Eugene Sue, and anch they remain. When they cptit their chambers tlioy frequently leave the key in the door, instead of giving it to the concierge, conscious that noon© would dream of running away with a Urge block of marbte. In this wise, a funny incident happened the other day to a provincial gentleman who went to call on an artist friend in the i Passage Veradieu. lie knocked, but as ] no one cried "Come in I" and as the fcey wiis in the lock, ho turned it and enterttl. (Va he stepped forward, his eye caught that of a beautiful Venus, standing on a pedestal it ml looking very charming, but not particularly welt eostvtmed. The proi vincial gentleman turned very red, and, muttering his apologies, hastily retired. On the stairs he met his friend, and regretfully said :. "My dear follow, t am vary s< r.y. lam a "raid I rm-Vy intruded upon the privacy of Madame youv wife. Pray offer a thousand excuses and apologies for me.'" " Some hostility arose in Georgia against Mr. Moody, in consequence of his objecting* » his white and colored audience being divided in the place of meeting by a board foneu.