ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 197, 7 December 1876, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

The Prince of M-m'enegvo is thirty-five years of ase r six feet four tnc'ies in lieight, atut ia acknowledge:l to h-; the strongest and tuodt Hittscttlar man in hla dotuiiiions. Hw face is open and frank, and wears an aspect of .-angular gent!etis;s. Tiie tirst edition of l ' I»t;ni»* Porms," Kthnai'tioek. v.-jt** nn nnt«>yiTj»li ele-y by tiie prefixed, sold f..r £liS tO-t. h\ London recently. At ths miiiif sate a copy of ** HfdliweH*« Shakespeare/' t»J vt> r rrnif,s folio (150 vf»t>ie» only printvil), changed hands at the tow price of £sl. Ttie earhontsed skeletons of two men ! ave lately been ttttiartfreit at Pompeii. Among the tilings found near by were eiicht rings, sis pieces of money, Iwo pairs of earrings, one single tuirrmg, two armlets, eadt ornamented with thirteen pairs of half-globe-}, and 332 pieces of silver money. Mr. Uat-|> r i fc'hott h a man of Dover, in fjngland. and his mind is at present ru-cu-pL;d by an atrial machine, with which he is about to make public experiments. The motive powers are a spring. The spring part wilt probably !>« a snec-jsa. It wilt be the tauding. after the soriu:. that will try the merits of ma;» an I machin.*. Tiiree dead F.atmo.i, weighing from V2ih. tt» .'50t0., were tak-n from the Trent, at Donuvgton. near Derby, the other day. At first it was thought they had been poisoned, but a prxti-mvrlirm examination ncmativtd this, and their death is accounted for by the explosion of dynamite, this destructive a.-ent being now largely emptoyud by poachers. From observations made in the well at .Speretiberg. near Berlin. M. Mohr coneludes that at the depth of 5,170 feet the increment of heat must be nth A chcrease of the increment of heat has been ob-s.-rvtd in the ark shin well of Grcncilc, Pai-is. Titat the ttier.-aaat of heat is in a dtuuulstiiug ratio with the depth was Img sincu tletermined i»y 3lr. W". IX. Fo.t in the de/.,p uiitvw,-s of U^ntwaL Tiie resrttt.l obtained at the last general e-jtisu.s taken in Prussia have comptievt by the statistical bureau at Berlin. and show the total increase in the population since liSTi to amount to 1,100,039 si ntL-< or 5 per cent. Tiie tigttre obtained of 1871 was- 2-S,*»oo,OtX»; titat obtain.'d in 1*75 was ir».700,000. Ttie greateat increase is O't.survablie in the city of Berlin, where it has been at the rate, of 17 cent. A Home papsr hsvf the following regarding the latest indelicacy in the matter of attire i—"Tye latest new idea is the * classical' dress for ladies' evening wear. U is something worse than the trousers with only one leg, which Pnneh declares women now walk in.' It is made in the most simple fashion. The trimming is of the slightest. There is* nothing to disturb the graceful "ctaaaical ortttuii?." Tue bodies are very low indeed, the trains are very far from what tadLs call full ; and the sleeves are jttst a narrow strip of braid. The anna, the shoulders, and She neck are rp..lte displayed, i*nd the tigttre in alt respect* i-* ftnfy show.*. This is the new notion in London during tiie recess." At Mr. Scott's American Bowling Svdwort in Napier i» to be seen a novelty in wine decanters or water bottles. At tiie bottom of the decanters there is a small dome of oparjtte gI»Bs?3, within which is a musical box that commences* playing a3 soon as the decanter is placed out of the perpendicular. This ingenious contrivance would be well adapted for public-hottd-j bars at which customers help thetnsts,lvc*; the dttratbn of the music would warn tiie busy barman as to the allowance someone thought he was entitled to for sixpence. An extraordinary fatality occurred during a recent voyage- of the mail steamer Ccmbria, from York to Plymouth.

The- Danish Vice-Consul at Binamanaf, Porto Rica, was reading in th; ' l ."c\hoitso near an open door, and as the vessel was pitching in the heavy sea he was recon:m Mi'tctl to exchange his chair fur a fix:vl !?:<•!•, bnfcih'ciiiiefl to do so. Almost lilii i'y unc-rv-.-s-jU the vessel lurched, and he was hurled head foremost through the doorway. Pitching against the iron bulwarks he fractured his skull, and died shortly afterwards. The tablet which the members of Her Majesty's diplomatic and consular service in China have erected in memory of the late Mr. Margary. in the Cathedral at Hong Kong, is a a ■-it-id, carved in marble, and bears th-_- following inscription : " Ttiis tablet is civet jd in token of affectionate esteem by the seniors and colleagues of the late Augustus Raymond Margary, of the British Consular Service in Cititia. He had successfully completed a difiicult journey through Caina to Burmah, and was murdered, when returning, at Manwyno, in Yunnan, on the 21st February, 1873. ' Quit ye like men.' — Ist Corinthians xvi, 13." A mong other changes which have been made with regard to the bayonet of the Martini-Henry rifle (says The Times), the following aro the mo3t important:—The ordinary bayonet which has been sanctioned differs both in length and form of b'ada from others previously approved. Tiie blade is 22! in. long ;it is equilateral, and It as n<> outward cant when fixed on the rifle. The bayonet weighs, with lock-ing-ring and screw complete, 240z. The new sc-thbard is somewhat larger than the former pattern, and has, in addition to the spring in mouthpiece, a long flat .spring inside, which is fixed to the leather by three iivet3 and washers. A sawbacked sword bayonet has also been approved, of the following dimensiens : Lvnsjth of bavonet, blade, lin. ; length of blade, 20£ in. ; weight of bayonet, lib. 9ioz. ; weigUt of scabbard, 7-Aoz.