ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 220, 5 January 1877, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

The Paris correspondent of the Irixh Ti ~,<•* tells tiie following story :—The evidence of a triple crime which has remained unproven for over two centuries has just come to light. In the course of the demolit'ons necessitated by the prolongation of the Boulevard Maz.ts, some woikmen a few days ago came upon three skeletons buried under the foundations which had served for several successive buildings. Two of the skeletons were those of men of tall stature ; the third

was that of a woman. Near the latter were four earrings and other articles of jewellery, and a gold coin bearing date IGCi."). Inquiries were instituted, and it was ascertained that the foundations under which the remains were found were those of the hotel inhabited by the Marchioness de Brinvillicrs, in the seventeenth century. The skeletons are supposed to be those of the sister and brothers of the notorious prisoner, whom she was supposed to have made away with, but of whose fate no positive knowledge was ever gained. The Marchioness was executed in 1070, just 200 years ago. A short time ago, Mr. Hiram Anderson, of the Dominion Hotel, Guclph, Canada, bought a water melon m the market. He tells a Herald reporter that on cutting it open he found to his astonishment a perfect specimen of the brown lizard embedded in the front end of the melon ; that the intruder was about six inches long, and that the specimen was handed to Mr. Gibbs, who states that the young animal must have crept into the ilower for shelter shortly after being hatched from the egg, and entering the nectary of the flower, remained there, becoming fully developed with the growth of the fruit ; and that it had probably lived in the fruit for about two or three months, deriving support by suction, until killed by the hardening of the rind and the consequent exclusion of air. The correspondent of the Ma'rfkuid Mer,.vnj (a New South Wales paper) relates an occurrence of an extraordinary character which took place at Merriwa. It appears that a bull was being driven to pound by a stockman, who, in the usual bush fashion, whipped the poor beast through the town until he became perfectly mad, and thrust himself into any place likely to afford him shelter from his tormentor. In this manner he was driving the poor beast along M'Kenzie-street, when the infuriated animal rushed into the public school, where there were present about 50 children of all ages, from three years up to 14 or 15. Such a scene of terror and confusion as ensued is easier imagined

than described. Fortunately, the beast direc ,ed his attention to that part of the room in which were seated the bigger boys and girls, who managed to get beyond his reach. Had he gone among the little ones, .who had neither the sense nor strength to get out of his, he must inevitably have bruised, perhaps killed, several of them. At the time the bull entered the school, I understand the teacher was engaged in writing a word on the black-board, and was quite unconscious of the presence of his monstrous visitor until his attention was attracted by the screams of the children, when he looked round to find the beast close upon him. The bull charged the furniture right and left, lifting it on his horns and throwing it about in the most fantastic waj ; but getting tired of this pastime, in a very short time, suffered himself to be driven out of doors without doing further injury. The escape of all unhurt is certainly one of the most providential on record. A Home paper says :—" A frightful scene was witnessed at the Yalse Railway Station, Lyons. According to a correspondent of the Daily Tclcrjrapli, a suburb .Nubian lion, intended for the Bidel Menagerie, which had just arrived, was left on the station awaiting orders from its owners. The Superintendent took the precaution to remove the truck on which the animal was brought to Lyons into a corner, off the line of the ordinary traffic, and put a barricade around it to prevent the accidental approach of strangers. Ail these steps, however, afforded only a s'.imulant to the curiosity of some persons who happened to be at the station. Amongst them was a cattle merchant, who was seized with an insane desire to go up to the wild animal and caress it as he would a cow or a sheep he had just bought. He put his arm inside the cage for this purpose, but in another moment horrible cries were heard, and attracted all the workmen and officials to the spot where the lion had been safely placed out of the reach of doing harm to all but tlio.se who might wilfuliy seek danger. The sight presented was a frightful one. The infuriated animal had the limb of the adventurous cattle dealer between his ! te.th, and dragging the whole body within the iron bars. The spectators immediately armed themselves with picks, shovels, and crowbars ; but before they succeeded in forcing Ihe lion to loosen the man, he had been torn frightfully. Medical assistance was immediately procured, but it was found necessary to perform an amputation to save the life of the victim to his own recklessness. The London V/orld says :—" We are believers in our own nation having its manifest destiny to become possessors of Egypt sooner or later. Britain has a natural right to it. Prussia was separated from her Rhine provinces by Hanover, therefore Hanover became Prussia ; Gib raltar became ours. Austria was not wanted in Italy, therefore Austria had to withdraw from Italy. Egypt must be ours if we intend to retain India. We do mean to retain India, and therefore we shall have Egypt. The sick man at Constantinople is on his death-bed. His rule has been a curse to his Christian provinces, and within a few years the}- will, thank Heaven, become either nominally Russian or Austrian. We shall welcome this solution of Eastern questions, provided we are prepared for it by having established ourselves in Egypt. Who would oppose us ( The French. Nonsense. Let them take Tunis. Who would suffer by it ? The Fellahs. They would be spared from a cruel and oppressive rule. The Khedive ? He would go to Paris and speculate on the Stock Exchange. Let us for once be wise, and wise in time."