SOME WONDERFULL THINGS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 33, 7 January 1899, Page 4

SOME WONDERFULL THINGS.

"Martin," said a wise grammar-school boy to his little brother of six, " come here and let me tell you what you have inside of you." " Nothing," said Martin. " Yes you have. Listen I You've got a whole telegraph stowed away in your body, "With wires running down to your very toes and out to your finger tips." "I haven't," laid Martin, looking at his feet and hands. " You have, though, and that isn't all. There's a big force-pump in the middle of you, pumping, pumping seventy times a minute, all day long, like the great engine I showed you the other day at the locomotive works." " There is no »uch thing " " But there is, though ; and besides all these things, a tree is growing in you, with over two hundred different branches, ,tied together with ever so many bands and tough utrings."

" That isn't so at all," persisted the little boy, about ready to cry. " I can fe«l myself all over, and there's no tree or engine, or anything else, eicept flesh and blood." " Oh, that isn't floph and blood ; that's most of it water. This i« what you are made of — a few gallons of water, a little lime, phosphorus, salt, and some other things thrown in." said his brother.

A young iiiau describing himself as Professor William Baldwin, the " Globe "walker 1 ," was charged, at Richmond Police Court, a few days ago, with drunkenness. Early in the morning he Went to the! locnl police-station, and asked for a night's lodging. He was drunk at the time, and as he became noisy he was given What he asked for. The police told the magistiates that the man had said he had been walking round the world, and this surprised the Mayor, who was the chairman of the Bench. His Worship asked where he lived, and Baldwin said he had no present abode in England. He raised a smile by asserting that it was he who had started out from New York three years ago to tour round the world. It was a wager for 20,000 dollars, and he had still 14 da vs to get to London, when his journey would be completed. His story seemed so incredible that the Mayor asked the police if he had been examined by a doctor. On being told that he had not, His Worship ordered a remand, in oider that a doctor might see him. Baldwin protested against such a proceeding, declaring that he wns a sane man. Lcuei lit; appealed to the Bpv>cli xor leniency, and by means of letteie and papers, was able to commee them that he was the same man he represented himself to be. He showed how he left New York quite penniless, and how he had earned his living on his journey. He started with a suit of brown paper, and with this he soon raised some dollars. Then he earned 2000 dollars by riding a bicycle down the steps of the Capitol at Washington. After traversing the whole of America he journeyed through Japan and China, being excluded from Bibena through his partiality to taking photographs ; thence to India and Asia Minor, across Europe, to England. He hoped to win his wager, as he had fourteen days in which to do so, and he finished in London. If the Bench kept him in prison his chance would be gone. The Bench withdrew their previous decision, and ordered him to pay a fine of ss.