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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 943, 6 December 1881, Page 1 (Supplement)

There arc 100,000 lunatics in France, It is proposod to hold an exhibition of all nations at Mniieli&Jitflr. in I'.iiglulwl. next year. - W. IT. Daily, a''swimmer at ?ama i Cruz, lias rescued t people! from drowning. ■:•. ■General Giw.t vsiihl to draw i. KUIOO a year from liis >un's linn, rl whieh ho a sleeping partner.' (Jf tli« population of Jioslon sixtyeight thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine were born in Ireland. A shot fi.xeil from the 100-ton gun will penetrate a ship with armour 3 feet thick at tho distance of a mile, Two aged gentleman, both past 80, have been baptised and received into the Shamokin Baptist Church, Pennsylvania. A telegraph wire manufactory is in course of construction at Shiodome, Tokio, and will probably bo opened in January.

The receipts at the Boston Custom House for August'- 1881, amounted to L4G2,238, an increase of 169,697, over Aug., 1880,

The latest census of the German Empire gavo a total of 45,104'000 popu,ation showing an increase, of 2,465,000 since 1875 and 4,13(5,000 more than in 1871. Sitting Bull the American Indian chief solis his autograph at £1 apiece and has parted with his pipe to a lover of relics for i2O. A wealthy German Baptist has bought an old convent on the island of Capri. Italy, and has established a small Baptist church there. The Crown Princo and Princess of j Germany and their suite lately took with thcin to Norris Castle luggage that weighed eight tons, The French Government has ap-

pointed a committee, presided over by fteav-A.dm.iral Bourgeois, to study the different applications of electricity to navigation. There are 900 white Baptist churches Mississippi, with 56,000 members. Of these churches only ten have preaching every Sunday, and uf these only six

are self-supporting At a recent London dinner a poeticlooking youth, whose .-esthetic appearance caused a general shudder, was found, when he had loft, and it

was too late to appreciate him, to he no other than Belt, the sculptor, a favourite of the Queen's. The awards for slave captures, salvage service, ic., which have been distributed between April 1, 1880, and March 31,1881. amount altogether to £9524. These have been distributed between the officers and the crews of five of Her Majesty's ships. The English Church Pastoral Aid Society has helped to erect or keep open 350 churches and chapels, and is I now keeping open 307 rooms for worship. By means of its grants, additional and more systematic pastoral visitation is provided for a population amounting ; to nearly 4,750,000. ! Mr Stanley tells us that Simla, chief overseer of Amu bin Oeman's caravan. _ stalins; six feet five inches barefooted, thirty-two inches from shoulder to shoulder, could toss an ordinary .sufc'd mail ten icct into the air, anil catch him on his descent. He would take one of the large white Muscat donkeys by the ears, and with a

sudden movement of his right foot, lay the surprised ass on its back ; carry a three-year-old bullock half way round

his master's plantation; and once actually bore twelve men on his hack shoulders, and chest, round Ocmair'a house, to the intense wonder of a large orowd of applauding spectators. Pete Pauquette, ■ a slim-built but muscular-limbed half-breed, is still living to glory in Fs. sobriquet of the Samson of Yt'i;;co;::un, It was a favorite performance with him to take a

handfiil of drv, bard hickory nuts, and ■ crush than to pieces by merely closing I his hand upon them. Senator Clark who knew him well in his best days, said: " His muscles were like iron. I have had him bare his arm to me, and I have taken a hammer and cracked hickory nuts upon the muscles;and it was like cracking them on a stone, One day," relates the senator, "a party was proceeding by boat up tho Fox intending to go down to Winconsin. When the portage came to be made, a yolk of oxen was procured to draw the boat across. It was very heavy and before half the distance had been made one of the oxen gave out completely. Ptiquette was along and what do you suppose he did I He took the end of the yoke vacated by the played-out ox, and j pulled with the other one, and tlic j novel team hauled the boat and traps across all right; and Pete did not seem to mind the strain half so much as the old ox did." i

Great commanders lmvc not as a rule! 1 been notable for the possession of extra-11 ordinary physical powers, Washing- , ton was an exception being a man of' great strength. In his youth he was ] once an onlooker at a wrestling match 1 and growing weary of the sport - threw ' himself at the foot of a tree to enjoy bis book. By-nnd-bye he was challenged to try a fall with the hero of tho day. At first he declined until finding his 1 refusal attributed to fear lie entered the arena and without taking off his coat grappled with his opponent and after a brief struggle threw him heavily to the ground with such force that the best wrestler, in Virginia was in much the same predicament as the Dnlccs wrestler when he came to ccnclusions with Orlando. Later on in his life while watching some young fellows contending at throwing the bar Washington asked to bp allowed to try what he could do andgraspipg'the.bav sent it flying through the air to land many feet beyond the limit.attained by any of the competitors. Andr-still later when he might, have been-'said to be ./j getting old he showed (hat he had not of-,ai:ni. Taking a a'; ige "stoiio; horse, ?' 'Washington aside : and •without any stone to mounting • ii? iowowa on,4^