Around the Globe.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1014, 4 March 1882, Page 2

Around the Globe.

China lias paid the first instalment of the compensation to Russia stipulated in the Kuldja Treaty., . . : In the recent storm nearly 200 of the Bermck and Firth' of Forth.fishermanwere lost-:Eyemouth lost 129 of its hardiest men. ■•<■■'■'■ . ■. • .':,5Mr Charles L. Webb of Mexico, Otsego County, New York, 1 is one of a family of ! nine, all living, whose United ages make 671 years, •" .. ,: :n;r :■■

... Em P ress E «geme says that Paris seems ike to her. Her firm friend he Countess de Lesseps calls her the ( # n ll *Ww of the Suez < Canal. Her hands are Rubied up with rheumatism, she has a bloodless face, and walks \7lt4 a oane. \ The Sultan has again commanded the site of Solomon's Temple to be cleared o£'weeds and rubbish. When the.Emperor J*rancisJoseph visited Jerusalem, some' years ago, Abdul-Aziz; order'ed the work to begiu at once, but after a.little exhibition of energy it; ceased. The recent visit of the Crown Prince Rudolph has, however, given the matter a fresh impetus,'* At a recent teat of the 80-ton gun male " at Woolwioh, and the at Elswiok, it was incidentallyTno'wlNhat English powder is much better than German powder. The 100-ton gun firing the latter, registered a velocity of 1535 ft jiar Beoond with a pressure upon the bore of 14 tons; firing the former; the velocity was 1545 ft per second with t, pressure of oulyl2tons, , . -, ;••»■'.'. The Gzar of Russia; Jb about to present the Shah ot Persia with a picture representing the late Emperor at various ages, the frame of which, in oak, inlaid with gold and preoious stones, cost oyer £I4OO. His Imperial Majesty has just, bought, for six million roubles, four ; large houses which are too near his Ariitohkpff Palace, from one of which a " Nighisiatka" mine was once laid, and in another Jelyaloff *' was arrested, ".'.!', ™ The manufacture of gluoose ; (qorn syrup) hRS become a very important industry in America of late years. There are now twenty immense glucose factories at work in America. Already a capital of over £400,000 is invested in this business. The daily consumption of comfor.tho manufacture of glucose is about 89,000 bushels, and the annual amount about 11,000,000. AD these factories have sprung up within the last twelve years, The Eussian Leiutenant, Landsburg, who murdered Madam Valoff and her servant for money to pay his debts of honor, employs his life sentance of penal servitude in overseering the construction of fortfications by a : gang of Musslemana from the Cauoasus. . A scheme for converting Vienna into a seaport is the latest proposal. Aftenoh engineer suggests that by. a system of locks and navigable canals.Vienna can be connected with the Black and North seas. The cost is estimated at lil,oooioool The compositors on the St. Petersburg. Herald desiring an inorease of wage's, and threatening a strike, were reported to the police, who ordered them to leave the country at once, and supplied their plaoes, they being nearly all Germans, with Russians. While waiting for a train at Mansfield, Ohio, Miss Katherine Rogers strolled up the track, aud was on the middle of anr open trestle-work when the express came dashing along. Phe had only'time. to drop herself upon a supporting beam below the track, and hung'there till resoued l in an exhausted condition. ••**