ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1059, 27 April 1882, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

An Imperial messenger wbb lately Bent to France by the Emperor of Brazil with Christmas presents for the grandchildren. of Victor Hugo, by whom he was entertained when in Paris. Louis Melikoff has been summoned to \ Moscow to devise measmes for the safety vJ of the Czar at his approaching coronation "W> in Moscow. ' ' " w "

A Sydney paper treats its readers to this on whisky. " A Queensland shanty keeper lately found trouble to brew his whisky hot enough to suit his customers, who made repeated enquiries for something that would " bite all the way down." As a last resource, and to save his reputation the proprietor mixed up a case of painkiller, a keg of fusel oil, four bottles of emu oil, and a tub of hair restorer, and then emptied the lot into a barrel of real old Bourbon, made in Ipswich. This he called the " Shepherd's delight," and its popularity rose as high as a lawyer's costs in a libel action. The first man who tried it fairly toreamed with delight, and actually went home and liugged his molhen'n-law; the next one took two drinks, and then broke hia neck trying to turn a sommersault over a passingwooldray ; and the third who was a travelling hawker, after drinking one quart, actually stole his own pack, and planted it up a hollow log That shanty man is now on the road to fortun . and perhaps a seat in the Upper House.

Mr Labouchore tells the English peoplethat America is sendint; them prime beef and mutton; American apples are more plentiful in the markets than homegrown ; American wool is ousting English ;, America is sending them the " English" plum pudding ready to boil; and that American horses are winning the principal races in England and France, A petition with 43,831 signatures has been presented to the Home Seoretarjr, Lord Harcourl asking for a remission of the. unexpected sentences of imprisonment of the officers imprisoned for bribery. The memorial shows, besides sinnatures of clubs, associations, law aociotios, &c., the names of 32 members »f the House of Loids, 75 members of the House of Commons, 813 bankers, 1113 clergymen, 1015 Justices of Peace, 162 mayors and ex-mayors, 4633 professors, and 3597 solicitors. Lord Harcourt has remitted the sentence in some of the less aggravated cases, _ An Indianopolis ruralist seated himself in a restaurant the other day and began on a bill of fate. After omploying three waiters nearly half an hour in bringing dishes to him. he heaved a bitter sigh and whispered as he put his Anger on the bill of fare, " Mister, J.Ve et to that thar, and"—moving his finger to the bottom of the bill-" of it isn't agin the rule I'd like to skip from thar to thar."; It is estimated that the cost of the trial of Gniteau will amount to over £40,000. An arrangement by which 10, and per* haps 12, despatches may be forwarded at once over a single wire is reported as ha»ingbeen devised by M. l'Abbe Lacoide.