ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1069, 9 May 1882, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

111 China the punishment for food adulteration is denth. In Florida there aro 19,703 while people who cannot wiito their names. A somnambulist at Denver, U.S., is locked up in the city jail nightly at his own request, Tho clergymen of the Church of England insist ralia and Now Zealand numbor near^M There is a woman's dispensary in New York, a charitable institution, that last year treated 4500 cases. There are now more than 700,000 members of the Baptist churches in (he United States who are of African descent. In order to introduce telegraphy in China the authorities have granted the freo uso of tho wires to the peoplo for ono month. The agrarian outrages in Ireland in January wero 31i5 in excoss of those in January, 1880, mid 31 beyond tlnso in 1881. • Thirty-three millions of new bricks aro estimated to have been used in Melbourno last year in the erection of new buildings. Tho value of Queen Victoria's presents to tho poor last Christmas amounted to £3OO, which was divided anion? over 1000 recipients. Sho gavo 1100 to tho Royal Clothing Club. The Empress of ltuasia suffers so much from delicHe lii'ig; and nervous prostration, coiiFCijiient on tho political ituation, that anxiety is felt to get her away from her disturbed country to Italy. A Swiss gentleman, M. Jules Scholl, in his book " Avez Pitie," written against vivisection, says that 4000 dogs wero sacrificed to prove Bell's theor; of the nerves, and 4000 more lo disprovo if. At Edinburgh Mr Moody invited the children to bring him on a certain day such of those toys as they were willing to give to poor children. Tho result was enough to fill two large waggons. A man recently fell overboard from a vessel at sea, and on coming to tho surface threw his arms around the neck of an albatross that happened to bo fishing on tho spot, and held mi until he was rescued.