ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1070, 10 May 1882, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

William H. Vauderbilt, 'the American millionaire, issued 1000 invitations jo a ball, which was to have been held on 17th February. ioo A n COl 'J ng t0 the CODaUB on Dec, Ist 1880, Prussia had 27,278,911 Bonis; #' T 18,fi45 ' 462 > Catholica, 9;205,136 • Jews, 393,790 j other re! lieions, 45,577 ; persons without reliinous profession 22,006. A negro woman at Florence, Alabama, while rising from in front of a firoplnce with her child in her arms ttraok its head against the mantelpiece, crushing its skull and killing it instantly. A Judge in Japan has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for havine accepted a bribe of £6O. If hn had not been of exalted rank he would have been sentenoed to imprisonment for life. A teetotal lecturer was charged at Bradford with being drunk, and dismissed with a caution.. His excuse was Mat he got into an excited political argument and did not know what he was drinking. i Paris has 92 Sunday Schools, with 819 teachers and 7400 scholars. Most of those schools use the International series of lessons, for which lesson-papers and other expository helps are published in France. A lot of Socialist tracts were ; seized in January by the Schleswig ; Custom-house officers at Kiel. These incendiary documents had been printed in Chicago and forwarded for distribution in Germany in preserved meat cans. We have had the pleasure of irspecting a consignment of sewing machines that Uapp and Hare have just received, Wa can safely say they are the best maohineg we have ever seen, and Rapp and Hare inform us they can soil them at minimum We are assured that they will have a speedy sale.—Advt.

• Tho total annuai consumption of qui'mno throughout tho world is 220,0001bs of which ono quarter is used in tho United States alone. In 1880 550,000 ounces of qumino and 32,000 hales of cinchona bark were imported into tho United States. In 1881 tho importations wero one-quarter larger, A hoy aged 16, living in Cincinnati, U.S., has sued liis employers for £2OOO damages for tho loss of three of his fingers n thoir machinery, which, ho alleges, was ' delectivo,

_ A lady visitor at tho gaol whero Guiteau is confied begged for a pieco of the ropo from tho scaffold (whero two men have heon hung) to euro diphtheria, and the request was complied with. _ Hie Boston committeo on tho suppression of beggary of tho associated charities has issued a circular calling attention to tho ovil'of alnu giving to unknown beggars cluiWig that this practice works a posiinstead of doing good, aud greatly hinders and cripples tho legitimate work of tho different charitableorganisations, The Queen of Groat Britain has twentyfivo grancchildren and at least ono front grandchild living. Six of her grandchildren havo died. The Prince of Wales recently said at a club, that beyond tho sherry with his fish he would tako but ono wine, because he never mixes his liquors. Miss Alice Longfellow, tho daughter of the Into poet, has a strong and clever face, with charming brown eyes and a delicate, soft colour in her checks. During'the past fivo years twenty.live persons have been killed ntid sixty-four woundod m tho attempt to onforce tho revenue laws' in the following states of America ;—Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Arkansas