ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1072, 12 May 1882, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

After next January, women taxpayers will possess the same voting privileges in Scotland as men taxpayers.

It is stated that the Archduchess Marie Valerie, the Emperor of Austria's youngest daughter, who is aged 13, has asked to . be allowed to bring up one of the children < who lost their parents in the firo. In the Canadian provinces there are 91 Congregational churches, with 51 pastors and 5G85 members. Their churoh proporty is valued at £1,000,000. A new interest has been aroused in > Germany in behalf of emigrants to the • United States. A list is now being prepared at Leipsig, giving the namos of all places in America where Lutheran pastors reside, so that emigrants may be directed to them.

. Mezzofanti, the wonderful Italian lin- v" ejuist, knew eighty-four lttoeruages and talked forty-eight, He turned his atteu- .. tion to this study, because, when a young priest, lie found a foreion sailor dying who.' wanted to confess, but could find no priest who could understand him. '

According to the last census nearly all the cities in the world having.over 400,000 inhabitants contain a larger number of females than males. The males outnumber the females in the United States by very nearly one million, a fact that is owing to the immense flood of immigration that has been pouring into the United Stateß for the past few years. Whenever an eighth son is born into a Royal Belgium family it is the custom for the King to Btand godfather. A town councillor upon the recent appearance of< his eighth son, applied for an extension of the favor in his own case, and the King not only consented but sent to his little godson a silver cup, a napkin ring, spoon and fork, egg cup and spoon, Bilver rattle with a pearl handle, and a silver whistle. Among recent distinguished arrivals at Christchurch is a mammoth bullock. Tho following are its dimensions:—Height 7ft 2in,; length 12ft. Gin.; girth 10ft 3in. Ho measures sft. 4in. from tho wither to tho brisket, and turns the scale at 32001b5. Mr Edison, this inventor, says he can construct railways to bo worked by. electricity on a principle so cheap, that' the whole first cost would not exceod seventy pounds per mile. Such ut line, he says, would be suitable for carrying passengers and goods, and would be particularly suited for newly settled countries.

The population of Rome and her suburbs, according to the Census taken on Dec. 31, numbered 107,327 males, and 182,905 females—a total of 300,292 souls. The increase oi the population since 1871 has been 22,416. A road locomotive for War purposes was lately tried before Count Moltko. It weighed 28J tonß and drew eaßily forty tuns' weight of guns mounted on their carriages, fully equipped, Its maximum traction power is 150 tons, and iia coat of maintenance is about 2s Id an hour, Amongst the educitional reforms about to be carried out in Frrnce during the present year aro tho establishment of five technical schools for cabinet • making building industries, scientific instruments, domestic economy for girls, and industrial chemistry, Tho latter school is of particular importance, for hitherto tho French manufacturers of chemical products have been obliged to employ foreigners to direct the scientific departments of their enterprises, - Adjutant-Major Gaumet of the 27th Regiment of France has patented an instrument which he calles a " telogne," for signalling purposes. The signals consist of the letters of the alphabet aud figures silvered on a dead black ground, and these are illuminated at night by lamps with strong reflectors. A powerful telescope is tho receiving instrument, For signalling to a distance of two and a-half miles the whole apparatus need not weigh more than four or five pounds.

A Scotch minister in a sermon in Kilmarnock, recently said "In not a few cases in Glasgow we,6eo women climbing up to the position of headship, and tak-

ing their places as heads in the Church and professing.to administer its ordinances. We need have no hesitation in saying that movements of that kind, carrying on their face the brand of anti- v Christ, and subversive of the fundamen- 1 tal principles of Christianity, are movements which no man iustruoted in theso principles can look upon except with mingled sorrow and abhorrence ", A novel intorment recently took place at Belfast. The stuJents of Queen's College, there, to the number of between tbreo handred and fifty and four hunted, marched through the streets of the in celebration of the burial of the Queen's University of Ireland, .which has now ceased to exist. In front Has a coffin, on which lay the gowns of an M.A. and a B.A. When the procession returned to college ground a grave was dug, and after an oration had been delivered, the interment of" Queen's Collego, Belfast," was ut proceeded with., -* The silver wedding of the King and Queen of Sweden will be celebrated with great pomp at Stockholm on Juno 0.. Two other similar anniversaries in royal and serene circles occur this year, one being that of Princess Ida of Liohtenstein and Prince Adolt of Schwartzenberg 011 Jane 4, and tho other that of Grand Duke Miohael of Russia and the Princess Olga on August 28. A young larrikin was'arrested by a conconstable in Melbourne, and when being ' locked up boasted that his father had "influence eriough with the ' beakß' to square it." The" beaks" gave the youth the option of payiug fines of £lO each on ' two charges, or six months' imprison, ment, r