ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1081, 23 May 1882, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Forty cases of small-pox and five lUnths occurred in Ghicai;o on March 31. • _ There is in North Carolina a negro •Lutheran preaoher who claims'to be 94 years old and to havobeen a tenant nf General Washington. He was'formerly owned by a' master who was a Lutheran,' Tho Austrian military authorities have received strict orders.not to permit tliu despatch nf-ny_ron.. r lb whatever, except w;; " i ' l ' ; n to military movements, " :; "' : ■iicri'lj-dealwiihicnompli.-.hi'il

DrJessup of Syria states that the Sultan has granted permission to Russian Jews to fiottlo in Asia Minor, but prohibits them from enterim- Syria or Palestine on tlio • ground that they might attempt to form a ■ Jiulnio empire • _.. . " The average number of-marriages in l Pans is st down at 20,000 annually. r ' ' ■ Mexico has a ■ regular army of 40,000 men, which can be increased to 100,000, A man in Ohio killed several of his neighbor's horses by feeding them <m rusty nails and broken glass. . There is said to be a farm in WorcesterBhire, England, which stands in twelvo ptrishoi and pays fifty different rates. In tho district of Victoria West, Cape man was kicked to doath by an ostrich on the public highway, The St. Pcterburg Will of the Peoplo declares that the reactionary Holy Loaguo has decided to use even assassination in combatting Nihilism. Recently in Paris, the britb,' bridegroom, best man, and the two bridosrnafds wero all deaf and dumb, and the marriage service was performed by signs only. Tho London Timos in coinmonting on the' completion of American monitors, says:—"America owes it to her honor and greatness to possess a fleet which shall bemoro than than a phantom" From tho North Indian Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church it is reported that there is a growing prospect that the • -whole Chumir caste, which embraces about half-it million people, will erelong come over in a body to Christianity, Hallie Hutchinson, a little girl nino years old, is probably tho youngest telegraph operator m the worfd. Sho lives 'in Texas, and has charge of tho telegraph office in tho town where she resides. Ono end of her table is plied with her playthings, with which sho amuses herself when not at work. London Society is deeply interested in ladies hygienic lectures under the auspices of tho National Health Society. There is an exhibition of dress clothing, hoots, classical costumes, and of bloomer and other improved styles hanging chiefly from tho shoulder. Young blood is well represented in the British army. It appears that the proportion of men under 20 years of age in the whole army is 104 per 1.000 and that the great bulk of tho jiien—that is 620 per 1000 —are between the ages of 20 and 23. ' Great caro is taken ,by the Irish residents of East Boston Mass., not to purchase boycotted potatoes, large quantities of which have recently-arrived .at that port. It is si:d the potatoes were taken from tenants i;i Ireland who were unable to pay rent to English landlotds. A subscription is being: raised in the , French arsenals, with tho object of presenting to Admiral Pothuau, late Minister of Marine, a gold medal, as a token of gratitudo for the interest which he manifested in tho welfare of Government workmen; Tho amount collected up to the present time is 1180 francs. Mahomof wrote in the Koran: 0;< the day of rptnr'iViition those who h v.. indni/M-: ~ .jdicit, w j|i j )U ca |j tl | (|) ,],,, ...•'■ ' . ? rad.se, and have it shut in .:..a ucdi just as they reach it, Again, on. turning their backs, they will be called to another door, and again on reaching it. will see it closed against them, and so on, without end. Tho Lyttelton Times has an article on the overcrowding of the Union Company's steamers, which thus concludes :- " Crowded ships, broken laws, and largo profits. Happy combination 1 Somod"v a hundred lives will break it into piece*. with a moan which will resound lr«uu on.' end of the colony to "the other. Then the ■ directors of tho company will havo to render an account of themselves." It is pointed out by the Forbes Times (Victoria) that two clergymen havo had to leave Wilcannia at different time? because they could not get their stipends as ' agreed upon. In fact the town cannot or . will not support a parson at any nrice. And yet tho Jockey Club have advertised a programme of eleven races, with £930 . prize money, including a i'2oo handicap. They, will give the owner of a horse more money for a threo minutes' gallop than they will give a hard-working clergyman for twelvo mouths I .labor. • 'Eve i iii-in, says a Persian legend, has two an e's-oneupon his right shoulder, the other upon-his left,- When he does anythinggood,'the angel on his right shoulder writes it'down and seals, because what is once we'll done is done forever. . When he does an evil act the angel on thp left shoulder writes it down, but does n. i seal it, waiting until midnight. If bofore .thattiuietho man bows down his head -and exclaims: " Gracious Allah'! I havo sinned; forgive me I" the angel rubs it out; but if not; he seals it, : and the angel ' on the right shoulder weeps, The" Physical" and Social Capabilities of New Zealand for Tea and Silk Culture" was the title of a paper read before the Foreign and Colonial Section of the . .Society of Arts on January 31st, by Mr William Cochran. Ho pointed out that the climate in many parts of the Middle Island closely resembled that of the tea and silk districts of China, and he be- - lieved that but for tho apparent apathy of the New Zealand Government chnsericul- . ■ ture might at the present : moment have been'of great importance to the colony. It was bis-opinion that the higher class of silk and the bettor class of teas could be successfully cultivated in New Zealand, Ben Zaid, an Arabian skeik, captured in battle .100 prisoners, whom he con- ' demned'to death'. ■ A brave young fellow . araong'those captured, begged, as a last . favor, that priceless, boon to Arabians-a . drink of .water for each of tho party. It was given..Vail,. "By-this act,' 1 said , the yqnth, "We have become your guests. ■.■ • You dare not break the laws of hospi tality." Zaid was so struck by his presence of mind that he freed them all.. I" Two- acres- of land near'Wilkesbarre, .' Pennsylvania, recently caved in,'the coal mine boneath having given way. There were no buildings on the ground, but there are tenement houses on the edge of it, and-the inhabitants are busy' moving. Loads of immense timbers are brought down and thrown into the! coal hole in the hopes of putting a stop to its caving in,'but as yet it has had no effect. Ono man'? farm lias'entirely disappeared. A young Chinaman has beon admitted to practice at the Frenchßar. This implies that he has taken bis degree of lice'ncie en' droit' (license'by right), and that he is a naturalised Frenchman. The oath was administered in the Court of Appeals in Paris last month. A -like grade has rarely, if ever, been obtained by one of his countrymen. Professor B. A. Proctor, tho English astronomer, who was recently credited by tho prediction that somewhere about the . year 1897, this earth will be dissolved by - fervent heat, desires that those news- - papers which, have spread the news of my.Mipposod prediction would explain ' . ;-• tnah I baljevc the- world is more likely to • -last fifteen million of years than to be destroyed in fifteen, '