ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1108, 24 June 1882, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

, Aisscial report shows that : since the tjmawhen horaeflesh' was" first retailed,in : ' Part® as:an article .of;hunian food the conjampb'Mof that delicacy has.steadily in-; tpeasod. In''lß7s the number of hofees : 1 slaughtered fortbis purpose was 7000, and' this hqd- risen in 1881, and to 1 <>j: A resoru'ti6n'p'aßßedat N Kingßtonj Jamaica on May 11, by the' Legislative : Council- 1 declared that the expenses .:<?f tho island during tho.last fifteen yeart /showed an' .Aggregate excess, of two.. niiltion ..pounds -AtqiUny similar period in the History ol ' - flMolony.'v ■* mi'i V .. .Sftjmers arriving in New Yoik recently reported having passed thrnugli 'icefields. Some iceborgs seen on March 13 were ..100ft high. ' ! _ • ' - | Theievqnue of the Swi'sb Confedera-, Wtion for.the finanoial yoar jqat/oxpired la' nearly throe million of Francs 'id e'xiio^ of the'estimate. , ' At an influential meeting;held.iri Rmne Signor Gahelli, a civijengineer, explained . a scheme for constructing' a tunnel; between Italy and Sicily. At the'last-French Cabinet Council a scheme was discussed for the construction

pf a new port at Cherbourg, which will

, cost about #OO,OOO. . At a union in Somersetshire in a parish • which lies on the main r"fid from Bath to Bristol, -.8812 tramps were relieved last . year, again 905 during 1872. The French Colony at Oboe, in (lie Gitlf'of'Adenj which was; intended to counteract the influence of Aden, hits . .been abandoned, and'the lea'der, M, Arnoux assassinated. ' The elephant Jumbo was landed safely at New York on April 9, and drawn up the Broadway inhis'cage at midnight. He is at.preseut in the Madison-squara gardens'. . '' '•

other changes just made at the Admiralty (the Daily Telegraph says) one of the most important, is the appointment ji the ..appointment of a Foreign Intelligeiice department under the superintendance of Captain Rice, who for somo time was an assistant to the director of Qrdanqnce at Whitehall, A tornado recently struck Boonvillo, Mb.' Sfi'vun persons were instantly killed, and fifty injured. Seven business places and thirteen residences were demolished, There are only six charcoal furnaces in Great Britain, and all belong to the same firm." The annual yield of charcoal iron is about 8000 tons.

Mrs Winifred Howard, a lady aged 108 years, died at Chicago on March 14, She was born in Belfast, Ireland. The extraordinary low water In the lakes; and fivers of Central-Eufope still . prevails, flie lake of Constance, forming ■ a common centre where Baden, Bavaria, Switzerland and Austria moot, is so low , that steamers cannot reach the port of. Itomanihorr,, and passengers from Lindau have to bo landed in small boats. The Bhone was never so low in, the memory of man. All the mills on its' banks from .6eno»a to Bellegnrde-'are at a standstill,, a circumstance absolutely without precedent;' A site in tho river selected some -time ago by the Geneva municipality for public swimmingbaths has had to be abandoned because it has become dry land. 'The"flowing of Judaß Iscarint took '•placelast Good Friday in..the London docks by the crews of three vessels of the Portuguese and Maltese nationalities. The efligy of the traitor, hown out of a block of timber, was carried by chosen . members of the crew around the quarterdeck,, hanged by the yard-arm, and lashed wi<li knotted ropes.'' ThA soourging over the effigy was cut down, thrown upon the deok. fipat upon and kicked to the galley 6re, where it was burned to a charred . mass and then hurled into' the water. The sailors subsequently went in procession to church to pray for the second coming of the Saviour betrayed by Judas , ißcariot. Experiments made in Loudon have demonstrated conclusively the practibility of propelling tramcars by means of electricity stored In Faure batteries. The tramcar used carried power enough to "drive.itself 40 miles and stored electricity being,in 90boxes containing Faure cells, which had been charged by a consumption ; of jess than three-quarters of a cwt. of coal. . A-sensible law has just been prorau'-. gated in Algiers, compelling all Mussulmans to adopt surnames. , A father, uncle, . or elder brother, has the right o£ selecting •ia'nsuie binding on the sous, nephews, or younger brothers, For families without males,vtho mother, aunt, or elder sister '-has n ■similar righti ; Persons without . such rt;l,itiuns oan choose a name, or, in default, the Government Commission will impose-one; A card of identity will be handed to each person) and a register of births, deaths, marriages, and divorces " will henceforth be ktjpt. English • missionaries have bogun to work in the peninsular of 'Corea—n land • frora,"whioh al Europeans have her-<'»- % •fore been jealously excluded.' : The area of Gorea is 90,000 square miles, and the population - about 10,000 bouls, The language is quite unlike both Chinesaand - Japan, and much difficulty has been exEerienced in learningit, Some progress as, however, been made in this direc:'jion, anta translation of the New Teatament has been begun by a'Preßbyterian . minister'named Ross, r General Newton is preparing for ' another-blowing upi of submarine rocks at Hell Gate, New. York harbor, to be three, times • as big as that of six years ago. 'Eleven .'acres of reef known as Flood Bpok,are being tunneled to a depth of. fifty or sixty feet,' and when this work is . complete, two years hence or so,'the ■whole reef will be broken up with one scattered charge' of dynamite. About sever acres aro already completed, - At Galashiels, Scotland, recently, Lieutenant Jessie Macgevan, three privates of the Hallelujah Army, and four lads, were r charged with committing a breach of the ... peace' by parading : the streets. The •magistrates dismissed the defendants with a caution, and afterwards issued a printed notice . prohibiting Hallelujah .'and so called ; religions processions*,as . .being.likely to lead to breaohes of the peace. ■ . " / The Tuapeka County Council recom;, .. mendi, that following powers should be .-conferred on Counties :-(l)'power to '■vrtegolate: the. vreight of loadings' to be on- county roads; (2) county councillors should .form the land boards ''for the respective -counties, failing members ofthe. land, boards at present consti-tuted-being eleoted by the people; (3) ■ absolute Reparation should be made "bbtween colonial and local Bnande ; (4) the property tax should be considered' and treated as locs,! revenue; (5) local / bodiesshould have full power .to make ' bye'laws-to deal with-reserves and crown lands till : required for settlement; (6) county councillors should be ex offioio /Members,;of.lJeansjng committees; (D • raining revenue ajiduld be paid to the ; .oountjes direct. ' ' , * • .^ n , .^ e i ca «0 of Murtagh, a jockey charg! ?T . ..'os "a 'bailee, heard a »vW&i it was show" • qse, of £loC|for seven months , ?! BUra two'months'longer. or interest" at', the. ■ rate - of 170 pefcent: per: annum. ,_ The Crown !!' refused, to, go" the Mtg, ' '"Writhis was shown, and : Jud»e Giliies ' ®® ncnr . r , e,i in:t be course, saying also that the evidence of the prosecutor and his went ' was most ."discreditable to them ; r ' Mm;,''-;:;- '• •' i-'iiU'lt - " ■'■■■• ''' ' '"■!{ ;«V/ • ; ; ■ ; r . 7fiTiirW'i' ••

At one of the Government schools near New Plymouth, tho toaoher had in a.very proper manner explained to his sohoolboys the roundness of the earth we inhabit, its rotation'arpljndJthe sun, and bo on; and proopWdbd:td test the pr fl 0 ; : tioal effect of 'hia exposition.' 1 " What ' round thing do,,we. lire,on?" he asked boy No. 1; to which' question boy No. 1 promptly replied " Spuds!" ! ,j A recent German work gives the follow-! tag return of the populations of tho world counting. by millions Europe 315 millions; Asia, 834 Africa, 206; America, 95; Australia and Polynesia, 5j Polar regions under 1 millon ; total 1,455,000,000—b0ing an increase of over 16'millohs upon' the latost census, if .The Bussian Court is to be made more national and freed from foreign influences. Thus the Czar desiroa that the ladiei. ot Court shall, entirely discard European toilette and wear purely Russian cob!umes tfhile tho palace olticials whose posts for the list two centuries have born German hames, will receive Russian titles. One of the tricks in disguising a falsified wine is the useiof various coloring ingredients, and which are offeredi everywhere in Fraiice by private trade circulars. The presence of these dyes can be delected by very simple, means, although it is asserted thai chemistry Is powerless to discover the coloring matter. Some ot the wine must be heated and when it boils a piece of white flannel, should ho well dipped in it and allowed to dry. If the flannel when waahed still retains h red or reddish tingo, it is stated to be proof positive that the color of the wine is artificially obtained, ~'A' curious' application of electricity is suggested by'the display at.the Electrical Exhibition at the, Crystal Falaco of jt small breast-pin,'containing a crystal, which is illuminated by Bn incandescent carbonthread fed with electricity from a Fauro battery. It would apparently bepossible to make a necklace, for instance of -cut crystal beads, to be illuminated from within in this manner and so to produce an effect far surpassing the most brilliant diamonds.