A ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1111, 28 June 1882, Page 3

A ROUND THE WORLD.

■ Tho following amusing dialogue was overheard on n recent night' in Georgestreet, Dunedin, between a Dolice'-'offioer and one of a larrikin band who woro' transgressing the laws at a'street corner: Sergeant: "Do you know what it is, me fine fellow,-you're just within measurable distanco of raysonablo Larrikin : " Och glory, Sargirtt, take''me at wansi, but don't talk to me in that way." _ On May 2nd Judge Brooks gave t decision which sets aside several bequeiti in the will of Longfellow. Ihe decision is that erasures will be considered .no part of. the wilt onrt interlineations of no effect, This deprives each of tho ohildron oftestHtor's brother of a legacy of lO.OOOdol,; nd makes void a legacy of SOOOdot to his Mb toother Stephen, The deoision is upon ground that a will cannot be altered by codicils. The will was admitted probate, and Ernest W Longfellow appointed administrator in place of HHohard JI. Dana, who was named in the is a terrible thing to edit a-' Liberal HBper in Spain, says the "Fall Mall Hwette.": To Bay nothing of duels,- imHflunment, and tho other little trifles to are exposed, the Spanish HMedik stands in dread 'of the IBHBkis of tho Church. Here, for HHBis an extraot from the cumprdwhich the Bishop of launched at the Liberal diocese: " May Almighty these journalists with the launched against his Angela I May they Julian the Apostate, traitor I May the Lord 9|HH| he judged Dathan and earth swallow them up cursed day and night, eating, and when they speak silent May their ears, deaf, their be overy member be cursed from their sepulchre of asses I May BnHHH upon their corpses, aiil may tneir company bo that o the devil and his angels!" A " 13 Club" has lately been formed in New York in order to combat the ancient superstition of" 18'' being an unlucky number. The club has 13 members, meetß on the 13th day of every month in room 13 of a certain hotel whose name contains 13 letters, and its banquet iB lighted by 13 gas jets. At the last banquet the table was decked with salads arranged in th|B shape of a coffin, and 13 tiny-lobsters, v Wd the meal began at 13 minutes past'B, An Adelaide telemm of the 13th inst. in the Age says" At a meeting of the Caledonian Society to-night, a motion was considered relative to initiating a lino of steamers between the Clyde New Zealand and South Australia, fnu idea was generally favored, but it/

was considered that the. meeting was not in possession of .sufficient information to

warrant, any steps being taken at present." " jEgles," in the Australasian, writes: — l ll In one of the Australian Colonies a gentleman at breakfast in a country inn performed such feats with his knife (which quite superseded his fork) that his opposite neighbor was absorbed and fascinated. He quite ioi'get to eat, he was so engrossed jn observation. The. performer suddenly stopped, and glaring at the stranger in quired, '.What the deuce are.you staring at ? Do you know who I am I I'm the Commissioner of Customs,- 1 Then, sir, allow me to say that, though I know nothing of your oustoms, I. can't "com'pliment you-on your manners."'

A private letter receirid in Melbourne by the last mail, from MrThomas Horan, states that Bonnor won 100 sovereigns on arriving at Plymouth. An English gentleman on board the Assam wagered that tho " giant" of the Australian Eleven would not be able to. throw a crioket bill 115 y-inlj on the first day.after landing.in England..' Bonnor accepted the' wager, and' won-it by throwing the ball, four yards.beyond'the stipulated distance'.. .Mr. C, Peacock of Adelaide, and MrßUke/ solicitor, of Melbourne, were the.umpires, A Timaru-paper has the following :--A curious little domestio drama came to a cQndusion to (lay at the kr\ ill-ireat§d wife had fled ffith her manlqdger to Qamaru, Thp gqiliy pair nad sundry gqods and pl)attels,'f||o property of'the desprtpd hußbf)nd,with which they furnished a housein Oamaru, To-day the lodger got six months for larceny, and a few minutes after the husband'and wife joined hands.and went away,together with, the stolen and now restored goods, in.the same express that had conveyed the flying pair and the then stolen goodß. This is a queer world! •

' Yes,' Athelwald replied, speaking in low, .impressive. tones, 'yes, I do like dogsl am fond of them.. But I like a shy, coy, shrinking dog, who flies away to the shaddowy recesses of the wood shed when he hears the footfall of a stranger, and cap only be won to sociability by love and-kindness and patient pleading, Ido not love the bold forward, unquestioning mass of canine insolence and obtrusiveneis that cornea sneaking out'from behind' a lilao bushj when one is just half way hetyeen the gate and the piazza,- and' nestles up to a stranger like at} old acquaintance, anc[ drags.one $ roqjjd the Mrd in a backward attifucje, and with no thought of one's dignity or comfort,' And with a dry, convulse sob he turned aw ay, and as hewalked;toward ■'the neclfwear bookkeeper noticed that his trousers had been patched with a niW.wrnered tall piece of olive

green, . A remarkable machine hasjuit beeil invented iu Paris for which a large tiale among the idle rioh who keep pet animals,is anticipated. It is "a labor-ming oaehine" in the strictest seme of that Man abused phrase Its otijeot is to gave Btle aud idalenfcladies and gentlemen of Hfllatest fashionable type, the trouble of Huang and fondlitijEr their pet doga and HB or of ordering their' menials to pet HgfbVlle them. It can be fitted to a faH|druped of any size, and when it lTwe wound .up"it will adniinjster'aj regular intervals' a series of pleasant strokto proceed from a human hand." The inventor has reason to. believe that -there W» many person,eminentiu the fashion? able world, who are much distressed Woause their four-footed darlings are obliged to forego all loving Bttensiohs during the lonf hours of absenoe at a ball, or the opera.', This noble machine ta;a the inventor will render its possessors eerricea of a pag© or ft waiting maid,' to wh irri" they -We now obliged with jastif fiat le misgivings, to confide the charge o'. thiirdariipgi. ' \ .

There haß of late years .been a great emigration from Germany,to England, and it is" estimated that there are 100,000 aduli Germans in London alone. • In olden times saints' days were regarded aslubky';days, a'nd were marked on : tho calender with red ink. From this sprang the term ' red-letter day.' About B0 women graduates' of various colleges recently, met at Boston to discuss the higher education of women, It was decided that pbyaioal oulture is tho great necessity for Americon women, and the establishment of a department for physical education in the schools was urgod. The three great parts of the world are London,, Liverpool, and new York. During 1880 they, reached their highost trade figures, the imports being at London about £140,000,000, Liverpool and New York £107,000,000