ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1186, 22 September 1882, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

SwilffirwndfoJB 1594 miles pf railroad, representing overTJ4s,ooo,ooo'bf capital. These railroads do nut pay well: some . hare paid no interest for years. Over 13,000 persons are employed, Accidents arofew. An extraordinary elopement took place in June from Lymm, in Egland. A woman who had been thrice a widow, and who had just, at the age of 40 married again, eloped with a youth of 17. The runaways went towards Manchester, and have not been heard of since. - The woman left her husband' in .charge of five step-ohildren, while the youth's parents aire'iuconsolable, and searching for the youngster. A novelty in trarnoarsjhas boen introdncad'irito Philadelphia. The neV principle of locomotion is a spring, and the tramcar, before starting on its journey, it wound up like an.eight-dayclock, and then despatched. Steam ia used for the winding up, but for no other purpose. The car beinu full of paasengees, there is force enough in the spring to propel it for five miles, and a speed can be relied on which would accomplish that diatence in 85 minutes. _At the necessary intervals along the line there are haltstations where the machinery nocessary for "tho wind-ing-up" is set up.

A public monument to the great Italian reformer, Savonarola; is about ",-to be erected.on his.native soil. It Will be » statue in marble, bearing the inscription, " Regenerated Italy to Jerome Savonarola," i after'3B4 years.!'. The increase of steam traffic to Australia is shown in the report of .tho Suez Canal managers. In 1880 the bound direct for Australia 1 numbered 61, while in 1881 the number had increased to 96. During the past year 46 new vessels were added to Ihe existing steamship lines.

It is reported from Kiel that JSerr Mailing, one of the principal irrigators in the German navy, has turned traitor to his country, inasmuch as he, has aecopied a bribe of 150,000 roubles to deliver over to, the Russian Government copies of the plans and drawings of all tlio defence works on the German coasts. The official in question was well versad in the Russian language: arid, according to the Miner Tageblatt has been; arrestod in Kiel. .."..,

The action for libel brought by Princa .Bismarck against the historian of Rome, Profesior Mommsen, for/certain expressions _used by tho latter during tht Imperial elections last autumn, was brought to a conclusion on ,June 15. Professor Mommsen was acquitted of the charge preferred against him.' There was Bome.applauae in Court when the decision was given, arid on going to tho Reichstag Professor Mominsen was! warmly congratulated by many members of his parly. A suit for damages against' a railroad company in Scotland was settled in June. The plaintiff, a merchant, was hurt in a railway collision in 1880, to such an ex-

tent as to be unable to attend his business since. After the jury had been balloted for, tht railroad company concluded to settle with the plaintiff for the sum of ioOOO, which was accepted. The wooden-block pavement has had a trial in Berlin, . A considerable portion of the Friedrichs Strasse was recently paved with wood, and in order to presarve it from rolling it was covered with tar and sand to a depth of two inches, Daring the recent warm weather the tar begun simmering, and converted the street into something resembling the pitch lakei-ii-Trinadad. :

Bogna butter in Paris in boreafter to be sold as arch and nnt as the genuine article. During one month over 150,000 pounds of this counterfeit stuff was, sold as batter at the rate of 82 cents and 80 cents a pound, The police are now putting a stop to the : imposition, and in future, each salesman will be obliged, under penalty of a fine, to affix a card distinctly setting forth what is greeiQ and what is; Butter, with price' and" quality added.; '' •' . ; '

Turks have a fixed belief, founded on tome ancient prophecies, that this present year, 1882—the year 1300 in their 'calen-dar-will be a year ofkwmetjdestiny) for Islam. of the New Testament calculate that 622 \- (date of the Turkish .epoch) added to the ; : ; mystic number 1260, makes up 1882 p) ; exaotly... JElartbor, there is. a.' ttadition f that on the night of the capture of Con-!: ttanti'nople, the conqueror, Mahraoud the 1 . Magnificient, dreamed that the oity would continue to be the seat of the empire he had .founded for exactly 430 years less --v one. Now, 1452 (the date of the fall of

Constantinople,) plus 430, makes eiaotly 1882.

Dr Gunlher, in a paper md ; before the London Zoological Society, declares that there is no such thing as the distinctive whitebait, and that herring l a'ndlwhite bait, so called, belong to one fish family To those who. want a really first-olasi shear, call and inspeci the large-variety at Wellington prices, which oau be "seen at Rapp & Hire's, Emporlum.-Aovx,