ALL BOUND THE WORLD

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1204, 14 October 1882, Page 2

ALL BOUND THE WORLD

Referring to an East India colonel who lately reported a London policeman to the chief commiisioner for addressing the colonel's wife as a' woman,' Mr Labouchere recalls two good old anecdotes, one of the preacher who said, ' Who were last at the cross 1-Ladies! Who were first at the sepulchre}— Ladies!' and the other of the Lish sentry when a woman wished to pass him. He told her that no one could goby. 'You do not know who I am,' she said :' lam the colonel's lady.' 'Very sorry, ma'am,! replied the sentry,' but I could not let you pass even it you pre the cplonel'a wjfe.' There are less Jews in Norway than jo any other country in the 'world.. TueV to'tal population 'in 1881 was of wbiph only 34 were Jews, while there, were 64,2 R fi man Catholics, 71G;ree.k Catholics, 432' Quaker*, "and m Methodists.. The Lutherians numBreed 1,800,84,6. The 'classification pf Papulation. }aaa follows: Farmers, 109,391; mechanics, }3fj,891, and 64,2*4 mariners. §om.a aiidaqiiuig men of Prance lately m 4 HPPn '!>? heart and ham of a lion. The meat was. found fjrm but not pajat •aide and the heart, alihnugh very skjl, fully prepared with truffles, was voted excessively tough and indigestible. Althe feast off the If jng of til? {..restp^fallurg. Thßrp a- yery jraspjbleolfj gentleman, who formerly held thp position of justipa of the p§acp in a backwoods village, Going down tjie pin atreet on,o day, an idle person spoke to him without ooming no to his Honor's idea of deference. 1 Young man, I Bob you five dollars for oontempt of oourt.' 'Why, judge,' said the offender, 'you are not in session,' 'This court,' responded the justico, thoroughly irritated,' in alwayß in session and consequently always an object of contempt.' There was disorder in court as hia Honor pawed on. When he had finished with the olimate soil and productions of Idaho, and had N slopped to blow his nose, one of the grown asked, "How about educational facilitiesT ' That's the bnly thfo'tf we lack;' replied the old man with a mournful sigh, ' We've got schools enough, but we can't keep teachers.' 'Whit's the trouble?, ' Well, take my school; for instance-only lp miles. frdhl'"the nearest house, paying JhelngWsJ salaft. keep; a teacher, over lso weefe." i'fiofe die]!! 'Somado; though jtis no place far dying. Wo had a youpg fellow fropj Qhio, ffpd he mjt a, grimly and, whistled for him. The cri?zly -com. We had another and a widder run him down apd married him inside a month. The third one was lame and the Injuns overtook l)iu|, Tljon we tried women folks. The first one. gpt "myriad tjip njglj't «|)e lj| down here. I took the secqnd aboiifc the middle of the week, and next one waq abducted by a stage fobbfr. 1 ' 'Why don't you get the ugliest, homljest woman you can find—some perfect old teyror, like that leather-jawed, raaortfeced female overby the tjoket window ?" i Why don't we 1 Stranger, you eastern folks will never understand ns pioneers In the world—never. That's my wife—the idential sohoolteaoher I married, end she was the handsomest one in the drove.' The pastor of St Chrysostom's Church Philadelphia, lately parted with a silver ' I dollar which for two years had served as a detective of imposture. During that tjme he offered the coin to 113 starving men, who'had tried in, vgin tp pbtairj work, according to their own stories, ): they would remove a heap of £<dfi^^.' : ,i~ hia back yard. One and all job, though it would nnl have takari\more \ than an hour. The 114 th beggaraccepted the offer and the dollar.

| [)arl Hnfjfmann, fPP ch j e f pf {he ■Wiener Tageblatt for many'years, whq died in Vienna in July, wore upon the forefinger of hjj right hand .an iro,nttinj| made oqt pf a link pf thp chain, he had borne f)a a political prisoner fir two Jong and weary years more than 80 years ago, Wben Windisohcraeli entered Pealh In January 1849, one of his first acts waa to arrest Hoffmann, then a lad of 19, and have him tried for treason by court-martial Hoffman irai sentenced to five years' penal servitude in a Bohemian fortress,

A fearful thunderstorm passed over Manchester last month. A boy was struck by lightning and killed. The body was fearfully burnoi During a heavy thifpfyratotrn, in the Shetland Mandi, a bill Berwick was struck by lightning], arid-, large masses of rook and debris, estimated to weigh ,400 tons, were, thrown down on the pubiie. road immediately below and stopped the traffic