ALL BOUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 October 1882, Page 2

ALL BOUND THE WORLD.

_ A kind of wife market is held in Naples in connection with theiounding hospital every year. All the marriageable girls of the institution assemble in a room, to which young men of-good character have access. Offer of marriage on' the part of any young man is conveyed by allowing his handkerchief to drop before the'objeot of his choice as he passes by. If the girl takes it up she thereby signifies her acceptanoe but her refusal if she allows it to remain.

: Some artistic advertising is. found in German newspapers. The Berliner Tageblatt recently;contained the following :- !' A German knightly land owner wishes to find a female life oompanion 'who reBembles, externally as well as in character, the heroine of Saoher-Masoch's novel 1 Frau Von Soldan,' published in the April number of the monthly magazine AufderHolie, byE. L. Merg'enstern, Leipzig. Address Karl Egger, Beider. wiese, near Passau." ' i ,'

There are 8?0 canals in Egypt, measuring in the aggregate 8400 miles. Of these, 113 are used for navigation pur- I poses as well as for irrigation, and the i other 647 for irrigation alone. Of the 50 navigable canals below Cairo the most important is the one extending from the Nile _ near Cairo to Zag-a-Zig. This is 56 miles in length, and is navigable for vessels of 400 tons burden. The freshwater canarfrora Zag.a-Zig to Ismailia is fed mainly by this canal, ■ '<' ! The London bikers have been in a state of unrest for some time, and at a meeting held in July resolved to obtain some consideration from their employers. It was voted that sixty hours, including sponging, should, constitute a week's work, and that Sunday baking.should be paid for at the rate of 9d an hour. The rate of wages for a foreman were set at & 10s,a,week; single hands, £1 ss; seconds £l6s; and in small shops not .lees.th'an £l. The meeting was attended by 100 delegates, and the agitation will probably prove successful, ■_ Mr Gladstone's half a,century in parliamentarv life is to be publicly celebrated in England. Mr Gladstone was returned for Newark immediately after the passage of the Reform Bill, His first election address was dated from Newark pot. 91832. On Jan. 29,1833, th'e par: hament assembled, and from that time to this Mr Gladstone has been a member of every British parliament. The celebration will probably be held on Dec. 13 next, and will be national in character. .;;:. The digging of the Oorinthand Panama canals,-it is asserted by the fishermen who live along the Mediterranean adores, is likely to influence the future character of the finny tribes in the waters which thesecanalsjoin. They point to their own experience since the Suez undertaking was completed. Not a single shark was formerly, known in the Meditraneau, a fact which made the fishßupply • of ;Miea inexhaustible, but.sharka now jtograte into it freely from the itedi Sea jiWift Indian Ocean, and make gad haroo of nsn that have i market value. :

Tlit!-London Mansion House Fund for (he relief «f (ho persecuted Russian Jem exceeded, £IOO,OOO in the middle of July. The Belgian Academy offer a prize of 30C0fr for the beat-essay on the destruction of fishes by the pollution of rivers. Three-fourths of the European residents h»d left Tripoli at the end of July, and business was almost entirely buspended, The .South,-Boston,lronworks* have.. nearly completed for theiroyra use ttoTOft lathes, which are thought to be the largest and heaviest laths in the world.-The completed laths trill each contain 600,00 01b of ■iron/ They are, built specially for boring out cannoti, but are adapted for all heavy . work. '.j'-../ Hafeez Abdool Kaiyuni 1 has been-tried at the Bombay sessions for importing fopt. negro ; girls as slaves into Bpinbayi W | sentenced to tbre6 months'hard Irijji* The- defence, was, that tbe slaves! Jot obtained for the Begum of Bhopal, who ' intended to liberate them as an act of piety. , . V ;: ■:- .;i' : -":- -v ; .. '

An unfortunate accident recently occurred at It nku Ruku, Ovalau(Fiji) by whioh an unfortunate Fijian lost his life. The deceased, being dressed in one of the . heavy flax likus worn by the natives on holiday, occasions, round which were folded numerous folds of lappa, 1 sat down upon a lighted smouldering cinder, when, the liku, which, as most Fijian apparel is, was wellsaturated'with cocoannt 'oil, immediately became ignited and burst into flames, and before the miserable man could divest himself of it, the upper part of his'body and arms wore literally roasted, the skin haying pealed off his back and arms.in flakes. The patient, when received into the hospital, was.uafortunately beyond hope, and did notlonlj survive after his admission.

A rail for common roads hag been Introduced in France. It it embedded in concrete, and is flush at the edges with thp roadway. From the sides it slopes down to the centre, so as to enable the wheels of vehicles to retain their place upon. it. The estimated cost is about 8s a yard. •>: ' Dr. Depaepe, well known" for'hii Socialist opinions, and as a contributor of scientific articles to the Bruißeli newpapers, fired five shots froin a revolver, oh the Boulevard Auspach, Brussels,, two of which took effect, at another journalist, M, Duverger, of the "Europe;" 'The attempted murderer was at once arrested. A petroleum pipe line constructed from the Couban oil territory oyer the Caucasus Mountains to Noyoroszisk Harbor on the Black Sea coadfc, was opened on May 27 th. This line of pipe, which is 10J miles Ton*, S a jL**™ t , ever y % liotMess.' than 1.000,0001b of petroleum. ............ Th6 ; Silk Association of America reports' the products of the year ending June 80, which amounted in value to about products of the factories 10 years ago. Within the decade the number of factories' engaged in silk manufacture has increased from 6 to 888, while, the looms increased from 15QQ to 8000, and the wages paid rose in 10 years from £400,000 to £1,800,000. •

Another gigantic railway undertaking is about to be commenced in London, Parliamentary sanction has been given to the scheme of the south-eastern Railway Company fpr widening the line between Canon-street and Charing Cross. This important work will entail the enlargement of the existing station at Charing Cross, and the widening of the two bridges over the Thames already built by the Company.

A wire fence, running from Indian territqry west across the Texas Penhflndk and3s'miles into New Mexico, is projected and largely under contract. Its' course will be along the Hue of the Oatmdian nver.and its purpose is to stop the ' drift of the northern oattle, Thefonce will be pver 200 miles long. The P, an,i 0.-steamship Carthage, propared as a hospital ship for the troops cur service in ISgypt, was fitted with a Isell-Ulemau cold air refrigerator for the purpose pf preserving provisions, cooling water, arid making ice.. This is the first time that one of these maohinos has been used for hospital purposes.

/Jol G ! ol)B , sayß tbat 180 ' 000 franca (±7M)) lias bean eefc apart for expert menu in working traina by electric-en-: gmes through the St, Gothard Tunnel. The six European Powers interested in" the Egyptian question can bring 6,000,000', men into the field if there happens to "be *ny uw for them. ■...-..... It {b claimed that the attempt to eel • type by maohinery on the London Times is (v failure, the type setting by machinery ' ; costing more than the same work done br ; hand. . '

At th,e Hamilton Bale, the Duke of Richmond took the picture of his aiices. tress the Duchess of Portsmouth • the " Duo d'Aumale got Mary Antoinette's table; and Lord Moray bought Stuart silver at nearly LBO the ounce. A new principal of locomotive is beine tried in Philadelphia, The tramcarj before starting on its journey, is wound up like an eight-day clock, and then di«. patohed. Steam is used for the winding up, but for no other purpose. The car being full of passengers, there is force enough in the spring to propel i*, for 6v» miles, and a speed en be relied on which would accomplish that distancp in 3fj minutes. At thaneoessary intervals along the hne there are half stations, where t/te machinery nesessary for!' the winding on act'is set up. Thus speqd issued, immunity from accident, economy in the saying of horseflesh, and the advantage of the absence of the smoke andrioi'ae ■ of an engine.

The Christian population of the AsUttO shore of the Black Sea are emigrating in large numbers to Greece. The movement ib not viewed with approval by the Govern, ment for the emigrants are.iii the habit of leaving their taxes unpaid. An order Has therefore been issued forbidding any one to leave the country until he has settled his accoonlß with the treasurer. A Philadelphia pastor,' who . recently preaohed against Sunday newspapers, slated there are no Sunday nspers in London, Hoadvocated the cessation of bunday labor m the offioes of the dailies, andjaid that the Monday edition could be prepared without doing any work between Saturday midnight and Sunday , midnight He fi aid he knew this could r be done, for he had fillet every position ' on.a paper from compositor to managing

. The."Niloraeter,!' or instrument used in measuring the annual rise of the Nile, it Stated on the island of Rhoda, oppositr : Old Cairo. It consists of a sqnare well,', or chamber, in the centre of which is a , graduated pillar,.divided into seventeen '■ cubits. The Btate of the river is proclaimed ' daily in the streets of Cairo during the inundation, by several oriers, to each of wiom a particular district is assigned.' Ihe usual, maximum of the rise is from

n Z- e^ Ul Population of Paris in navr— ISffi.^ 1081 i ' 9B8 ' 800 '" 1876, and 1,851,792 in 1872. The increase is greatest in the outlying industrial quarters. Arrived this morning 30 Black Vest of ■ England suits and4o suits Colonial make. 30s the whole suit at Eapp and Hare's, Emporium, late F. W. Ha!es.-Apvi, • F° r R tea at 2s per lb we can recommend the quality good by Bapp and' iiare;oMhe Emporium, late P. W. Hales ~Advt.

The public are notified in our front pa?e that Sapp and Hare are selling Men's :Tweed'Jsui6'!a()Bos,;.we hava-fseefr'tiie'■? quality, andean-teßtify'of the eatoo.—