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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1257, 18 December 1882, Page 2

On the occasion of the recent Russian christening of the Czar's last child, the official reports announced that indescribable enthusiasm prevailed among the outside crowds, but omitted to mention that twenty-two women were on that day arrested as Nihilists. : : The |American correspondent of a Southern papevaays:— On arecentSabbath the famous Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in his sermon animadverted upon the methods by which the nomination of Judge Lodgers for Governor of New.York! was accomplished. He declared them to be such that he, as a Christian minister must condemn, and withhold his support from the nominee. This disgusted one of his hearers, who chanced to be oue of the famous 306 of the Chicago Convention who "stood for General Grant, Next morning he sent Mr Beecher this brief note—" Dear Mr Beacher, —You made an ass of yourself yesterday." He was happier in writing it than lie was in reading Mr Beecher's reply—" Dear Sir,—The Lord saved you the trouble of making an ass of yourself by making you an ass at the Winning, and His work stands sure. -HenhyWard Beepheh." The issue of new companies in France during the first half of this year is estimated by the Eevue de la France to reaoh the large, total of 1,515,492,903f, notwithstanding the oollapso of speculation in January last. In the first half of 1881 the creation of new societies represented a capital of 1,205,800,000f a total of 3,841,000,000f. The publishers of a German novel scored a hit recently in the line of advertising. They had inserted in most of the papers a notice stating that a certain nobleman of means anxious to obtain a wife, wanted ono who resombled the heroine in the novel named, Cf course every marriageable women who saw this announcement bought the novel to see how ■ much she resembled the imaginary beauty referred 10, The following are extracts from the engineer's rep»rt on the tunnels now in progress under the Mersey. It seems them iite two tunnels one designed for traffic, and the other for drainage "The main tunnels have beon well advanced, and are lined as they proceed with brickwork in cement, the lengths driven up to the middle of August being as follows:—Liverpool, 260 yards; Birkenhead 320 yards ; making a total aggregate length ol 680 lineal yards exclusive of the drainage and standage headings."

About 50 fine specimens of the rare fossil fish Gatop terus gracilis were brought to lieht recently in Amerioa, in a ravine' near Little Palls, between Middleton and Durham, Connecticut. These fish were found in the triassic formation, and, according to geologists, must be about 3,000,000 yo.irs old, When they were alive the waters of the Atlantio reached the centre of Connecticut, Sir Charles Lyell first found the fjossil fish in this place some 50 years ago, and it is said that there are only three places in North America where this variety can be obtained,

, Accordiug to an American paper the Hon'Gr. A. Tucker; an Englishman from' New South Wales, has recently inspected the insane asylum at Salt Lake City,' anil pronounced it the worst he ever saw, and he has visited all the leading institutions of the kind in his native country, New Zealand, Honolulu, California, and Nevada. 'He found one man who; had been confined there len years whom he pronounces perfectly sane. He was imprisoned on account of being obnoxious to the Mormons, and because some one high in the church wanted his wife. _ Miaa Phillippina Frengol, of St. Louis, is attracting the attention of the medical fraternity, as well as the public in general, For more than three months she has been unable to retain food of any description in hei' stomach, and, in facl, has no desire for it, She is gradually wearing away to a skeleton, and in' the opinion of the physicians, will not long survive, : A San'Francißco grocer, who wantod a wife, sought to gain the affections of the object of his choice by means of presents of choice articles in. his line, .including vegetables and fruit, with occasional bouquets. After the oharmer deolined to marry him she .was.surprised at the receipt of a grocery bill, in which all the items, not omitting flowers,'were carefully specified. For more than two hundred yea,rs no Roman O i tholio prelate, as suoh, has been pre«i>nteihu. the English court till the preseniaiiim «>f' Archbishop Lynch, -■ of Toronto, 10 the Prince of Wales at a levee in behalf of the Queen ;at London lately, when the Bishop ia a sou tanelle, purplß;stookingj, a gold chain with hang.tog cross, and a purple zricohetta on {his orown, made a novel effeot,

: Oyuter betting iB becomingfashionably/ in Frenoh seaport*, 'lhe company pairs on a brigbt mornins; lo the oyaterrf bed, where the creatures aro opening to buii themselves. Each ohooaes his oyster, • and puts a Napoloon between the shells,and the fortunate gambler, whose oyster first olosea upoa the coin nets the wholj pool, : » I ■

A now coral bank has been diacoverel near the island. of. Sardinia. It . is.-sii miles and ■ a half from Point Serone, oil thd island of St Antioco,- at- a depth if 300 ft, and about 3000 ft in ciroumferenoj. The quality of the coral is reported to to good. » The discovery waa made by tjfo. fishing boats belonging to Gagliori. Ae 'fishing law of 1857 gives the djscovew . the cxolusive right of fishing for A seasons; and this is the first time tiwMl will come into action. ' P : According to an offioial statement jist submitted to the Metropolitan Board of Works, the following was the avenge traffio over some of the London Bridges in 24 hours In August London' bridge—--110,525 pedestrians, 22,242 vehicles'; Southwafk—2s,so6 pedestrians, •; 3340 vehiclea jßlaokfriara—79,l9B pedestrians, 13,875 vehicles; Waierloo—32,Bls pedestrians, 10,870 vehioles, Westminster—44,460 pedestrians, 11,750 vehioles. /The total wa5—474,042 pedestrians and 75,234 vehicles per day. ~j Eight million bricks are' made daily entile Hudson in summer, The annual output, if the bricks -were laid end to ond, would encircle the world five limes. Three million tons of olay are used every year, 8000 men and boys are employed) and the wood burnt in the briokyards oosts £l6s,oooper annum. ... A reoent return shows that the rates of mortality at different ages in the British army are lower than among civilians until the soldier attains 85 years, after which the military death-rate rises rapidly. Under 20 the average death rate of troops on home service is half that of civilians. A Massachusetts law makes "the owner of a house liable tor treble any Idas that may be sustained by gambling therein with his consent. A saloon-keeper of Lowell has just been oompelled- to pay 1800dol, the money going to a man who had lost only GOOdol in playing piker on the premise!, ' A .