ALL BOUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1350, 11 April 1883, Page 3

ALL BOUND THE WORLD.

' A Frenoh Ouu.nl uMnod. fk W\m«v. adopted (be )iltli>'il."si!«i ; .t'« L n.li. tide waiter. Ho iron Ij ■..0 l LiFuimi ■',-. bequeathing"- her '2j4CO(:o(f friiiw jiV : distant reln'ivoj ii||(m i« •!,.• Fr m-li Court, alleging that tl.'b gnl is iluail, and demandine lho.owi.oy. But no evidence is given of the dentil, and tho;fndnds ut/ the young lady, who is still in her teens, believe that she is hidden in a French convent and oat offfromoomiu indention with the world by thoso wily relatives.) The national debt in gold would weigh 6282 tons; in silver, 120,000 tons; its transportation in'gold would require 26 ships of 250 tons each '112,681 horse cartß', oach carrying half a ton, and iorniing a procession of 25 miles in lon'gili;' or 281,769 soldiers, oach carrying 501b; in sovereigns, piled one upon anither, they would be 710 miles in height; laying them side by side and touching enoh other, they would form" acliaiu of gold of 11,048 miles in length, or nearly twice the circumferance of the moon. The new 'Alamanaoh de Gotha' records tho present ages of the Empresses and Queens of Europe, from which we learn that the Empress Augusta of Germany is' 71,' the Queen of Denmark 05, and the Queen of Great Brimin and Ireland 64, The Empress of Brazil and Queon Olga of i Wurtemburg have both reached 60, while the ex-Empress Eugenie, whose name is still recorded in the place of Honor in the calendar, is 56, Tin Queen of Saxony is 40, the Empress of Austria 45, the Queen of Sweden 4G, Queon Margret of Italy is 32, the Empress of Russia 35, and tho Queen of Portugal 35; while tho three youngest are the Queen of the Netherlands 24, the Queoii of Spain 24, and the Queen of Servia 23, A curious advertisement appeared in a late issue of the Liverpool Mercury. It read as follows:—" I lost my purse containing two guineas and a sixpence. Tho finder can keep the gold if he will return' the sixpence, as it was the amount of damages received from the Midland Railway for breaking my leg. The bit of silver cost me £2lO, George Araesbury," The British Consul at Savannah, Georgia, has been sent to Mexico by the British Government to ascertain what can bo done to develop British trade in Mexico, to arrange regarding the payment of Mexican bonds held in England, and to take steps towards a renewal of diplomatic relations.

The system of healing railway carriages by crystalline acetate of soda, which cools very slowly, is spreading. The London and North Western intend to double the number of foot warmers charged with this substance, and next winter they will have 6000. M. Ernest Benan, in a recent lecture at the Cercle Historique on the Jewish people, developed the thesis that Judaism is rather a religious than an ethnographical expression, and concluded that tho anti-Semitic agitation commenced in some countries as a war of races, is based on an historical error. The number of foreign mission stations of the Protestant Episcopal Church is 148, 34 of which are in Western Africa, 31 in China, 15 in Japan, 1 in Greece, 14 in Hayti, and 52 in Mexico. The annual budget calls upon the members of the church for £25,675 to support the missions during the present fiscal year. Sir Henry Gait, speaking before the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce on Feb. 12 insisted on the importance of the colonial trade of Great Britain, and pointed out the strong necessity for England to continue to receive food and raw material at the lowest possible prices. England, he said, can no longer feed herself from her own duceA terrible scene was witnessed recently in the alcoholic ward at the Bellevue Hospital, New York. An Irish machinist of exceptional size and strength, during an attack of delirium, killed a patient with repeated blows from a stool, having first fractured his skull. There was a fierce conflict between the maniac and seven keepers, fragments of furniture being used, until the maniac was finally lassooed and subdued.

M, Montegny, a, Belgian astronomer has observed that stars scintilate more during auroras than at any other times, and during the recent aurora he found that his earlier observations to this effect were confirmed, He also discovered that the scintillations increase simultaneously with the magnetic perturbations of the magnetograph. During the great aurora and magnetic storm of Sept. 1,1859, two English observers saw a bright star issue from one of the sun's spots, and on referring to the Kew records, it was found that a magnetic perturbation occurred at tho same instant

Captain White, late of the Eleventh Hussars, had an estate of £2OOO a year in Ireland, but for three years has scarcely been paid a pound. This involved him in pecuniary troubles, which preyed upon his mind until it gave way, He walked out on a lonely road, and meeting a labouring man gave him his watch and chain, saying he had no further need of them, Then he cut his throat. , • It is quite pitiful to read the accounts of correspondents in the Adelaide Observer, with reference to tbe late harvest. One speaking of portions of the Hundreds Kanyaka ); Bdolcunda, and Cudlamula, says:—"Not one farmer in ten put his machine in his paddocks"; another speaking' of the Hundred of Whyte, says: "It is the worst season we bave ever known"; another speaking of the Hundreds of Eba,'Lindley, and Schomburgh, says; " About 3000 acres were cropped, but not an acre was reaped; there is riot a single bag of wheat to tho three Hundreds" ; another speaking of the Hundred of Bundey, says: "About 3300 acres were cropped, but very little was reaped, :and the average yield was 7 to 81b to the .acre. Before the hot winds of September, the crops, promised to yield, from 10 to 12 bushels an acre" ; and another, speaking of tho Hundred of Coddock, says.:" One farmer put in 300 acres, and all he' succeeded in getting from the entire block was 'M bags!" V,:'- ;