ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1367, 1 May 1883, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

When we see a. tightly-lnbed woraan trying to enjoy a good laugh with a smile on her mouth, dhd.toats inner eyes, we think.of the dear old hymn' whioh besibn "Letjoybe.unconfined." .'.'' < "When I start my paper," said he, ■ "I shall keep one cpluinh open for domestic advertisements. But iualead of heading it' Birthsj Deaths, and Marriages,' I sfmll Bliok at.the top'Nursory-Hoarsery'-—" "And what for the marriages 1" inquired his friend. ," Woll-'.Oursery'; what do you think?" ' The-cruelty of huuliuft lame dear was well expressed the other' day in a letter to the 'Times,' but the worst of it is that ladies Bhonld take so much interest in siioh oruel sport. A deer costs Ihe country nearly £3OO, and a fox £IOO, taking the expense of hounds, hones, and stables into account, before either is killed. Why should this waste be nllowed] and why Bhould the " swells" be surrounded with idle show of buckhounds, and all the rest of it? By all means let pigeon matches be stopped, but to' stop them antl allow tame deer worrying to go on is to strain at the gnat and swallow the cainol with a vengeauoe. American exchanges just to hand give details as to the close of W. S. Walcott's quail-eating feat, The party in question entered into a wager of £lO a-side that he would eat'two quails per diem for thirty days, and this he succeeded in doing.. Among his visitors on the last day were Jem" Mace, Slade and Cobum/tlte pugilists,'-Walcott . now says he is willing tolvagerthat he will eat ninty quails in thirty" days; ' According to a recent estimate, tho picture gallery 'of "the -''Yankee millionaire, W. H. Vanderbilt, had £200,000 worth of pictures; next come that of Mr Stewart, £IOO,OOO. The aggregate value of the private galler ies of New York is £1,300,000. They are entirely filled with pictures bought in Europe. The German proverb, 'lf I rest I rust, 1 is Americanized to read, 'lf I trust, I bust.' » Jpiere is an old negro in Austin who 'claims to have studied ' 'flosify outen a book. 1 Recently ho went into the justice court and said-'Judge, kin I git a 'dictment writ agin that wuffless nigger, Pete f ' What's he been doing}' 'He's a procrastinator. ' He's bin a procrastinatinV ' Procrastinating ? There's no law against that.' 'No law agin procrastination 1 Den what's de law fur? Ain't procrastination de thief oh time ?' ' Certainly, I believe it ha 3 been so stated,' "Well, den, ain't Pete a thief f 'Yes, you might so construe it, but you cannot convict a man for stealin' time.' 'No, but when we hab got de proof on him fur stealin' time', we hab got de circumstantial ebidence agin him fur stealin' money, for don't flossify say dat time am money 1 Got yer (lav, Jedge.' And the old man went out chuckling to himself,' Got him dar, Got de Jedge dis time suah yer a foot high.' It is curious to note (says a London journal), in view of the now universal prevalence'of the tobacco habit,, that during the' reign of Louis Philippe smoking in the Tuilleries gardens was strictly prohibited; while in Munich, in 1838, a thoughtless individual who happened to light a cigar,, in the immediate vicinity of the royal, palace was promptly rushed off to prison, This state of things remained tho rule in both countries until the Revolution of 1848. In England at the present time nearly every other man uses tobacco, but thirty .years ago a man who appeared in the streets of London with a pipe or a cigar in his. mouth was accounted a " snob,"