ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1395, 4 June 1883, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

A bonfire, which lias communicated * with a bed of coal beneath, is said to be still burning on a hill near Troy, Not York, having been lighted to celebrate General Garfield's eleotion. The Earl of Dudley is in a mental state - nonrly akin to imbecility, while his income in good years sometimes approaches five millions/as he derives more from minerals: than any other man in England. At Christmas about thirty swans from the Thames are killed, of which the Queen has bur, the Prince of Wales two, and the other members'of the royal family one eaoh. There is little differance between the flavor of swans and geese. The administration of Monto, Carlo the famous—or infamons-gambling-place has increased the income of the prince of Monaco eighty thousand dollars yearly, and in retnrn he renews the grant to keop the tables in his principality ■ The press meanwhile iii thia Lilhput has been cut off some eigliiy thousand dollars. Field Marshal Baron Hauslab died at Vienna on Feb. llj at - the' age of 85. The deeeused officer belonged to the Austrian Artillery, and .was at one time director of Turkish.Military School which formerly existed in Vienna, ;He leaves behind him a number-of very'interesting . drawings and an historical collection of Austrian art. ; ' ' During the thirty years of the Dr Close's ministry at, Cheltenham, England, lie received over 1500 pairs of worked slippers from adairing friends. So late 'as last' yeir Dr Proust, in a paper to the Academy of Medicine, made the statement that/there were then no fewer than 219,270 houses in France without a window, It is stated that 11,343 miles of railway were laid down in the United States in 1882—2000 miles more than in 1881, The Rev Dr E. L Magoon, a wellknown Baptist minister, of Philadelphia, 1 recently preached in; a local Jewish 1 synagogue. An aerial expedition is to be prepared at Marseilles with the object of crossing the Mediterranean next June, the centenary of the invention of the ballon, The village of Hillestad, ouo mile from Lund, in the district; of Schoonen, in Sweden, has been destroyed by'fire. Only thirty-two chimneys are left i standing, The remains of a villa of the>'me"of Hadrian, with Mosaic pavement««uea, and busts, have been found in otmfhig p opertiea in old Eoine by PrincfrTotlonia. ' According to an excellent authority, i "Tewfik Paßha, the Khedive of Egypt, is little moro than an undeveloped olnld, so ) far as mind goes, His chief amusement is to harness the ladies of his seraglio one before another with bits in their mouths, and to drive them round aud round a room. 3 The Hawkes' Bay Herald: publishes a > rumor that Sir George Grey is likely t« , support, the Ministerial party in the coming session,

Sir Moses Montefiure ia the oldest English baronet. If he lives.for six months longer his age will exceed 100 years, A Scotch baronet, Sir Henry Preston, ia in his lOOili year. There are 1,000,000 Moslems in Syria and Palestine. Moody and Sankey are holding forth in Dublin, and Ireland. Like Mr Gladstone, the Emperor of Russia has a penchant for ohopping wood. He does it for pleasure and exercise, Kins Humbert, it is said, is falling into a confirmed melancholy, and does not speak to anybody. Moso Schaumburg was caught by a rival in business tearing down the rival's poatets announcing bargains of Chriaimas goods; ' What dj you mean by destroyin« my posters, you scoundrel ?' asked the rival, threateningly. 'Dot's vere you vos fooling yourself,' replied Mose, badly scared. 1 1 vos so much bleascd mit dot poster I choost pulled him down to see if dere vus any more reading matter on de udder side.' Under the section " Offering" the Salvation Army code runs as followers • " It is not well to make known the amount of offerings at first, and indeed at no time is it wise to publish them to the whole congregation. ' The mass of tho people will never suspect real soldiers, nod it is therefore foolish to aasumo any possibility of suspicion, or to make" any statement with a view to meet it. 1 " " Tin re is not, 03 a rule, any need to refer to l lie fact of the field officers being paid ; the expenses for rent, gas, &c., being seen by all to be heavy." To avoid getting into debt at first, " it is generally only necessary resolutely to set about oetting money from the people, They will t/ive 'it the work is properly done and they are properly pressed,' except in rare cases. At the first, when receipts are low, is the time to getrenis, &0., lowered. Tell proprietors, &0., exactly what, offerings you have received, and press them to to• consider their price if you tind tham so agreeable as to be likely to value your permanent tenanoy. ' Pressure put upon the people' at the same time will frequently cause them lo make presents of food as well as money, which a conscientious 0.0. will of course consider in drawing any amount for salary. _ From the first the 0.0. must explain to his men ■how wo hate the penny-a-week system; and by showing a good example hiMf, he will ensure a handsome ou( weekly offerings.'" J/j A. correspondent of the Cardiff (Wales) Mail says:—lt is stated on good authority that £IOO,OOO of debt on Welsh Congregational chapels will be promptly wiped off as the result of the Jubilee Thanksgiving Fund. Two hundred times last year Barnum'sshow attracted a daily attendance of 30,000. people; it represents a capital of over £600,000; its actual daily expenses are over £950; it uses nearly a mile of its own railway cars; requires eight acres for its tents j employs 600 men and women, 300 horses, 160 advanced advertisers, and five special advertising cars. It exhibits 29 elephants, 10 giraffes, 10 ostriches, and 32 camels and dromedaries. It has lost over £16,000 worth of animals, . and purchased £52,000 worth more. The mere search for novelties cost no less than £20,000 in 1882. With reference to the Patetere small farms,theHawkes' Bay Herald f ays "Nothing but ruin could attend the operations of a farmer on such I<ind, Except at the bottom of narrow gullies, and little oases hero and there, the part of Patetere to which we refer is a vast. pumice bed. The land lies nicely, on ' broad plains and gently undulating hills. • It looks rather fertile, for it is covered fern' and in the narrow' valleys grow the toi-toi and stunted flax bushes. The soil looks black and rich; but an examinatiou shows a thin top layer of peaty vegetable mould, and underneath is pumice-nothing but pumice for an unknown . depth, . A' man wouldstarve on ten.thousand .acres of'such'land; what would be do. on;,two or three hundred?" . .