ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1522, 30 October 1883, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

A colony of Russian,: Jews - have settled down in the State of Oregori, and are devoting themselves to agriculture. They have named their settlement ; New Odessa, and it-is situated on the Califomian and Oregon Railway, near Leland, in Douglas County, The" People's Gazette" of St Paul's reports that the colony is'likely to thrive. The colonists are industrious husbandmen, and have already a flourishing trade in firewood, with which they supply the railway company. The Official Gazette of Berlin states that it has been resolved to despatch a scientific expedition to Egypt to-ex-amine into the origin, nature, and course of the cholera epidemic, and to ascertain what are the best .means of precaution against the disease. The expedition will be under the control of Privy Councillor Koch, a member of the Imperial Board of Health, and will leave shortly for Alexandria. A tragic incident is reported from - Lugaro in Switzerland. Count Dolfini, of Padua, has lately arrived with his wife to reside in the picturesque little village of Melida, on the borders of the lake. They stayed at the Hotel Castelli, where they, lived in great state* A night or two since the count approached a M. Castelli, and, without any warning, fired twico at him with a revolver, wounding him mortally. The count then fled, but was pursued and arrested. Ha has since ineffectually attempted suicide. An interesting letter from Cairo says j—" A good many soldiers have broken their pledges as teetotallers through the offer of the ration of mm the intense heat, and the bad ifcter. The latter, is frequently 'alia&ag thick and as black as ink,' and itrmay be that a short distance from you in the canal or pool is the dead body of a horse or camel. Under these circumstances. all you have to do is to dio your can in the liquid, apply it to your lips, and you are drinking clear water!" Tho writer:speaks of the fearful epidemic, and says that while at dinner at the house of a friend one day recently as many as fifty funerals passed the door. ' The owners of a cigar factory in New fork having refused the demand of some of their unionist employes to discharge the workmen belonging to a rival trade organisation, the unionist men struck work. The result has been a lock-out by the masters, which has thiown 8,000 men out of employment. A. novel appendage has been placed on tho forks of the small wheel of a bicyle. This consists of a music-box, so arranged that the revolutions of the wheel set the mechanism of the instrument in motion, and the enterprising wheelman is thus regaled with charming music on his lonely tours along tho rural highways. On the Herreninsel in the Chiemisse, at the entrance to tho Bavarian Tyrol, the King of Bavaria has been for the last six years building a palace villa, which will surpass in splendour, comfort, elegance, and almost in artistic perfection, all the other royal residences in the world. The resources of art have been taxed to tho utmost, the very door handles and window fastenings being of exquisite design an'd workmanship, There is an abundanoo of beautiful wood-carvjng, And if the walls are not clothed with paintings like those 111 the Doge's palace at Venice, they are lined with most beautiful and costly marbles. The palace is not visible from any of the neighboring roads or places accessible to the ordinary traveller, the site having been chosen so as to securo complete privacy.