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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1543, 24 November 1883, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

TIIO Citizen states that Mr BuvdettCoutts is for a fleet of fisting Safe, .which, it is .expeoted, will bo eoiimnuicated with' by steam for the ■supply of fish for Columbia Market.. 1 ■ >A

Ten thousand people attended Tom Thumb's funeral, four-fifths of them being women and' girls, ; The. corpse was dressed in a black broadcloth suit, a white lace veil being spread oyer the face, and the Knights Templar chapeau, silver iword, andotherembiemi-layon the coffin, The widow fainted'at the grave.'. In laying the foundation stone'of a new Congregational-Lecture* Half at New Soutbgate, Mr: Samuel,Mo'rley, M.P., said that a million more sittings would be requisite if half the population of London wished to go to church or chapel on any given day j but that, unhappily, half those which had been provided were left unoccupied. The fear of cholera has brought to the daily press a number of contributions of greater or less value. One of the most interesting is a~letter by Major Wm; Vaughari Morgan, Treasurer of • the London Homoeopathic Hospital, on the homoeopathic .vjiejv of the matter, ' During the opidemld of 1854 the wards of tho hospital wero cleared of tho other, pationts and thrown open for the treatment of cholera. The four principal remedies used were Rubini'a tincture of.i'.flamphor, cuprum aceticum, yeratrunyind arsenicum. Tho deaths underLthe treatment at the hospital amounted to only 16.4 per cent, in an epidemic in which, as tho analysis furnished by the Committee of the Medical Council showed, the deaths under the most successful treatment pursued in other Metropolitan hospitals were at tho rate of 59.2 per cent. The body of the late Mr John Waterloo Wilson, who was born in Brussels, of English parents, on the day of the battle of Waterloo, has, in accordance with his will, been buried in the family vault in that city. The deceased was an enthusiastic collector of pictures. His celebrated gallery was exhibited publicly for the first time in Brussels about ten years ago. He hail 'then presented to Brussels a number of valuable pictures for founding a communal museum to promote the teaching of the fine arts, He has left'an important sum to the town of Brussels for continuing the work, :

It is announced that the vicar of Stratford-on-Avon is not opposed,to the exhuming of Shakespeare's remains, as proposed by Dr Ingleby, one of: the life trustees of Shakespeare's birthplabe, The object of the proposed exploration of the toinb is to compare the. poet's skull with the monumental bust in the church, and also to set at rest the many conflicting portraits of the poet in existence, Before the remains can be exhumed, however, the' consent of the mayor and corporation will also have to be obtained. The latest news is to the effect that the.corporation will not consent to the . exhumation..; Mr W,' G. I. Phillimore, on the anniversary on Dr Pusey's death, .reports the progress made with the Pusey Memorial Fund. Out of the proposed £50,000, £25,000 has already been collected; the doctor's library has bfieu purchased, a house has been acquired, and a custodian appointed for it.' No fewer than 41 bishops are among the subscribers to the fund,

A curious sentence was passed recently by Judge Krekel, of the District Court of Missouri, An illiterate man having been convicted of a minor offence, he was ordered by the Judge to bo detained in gaol until he should be able to read and write, and another offender, less ignorant,was sentenced to be similarly imprisoned until he should have instructed the former in these valuable arts' It is stated that in three weoks .the, man reappeared able to write fairly well from dictation, and both pupil and master were'discharged.