ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1562, 18 December 1883, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

A recent report of the actury of an '• English Life Insurance Company shows by statistics that the. average duration '.. of Ufa has been increased, and instead of being thirty-three years, as has . always been considered the standard, it is now nearer forty.years. There are in the United States two thousand four hundred and thirty-two women practicing medicine, Three hundred guns protect tho Thames and Modway. One fort near Sheerness has forty-four guns, ranging from thirty-oight; to twelve tons. A Norwich doctor states that he has traced forty cases of illness in one parish to drinking milk from cows suffering from foot-and-mouth disease.

It is estimated that the increase in the population of Canada by immigration will this year reach nearly 150,000. Last year;the increase was 115,000,Under the operation of the Edmunds Law, depriving polygamists of the suffrage, nearly 15,000 Mormons have been disfranchised in Utah Territory. ( The New York State prison are paying institutions, Their earnings for August were £6922, and the expense £6056, a net profit of £BB6. ' Ten thousand men, mostly from Jamaica, are at work on the Panama Canal, and the statement is made that the project will be completed in five years. .■■■■>■'.

Well found, if not true, is tho story that when Lord Wolseley attended St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, on a recent occasion, the anthem was Handel's " Egypt wns glad when they departed," The largest piece, of glass ever mado in the united States is now on exhibition at Louisville. It is 15ft long, and ll|ffc wide.

It has been calculated that to make the 950,009 tons of paper annually required for the supply of the world, 430 days medium flow down the River Thames, would be needed. There has been added to the collection in Lady Brassey's [case at the Fisheries Exhibition, a casket contain* ing eighty-four guineas, which were in Lord Nelson's pocket at the time he received his fatal wound at Trafalgar Germany possesses the oldest priest living in the world. He is 108 yoars old and has been eighty-four years in sacerdotal order*, He lives at Dupel, enjoys excellant health and fulfils all his religious duties with the 'most scrupulous exactness.