ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1592, 25 January 1884, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Tho treatment of leprosy is bocon ing a hard problem in India, In th Bombay Presidency 9183 cases ar under treatment. Cyrus W. Eeild is sinking an arte sian well, to be 1200 ft deep, under hi new building, No. 1, Broadway, Nov York. It will cost $15,000, but wil more than pay for itself in a saving o wator rents. It is expected to flow 5( gallons of water a minute all tho yea; aonnd. Only half the number of trains cntei and leave Paris stations that enter anc lcavo London ones. Two thousand tw( hundred trains enter and leave Londoi -each day. Of these there are only 6£ -40nvhich do not carry third-class passen gers, In Paris llicro arc 110 train! which do not carry third-class pas scngors. There- arc nearly 40 newspapers issued in Calcutta. About one-hall are English; the rest are in various languages and dialects. During the recent outbreak at Porl au Prince, Hayti, 1,505 persons were killed and £1,000,000 worth of pro perty destroyed. Burns' " Auld Lang Syne" had its basis, it is said, in a familiar old song, Ho composed the second and third verses anow, and improved tho others, Prince Massimo, of Borne, \vh< claims descent from Pabius Cunctator, was recently tried for selling his own library against a Cardinal's prohibition! ■ More than a thousand of tho aged poor of the Borough were entertained at tea lately in the town hall by Mi E. Woodhouse, the Mayor of Leeds, England. It is announced from Now Yorli that Mr Patrick Egan, tho Irish agitator, has taken preliminary proceedings, with a yiow to becoming recognised as an American citizen. A boiler in use on a bridge which is being built over tho Red Itiver al Milway, near Shrevoport, Louisiana, recently exploded, killing five men and injuring five others. It is said that the British Houso of Lords does not contain one medical man, and there are not more than a dozen medical baronets or knisjhts in tho United Kingdom. A man named Piotrowski has been arrested at Dirschau, near Dantzig, who declares that he was commissioned by Russian Nihilists to assassinate Princo Bismarck. Ho states that he is a Russian actor, and was provided with funds lor the journey by the Nihilists; but while at Dantzig the money was stolen from him. A morphia syringo aud copio3 of Nihilist poems wero found on him. Piotrowski is generally regarded as a lunatic, The following price list of foroigu decorations may be of interest to somo of our aristocratics who sigh for ribbons stars, and titles:—Cross of the Rcoublic of Sail Marino, £100; Order of Isabella of Spain, £180; Order of Charles lU. of Spain, £180; Cross of tho Commander of the Order of Christ, of Portugal, £180; Order of tho Lion and Sun, of Persia, £160; Order of tho Medijidieh, £1G0; Ordcrofßoliver.of Venezuela, £180; Order of tho Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, £IBO. A return relating to Building Societies has been issued, which shows that in England there arc 1087 societies in existence, with a membership of 493,271. Tho total receipts during the last financial year amounted to £20,919,473. There wero 1528 societies making a return of liabilities, which wero—to the holders of shares, £29,351,611; and to depositors, it was £16,351,617, There was a balauco of unappropriated profit to the extent of £1,567,942. The assets came to £44,587,718. Princo Bismarck is not merely ono of tho largest timber merchants in Goraany, but ho is ono of the most considerable distillers in the country. At Varzin alone he now manufactures somothing like 80,000 litres of spirits in tho month. Altogether ho sells aboui 300,000 gallons of this product in tho course of tho year. Some of it, no doubt, finds its way into France, like so much of the spirits manufactured in Germany, and is sold there, after undergoing a certain amount of " doctor' ing," as genuine Cognac, The total average strength of tho . British army on the first day of January, 1883, was 189,229 ot all ranks, the number of officers being 7336. Almost an exact moiety of the force was on service abroad, and of the 94,295 in tho United Kingdom 61,325 wero in quarters in England, 3609 in Scotland, and 29,361 in Ireland. Out of every thousand men 056 aro returned as of superior education, 186 as able to read and write, 28 who road but not write, find 30 who can neither read nor write, Twenty years ago 641 out of every one thousand could just read and write, aud whereas 134 could neither read nor write, only 52 were of superior education. China will send to Germany 400 /""Triors to man tho iron-ckds in process of construction. There is said to be living in Germany in excellent health, a priest aged 109 years, who has boon 84 years a priest. In case of immediate war, Germany could put in the field 38,000 officers, 1,450,000 soldiers, 27,000 physicians and officials, 300,000 horses. The Duke of Edinburgh having apparently given up the idea of again going to sea, intends to farm at Eastwell on an extensive scale, Ho has got together a large flock of choice sheep, and is also goini; to breed cattle. A fatal avalanche took place at AsBono, in Sicily, on October 19. Six railway employees working on tho line lino, wero buried beneath the mass of rock and earth. One was rescued alive, but much injured, The remaining five men perished. The first "pigeon post" recently arrived at Levuka from Suva, the bird having come direct in an hour, conveying intelligence that a powerful steamer would have been five hours in bringing by the round-about sea routo,

Many women in Russia, now wot al painting china, Tho widow of Captain Webb is bi 24, Sho was three yoars his wife, It is estimated that 1000 women ai practicing medicine in England, Who pays the highest price for home? Tho woman who mairies fc ono; The Princess of Wales always dressc perfectly, and rarely alters her style, Parisian women are powdering th hair, and arranging it a la Mary Stuai in the evening. Of tho 45,000 persons arrested i Paris last year only 6000 wero wonie: The French police are gallant. Governor Crosby says that while M Arthur and his friends were crossing dry gulch in Northern Wyoming the; saw written in charcoal over tho doo of a vacant cabin tht following :- " Only nine miles to water and twent; miles from wood. No' grub in th houso. God bless our home." Mr Dclaunay, a scientist, predicted in a memoir presented to tho Prencl Academy of Scienco in 1881, th catastrophe at Java, making a mistak of only two days. In tho samo pape ho stated that another and more tei riblo convulsion will occur in the sam place in 1886. Indiokstion,—The main cause of ncrvou ncss is indigestion, and (hat is cuised b; weakness of the stomach. No one can liav< sound nerves and good health without übUiq Hop Bitters to Btrenglliou tho stomach, purify tin blood, and keop tho liver and kidneys active, to carry off all tlio'poisonous and wasto matter of tlio system. See.