ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1594, 28 January 1884, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

As cancer of-the stomach, atrophy of the kidneys, and fatty degeneration of fclio hoavt were so long doing their fatal work on fcho Gomto do Chambord, it is thought that it- takes a good deal to kill a Bourbon, :

Spiritualism 13 making very rapid progresss in France, if the number of journals and periodicals devoted to the subject is an indication, There are seven or eight papers pub lislied in Paris, and many minor publi cations, on spiritualism.

lii the year 1872 the consumption of copper in the United States waa 34,000,0001b5, and sinco that time it has steadily increased. Last year it was 77,000,0001b5.

Mr W. S. Gilbert has built for himself a house in South Kensington which will be Well worthy to rank among the show places of London. It is aaicl that Mr Gilbert has expended 130,000 on tho house alono, before an article of furniture is put into it. The Italian insurance companies told King Humbert, of Italy, who, iiaving spent his money in paying his father's debts, tried to get his life insured for £120,000, that crowned heads were a poor .venture and they never took them.'

The Lyttelton-Times contains the followingA defendant at tho Resident Magistrate's Court, Timarn, on Friday, who evidently had no leaven of reverence in his composition, in answering a charge of " leaving his vohicle unattended," remarked that, had he known he was hound to leave somebody in charge, of his cart while making his ordinary,business calls, ho would have " got the constable to hold his horse!" The Bench smiled, the public grinned, and ,the members of the force gasped for breath at the profane suggestion, but the Bpeaker looked quito satisfied with himself." : ; Berlin and Leipsic have for a long time been rivals in the publishing trade. In 1881 Berlin published 2464 works, an'd Leipsic . 2452. Last year Leipsic published 2628, against 2245 at Berlin. Of works on polotics, jurisprudence, and similar tQpics, 373 were brought out at Betlin, ngauut 127 at Leipsic. • Mussel-culture is extensively carried on at various place's on the coast of Scotland; as well as of England, being a necessity as bait for many kinds of fishing. In some seaports, the supply is not equal to the demand, and laige buantities are imported from Hamburg. At Lyme, the' propagation of tho mussel is thought of sufficient importance to be under the control of the town corporation, ' .

A petition lias been presented to the Minister of Instructions in Russia, asking for the restoration of corporal punishment in the schools of that country. This looks like retrogression, until it is explained that, whilo corporal punishment .is forbidden, school-boys are confined for twentyfour hours on a bread and wator diet, and subjected to other like -severe and degrading forms of punishment, Prof. E. Fazio says that ho has ascertained that in general those who were excavated alive at Ischio wero stupefied, their organic functions paralysed, their sight weakened or altogether suspended for some time; most had felt extreme thirst while under the-masonry. All asserted that they had never lost hope of rescue. The Princess Victoria, betrothed'at 17 to the hereditary Crown Princo of Anhalt, is the great-great:-grand-daughter of King Frederick. William 11, of while the Crown Prince of Anhalt, oleven years'her senior, ib tho great-grandson of the, same sovereign, . '

" jEgles" in the " Australasian" is responsible for. this The worthy laird of Warrock was some little timo ago a passenger to, Melbourne by rail. There were several other travellers in the same carriage, and all but himself were: either members ot Parliament, contractors, or others with free passes. When the tickets were called for and produced, his was the only ordinary monoyobtained-ticket. Moved with righteous indignation and casting a look of scorn (it his fellow' passengers, he impulsively exclaimed: "D——it, and have I to pay, for the lot oVyeJ" .! ■ During the'celebration of a Moorish festival at Tangiarff, a stone) thrown by a Moor, struck tbaFrenoh Charge The latter has demanded as punishment of the offender payment of £2OO for . the benefit of the poor and, duinM. f^ tlio Government as tatißfiptipj^ for the iQßalt. ■ 'jLhpht 100,000 f Oanadiaus'are engaggj in tho kmber busineaß. and itia.eatimated ' that they and those dependant constitute about one-ninth of the popnl*» tipn of the Dominion, ?he total product of lumber in Canada in 1881 was £7,708,850 or 9dol foreiih fhabitaiit.of. ffhiob eooqgl) w to bring into the country $jT98,210,