ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1600, 4 February 1884, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Herr Bandmann soys that in India ho played "Hamlet" with threo people, and spoke all the lines.

A very reprehensible "joke" was perpetrated tho other evening at ono of the most popular theatres in Paris. An individual dropped a nmnlier of Bmall glass globes filled with asafcctido in the/aycf¥nd passages. The g'obes crushed noiselessly beneath the feet of promeftaderV and the result was a smell so: inconceivably nauseous that a Iftrge-oproportion- of the audience abruptly . quitted the theatre, which hadtojre thoroughly fumigated on the following day in order to get rid of the sickening odours. . According' to the Gospel in all Lands, there are in Lucknow aud Cawnpore forty-h'vo publishing houses engaged, in-printing and circulating infidel and pagan books. One publisher received from a rich Mohammedan 4000dol. to assist in printing Mohammedan works. A million Hindoo tracta were- issued at tho expenso of one Hindoo prince. One hundred and three newspapers, mostly weekly, advocate and support paganism, and Hindooism and assail Christianity in India.

A young bank, clerk in Charleroi, Belgium, was recently arrested for having forged a cheque for 4000dols. His uncle, a clerk in the same bank, was bo much affected.by the event that ho resolved to kill himself with his wife and Wo children. They first tried to open their veins and then to

-suffocate themselves, and finally they .: 'dropped down a cistern, One of the •children escaped and called the neighbors'. - The wife was found dead and

: her daughter dying, while the man, . was saved, has since, disappeared, '"':'.. «ffl; is- believed to have drowned him' • fielf/

The Para Society of Agriculture and Insectology, whoso exhibition, of preserved.msect specimans. has just closed, proposes establishing a. menagerie, of living insects, and the city of Paris hte contributed 32,000 francs for a building to contain such a collection 1 .

A'nti-tobaccoists' will : be horrified to rend that the medical officer of ; a workhouse in Dublin has ordered eight pounds of snuff to be served out to the inmates, This, it appears, however, was the result of a choice of evils, for the old men and women in the workhouso, rather than do without snuff, were in tho habit of using ashes or stones ground up and mixed with clay for the purpose.■:■ Even antitobacconists cannot say that snuff is more injurious than ground up ashes or stones.

Sixteen hundred trains a day run over the Clapham Junction in London. Tho rails lie together like tho wires of a piano. There is no shrieking of whistles or clanging of bells; tho signals are kept for the officials, and trespassers expose themselves at their peril. A tunnel-way for passengers connects the whole, so that no one js allowed to cross the rails except the. employees, who i: grow reckless and often come to grief, On an average, ono man is killcd.oittho crossings every j six weeks.' : ■'.' ; : " ."' i

An exchange Of- views, is said-to have taken .place- between the two Cabinets of Berlin "and Vienna on the present state of/affairs in China, Germany, which has .greater interests in China than seems to be generally believed, is anxious that tho position should be peacefully settled. The kola nut, largely used in tho tropical Africa to make an invigorating beverage was subjected some months ago to careful analysis, and is found to be richer in caffeine than the best coffee, while containing also the same activo principle as cocoa. Negroes are said not to touch coffee when they can obtain this nut. It is said by a Dr Daniel to be growing into an important article of commerce in the Soudan, and, it is thought, will soon find its way into European countries.