ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1602, 6 February 1884, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

: Bourko is going in for a £3OOO Sheffield Handicap, and yet the; thermometer varies from lOOdeg. to 120deg. in the shade, The anthropological savants of the British Association have decided that the interesting young creature who was captured in Siam, dubbed "Krao" transported to London by an enterprising Englishman,- and there exhibited as "the-missing link," is. in reality a well planned woman who merely possesses a vast deal more hair than she is fairly entitled to. Mortimer Donehor, the last surviving brother of a family remarkable for longevity, died in Derryman, Minm,. Nov. 10, aged 121 years. Doneher's mother died in her 101 st year, his, oldest brother at the age of 108, and another 117 years, 1 months and 20, days; Th» father was the shortestlived of the family, having died at 80. He was a remarkably healthy and active man, never having been really sick. i

The latest number of the Russian Nihilist organ, "The Will of the People," gives harrowing details of the condition of the political prisoners at the Peter and Paul fortress, where they are treated like murderers, no distinction being made between men or, women, or sick or healthy. Several prisoners have gone mad and committed suicide. Corporeal punishment of prisoners is frequent, The Jesuit Order is now divided into five great provinces, distributed as follows:—In Italy and hev islands, 1558 fathers; in Germany, AustroHungary, Belgium and the Netberland, 2165; England and the United States, 1885. In 1882 there were 11,058 priests, professors and coadjutors, which shows an increase of the Order since 1870, when it numbered 10,529. A grand new palace of justice has just been opened with great ceremony 'inßrussels. It is a grand building—too large, say .critics for the country. Its cost, fifteen millions of francs, is said to be a third of the annual income of Belgium. Deputations of barristers from nearly all the European countries were present, and were welcomed by the King, who afterwards received them in the Royal palace,

A Chinaman died soon after his marriage with a young and beautiful woman, As he was dying the wife was loud in her protestations of grief, and her determination not to marry again. The husband was not unreasonable ; he only asked that if she did take another spouse she would wait until the earth upon his grave was dry. Sho promised, and ho died and was buried, and many a young and handsome bachelor of the province of Shantung was present at tho funeral. Daily she stole to his grave aud wept, but she took good care that none of the tears fell on the soil. At last, after a few days, Chwengtsze happened to pass, and saw her fanning, not herself, but the damp earth. Ho asked tho reason, and she told him of her husband's last request, and her promise, and begged him to assist her. So she offered him a fan, and there they sat to fan away the moisture; the grave was not long a-drying. The omission of a single word sometimes makes a tremendous difference. When the members of the Durham Diocesan Conference were one day about to separate for lunch, an amusing incident occurred. The secretary (the Rev. Cannon Tristram) gravely announced," At the Bishop's reception this evening dress will not be necessary for tho ladies I" The Bishop unconscious of the mistake, added, " Nor for the gentlemen either 1" There was a titter when the first announcement was made, and the company broke out into a laneli as tho Bishop spoke, the latter himself joining in it heartily when he perceived the error. Cannon Tristam, however, quickly put matters right with the explanation, " Of coutso we mem full dress," A few horses, which escaping now and then from tho paddocks of colonists on the edge of the settled district of Australia, have made themselves at home in the freedom and abundant pastures of the interior have multiplied to such an extent that notwithstanding, the numbers captured or shot everyyear, it is estimated that there are something like 100,000 of them in the populous colonies—Victoria and New South Wales, or roaming the plains contiguous to their borders. A French Post-office cleric dab been tried on a charge of stealing letters. The prisoner did not deny his guilt, but said in his defence that he had only acted from curiosity. The investigation showed that none of the letters he had stolen ; contained money; but he had taken to betting on horse racing, aud the letters he had abstracted were addressed to English bookmakers, from which he hoped to obtain information. He was sentencad to six months! : imprisonment. , There are certain things so sure as to be heeded in.every life that, they ought to command particular- attention in youth. Every child should be accustomed to express himself freely' and .often, both in speaking -and writing,, and be taught the proper; methods of doing both; he should become used to the presence.of strangers and' the attention due to them; he shouhlbe habituated to-changes of scene and employment, and above all) should be led tofix his attention upon ; : things outside himself,. Was to save him froml self-consciousness < which lies at the root of much painful bashful* ness, .timidity, aud nervous apprehenr

About 3000 pigs a day are killed and dressed in Chicago, It is said that scores of women make their fortunes in Melbourne by fortune telling. A newspaper in the Hungarian language, the first journal of that kind in Amorica, is'about to bo published, The tunnel on tho Arlberg railroad, which is expected to become such an" important exit for A>istro-Hungarian produce to France and Switzerland, will be six miles and a-half long. ■■_;.... Whilo the population of London is larger than that oi Scotland, the metropolis had school accommodation last year for only 527,000 children; Scotland, with all its physical difficulties, had accommodation for 610,000. The total number of desertions from the British army in 1882 was 4H5, of whom-1297 rejoined. In the household cavalry the desertions were 8 in tho 1000; in the foot guards, 15; in tho cavalry of tho line, 22; in the infantry of the lino, 24, The Paris society of Agriculture and Insectology, whose exhibition of preserved insect specimens lias recently closed, proposes establishing a menof living insects, and the city of Ems has contributed 32,000 francs for a building to contain such a collection! Two-thirds of all the wealth in the United States is in the hands of onefifth of tlio people. Within the city of-Now York thero are 100 men who have it in their power to change the value of every pieco of property, every ] article of merchandise, and every pound of food. An English usurer at Birmingham admitted that he had charged interest at the rate of 200 per cent, In the eleven years since the first church was organised in Japan, 93 have been formed by the 15 missions at work there, 21 of which are selfsustaining. ' Tho Czar has decided to have a sian army with repeating rifles of the latest American pattern, Ho has now ordered 200,000 of these arms through firms.' The Chinese navy consists of nearly 70 vessels of all sizes, by far tho largar portion of which have been constricted in China by nativo labor, and many' under native supervision. A young officer in the 4th French Engineers, unstrung at tho idea of having to face a court martial for some trivial fault, tied a belt, filled with dynamite, round his wrist, applied a match, and was literally blown into pieces. An English farmer reports cutting three lots of wheat at different stages of maturity—in tho milk, in the dough, and fully ripe. He threshed separately and had 1001b of each carefully ground and tho results weighed. Tho 1001b of wheat cut in tho milk made 751b of flour, 111b shorts, 121b bran; that cut in the dough made 801b flour, 51b shorts, 131b bran; that cut fully ripe made 721b flour, 111b shorts, 151b bran; two pounds lost by millingiueach case, This shows.the dough state made most flour, and the ripest made the least flour and the most bran, Bran is made at the expense of nour'by standing late. Considerable excitement has been caused in Leicester by the strike in the boot and shoe trade against the employment of Jews iii their own homes. Tho union delegates informed tho employers that they objected to Jews because wherever a Jew was employed a colony ot Jews was soon established, which was followed by lower wages. ■ Professor Collett states that thirty specimens of iho mastodon have been fond in tho marshes of Indiana iu such good preservation that the bogcutters use their fat to grease their boots. This is held to prove that the mastodon lived in North America more recently than geologists have supposed. / : About four years ago (states an American paper) the wife of J, 0. Welch, living near Poineroy, W.T., United States, died, Recently the husband caused her body to be exhumed, for removal to another cemotery, and found the remains had turned to solid stone. The hair had grown several inches, and turned snow white. The body looked like a beautiful marble statue.

The quickest divorce-time ou record was made in Chicago, 111, Nov. 7. Mrs Lulu Scannell filed a petition for divorce from Burt R. Scannell at 9.45 a.m. At the same time the defendant waived all service, summons, notice and other formula. At 10 o'clock the case was before Judge Smith. A.t 10,25 the decree was granted. The entire transaction occupied iorty minutes.

It has been stated that a change in the head dress'of the Highland regiments is imminent. The gallant and time honored'/Tekth'er bonnet is to be superseded bfji/hybrid helmet, heavy, and cumbersome/ to' be covered with a dark blue clotfy'mulswarthed }n ells of tartan, green red, 6K yellow, according to the corps. <> ■''• The Bishop tff*-Gbristchurch is over 80yearsofage7'i •• ' . New. York has 244 miles of street paved with granite blocks. On New Year's Day in Sydney 151,975 tramway 'fares were collected. ' "' v..

of Wales is'said to own IoO.OOQ acres of ; lawl in Kansas, ( The sale of 'that capital novel, Dr ' Claudius, has reached 50,000 copies. A Young lien's Club has been started in Dunedin, to be conducted on temperance principles, Walter Scott always said that he took his idea of tho Waverley Novels from Miss.Etlgoworth's stories, and _ a writer of a very interesting notice in the Londen Daily News says, "Tourgenieff Said to me': ' It is possible, nay, probable, that if Maria Edgeworth had not written,about the poor l lrish in the County Longford, and the squires and- squireens,' it would - not .have occurred to.me to give liteiary form to; many impressionsabout the corresponding classes in Eusaia," .. A niece.of.KQsciusko is said to be in one of tbydeparlments in Washington; a great grandaughter of, Jefferson, is in the Interior department, and- aueedy desceudajit. of a relative, of George Washington has''lately; received a gq-! vemmeatappointment,,...,, v ..., r^.

Ceylon colfee will soon bo a thing of the pnst, In actual fact we mean,, for there are strong suspicions that it has been a thins; of the pastexceptin name in the Colonies for many years, The crops have recently been almost a total failuro, in consequence of tho weakening effect of leaf disease, It has been found however, that tea can be produced in quality equal to Indian, and, the yields being larger, the labor cheaper, and communication with seaports easy, at a greater profit to the planter. Coffee land is now being re-planted with tea, At the end of this year there will be about 20,000 acres under tea, and the next few years will sen this, area enormously increased, At the close of tho year 1875 tho population of iho city of Adelaide proper was estimated at 27,000, tho number of houses set down at about 5000. At the present time there are about 2000 more houses and 12,000 nioro people to occupy them. It is computed that tho population resident within ten miles of tho post office is now 60,000. Proportionately to its population Adelaide possesses facilities for locomotion such as are hardly excelled, if rivalled by any city in the world. There aro now about fifty miles of tramway within the area named, and over tho lines run between seventy and eighty cars, with an aggregate carrying capacity of over 3000 people, Besides these, thero are the various lines : of railway having their terminus in tho town, and 465 vehicles licensed to ply for hiro in the public streets,

" A man is entitled to let his coat fly open if he likes," This important point of law has just been settled by Mr Commissioner Kerr in a case in which the owner of a coat sought damages against the Street Tramways Company for the coat having been split in a collision between a tramsar and an omnibus, the defendants arguing that the unbuttoned garment was a sign of contributory negligence.

Lovely Cumes.— There arc lovely dimes anil places in which tho evening zephyrs arc loaded with malaria, and the poison of fever and epidomics, To dwell thero in health is impossible, without a supply of Hop bitters at hand. These Bitters impart an equalising strength to tho system, and prevent tho accumulation of deadly spores and contagion. J3o sure and see, Nevbk Jißi'UßX.—lt is said that onoout of every four real iuvalids who go to foreign countries to recover health never return, except us a corpse. The undenakors. next to hotel keepers, have the .mout profitable business, Ihis excessive mortality may be prevented and paticuts S:\ved and cured under the care of friends aud loved ones at home, if they will but use flop Bitters in time. Bead. After several years' oxpeiienco maupplying watches for the colonial market, Littlejohn and Bos, of kmbton Quay, Wellincton, have observed the need for a thoroughly sound English Lever Watch at a lower price thau that usually paid for such watches, It is only bj the judioiousdiusion of labor and by tho lnanufactuio of large quantities ou a uniform plan, that we are enabled to moot this want We havo now the pleasure of introducing our Six Guinea Hunting Silver Lever. This watch, being simple in design, durable, highly finished, and accurate, fulfils all tho requirements of a pocket timekeeper, A written guarauteo for two years will b( given with each watch. Sent by post, securely packed, on receipt of Po3t Ofßcc order or cheque.— (Advt)