ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1610, 15 February 1884, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Mr Proctor, the present Mayor of Oamaru, will be a candidate at the general election for one of the local seats, '

: A century ago but 1,000,000 out of 27,000,000 souls forming the population of France could read and write. Now education is universal.

A labor schooner recently arrived at Maryborough, Queensland, with eighty of the recruits ill with fever.

In New South Wales the telephone, for which only £5 per. annum is charged, is found to be very profitable to Government. The Pall Mall Gazette notes that free r trade is being practically established between England and the United States in the most valuable of all commodities—the commerce in distinguished men.

The Dunedin Star says:—"Mr Sydney Taiwhanga is a public nuisance, and it is a pity that some means cannot be found of suppressing him." The timber trade is very active at Auckland.. The Auckland Timber Company, of late have been delivering a quarter of a million feet weekly.

The foreign trade of the United States last year reached the grand total of £301,449,376. This is exclusive of the movements of specie, It has been decided that a scholarship shall be.fpunded in Tourguenieff's name at the University, as well as a district school, in the Russian capital. .'• Euskin says,; "There is in every animal's eye a dim image and a gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light, through which their life looks up to our great mystery of command over

thorn/and claims tho fellowship'olftlie creature if not of the soul,"".' ;■■

The trade of the Cape Colony.'has; fallen off to such an extent that, instead of giving full employment for (a fast line of fourteen steamers, six are nowfound to be ample. - "^

A largo steamer on the Yolga, which was carrying 680,0001b of naptha, was struck by lightning, and' was at once wrapped in flame.'. It, burned the whole day and night, it being found impossible to extinguish 'the;..fire. Several-men perished., ' :.;, i ; ;.. , : j/ "Right-handedness" .extends' I 'very' far along the animal series. Parrots hold their food by preference in their right foot, and, though, we cannot speak positively, wasps, beetles,' and spiders seem to use the right anterior foot most commonly.

The Wisconsin State Medical Society, ■ during its recent"- annual session, passed a resolution virtually declaring consumption to ho an infectious disease, and urging the necessity of the proper isolation and disinfection of those suffering from it, Tho difficulty of dealing effectively with leprosy in India is that it is hereditary, and it was not. until late years that a rational system of treatment was adopted with the lower order of natives. Now the isolation which had been practiced with'this terrible disease since the time of Moses, and proper hospital care may in a generation abate the evil, " : I•' ■

M. Marcel Desprez's invention for transporting electrical forces to ; great distances has. been applied to a waterfall near Grenoble, which is enabled to work, to the extent of seven-horse power, a sand mill, a printing press, and other machinery at Grenoble. .