ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1616, 22 February 1884, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

The captain of a veseol plying between Galveston and Columbia wroto to the Governor of Texas asking for a pardon for Lena Gayhart, a German girl, aged about eighteen years; the captain wanted to many her, and as a Judge and County Clerk vouched for his worthiness and sincerity of purpose, <fche Governor concluded not to spoil 'Lena's chances, and he pardoned her .out

It is in a Western city that a ibarbcr announces himself as ''A professor of crinicultural abscission and

tcrairiiological tripis, tonsorial "artist/ hair-dresser, facial opera- ) .cranium manipulator, and capillary The Bishop of Liverpool stated that there was no likelihood of the different schools in the church giving way to each other, and that unless tho God of Mercy interposed, the church could not long subsist, but must go to pieces and perish. He could not see the approaching death of such a grand,old church as tho Reformed Church of England without deep sorrow. The Courts of Justice Central Hotel Company of London are building an hotel of seven storeys opposite the now Law Courts, The total share capital is £250,000, but they expect to need ■only £loo,ooo—that is to say, an .average of £4OO for each bed and -sitting room. For the first time since tho invention of printing, a German book has reached .its 1000 th edition, each of them numibering 3000 copies, thus making jn all. .3,000,000 copies. It is a primer by' Haester, which appeared in 1853, and < readied its 100 th edition'in 1863, The -Sultan of Turkey has just made a present to the Emperor of Austria of ,-fl pake valued at £IOO,OOO.

Tlio number of Australians and Now Zealauders at Cambridge at the present time is extraordinarily largo. The Australasian Club there has no ks than 140 members on its roll,

An Irish clergyman, preaching for a blind asylum, began by remarking: "If all tho world wcro blind, what a melancholy sight it would bo." Some officers of a British ship were dining with a mandarin at Canton. One of tho guests wished for a second helping of a savory stew, which he thought was some kind of duck. Not knowing a word of Chinese, he held his plato to tho host, saying, with smiling approval, "Quack, quack, quack!" His countenance fell when tho host, pointing to tho dish, responded "Bow, wow, wwl"

An enterprising American reporter has been interviewing a late cook, of Prince Bismarck's, who is settled in the States, Like all servants of great people, sho likes to boast of hor knowledge of her late master's habits. She says "Bismarck is an unaffected and very pleasant man, always civil to tho old servants; but everybody in tho house keeps out of his way when he is in a rage. He is very headstrong,- and when anything wentwrongin the Reichstag he stormed about tho house liko a fury," It has always been understood that the PriiiGo was a great eater, but Mrs Piocli (such is the lady's name) affirms exactly the opposite, Sho says that the Chancellor is a " light eater,". At dinner he generally drinks the light Rhine wine, though he somotimes indulges in a glass of lager beer. This faithful domestic concludes her narrative with a touch of pardonable female pride, when she relates how Prince Bismarck and his son came to her wedding and made her several handsome presents)," Herbert Bismarck (the son) also stood sponsor to her first child. After all, 'I cannot help thinking that the Prince must be rather fond of his dinner, or he would not have shown so much favor to ono who had probably been an excellent cook, Was his attention ''cupboard love I"~Shemeld Telegraph.

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