ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1622, 29 February 1884, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD .

Some very ancient.,ruins have been discovered neav'Mandalena, in Sonora, Mexico, Tlioro is ono pyramid which. has a base of 4350 feet ,and rises to a height of. 750 foot. It'.liig a. winding roadway from'the bottom. Hundredsof rooms, 'from five to ten to sixtoen or eighteen fett square, have been cut in the sides of this mountain, These stone, with no entrance £xeq|Rra" the .top, and no windows. On the walls .are numerous gtyphicsHalph Copeland has proposed the establishment of an astronomical ohsorvatory on some lofty point in the Andes. He believes that an observatory might readily be maintained at a height of 9000 ft or 12,000 ft, and that an experimental station might bo established during a few weoks in the summer at an altitude of 16,000 ft or even 18,000 ft. The .clear atmosphere of elevated places offers great advantages for astronomical work.

Lord Bacon's signs of short life are quick growth; fair, soft skin; soft, fine hair; early' corpulence; large head, and short neck; small.mouth, fat ear, brittle separated teeth. Some of his signs of long life are slow growth and hard coarse hair, rough freckled skin; deep furrows'in the forehead, firm flesh, with veins lying high;. wido. nostrils; largo mouth; .hard,'gristly ear; strong, contiguous teeth,, He adds, that early .gray hair Is not significant, some'of the,longest .livers have turned grey in early life; I .■';:''

A correspondent who signs himself "An Old Lawyer"—a naturally unromantic man we should say—writes to tho St. James's Gazette as follows: "I agree with you that actions for breach of promise of marriage should not bo altogether abolished; but I would enforce a more formal modo of engagement than .that now existing. My suggestion is that it should be a condition precedont to any action that the betrothal should have been a formal one in writing, signed by the parties before witnesses, in triplicate; one part to be retained by each of the contracting parties, and tho third filed with the registrar of marriages of the district whoro the signatures took place, within fourteen days thereof, All conditions i agreed on by the parties should bo stated in the document, By these means the proof of promise, the conditions, if any, and the breach could be easily proved, and the scandals so con- ■ stantly cropping up in our law Courts avoided!

The' Pall Mall Gazetto says:-"One of the pillars of the ' Revue des Deux ' Mondos'and the' National,'M. E. D. 1 Forgues, lias recently died at Cannes ' at the age of seventy. Ho was wellknown in Franco by his mm dt plume of' Old Nick,' under which pseudonym , he has published translations of Eng- i lish novels, rendering comic parts : with i much life and humor. ' Jane Eyre' is among bis translations; also,' English Originals,' which latter especially, has been AiYorably received. In a study on ' Frenchmen, painted by themselves,' ' Old Nick,' as a type of the journalist m 1880, is depicted as a regular dandy, In a blue-and-pink dressing-gown, with his feet on the mantolpiece, the fashionable man of letters negligently looks at a book while smoking a cigarette. It appears, however, from his later labors that he outgrew dandyism and applied himself to serious work, of which a great number of witty, clever, and original articles are still read with pleasme by the French." In England, when the public are dissatisfied with any institution, usage, or law, they grumble agood deal, write a few lettors to the papers, and then put up with it quietly. In the United States they behave with much greater promptness and efficacy, The question of overhead telegraph wires lias cropped up simultaneously in both conntries. In England, after running its usual course, tho question has been shelved without anything being done. In the United States a veiy different course was taken, A man was found who, while .tiding on a initio across a line of railway, had been caught under tho chin by a loose wire which had sagged down, and was thrown off the animal, It does not appear that he suffered any injury, but this was immaterial; indeed, the lesson was all the more wholesome because he was unhurt. A jury promptly gave him 6,000d01. damages against the Telegraph Company, A prompt and decisive hint of this sort is worth all the newspaper correspondence in the world. The most obtuse directors of telegraphs cannot misunderstand it. • In some respects tho Americans are distinctly ahead of us,—Standard, There are about 17,000 dentists in the United States, and they pack into the teeth of American people, says the 1 Cleveland Herald,' a ton of pure gold j every year. About five times that weight of less precious metal, such as silvor, platinum, and tin goes the same way. It is estimated that this amount of metal is worth 1,000,Q00d01, and that if the present dental methods aro kept up all the coin in the United States will have been buried in the graveyards by the time the twenty-first century rolls around. It is said that a tho demand for gold in debentures is rapidly growing every year, This is accounted for in part by the fact that many people with false teoth insist upon having them filled so that they may ssem all the more natural, There are'about 4,000,000 false teeth manufactured in this country every year. The business of dentistry is not what it ' used to be, however, and prices have ■ comedown wonderfully since the days when the leading operators could afford to retiro after.a practice of eight or nine years. Still, there seems plenty of work to bo done in the future, seeing that the decay of teeth is

lmcreasing. 1 Mr Grossmith now supplements the a taction of" Iolantho" by delivering a mionologue, "The Drama on Crutches," This sketch was, it will bo recollected, pi educed at a matinee some time ago, an id was then fully described. It carried us onward to 1923, when the playgoers of the age lament the deikdence of the time, and the old drflma lover recounts his recollection's of Irving, Toole, Corney Grain, Gros:smith, and others. This gives the cue;for those familiar "imitations" of ; gre: it actors which overy ■"itmateiir famiies he can deliver with-'facility.' •" 0. a the Crutches" is, however, short and very amusing,—" Figaro.'' 1 ,

\\ Wonderful stories of the manner 'in which Americans are sometimes in the habit'of moving houses have reached this c ountry from time to tiino. The !'.Eos ton Transcript" has just recorded, liowcv er, a still more remarkable cxampi's of the same method of dealing with hi rose property. The building in this ens e was actually removed from ono qua rter of the city around by sea to anoth .or. Tho house on which this operation was performed was 30ft wide, 40ft deep, and two and a-half storeys h sh, with livo heavy chimneys extending 10ft above the roof, the weight of the whole being 260 tons. Situated (m the corner of Q and Fourth streets, it was placed on three dpekscows, and' in one hour, it was, 'lowed round the r. 'bint to Ninth street " The movement o; this building," says the "Transcript "-was a novel sight, with ladies on the i piazza evidently enjoying the trip," ' .■' Out of a peculation of 1G.333A76 in. .fyainjj 11,978 ,168 can neither read nor write. \ '", ' '.•••■., In Englaii' 1 : there is more ground 'lying idle in sporting grounds, game preserves, and 'landlords' parks than the whole king. 3om of Belgium, which supports in ha, opiness and prosperity 6,000,000 peopli V«hd sends large food exports to Lon> don, An income of £35,000,000 a } w is received by •8142 landlords as rent on 46,900,000 acres of land,

An officor of a school in Boston for tho blind says that sightless persons may become tho most expert piano tuners. Through the constant exercise the faculty of hearing becomes so acute that intervals in the scale of sounds, which are so slight as to he unnoticed' by other persons are readily detected by the blind. The slightest imperfection in unisions is discord to them.

Fruits aro prepared, by the process of ripening, for ready and easy digestion by tho stomach and other digestive organs. Nothing digosts moro quickly than a ripe apple. This is not true, however, of grains and vegetables, The nutritive elements of these classes of food require the action of heat to bring them ink) the same condition which is brought about in fruits by the process of ripening.

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At a recent microscopic exhibition, tho point of a fine needle was shown upon a screen, magnified to a blantness of five inches across. :

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