ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1625, 5 March 1884, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Henry Clay, the American statesman, never liked to see dumb animals worried, and once passing down an Avenue, he described a crowd at sport with a billygoat, Mr Clay drove them away, and aB they scampered, billy, seeing nobody but Mr Clay witbinreach made a charge at him. Clay dropped his cane, and caught his goat-ship by the horns, The goat then took to rearing up, being nearly as high as the Kentuckian himself, and he had to pull bimdown again, This soon became tiresome; Clay could conceive of no way to clear himself, so in desperation he sang out to the boys to know; what .to dpi One of the smallest. of the crowd.shouted, "Let go,; and run you fool I"; Clay always maintained that, though he_Bigned the treaty;: ; 6t'Ghent, yet that'ragged than he did,

, The following is tlio latest,-and best i from the States, It lmd been rumored that Mdme. Patti, engaged by Mr Mapleson for the New York Academy of Music, had been offered 6000 dollars a night by the Directors of tlio New Opera House. When tlio interviewer went to see Mr Mapleson about it ho declares the manager to havo been so depressed that oven " the flowers in lub buttonhole drooped their. , heads." When the managerial courage returned howovor, and Mr Mapleson .had succeeded in convincing himself that tlio prima dona could not and would not leave him, the rosebud blushed anew with satisfaction, and its tiny companions revived. Lord Charles Beresford tells a story concerning naval matters that is by no means pleasant reading. In the year 1878, when war between this country and Russia seemed imminent, a fast Russian cruiser was dodging about the Channel. "In the ovenfc of war breaking out her captain intended to remain a few hours on.each of the great ocean highways leading to' our largest ports and sink every mercantile steamer, big and little, ho saw. In forty-eight hours it is most likely there would have been many shipowners and insurance companies in a state of excitement bordering on insanity, and generally asking '• But where is the navy V The navy could not have done much till after most of the mischief had been done, as the Sabiakii would never havo stopped to fight; and it is unlikely that, with only the one or two fast cruisers we had then, we should ever have caught her." Rapp anil T . T nro (or clolliinjj ami groceiy can't ba leat. ltapp anil Hare for clothing can't l"c equaled in Mnslcrton. -Advt,

Cowden Clarke tells a story of a gentleman who, lately, in making a return of his income to the tax commiss; oners, wrote on the paper; "For the last three years my income has been somewhat under £150; in future it will be more precarious, as the man is dead of whom I borrowed the money,"

.. ell's "nonou ox corns".— Ask for Well's. "Ronoh on Corns." 7M. Quick relief, cimplcto, permenanent cure. Corns, warts, bunioiis, Mosos. Moss & Co., Sydney General Agents,

Some of Hie fashionable drawingrooms in London resemble kennels more than anything else. They not only contain various specimens of live pugs, poodles, terriers, and spaniels, but are now ornamented with dogs of various kinds and characters in bronze, brass, and stone.

Gouged Livers. Bilious conditions! constipation, dyspepsia, headache cured by "Wolfs May Apple Pills." 3d ami h boxes at druggists. Moses Moss & Co., Sydney Geiunvl Agents for Australasia.

The house of Carlyle, at Chelsea, is now empty, and looks dilapidated. In Glasgow a committee is being formed to buy tho building and make it a Carlyle Club House.

Mbeiiablkskss,--The most wonderfuland marvellous success, in cases where persons are sick or pining p.ivay from a condition of luiserabloness that no one ktows what ails them (profitable patient 3 for doctors), is obtained by the use of Hop Bitters Tlpy hpgin to cure from the first (lose, and keep it up until perfect health and strength is restore'. Notice