ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1664, 19 April 1884, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

I According to an authority, life in the Siberian mines is not such an altogether unmitigated curse as popular imagination pictures it., Prom some of the greatest evils which men elsewhere have to suffer, the convicts in Eastern Siberia are happily delivered. There is indeed marriage and giving in, but there is no courtship, nor need any man complain that he is "mated to a savage" ,or a' shrew, When a prisoner wishes to get married, all lie has to do is to send in application to the overseer, who straightway allots him a wife. Three days' probation is then allowed,, and if any incompatibility of temper seems likely to arrise the-man receives 25 lashes and another wife and so on until he is contented. The lashes seem perhaps an unnecessary severity, but, after all, would not many men gladly pay the price? A dangerous development of mesmerism was displayed recently at Paris to an admiring and sympathising, public by a well-known mesmerist, who at the same time is a lion-keeper in a certain menagerie, A beautiful-young girl, on whom the spiritualist generally practises, was brought into a cage of lions, and after being thrown into a cataleptic sleep," was submitted to the most frightful ordeals. 'ln one of these the head and arm of the girl wero put into the mouth of a lion which had previously been infuriated by. lashes from In connection with the opening of the Turin- Exhibition, the Italian Government offers a prize of ,£4OO lo the inventor ot tho most practicable method for the transmission of electricity to a distance. The competition will be international. There is a cathedral in Paso del Norte, Mexico, which is over 200 years old, and. has had no. repairs for at least 200 years. It has no pews. There is only a' piece U cS'rpet spread in front of the altar, and oh this the worshippers kneel one at a time, ...

On the arrival of the. Scotch express : at Crewe on February 7,, a. youhg man named George Adams, of Wolverhampton, was discovered suspended by a rope under one of the carriages. Tlio rope hid Men- thri)wii r dvSflfiP'iS:loj' i and. the man had his head ,in a tfoOsc at one end and his feet in a loop at tlio other. In this position he had travelled ■from Liverpool. He was in an exhausted oondition. When sufficiently recovered ho was taken before - the magistrate and admitted that he had resorted to this dangerous expedient because ha was "hard up," H 9 appeared terribly shaken; The magistrate discharged him ; on his payiiig tho costs.' ' '?:■■■ ' . Another tragedy has taken place in, the Margarethen suburb of Vienna, a shoemaker having killed his son in a fit of passion.. The father is an honest man, and respected in the neighborhood, whilst the son was most dissipated, and universally disliked owing to his brutality and roughness, On a recent day :he returned home late at night and demanded money, which his father refused. He then became do violent that his father, in a moment of exoitement, seized a stick and struck his son'so severely that lie had to bo transported to the hospital,, where lie died.

During last year 4934 prisoners mi tried by the French raiHtaiy tribunalo I out of an army of 550,132 men; and there were' 822 acquittals,"-The 1 total number of men' charged with dwertion or insubordination was. 1862.'' The sale of second hand food is an industry conducted profitably by a German, citizen of New York., He gathers up thafc which is left over from./ meals at large,hotels, arid sells it to the, poorer clasp at a nice profit, , (^ 'iMMtf/WMhw; ants.' rabbits; olearel} out'. by.O" Bongn' ou Vi Msj 7Jd Mo'ew, Hfcji; Wii', Sydojy, Giiieral Agents l i"-' "-v.-' ' '