ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1682, 10 May 1884, Page 4

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

At Wolverhampton a Mr George Stephenson's pedigree has been traced to one of the iniDiediate collateral branches ot the family of William Shakespenre. A Rridgowater (Eng.) shoemaker has succneded in making a pair of boots for a strict vegetarian from material entirely from vegetable kingdom, At a torchlight procession in honor of Sir Stafford Northcote's visit to Belfast, his enthusiastic admirers who carried the torches, it has now been discovered, were paid hnlf-a-crown a piece. The London Printer's Register, noting the return of the Argus expedition from New Guinea, places Cooktown on the west Coast of Africa, This is evidently a confusion between the old Guinea Coast and New Guinea, In England two couples had their banns published, When the parson came to many the four, it svas discovered that they were wrongly coupled and he declined to marry them, After five minutes' consultation they went hack and were married as thoy had been coupled,

In Colorado (U.S.) Slade, the pugilist was locked up for being drunk and disorderly with 45 other drunks, Towards morning Slade commenced to suffer a recovery, and went for tho 45. When he was dono with them every drunk had a damaged " peeper,"

In the coaventof St, Sabiuaafc Rome, there is an orange tree said to be 600 years old.

Liszt, who is 72 years of age, is said to he engaged on the composition of a new oratorio. \

In 1868 the number of lunatics reported in France was 34,000. Today it is nearly 60,000. ' The recent death of the seventeenth wife of Brigbam Young still leaves fourteen of that dignitary's widows among the living, The Bacchus March people in Victoria would not have their railway opened on tho Ist of April, it would be a bad omen. Large numbers of rabbits at Dimbook, in Victoria, close to the South Australian border, are dying from an internal disease. Tho death-rate among the poor of Paris has more than doubled in the last ten years. Overcrowding is thought to be the cause, A leading hello in Jackson county, 6a., has distinguished herself by eloping with her uncle and marrying him. In Providence, H. 1., there is a discussion of the question whether rumsellers, who have no church connection, shall have a Christian burial. The Chicago Tribune counts up 125,000 human lives lost by earthquakes, tornadoes, shipwrecks, fires, mine disasters, and other accidents in 1883, A Ballarat hotelkeeper has just invested ten thousand pounds'in the erection of a dining palace in which all meals supplied ore charged sixpence. It is estimated that one-half of the swallow-tailed coats worn at the White House reception on New Year's Day were rented for the occasion, Spnrgeon's pastors' college has graduated 652 men during the last twenty-seven years, 486 of whom are now Baptist preachers. Its expenses are over $30,000 a year. A little fellow in a primary school, after he had correctly spelled'the word " knife," asked the teacher the puzzling conundrum, "But what is the k forf Bicycles and tricycles are coming into use among the English clergy, both in the way of business and recreation. They are found convenient in pastoral visiting or in travelling long distances.

There are symptoms of ill-feeling among the Catholics of the Province of Quebec. The chief officers of the church deem it necessary to exorcise authority in a manner that increases it. The Hon. Ivo Bligh has writlen a long article in Lilly white's Annual for 1884 on tho tour of the English cricketers who visited Australia under his captaincy last season, -It is noticeable that he declines to venture an opinion as to whether thebest Australian eleven is equal nr superior to the boßt English eleven, ■ He pays a high tribute to the undeniable fairness .of Australian bowline. V The loot embezzling New York cashier manaeod to rob bis master aud.do him a good turn by the act. The morning before the former's departure his master had taken him into his confidence, and admitted to him that he wsb Be erabar» rassed that lie must avail himself ere lone of tho Bankruptcy Act, /'But I do not know what excuses to. make to my creditors for failing" he added. "No matter tbougb; I will wait, and see what may turnup." ; The very next day on going to his safe, he found his cash-box missing, and in its placo this short note from the cashier .-"Dear Bir:-I have' taken all your spare cash, arid sailed for' Europe. You have nowihe best possible excuse for your bankmptoy, and feeling sure your creditor* will'admit itecogenoy, I beg to'romaiu yours, Rlwftyg truly,—,"