ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1716, 21 June 1884, Page 4

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Mr 1). Bailie, who lias been Collector of Customs at lliverton for twenty six years lias been transferred to the Bay of Islands. The Queensland Leader recently failed to recognise a famil-ar quotation from Shakespear, ami stigmatised the lines as " vilo dogqrel vcm," The most gallant man wo over knew was one who refrained from kicking a that Imd bitten 1 im bccauso it was a fern-no dog " If ifc wpsn'i for your sex," said ho "I'd kick your head off. Minnie Hank the American prima donna, lias queer ideas on the subject of gift). Amongst tlie curiosities she recently purchased for distribution to her friends were thirty or forty littlo live alligatovs, At a recent library sale in London a history of Scotland that contained an autograph o( James 1., dated ISBG realised £BOO, and a prayer book containing an autogranlh of Charles 1., fetched £137. A salesman in Covenl (ia;dcu Market adverliscd for a few pounds of ripe strawberries in January List, stating that lie had a special order, and could got live pounds per pound for tlicm. What a show for the freezing men. Captain lHchard Burton-who has 'just publish.d his splendid and exhaustive "Uook of the Sword"—i 3 reported to bo master of twenty nine languages. The London Telegraph calls this roving adventurous many-sided Burton the modern Admiral Ciichton.

His known that tho recently-published brochure, written in the style of Gibbon, cntitiod "Tho Decline and Fall of tho British Empire," in which tho Liberal Government and the present system of army organisation are so cleverly sr.trisicd, is by Mr C, J. Stone of the Innor Temple.

Mr Froudo has been out of health for some time pp.f.t, and as soon as lie lias completed the revision of tho proof-sheets of the concluding volumos of his "Life of Mr Carlylc," ho will start on a voyage round the world. Mr Froudo proposes to pass sonio time both i,t America and in Australia.

M, Jules Claretic says that a high medical authority told him lately that he attributed the <reafc increase of drunkeness nmong women in Paris to the war, During the seige rspecally they contracted-the hubit, when there was littlo to eat and they wanted to keep Ihemselves up. Fiftoen years ago (he says) habits of intoxication wero iare among I'arisicunes.

At an evening-school for adults in Horn fey, " The Horse" was given to the pupils as a subject of composition, An agricultural cottager—one of those who will shortly have a vote—set to work with a will; and executed the following: The orse is the noblest of anerr.ials ml so is the kow. If you hit hhn he won't do it. 'Tlio ors lias I legs lin each kornci', Fiuis,"

In past days the musicians were not expected to mi;: with tho company, rope being laid down on the carpet, showing tho foundry-line between tho sacred and profane in social rank, On one occasion Lablaehe, entering the music saloon at Apsley House, observed tlio usual rope laid down in front of him when he came on to sing a dnet. He quietly stooped down and tossed it aside. It was never replaced, aud tho offensive practice dropped out of London society from that day.

A chemist lias lately discovered alcohol in water, That is nothing startling, We have known cases where water was half whiskey, and t'io bar man didn't blush to charge six pence for the drink either. Patti liiis been offered by tlio director of the Italian Opera at Paris £320 a night for the month of May. lie would have offered her a longer engagement, but that she is engaged to appear in London in Juno. "l)o you think I would make a very attractive angel ?" said a dude, with very largo cars, to a young lady, '•Well, no," she replied, pointing to his immense ears; "I think your w.'ngs are a little too high up I" A lady who is reported to hive travelled with Adelina Patti for many years is about to publish, for tho edification of tho world, " Tho story of iior Sixleon Experiences with Madame l'atti," This book should prove interesting, especially if tho lady should prove to have been her lady's maid, ffemoan her Jille tie ckimbrc. "Dumley,"'said young Fcathhely, "do you know why you remind mo of a camel ?" "Well, no," replied Dumley, looking a littlo important, " unless it is something about the difficulty of a rich man entering tho kingdom of heaven." " No, that isn't it," responded Peatherly. "It is because you can go for several days without wator." A remarkable case has recently occurred in Dublin, in which a boy of eight years of age had stolen a considerable quantity of whisky and drunk it, thereby acquiring an attack of'delirium tremens,' which nearly killed him, it appears that tliero was no mistake in tho matter, the child being a veritable dipsomaniac from the time that he was able to itnbibo alcohol in any form. In an American town recently,. whilst Miss Ada Cray was playing the death scene in " East Lynno," a rough among tho audience groaned ironically, Hearing tho interruption, tho actress said in lior stage voice, as though repeating part of hot lines, " I scorn, I scorn the man who would laugh at such a scene." So abashed was the fellow at tho rebuke that he slunk out of the house.

The Hindu, published at Madras, says :- A grand Indian wedding is a good thing for the poor and loafers, At the wedding of the Rao of Cutoli, the number who went there ompty and doparted full, thanks to the kindness of their sovereign, was prodigious, The first day abput 31,000 wore fed; on the second, 37,000; and on the third, 36,000 making in all the respectable total oisome 107,000. \

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