ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1740, 19 July 1884, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

~ During the last week all the papers havo announoed that Gounod has just composed an ait to Byron's "Maid of Athens" for . the benefit of the heroine of those verses, who is described as living in London in ' great povertyj Mrs Black, the Maid of Athens died nearly ten years ago, and it is thirteen years smco Gounod. composed the air in question, which produced about L2O towards the relief of the old lady.— Truth. " Mr Isaacs, can you tolo me vere was the first diamond 1" " No, Mr Yawcobs;'

•vere was it J" " Vy, Noah's son in dor ark; he was a Shem of do first vater." '. The Sydney Stigginses and Smellk fungeses have boon flying at high game * this time. They invited the Bishop Barry to denounce the use of intoxicants. The bishop, however, liko Baalam (or was it his ass ? we've mislaid our Concordance), blessed when he was engaged to curse. He said he was a moderate drinker, and didn't mean to knock off either. He j»avowed he liked his little drop* W There are 1007$ miles of railway open for traffic in South Australia, and, ■counting lines in construction and authorised, the'grand total is 1474J milesThe total cost of the railways to Deo. 81, .1883, Was 48,967,860. A country Burgeon who was bald, was

on a visit to a friend's house, whose servant wore a wig. After, bantering him a considerable time, the doctor said, " You see how baldl I am, and yet I don't wear a wig,"—''True,'sir," said the servant. " but an empty barn requires no thakh," " Oh, doht propose to me now," shrieked a Philadelphia girl as her lover dropped on' his knees and seized her hand, "Don't pop the question now," Bhe Bcreamed; " don't, don't, don't, If I Bay yes you'll want to kiss me, and I've been eating onious." _ The most patient boy in the world lives in New Zealand, He went to the house of a neighbor for a cup of sour milk. " I haven't anything but sweet milk," said the lady of the house. " Then," replied the obliging lad, as he look a seal, " I'll wait, till it sours ?"

" Why do you mutter that way when tyou read ?" asked a man of an old negro who sat mumbling over a newspaper. . •'How ought Iter road, sab?" "Why, road without moving your lips." " What good would that sorter readin' do me, for I couldn't heah it? When I reads I wanster read so I kin heah what I'se readin' about," • A well-known Scottish soulptor has just past away at New York,' In tho fiojson of Mr George Swing. He Boems .i) have oxpired suddenly in the Brevoort Hotel, where he was : carrying out a commission for the execution of some medallions of Miss Ellen Terry and Mr Henry Irving. Mr Ewing was born in ; Birmingham, was the son of a Glasgow man, and for a considerable period he pursued his calling in the northern city, where' his memory will be kept green by his magnificent statue of Burns in George Square, His funeral wa3 attended by Mr Henry Irving, Mr Joseph Hatton, and others. The secret of his success was his pains-takingness. The writer of this short paragraph knew him well in Renfield-st,, Glasgow. A copper, yer honor, for a poor sailor

what was the only one left out of five and

twenty hands, all told, wreobed on the #Scilly Island down the chops of the Channel." To which supplication the old admiral responded with a question' " Had you any anchor on board 1" " Aye, yer

Ijonor.' " I've road about anchors in a

book | that's why I asltfd, And how did f yon Bweep'th'e anchor on board your ship 1" " with a besom, sir," And the next minnte the sham Bailor was flying down the street with an inexpressible pain in an unmentionable part of his anatomy, and the admiral limped round the corner with a great big "D" on his lips and muoh satisfaction in hiß bosom.—The Shipping World Midhat Pasha died in exile on May JO, aged 60.

At a sale of pictures in London recently, Landseer'swell known picture, "The Monarch of the Glep," brought the large sum of G2OO guineas, the purchaser being Mr Eaton, M.P. Flies and bugs,—Beetles, insects, roaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophers, jackrabbits, cleared out by " Hough ou Eats, 7£d, Moses Moss &Co,, Sydney, General #>ents and Midway's Pills.—This purifying and regulating Medicine should occasionally be had recourse-to during foggy, cold, and wet weather. These Pills are the best prevention of hoarseness, sore throat, quinsey, pleurisy, and asthma, and are ,suro remedies tor con> • gestion, bronchitis, and inflammation. A moderate attention to the directions folded round each box will enable the invalid to fajfe t])e Pills in tho . moßt advantageous roiiunor; they will there be taught tlie proper doseSj and the circumstances under which they mußt be increased or diminished, Hqlloway's. Pills act as alternatives, aperients, and tonics, Even when these. Pills have been token as the last resource, the esuli has always been gratifying, Even when they fail to cure, they assuage the severity of the symptons, and diminish the danger. Gobqep Livers. 'Bilious conditions panstipation, dyspepsia, headache cured by ''l Wells May Apple Pills." 6d and Js boxes at druggists. Moses Moss & Co,, Sydney, General Apents for Australasia,