ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1753, 5 August 1884, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

"The Man," a curious New York ( publication, demands that all women, on arriving at the age of 21, be permitted to use the prefix " Mrs" to their names whether married or not. A lawyer afc Courbevoie, in Prance, ; on arriving at his office on April 1, found his door besieged by 500 people, ' who had been invited there by letter 1 by some practical joker to hear of something to their advantage. Four hundred thousand dollars is 1 the estimated value of the pipe which the Shah of Persia smokes in public, on State occasions. It is called " II • Kalidin," and is entirely encrusted i with a conglomerate of diamonds, rubies, pearls, and emeralds. In Norway and Sweden a common mode of treatment of criminals is to shut them up on an allowance of bread and water—the former without salt, This is regarded as a terrible punishment, dreaded even worse than death, and never fails to bring into subjection ! the most hardened and refractory <on- ' victs, 1 Sir Joseph Fayrer, President of the ; Medical Society, suggests what he : terms an infallible recipe for soothing ■ fretful children to sleep, In nearly every Himalayan village the native : baby is placed in a trough into which 1 there trickles a constant stream of 1 water. This water, falling gently upon the side of the head of the infant 1 induces Bleep, Children thus treated, we are told, lie in their troughs for hours asleep, while their mothers go about their work. The late Mr Maxwell, of Milwaukee, the millionaire brewer, bequeathed £IOO,OOO to the solution of the problem of serial navigation. Professor Charles F. Bitchell, of Bridgeport, Conn., the inventor of the flyingmachine exhibited in this oltyand elsewhere six years ago,, has been named as one of the executors for the disbursement of £20,000 for the benefit of his own machine. Arrangements on a large scale will be made immediately and the Professor promises astounding results by midsummer. At home and abroad the Japanese, unlike their neighbors of China, seem to earn high econiums from most of those who write them. It is calculated that there are now resident in America little under a thousand Japanese, and of this number no single one has yet ever been convioted of any criminal offenoe in an American court, A small colony of about 35 lives in New York. Both there and in the other American cities and towns in which they are to be found, it is worthy of mention that they do not, as a rule, belong to the working classes. On the contrary, it appears that many of them occupy good positions as merchants and officials, .while the younger men become attached to various schools and colleges, where they prove themselves apt scholars. Mr Stuart, a member of the New South Wales Government, while being interviewed by a deputation representing unemployed uumarried man, said he desired to do all he could for the men, but stated that he had received a number of threatening letters; directed chiefly against himself, but also against the Government. These letters had gone as far as to threaten to blow the Government Into perdition for trying to lower the wages of the work- [ ing men to 5s a day. Munkacsy'u new picture, " Christ on the Ci'qss," is the new excitement with the art world in Paris. The picture, critics say, even exceeds, both in beauty qf composition, colo.r, and technique, the qrtist's other work, '-Christ Before Pilate." | Rough on eats.—Clears out rats, mica i roaches,flies, ants, bed-bups, beetles, insect?, J skunks, jack-rabbitE, gophers, 7Jd Druggists, 1 Moses Moss & Co., Sydney, General Agents ■

A dressmaker, employed in one of the largest drapery establishments in town, has been driven out of her senses by religious hysteria aggravated by Salvation services, at which she was an enthusiastic attendant. The break-up of her reason was sudden, and manifested itself in a form which was likely to lead to much unpleasantness had not restraint been immediately enforced. The unfortunate girl is now an inmate of Sunnyside. Her affliction is so violent that she has to be placed in a padded room.

It is not difficult to understand the temporary dullness of the Sydney labor market in view of official facts and statistics. It appears that of GBS persons applying to the immigration office for free passes into the country 112 had been immigrants to the colony at one time or another, 203 were persons who had come from Queensland 142 from Victoria, and 97 had come from New Zealand. As a matter of fact, then, the exceptional depression in Sydney, like every other exception only proves the rule, that the Sydney labor market has been moie prosperous and more attractive than those around it, and the refuge of their unemployed. In New South Wales travelling sheep must progress at the rate of six miles a day. AMr Ratliff was taking 7000 sheep from Kiandra to the Bogjin, and had to cross the Waltona run. He pushed them on, but they were so weak that 500 of them were left behind to die. Charged with the offence of not complying with this law of progress, he pleaded guilty, urged in extenuation that the distance could not be covered, and was fined £33. The audience at the. Brisbane Theatre were taken by surprise by a gas explosion on the 25th ult. " Tambour Majoi" was in full swing when the explosion occurred. No great damage was done, but some of tho audience were greatly frightened. '• I notice that the ballet girls mostly wear smiiea when they crane upon the stage," aaid old Mr Squaggs to his wife who had insested on accompanying him to the theatre, "It shows that they think they ought to wear something," she snapped, and said no more.

A fearful outbreak' of small-pox has ocoured at Hull. An Italian ice oream eller, his wife, and family were at'aoked with the disease, The adults followed their ordinary calling, the woman going from door to door selling ornaments, and the children going to a Roman Catholic school. The result is that more than 30 cases of email-pox are traceable to this family. Other cases are hourly being discovered,

The Russians have strengthened their army by the addition tj each company of powerfully and well-trained dogs. These animals are sent out with een'inals on picket duty, when their keen ears and still keener scent prove of service against lurking apiea of the enemy. The dogs o»ed are a kind of bloodhound from the Urual Mountains. This breed is selected because of its habitual silance. It growls and never barks—a matter of great importance to soldiers near an enemy's camp. This do? is said to be especially courageous in defending his master. The annual gas bill of the House of Parliament is oloss upom £BOOO. It used to be more, but has been reduced by a little over J64OQ by the practical introduction of electricity. The library, dining rohms and rooms nt the back of the Peer's Galarj nre now lighted hy electricity, fur which the company contrading receives £420 a session. In addition t« the till for gap and electricity about £2OOO a year is piid for the supply of oil lamps, which are chiefly used in the committee moms, und in the reaidenceß of the Speaker, the Sergeant-atiArins, and other officials of the House.

The progress of British merchant shipniug is phenomenal. According to a Parliamentary tetuvn it appears that the tonnage of sailing and steam vessels, with cargoes and in ballast, entered and cleared at Porta in the United Kingdom, grew trom 9,439,067 in 1840 to G4,901,733 in 1883,- the British tnnnago increasing from 0,490,# to 47,039,079, and the foreign from 2,949,182 to 17,922,674. The total tonnage of the United States, registered for foreign trade, was only 1,292,294 in 1882 against a total in England nf 0,908,650 tons, Tho German Empire had 1,226,050, Italy 990,000 and Prance 983,017 tons.