ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1757, 9 August 1884, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

, A woman was arrested at Feranda, Hungary, 011 June 4, who confessed to having poisoned four husbands and hundreds of women during the past two years, A number of accomplijAk wei'o also arrested. , ™ lho objection to women practising liicdicine dales back to 142], when a petition was presented to King Henry a,- ' Fifth, that " 110 woman use the practyse of fisyk, under payne of long emprisonement." A Glasgow Total Abstinence Society instituted a number of annual exhibitions and substantial prizes for the best-prepared dishes in ordinary use in the families of working men, as a preventative of intemperance, One of tho inmates of tlio Glasgow Western Infirmary last year slept continuously for five months. At the expiration of that period she suddenly awoke. During her long sleep the patient was fed with a stomach-pump. A .Renter's telegram from Paris to the London papers says that it is reported there from Cannes that the Queen intends buying the Villa Nevada, where the Duko of Albany died, and budding a memorial chapel on the spot. ; A A letter from the Philippine received in New York on May 26, says that a band of fanatics under. tli£U leadership of a so-called prophfeT* appeared thnro the last month, but , troops dispersed them with the loss of 38 killed and wounded, Forty years ago 40,000 new houses a year were built in Great Britain; now the number is more tlmn- 80,000 a yeai, During' the last 40 years 2,260,000 houses have been, erected, and they are estimated to. be worth double the amount of the National debt, . Two cases hauo been reportcdi'to an English Medical Society in which an electro-magnet has been successfully used for removing pieces of. iron 'from the eye. Without the magnet it is thought that the sight of the injured eye must have been lost in, each case. Dynamite, which for some time has been employed by many of the Spanish rivers, thus causing great and wanton destruction'of fish, is now being used by the sea fishermen on a scale which creates * alarm on some points of the (oast of Spain and the adjacent islands. The American papers have lately, announced the birth of a new word in the political vocabulary of the states —namely, " mugwamp," . A mugwump is any political personage, Mo " boasts himself to be somewhat," and is synonymous with the Washington expression. " swellliead," or the disagreeable New York " big bug." -' An eccentric woman hermit died recently at Shirley, England, and among her effects an old piano was sold for half-a-crown, It turns out to be of the year 1780, thirteen years after the making of the first piano in England. Offers of .£l5O have benn made for this antique, which is valuable in the history of piano-making. ; The number of stations of the African International . Association on the Congo now amounts to 30. One hundred and twenty-eight white men and 1800 black men are in the service of the association. Of the whites At are Belgians, 39 Englishmen, U Swedes, 11 Germans, five Frenchmen, for Italians, two Americans, two, Australians, and two Dutchmen. The Association has a flotilla on the Congo of 13 vessels, "Ncen beet dhe most censofisfceketed in literari enterpraiz will rekwair tn bi told dhat dhis periodical iz not'a komershali profitabli underteking, On the kontrari it haz enteld on its projecter and condce'kter diuring dhe past y yiranoeremuniverativ expenditiur ov sertenli more dban ween forth of hiz very moderet inkcem, in adhision tu meutal hand raekanical labor." This -is to be the Queen's English of the future as recommended by " The Spelling Experimenter;" but we cannot help hoping that the- proj&ter and condce'kter will soon think better of his cenremunerativ venture as soon as convenient,-Globe. ■ Mother Bwan'swobm syrup—lnfallible tastelesß, harmless cathartic; for feverishnce*, Mtlmaesi, worms, constipation, ..Mr Moses Moss & Co., druggists, SydneW* General Agents; • Flies and Bogs, —Beetles, insects, roaches ants, bed-bugs, rafy mice, gophers jackrabbit?, cleared out by "Uough on Kate' "id, Moses Moss find Co., Sydofiyi Genera Aveuts, stmS IS W* 8 FERTII,E A CAUSE OF SUFFERING as the disease itself. Human nature warned as H ia.by repeited examples, is prone to joTget the-Balutory lessons they inculcate and apt to l«e by deferment, the gpod it may recleve from prompt end decisive action. When the means are within our ffrasp, it is almost sinful to allow their escape, aud & e J!S 0 ove f'«fc ftc virtues of UDOL PHO WOIvFE S SCHIEDAM AROMATIC SCHNAPPS must stand forever self-criminated and reproached. • • ,