ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1766, 20 August 1884, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

9 By falling from a waggon a Chinaman in California, whose life was insured for a large amount was seriously hurt. There was some doubt as to his ever getting better, and at length one of his friends wrote to the insurance company—'Charley half dead likee half money.' Palisade Mountain House, occupying , ... a commanding position on.the Hudson River Palisades, above New York, has. ; been burnt. The loss amounted to . 190,000 dols, and 50 of the employees ~'.' who were in the building escaped in .' their night clothes. The cleverest piece of obituary ad- ' vertising has been done by a widow ". who put on her husband's tombstone: . —" Sacred to the memory of Mathurin Bezuchel, who departed this life aged 68 years, regretting the necessity of parting from the most charming and . best of women." The English newspapers have mented a good deal upon the fact thafljf the Liverpool Gas Company have just . received a cargo of somo 3000 tons of Australian cannel coal from Sydney. The fact is by no means the first cargo of the kind that has come from such a,... source. ' ' n The inscription of the building of W the Birmingham School of Art was laid on May 31, by: Mr Richard Tangye, whose name is associated with the institution as one of its most / \ liberal benefactors. The cost of the' building itself, which is estimated at about £25,000, will be defrayed by ' private subscriptions, chiefly of two ; donors, Miss Ryland and Messrs Tangye, who have given .£IO,OOO each to the building fund. There was a sad, not to say ominous, coincidence in the fact (Prank Leslie's' Newspaper says) that on the same day .: (May 1) that the Thetis, flagship of the Greeley Relief Expedition, sailed, Boatswain Jack Cole, of the ice-wrecked.' Jeannette, was buried. Since his return home he has been in a mad** house in Washington, where he died™ His mental malady was due to the terrible strain of the retreat from the A Lena Delta. ' A contemporary says: "A Bensa-" tional story went the round of the press recently to the effect that ; a rabbiter on Greenfield station had'' been attajked by dogs, and in self" defence had to despatch several of them. It has been represented to us that the whole story is a hoax. A. dog did Jump on a rabbiter, and drag fi akin from his back, with tlje result that the.' rabbiter killed the dog, but there was, our informant asserts, nothing in the nature of an attack." During a casting operation at the' Clyde Ironworks, near Glasgow, an explosion occurred in the ladle containing molten metal, arid four men. were fearfully burned, three of whom afterwards died, The men were preparing to run off tthe metal to cast the - pig iron at No, 1 furnace, when, from some unexplained cause, an explosioA took place, and the molten iron slafjp and cinders • were showered upon the men. Their fellow-workmen extricated * them from the red-hot metal, and they were conveyed to Glasgow Royal Infirmary. "• • Ashooking accident is reported jrj)jn Nancy. At Saint Nicholas du Port, four children were playing on the banks of a canal, when the yopgest, aead three years fell in. His brother, aged 1 seven years, in trying to save him, also, fell in, The mother, who was in an : advanced state of pregnancy, attracted by the ories,, rushed to the spot, In. endeavoring to save her children,, sf|B was drawn in by the current and drowned with her two children, A marvellous escape from death, ■ which reads more like a passage from r Baron Munchausen than an incident in \ real life, is reported of a private of 1 Marines who arrived home invalided ' in the Jumna troopship. During&n \ first battle of Teb a buljet struck 1™ \ on the chest, apd actually pstssfid 1 through his body, out at his back, and^k ( struck a cprade who was standing' q ■ few yards away. Strange to say, th.e , cqmrade was killed instanteously, , wjjereas the man who was fpt hjt was ' { fiqt even dangerqnsly Imrt, and, is nqw ( actually convalescent, . An interesting manuscript has - recently been discovered in the library of Arezzo, It contains several writings 1 of St, Hilary of Poitiers, which were supposed to be lost. >. Chioago hotel and saloon keepers are busy as nailers just now, taking - down pictures of Garfield and Blaine, ■ and hanging up portraits of Tilden and ■ Hendricks. ; Weather prophet Vennor is dead. • Whether he profited by his prognostic • cations is unknown, Fortunately for the nowspapers we still have Wiggins. 1 Long may ho live ! The reason Barnum rejected theone , thousand poems written on the subject f of the" White Elephant" was because 1 they, were all hexameter, when they ) should have been.pachycjerme.teiv ■ The Great Western Railway sp^jJp • .£BO,OOO a-year in printing alone. 'fff, ; contract was formally offered to a-well--1 known London firm, -and declined, simply because although the firm' em--1 ploy at present 500 hands, the acceptI ance of the contract would have involved the erection of new premises, • " The St. Petersburg correspondent pj ; the times, writing on May 30, say's:— - I hear that it has been decided to effect : the formation of the Amoor district, ' the Pacific districts, and the parts of ; Eastern Siberia now under the 1 ship of General Annutchin, at Irkutsk, jntq a new and separate General-Qp, 1 yernqrehip,' with' the capital town fjnd 1 seat of administration at Kabarqfka,'' ffprs is an aneccjote of a sporting ■ parson given by Mr Hayward jtH* A bishop in Dorsetshire drove over one < Sunday morning from a neighboring 1 seat to attend divine service at a parish I church. Seeing a gentleman in black s entering the vestry door, he requested ' to know at what hour the serjp • commenced: 'We throw off at eleJK' . was the reply. Rather ) his lordship asked,, '■ Pray, sjr, are you' • the officiating clergyman I' < Why; 1 yes, Itip them the word, 1 " , , I NEGLECT IS OFTEN AS FERTILE A CAUSE OF' SUFFERING'"aa the disease itself. Human nature, ' I* warned as it is by repeated examples, is prone to I forget the salutary lessons they inculcate and apt to / ; lose by deferment, the good it may recieve from prompt • I and decisive action, When the means are within our , grasp, it is almost sinful to allow their escape, and s hose who overlook the virtues of POLPHO • WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM AROMATIC SCHNAPPS must ' stand forever self-criminated and reproathed.