ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1789, 16 September 1884, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

The Brooklyn bridge was one year old on Saturday week. During the year oyer six miilion of people crossed it on foot, and the total receipts were 391,770d015, . Two young persons from Sheonndoah country, ware-married ot Harper's Ferry the other day, the groom being sixteen years old and the bride fifteen years. r " Such was the eagerness to share in the 'new. Russian Gold Loan of £16,000,000 that no less than £800,000,000 was actually subscribed for in Berlin and Amsterdam. A colored woman is studying medicine in Paris, 8 Wiggins predicts a big storm 19th September. Wall street has formed a society to suppress false rumors. Milwaukee has a tobacco chewing contest, with a gold watch for first prize.' Louisville, Ky., is now driving out the clairvoyants by taxing them 200 dols. a yeat. Au Ogelthorpe, G., boy has invented a cash-drawer for which he has refused 10,000dols. The Empire buildings in Now York have been purchased by a London syndicate for 1,750,000 dols, A statue of Bolivar, the South American liberator, was unveiled at at Central Park, New York, oh .Tuue It is said that, according to a recently prepared return, there are not uioi'6 than 300 females employed as barmaids throughout Victoria,

According to a statement made by Mr Childers in the House of Commons, each sovereign and half-sovereign looses 4-090ths of a grain of its weight every _ year. This may appear infinitisroal, but 'when taKerTTn the bulk it means a deficiency of JBO.OOO a year, exclusive of the expenso of recoinage. Otnv country is about the only one that does not charge for coining t he gold it puts into circulation. A curious incident is mentioned in connection with the execution on June 21st of Misdei, the soldier who murdered a number of his comrades at Naples. Immediately after his tody had been removed ■ the people present swarmed over the place, and tearing the cord which had bound the criminal into pieces, and breaking the stool on which he had sat into fragments, each took away a portion. A superstition prevails in Italy that any part of the cord or chair of a prisoner who has sufferen death will bring good fortune to the possessor.

There is an extraordinary, story being told in Court circles, and is bein» retailed by the Spiritualists, as to the reasons which induced the Queen, at the last moment, to alter the arrangements for Prince Leopold's fimoral, but our readers aro asked to accept the story for what it is worth. It is said that a short time beforo the death of the Duke of Albany, while dancing with an intimate friend, a lady of Danish birth and great personal beauty,' and the wife of an English peer, he was rallied by her upon his unwonted abstraction. His answer was that his sister Alice had come to him in the night, warned him of an approaching calamity, and told him not to trouble for all would soon be well.. The RoyalDuke like his mother, the Queen, seems to havo accepted supernatural visitations as real, and he told the lady that he would prefer, if anything happened to him, to have a military funeral. Her ladyship, the recipient of these confidences, wrote a letter to a high Court official, telling him the story, and he laid her communication before Her Majesty. At once the Queen ordered her dead son's desire expressed in life to be fulfilled. Henco that change at the last moment, which led to so much perplexity and inconvenience.

" Yes, said the young clergyman, 'I always said I would marry that girl, and I am going to do it; but to another fellow. The only consolation I get out of the affair is the fee," In 1879 the decorative furniture and porcelain of the Earl of Lonsdale were sold for .£19,336, the china of Charles Dickens for £5694, and the Oriental F?® 1 ™ of M. Charles Morren for £5441,

A merchant who died suddenly, not long ago,- left on his desk a letter he had intended mailing to a correspon-dent,-An Irish clerk, finding it, sent it oil after adding tbo postscript—- " Since writing the above I have died." The plan of towing timber rafts nfc sea, instead of loading the logs on Bhipboard, has been adopted by the lumber merchants of San Francisco. The steam-tug Escort, No. 2, from Empire City, Oregon/arrived safely ill m Erancisco on 29th June, with five large rafts of logs and piles in tow. outdoor game for ladies and gentlemen, called enchantment, is becoming fashionable in England. It is played with small, light hoops, thrown with wands, something , after the manner of grace hoops, though the wand is of a novel construction, involving a peculiar method of easting the hoop. A moderately large niece of ground is suitable.

The Guards have, it is said, been extremely polite, to the Maori -King, having lent His Majesty their drag for a turn in the park of an after-noon-it might be " turn over" if he were to handle the reins. He has expressed a great admiration for this style of thing, arid would like to adopt it at home. His Majesty is evidently civilißing fast. ■

The announcement that the firm , of Bryant and May is to be converted into a limited liability company reminds me of Bernal Osborne's mot, when asked at Ascot if he had seen the coach driven by one of the partners in that business. "Oh, yes," he said, "it is a well-matched team enough, and young Bryant looked verv slrikinelv on the hok."—Truth. " .;. i■.

At the Eureka Hotel m Geelong. Joe Ryan had a grand photo of Hanlan, the Canadian, adorning his ; walls, = Joe, on receipt of the news of Beach's ' victory, at once took it down and replaced it with a sea view., Entjer customers, who, on missing the photo 1: exclaimed "Why, we don't see.Hanlans. Joe, chuckling, in reply,' <<& a Beach i" Result: Customers go drinks all round,