ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1828, 31 October 1884, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

Fifty millions (says an- American paper).we impomd a locomotive from England as a sample, We now build millions upon mil.ions of dollars' worth for home use, and are able to compete with England in all parts of the wo Id. Nearly all the locomotives used in the English Colonies are built in the United States.

According to ft Republican paper, crime is hejoming more common every day in France. Twelve years ago the total number of crimes and offences \vh>ch came under the notice of the tribunals amounted in twelve months to 26,000, Ten years afterwards—in in 1882 -it exceeded 81,003. The lnrgest contingent of criminals were furnished by the metropolis,

Mr L, Lewis, the wellknown centenarian at Sandhurst, has just celebrated another birthday, bis 101 st. The oelebrated philanthropist, Sir Moses Monteflore, will be 100 years old on the 24th of the present month. Mr Lewis, who completed his 101 st year on %t, 27, is, therefore, 13 months older that the oldest Hebrew in Europe, and one of the oldest men at present on the face of the earth.

A horrid case of a child being worried by a dog happened a short time ago at Birmingham. It was seized by a hnlt-hred bull terrier, which could not be knocked off until it was rendered insensible, when it still retained its grip. On the child being released, it was placed under medical attendance, and lies in a precarious state. The dog was at once destroyed. The oldest clergyman in the Church of England is believed to be Richard Moore, Yiear of Lutul-in-the-Fylde. Lancashire, On a recent Sunday hs completed his tuuety-fourtti year. He

waa ordained in 1815, and his health is still good. Ho is also the senior justice in Lancashire having been. appointed by the crown in 1820. Pulpit notices, as a rule, are common enough, but the following, given out by the vicar of Osmotherly;ibefore comraencing' his sermon the other /are-something out of the. common " I desire to giVe notice that I have received a letter from a lady asking ma to find her two female servants. A friend of. mine also Wants a hind auch as I could .thoroughly recommend." , It is perhaps not unworthy of notice that a negro, the Rev.'H. F. Plumer, has just befin appointed chaplain to a of cavalry, He is the only cubured officer in the ,United States army, and the first coloured chapl^, At Salford a woman named fey, wlio hadpromised fomiiidanotherwoman's child, took- thebady out of the cradle, and, putting; it on the. floor, poured a kettlefull of boiling water on it. The child died the'same night, In Sydney, a further l reduction in tho meter price of gas will be made from 6s 6d to'6s per iOOO feet from October 1. ' . ;

. There has recently been discovered in the city. of Lincoln, England, a crematorium built in the time of the Roman invasion.

. M'. Werle, chief of a famous charapayne iirni, died recently, leaving preperty 80,00(j,000fr.' • HiVy years igo he was employed as clerk in the ■cime house, and. subsequently married the eldest daughter of the bead of the drin.

It is stated that a ruby was fouiyftn Clay Country, North Carolina, liprtr Bedford, which he sold, for 6000dols was paid for it at th®ext ,<ale but onti ; and now the lapidary .who bought nwl worked'upon it has Bold it, for 18,000dols,

J'li' j jiiimour of deaths in England in' 1883 From anesthetics-was only 13. Of these 11 died from chloroform and ether mixed and nitrous oxide. The latter, so few are the deaihs from it, is 'touting to he looked upon as entirely without danger."

Sixty-nine years .ago one lone missionary carried the standard of Preshy. cerianism beyond the borders of Indiana into the wilds of Missouri.

U nivspiu there are itl that region, which he opened, 17 synods, Sjf) ministers, WOO churches, 130,000 communicants,

In the course of the" last year the German Lifeboat Society saved 277 lives, the rescued persons lelonging to 17 German vessels, anil to live English, four dutch, four Swedish, three Aish, mid two Russiin" ships. The Ulely supports 87 lifeboat stations. In return for a case of American tobacco sent by Oonajressinin A., S. Hewitt, in lecogni ion of the Sultan's courtesy during his visit last year, Mr Hewitt has received from that potentate a writin? cabinet finished in solid gold, and filled with specimens of Turkish paper and pens.

The only pace ot the elephant isjfe, walk, which is capable of4eiiig®v oreased to a fast sliuffl ; of'about IF miles an hour For a very aliort diaSnnOj The elephant can neither trot, canter .nor gallop, nor can it make the smallest spring either in vertical height or in horizontal distance. P.irliamenfc has been' addressed by Florence Nightingale, Marj Howitt and other prominent English women in favor of woman suffr.igo, The followers of Mr Gladstone propose to wear a bunch of lilies with oak ilnd ivy loaves on.his birthday, to aynv. bolise purity; strength, and tenttkr. An attempt opening iifWiiev/ vacation for the-blind is now being made in England, where a movement is on foot to employ them as telegraph operators, . The amount oxpended by the ! various English Railway Oompan e< in managing, working and upholding tlw, i lines for the past year was nbotfr 137,000,000. .