GENERAL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1837, 12 November 1884, Page 2

GENERAL ITEMS.

A single English syndicate owns 4,500,000 acres of bind iu Texas, and it as stated that corporal ions and individuals an Europe jointly held a total of 20,941,006 acrea in America, more than half Lt much as there is in the whole of England. The St Petersburg correspondent of (The Times) sta>es that the tea plant has lately been introduced near Soukgoum Keleh, on the Black Saa, and the Russians are confident, it seems, that they will aoon be able to do without' Chinese or Indian Teaß.

A famous voterinary surgeon wm summoned by telegram to Scotland a short time ago by a wpll know lady to meet the local adviser in consultation on the case of her pug. He had bad to travel §OO miles to reach his destination. In Cornwall women are commonly employed as painters and paper-hangers, learning the trade from each other without serving a regular apprenticeship and aud following it as couitantly as dressmakers or milliners pursue iheir calling Paris has B<J,2UO trees in her avenues and boulevards, 18,400 in her cemeteries, and 83,(100 in squares aud streets B|ie also provides 8000 seals in public places; and ihe whole "cost of keeping up Irons and seals is about £IOO,OOO, A Puich emigrant to the Far West linked his thirteen children together by a small rope tied round the arm, and in this fashion they travelled from Denmark across the Atlantic to Milwaukee, wjiero their arrival created coniderable amusement.

W, H, Daily, a notod swimmer of ban Francisco, lias taught more people to swim than anybody else in the land, and has saved tho lives of 32 drowning people. He is in the neighbourhood of 45 years, smooth faced, and stands six feet in his stockings.

The New South Walos cannel coal exported to England for the use of the Liverpool Gas Company has awakened puylio attention to the coal resources of the colony.

Bs his share oi the "hatta" for the Soudan campaign, General Graham will receive a cheque for 1242. Somewhat difierent this from the £25,000 awarded to Lord Wolseley.

The richest little girl in the world is the seven-year-old daughter of Captain George H. Perkins, of the navy, who is well-known in this city (Boston). She is worth $7,000,000 in her own name, the amount having been left her recently by her grandfather William F, Weld Weld, of Boston,

Very few years have elapsed since the first steel ship was launched on the Clyde. Four years ago the entire output of steel vesssels was 18,000 tons, or nearly one-third of the whole tonnage launched,

The following is a good example of the difference punctuation makes in the moaning of some things, Here is an account of the appearanoe of Lord Palmerston in the House of Commons, taken from an old English country paper: entered on his head, a white hat upon his feet, large but well polished boots upon his brow, a dark cloud in his hand, his faithful walking stick in his eye, a menacing gloam saying nothjng, He sat down."

The Maori King has expressed a deep desire to join the Salvation Army. He would have boen enrolled and made a captain at once but for one little difficulty. He makes it a distinot condition that he will bs allowed to play, the big drum. The general has heai'd him play in .private and has been reluctantly compelled to deoljne the honor. He is afraid the Berviocs would be the drum, the big drum and nothing but the drum. A Victorian grocer was lined £25 the other day for selling hop bittors, he not being the holder of a wine and spirit license, The evidence showed that hop bitters paid the samednty as whisky or brandy, and that, while beer contained from 3 to 7 per cent of alcohol, light wines 8 to 10 per cent,, the bitters contained 12 to 14 per cent.

Another Donald Dinnie story—a true one. At Ballarat two city councillors, ex officio curators of the athlete sports ground, drove down to see that all was in order. For a moment thov pulled np and looked over the fence, Donald was at the fore instantly, with " Dinna ye think it is aboot time yo paid yer shnllin ?"

After several years exponeuco in supplying watches for the colonial market, Littlejohn and Son, of Lambton Quay, Wellington, have observed the neod for a thoroughly sound English Lovor Watch at a lower price than that usually paid for such watches. It is only b) the judicious div ision of labor and by the manufacture of large quantities on a uniform plan, that we are enabled to meet this want. We have now the pleasure of introducing our Six Guinea Hunting Silvei Lover. This watch, being simple in design durable, highly finished, and apcurate.fulfils, all the requirements of a pocket timekeeper. A written guaranteo for turn years will be given with each w.'<fib. Sent by post, securoly packed, qn leceipt of Post Olfice order or. clieoue.-(Ai|V'rl

A Wise DEACon.-"Deaoon Wilder, I want you to tell me how you kept yourself and family so well last season, when all tho resi of us have been sick so much and have had J the doctors running to us bo often," "Brother Taylor, the answer is very easy, I used Hop Bitters iu time, and kopt my family well and saved large doctor's bills. Four shilling* worth of it kept us all we'l and able to work all the time aud I will warrant it cost you and most of your neigh-, hours £lO to £IOO apiece to keep wot the same time, I fanoy you.ll take my medioine 1 hereafter." See

Cock fights are being indulged in in Ireland, a special steamer'is chartered and the " bout" takes place at sea.

Mr Sankey's voice is still as sweet and strong as ever-. ■ In the room of a kleptomaniac in London were found 900 umbrellas.

Two. young .English, ladies ha*a mad? a tour of the whole of the South of Europe on a double tricycle. Dnblinis the only city in Northern

Europe which -is so highly privileged as to possess two cathedrals.

Clarence Tree-Stars, the son of a well-known Sioux chief, is a porter in a Philadelphia dry-goods house. / . F.E.H. the Prince ot Wales jA > expert bicyclist, and we read tuwß?>' 1 ' ladies of the .Royal family nearly all possess tricycles. At the time of his dea&heDnke of Albany wore two golcWangles on his wrists ;• and Lord Wolseley, the hero of numberless wars,, is said to hide a jewelled circlet beneath hisleit coat sleeve.

When afflicted with gout in both feet Mr James Kussell Lowell received ninety calls of condolence within two hours after the first announcement of his illness.

. Husbands in Bombay have rather severe methods of • maintaining their martial right of authority. At a recent session of the English Court there wore five cases in which men were tried for cutting off the noses of their wives. This appears to be a common method of punishing wives for The punishment was tho light one of three years' imprisonment,

The old custom.of ringing the curfew bell ut nine o'clock, which still survives in many New England vilk&ts, has been introduced nt CaklacraT California, by the Mayor,

Sonic excitement has been caused nt Keighley by the re-appearance of a man who was supposed to have been dead for two years. The riian, named Juntos Hanlan, vanished, and n body taken out of the canal near Mirfield two months afterwards was 'supposed to be his. Mrs Hanlim was to have been married again, but her husband reappeared, Ho had been at an infirmary, and had never comuiunicated/vith any of his friends, yJy At the lauquet giveii.dn honor 'of die International Medical Congress at Copenhagen, a curious custom was observed. Tho dinner was laid on 42 tallies. Before every course a bell wiib Vim, antj in marched 168 servants, four to each table, each wearing the nunibuv l of his table. When overy one of the littlo army had reached his tahk a halt was made; the bell Bounded and the waiters served the guests, A horrible crime was recently committed at a gum factory St, Denis, Prance, Two workmen, named Jeanne and Marin, had an altercation during their breakfast hour. Jeanne returned to his work vowing vengeance against Martin, aud, watcliinopiis chance, tluw him into a large vat of boiling gum.

It appears that more than 111,000 sterling worth of silver is wasted overy year in the courseof.th.fi circulation of crowns, half ciwns, florins, shillings and sixpences, One hundred sovs. of the date of 1820, which were weighed in 1849, showing a loss in weight through tho wear of circulation which was estimated at £\ 16s 7d.

The Kin;; of Bulgaria has added another to his numerous mountain castles, having acquired by purchase the rains ol Cattle Falltenstein, on the top of a high bluff near theTyrolese frontier, Hundreds of rogn are already at work cutting a roafiy to the new eyrie. It is calculated that in the East and West Ridings of Yorkshire over 4500 females are employed in colliery labor; and more than 3700 boys from 10 years of age work under ground, wjiile the boys whose ages are between }!} and 16 number 37,353; All Aberdeen bailie the other day refused to send four boys' to the reformatory, giving as his' reason that he was sure that in the long mi the majority of boys were worse than if they had never been tjjere at all. The boys were discharged : In Russia the sphere of usefulness open to wonieu - piiyaicians scarcely exceeds that of skilled nurses.. They are permitted only to treaJt.tbe diseases of women and-children. .Apothecaries, moreover, are.for.bidden.. lo.jput up p< ficripljons cqming fram^yoWau. It is stated that 6Q tons; i>f "eggs pass through the St. Gotb.iird 'TunneMfcery day, bound for Harwell. in tho present year 130 tons, representing about 2,000,000 eggß, were, landed l^ 1 / Harwich, and sent on to London by the Great Eastern Railway. The Salvation Army in India shows a degree of enthusiasm, that quito outstrips the ecccntrioities of the English department. It has not only adopted the native costume.B, .but tho Bombay Guardian announces that Major Tucker " has attained to barefootedness.

MrW. H, Smith, the First Lord of the Admiralty, lately gavo a party at Henley, and by paying the boatmen 48 per hundred, secured 3000 lilies to adorn his parlours. He, however, depleted the river of these flowers for miles, and made himself the object of much indignation, 1: is claimed that thero has been no 1088 of life in Arctic exploration. The records show that the deaths from all causes have been less than 2 per cent,. which is smaller than the ratio« mortality from accident or. disease in the ordinary traffic .upon-, the: Ajis. Illness among Arctic explore™is exceedingly rare. : ;' . •

The Turks tell a story of a blacksmith whose name was Job. He met with losses in trade, his hut |urnod down, his son died and hig.wife fell sick, At last he lost patience when he himself camn down with ; the teasels and be expostulated with Providence in, tjiese terms: !' Qli Ajlah,' mercjfuijy remember that although my name ia Job, I am not the patriarch Job, I am only the blacksmith Job. Only remember this. How to Get Sick.-Expose yourself night and day, Bit too much without exercise, work too hard without rest, doctor all the time take all the vile nostrums advertised and then you will want to know ' Flies ANDBuas.-Baatles, insects," roachaAK ants bed-bugs, rata, mice, gophers, jajF 7 ' rabbits, cleared out by '• lkugli on Hats' 7Jd, Moses Moss &Co M Syd ley, Goneta Agents