ALL SOUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1857, 5 December 1884, Page 2

ALL SOUND THE WORLD.

The young postmasfcer.pf a village in the district of Znaim was/busy at.work in his office when a gentle knpek came to the door, and in stepped i young country lass, the desk she handed the official, wi%« a bashful smile, a post-office order§ which he closely examined and paid' the young woman the sum inscribed, '. At the same time he asked,her why she had not detached the aoupon from the other, as the sender had written on it a further communication for her. " Indeed f said the girl, "well, you see I can't read: perhaps you would be,so kind as to read it for me," The ■postmaster read.as follows:—"I send you hereby three florins : and a thousand kisses."'; Glancing rapidly at the young person, he added with: his accustomed official gravity: "You have now got the money and I a,m ready to give you the kisses at once." The young peasent woman accepted, the balance • of Ler order. On reaching home she said to ; her folk: " Eh, butits a grand concern '•-this post office; you can now" get kisses sent along, with your money orders."' "

: ;It is a curious coincidence that the palace, which in a fit of loyalty, the city of Marseilles presented., to Louis; Napolean, and afterwards attempted to takeaway from liis widows/is now a cholera hospital. '";" A . matbematic sporticg ; -.-persoii raokons that a gambling ''bsiik" at Monaco has one chance in thirty-six iu its favor, and that hence the profits of .£700,000 a year represents the' betting of about £24,500,000. When Mrs John Kelly, of Norristown, Tenn., says that the cup of woe is full, this is her reason-Within three months she lost a son by drowning a •daughter by elopement, her husband bf accident, and now her house is burned.-■ A ten-year old Pennsylvania boyeloped with and married a twelve-year old girl, On their return the bride's father whipped the groom with a bunch of willow switches. Fortius h« was arrested on a capias in a, suit for damages laid at 42000, ' George Sincerbox, of-Seuiprouius, Uayuga county, has a peculiar swelling on his leg, which is 37 inches in circiimferenoe, below the knee, Dochave offered him 1000 dols., to be permitted to amputate the leg, so that they can ascertain the naturo of the disease. The London correspondent of the Leader says:-" The British Association meeting at Montreal has been a brilliant success,, inasmuch as it has raised the question whether ah Australian or New Zealand city might not at some future date be the scene of one of the society's annual sessions, Auckland has been mentioned, but Melbourne seems the favorite.

Camels live from forty to fifty years; horses average from twenty-live to thirty; oxen about twenty; seller, eight or nine; and dogs, twelve to fourteen. Concerning the ages at' tainetl by non-domesticated animals, only a few isolated facts are known. Tne East Indians believe that the life periods of the elephant is about 300 years, instances being recorded of these .animals having lived 130 years in con. finement after capture a.t an unknown age, Whales are estimated to reach the age of .400 years, Some reptiles are very long lived, an instance being furnished by a tortoise, which was confined in 1633 and existed until 1753, when he perished by accident. Birds sometimes reach a great age, the eagle and the swan having been known to live 100 years, The longevity of fishes is often remarkable. The carp hasbcen known to live 200 years; common river trout, 50 years; and the pike 90 years; while Gesnei', a Swiss nature* list, relates that a pike caught in 1797 bore a ring recording the capture of the same fish 267 years before. Insects are very short-lived,.usually completing

the term of their' existence in- a few weeks or months. Some even die upon the very day'of enteiing upon" their: new'l)fe. Aaago'nera|.rule not to be applied too closely, larger types of.ani-' mala jive longer than smaller.:". : ■"' . (in Italian, Nicholas Nicholiui, upon marrying in New. York the other day. adopted his wife'sfamily name—Brown, Some time ago a Chinaman dropped his naip under lib circumstances and assumed that of Murphy, in deterence to his bride's wishes, , One of tho pet sohemes of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe is to some time in the future establish a line of steamers connecting with their line at Guaymas, and running to Australia. This route to Australia would be shorter by something over 400 miles than any now in use,—Boston Advertiser. England would have to undergo a revolution before her Commander-in-Chief of her Army would be seen standing by the grave of a war correspondent as General Sheridan the other day stood by the tomb of pqor McGahan, when his countrymen laid the remains of the brilliant war correspondent in their native soil. Sheridan was there officially, at the head of a detachment of war veterans,- but it was his fellow townsman as well as a gifted countryman to whose memory he was paying honor. Sheridan and McGahan both sprang from the. same obscure little township of Ohio, where the father of the former kept a small store, and where the latter when a lad worked on the little farm of his widowed mother, walking six miles every Saturday to learn Latin of a priest in Somerset " county seat." An Indiana baby, born during a terrible torm, has been named Cyclonia, Its father says the appleation ia a misnomer, a cyclone doesn't howl every night,

London has over three thousand pawn shops. No more Greek is to be taught in Chicago's public schools. St Louisans aro moving to have the screeching of locomotive whistles silenced. , • '< The Irish National members will not attend the autumn session of the British Parliament unless summoned byMrParnell, :' : A gentleman died recently at Huntingdon county, Pen., o;fUckjaw occasioned by the bite of a stallion. The underground .system of telegraphy at Washington is pronounced a complete success.. ■■,'■ •■••; / - lowa has a new law under which the* keeper of a disreputable- house canine sent to prison for five years. •//■The forests of Prussia IsP been largely increased by cultivation during ' ■the last ten' years. pparishas now 25,000 beershops and ■ipaily sum spent on;beer is estim||d- at 290,000. ; "jfesh exports to'?ln"dia last year three million sterling. ;The~coinagfi of Spain at present in circulation dates from 1700. /The ,|nglish- school board rate is gradually-increasing. , ;; : Nearly four million ,poins were turned out. of the English mint last year.'- ■ / ; ;/ Chicago has a new butterine factory with capitation of 2,000,000 pound a year. -.■-..' -Western Australia has Only ninety miles of railway, aid those/are worJM at a loss. • ; '": }... ;'-fvi •** The Gaulois undertakes to pay a sum of 500 francs at the decease of any subscriber: who'-"may 'meet win bis death on- a- railway or by being run; over by a; vehicle in the street. A proportipaate sum is paid for' injuries received-.' All- that is necessary to produce is the last receipt of subscription, The Gaulois' also pays compensation to a :purchaserpf a single copy, or his heirs, shp.ul'/they be injured.or. killed on the'-dayion which the paper-is bought, .;/:'•.'. General-Skobeleff was/ working one , evening in his tent near the Danube or near, a pond, when a Turkish'bomb dropped at the threshold of the tent. The General had just time to see tb*s sentinel outside stoop down aifr phlegmatically throw the shell into .. the water. Skobeleff approached the :. soldier and said, "Do you know that ; you have saved, niy life?" •< I have ' done my best, general." "Very well which would you rather have, the St. George's Cross, or 100 roubleslVTbe ' Sentinel was a Jew with a fine . profile. He hesitated a moment, and ' then said- 1 ' What js the value of the Cross, ■> My General!" i J 1 What do you mean, the cross itself : is bf.no value? it may be worth five i roubles perhaps, but it is an honour to • possess it." "Well my general," 3 calmly said the soldier, "if it is like 1 that, give me 95 roubles and the Cros| 5 ofSt. v George!" Whether the prayert of thai'child of Israel was granted or 3 not history does not say. . It is curious at times to recall the • fate of the people mixed up pithp. s Fish-Stqkes tragedy. Wn. M. Tweed, - who watched by Fisk's bedside to see t that in his delirium he did. not tpll too n much, died in prison, a-bankrupt, to . whom Fisk'A partner, Gould, refused to • loan 5000dqls. The Morse family, who Fisk. wa? visiting at the qra|>4 . Central Hotel when ho was shot, were 0 scattered after his death. I met the ( son in.1874,-,in'tl}e Jaidin jjabile. o Paris > wh ~ er <» .je was qne oL'the . "statues" employed to stand'rouS^ l( edge of the dancing platform wjth a ut cigar in his;;mouth, that the agile B dancer might gently knock t})e ashes ) off with thMips of her delicate toes 3 without breaking the step 'jn d'ancW. The woman- at the parlor window of -v , the hotel, whom Stokes ' crossed T- , Broadway to see on that fatal day, is s still in/New'York, a fashionable sort , of outcast, Josie Mansfield, the s woman about whom all the row is supposed to have been made, drifted ," off to Europe. 3 One of tlio last wishes of the late Mr >■ R. H. Hart (says the Ballarat Star) 3 was that his body, when enclosed in i the casket, should be covered with ! white roses. This dying wish was' ) complied with, and wreaths and chap. -, , lets were laid both inside and, outside r tho coffin. ' ."

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