ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1858, 6 December 1884, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Over twenty-one millions widows in India, and all forbidden to remarry. Think of that I ' The authorities ot France have taken up the question of the health of school children. _ In Glasgow there is one public house licensed to 69 families j one school to 707; one baker to 370; one butcher to 448; and one dairyman to 413.. It is calculated that in India alone there are over 10,000 lepers with very few asylums where they can find any refuge, A Chicago lawyer has written a poem entitled "My Conscience." He musthave a powerful imagination. The Blang word of the moment is "elegant." Everything is "elegant" now, from a cheap cigar to a thunderstorm.

Prosecutions by the French Government of publishers of immoral works have been frequent of late, and heavy fines have been inflicted. Ordered to clear the Court, an Irish crier did so by this announcement, J 1 Now, then, all ye blackguards that isn't, lawyers must leave the Coort!" The Queen of Asaq, the coal-black sovereign, now the guest of Turin, during a recent illness refused the aid of doctors on the ground that it was against. African, etiquette for' white hands to touch her, The Ilion (N.'Y.) Citizen, contains the following statement at theliead of . its columns:—"The entire body-matteV of this paper was composed by a typesetting, machine, and the paper was printed by electricity, It is the first newspaper on earth to establish this precedent. A most curious paper is the official Chinese paper called King. Pan which claims to have been started as early as 911, and to have appeared at irregular intervals till 1351, when it came out regularly every week. At the commencement of the present century it became a daily at the price of two kehs —or abont a halfpenny. By a decree of the Emperor, a short time back, it was ordered that three editions were to be printed every day—the first, or morning edition on yellow paper, is devoted to commercial intelligence, the second, or afternoon edition contains official and general news; and the t,hird, on red paoe.r, is a summary of political and' social oicles, Tl)e editorial duties are performed, by six members of the Royal Academy, who are appointed by Government. The circulation is about 14,000 daily, Two spn? qf pf the !'ould sod" who reqently .landed on a Western station,' and who, were found cautiously examining a rain guage, after making thoroughly sure the thing 'wasn't loaded, hawked it up to a more expert: enoed hand, and asked.!-" Pbawt tV mischief is this owld copper pot fori" "That's a rain guage" said the other. "An'phwat'sarainguage for all, at all V inquired Patrick. "To catch the rain and measure it of course" replied the stockman. And then Mick, with a face as long as a ha'penny kite, explaiined —" Och, holy mother av Moses, Bat, fr' come f rich a, starved out land as tins. ''That bjt 'av a pot measures all the rain that falls, an' b r egqrra it's thrue fur him that the drooth is df.vil'isfi bad in Queensland," And so the disheartened pair sat down Qn a s)ump, and listened attentively to the hut-keeper's yarn ajiout 40-feet alligators'that cjimbed''trees, and could scenjt a iie\v chum's blood at a distance '"'"'' ''''"" l ' ' ' '" A number qf members of the finish Association, hjuj a'narroy escape qj deatl) on September' 24,' in Canada'. Th,ey were on their way to Quebec in a stearner, when it caught fire'and was burnet} tq t)j.e ecfc' % crew Md passengers pre fortunately saved.

Some particulars of a particularly heavy day's shearing at Messrs McDonald Ms. Charlotte Plains station, near Ounnamulla, have reached the Courier. On Friday, JOtli October, 18 men sheared 2,378 sheep, making an average of over 132 sheep per roan. One-third of the sheep put through were hcavy-fleeued wethers.

An Euglish firm oi potters has produced the largest vase in the world. It is of china, and its chiof feature is a globe representing the world, which is supported by a number of. mythological figures. : The color of the globe is a subdued green, and the-figures .'are china bisque and other decorated andwhite glared china! ' The vase isjl feet high, and#4miu l dto»eter»- Itco8tlgji0()."". g <"' '■■ \' : .■'■-.[ 4 Bill 'ii'jww before, (he :Brasil%Parliament declaring all slaves of sixty years -old ?ree,'and providing for -the emancipation by ;the State, at a tariff fixed .-according .to;' the ago of those younger,.. I redemption.f un.d'is to \>n. provided by very heavy speoial taxation.If the Bill becomes a :law it is esti'ma-' ted that slavery-will be at an eud'in Brazil before' 1890.'-

" ; A gentlemen who won a large sum' of money on the Melbourne Cup Was' induced to speculate through hearing the words, "ydumay Ipo-'her" frequently made :üßs-of a)'a;.oar4 party over night. He had a greaj run of liiqk that night, and the remembrance words induced him to put his winnings, on Mr Ipglis' horfle, The luoky tipster leaves for Europe per next mail. Advertising is an art in these days, but it is seldom that an announcement is so full of art as the following, whioh wo copy from the Jewish Chroniole of last Friday:-' Central Synagogue, —The gentleman .who, in a moment of abstraction, on Sabbath last, took away a nearly new silk umbrella, which did not belong to him, is requested to return it to the doorkeeper, so that it may be restored to the rightful owner. (Yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the Lord.' Jeremiah xxvii, 12.)" The play upon the word " abstraction" is simply delicious,Birmingham Gazette.

Uwi die }? iHEp[j,3E.-"Eough on | Rata oqt ratß, ipice.ljeotlep, nfaches, bad-bugs, flies, ants, insects, mqlej, m\. abbifcfl, gophers. 7Jd-N. Z. Drug Company Cubed of Dbinkim.-»A young triend of mine was cured of an insatiable thirst for liquor, that had so prostrated his system that he was unable to do any business. He was entirely cured by hopbitters. It allayed all that burning thirst, took away tho .appetite for liquor, made hia nerve* steady and he has remained a sober and steady man for two years, and he has no desire to return to ha oups."-From a leading R.R. Official. am I