ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1864, 13 December 1884, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

The Inspector.. of Weights and Measures has some difficulty in getting good." cases," judging:from the .follow:.; ing exkaot from' the-.-Auckland Telephone :—" Two tradesmen appeared at the poliee.court on Saturday;-charged.. with selling bread -that was .'short weight. From.the"eyidence,of,Sergt. .Gamble, .the Tnape.ctbr, o£jsf eights',. .Measures, and Poods, H ; - : w--Bnown that in one "case the loaf was"' a little under a quarter of-an.,punije,short of • the.two pounds prescribed by the Act, In? t ha: ofheji' ,case, ; >^ ; batch,"' of*, seveu •loaves'weighed •fourteen,,pp,unds, but - when separated- two of them' were thre#-' -■ drams.short.'/ fhis is scrupulous inM wltta yengeance," ,"-.-,' ;, ;|ours?rSoni,'including two military - officers v'whbiweie concerned A the - conspiracy, apdnstthe Mexican 88vera- . : : ment haVe:|ie'en7Shot by : ojter.qf the 7 ..' Since-'- ; :ine'''4natiguratlon^ef».cheap telegraphy jnJVahce of telegrams-zjenr' itj[ that • o>Uf|try has . increased, eimraonsly. Lascar there were 58 -telegramsifor eyerP'OCLof the v ,-.>Xv}. ;. According, ta'.the. last"census, there male pHipens abovethe,age'of -21 who ■..-. could ;notjmte. Of the5e""862,915 • were Whites and 1,008,302 coloured. •■■ : Arizona has a usury law which pro; any.iQtte;loaning money at a, .- ■greater rate 'of.interest that ; 5 per sent ; a,' .-becolifies -liable- f drrjtiiree tio^ea. "Ti>;. '$ <lfe Ney-iYork that at the date'pftHelatest nettjrll3'cotton mills ':had; ; -decrensed their by 13,0p0,0jp;yai ; ds.'':,;Many mills were idle and 'others:-were workingwirt time.'-' : ' ; •"'"•■.."■■'•'

At a recent scientific meeting.in London it was stated that arsenic in quantities large enough to poison beasts. has been known to find its way through the ground into wells sQft deep, It has been figured out by .'Dr. Wood ■• the eminent student of nature, that if a man could eat as much ill..proportion as a bird he would consume a whole round of beef for his dinnai'i. '. In-New .York alone /there are 15 firmsengaged'solelyinthe busiuossof, ■furnishing banners, ■' portraits, • ■ anj^, uniforms used in the ,( parades'''wiioh.' • are leading features of a Presidenta!,',' campaign-,. • ••"•■ The largest ministerial'salary paid,-' in the Irish' Presbyterian Church is that of the Rosemary street coDgre--.-gation, Belfast, amounting to £740. '■%-

A Prohibitionist calculates that the ' amount of liquor made and iniMtod ,' • into the United States-wouldH a ",' canal 10ft deep, 20ft wide, an! 76 miles long, ' ' A Michigan Justice of the Peace advertises : Marriage ceremonies performed at all hours of the day or night, Knots tied after midnight 50 per cent extra." ~ The Fire Insurance Company K» Sweden offers a reward of. £SOO fori the most practical device to arrest sparks of cinders from locomotive and steamboat stacks.

A Birmingham lqckmaker "is abquf . tq exhibit a master key which heclaup Is capable of opening 22,600 pateqt--lever locks, all different; in their wards and combinations I" A wily London bank clerk, .who.is now en route for a distant country, managed undetected to' get together considerable wealth hy d e Voting his time for a year before his departure tq substituting in the bags of silver belonging to the firm an equal weight qf copper. ■' ' ■ ■ Widows outnumber widowiHßio a remarkable extent in Great Britain. Ail English statistician finds that in 1881 there were nearly ] ,000,000 widows, of whom 57,000 were under 35 years old, In Ireland and Scotland there were-* three widows for every one widower, -f

A Brooklyn brewer makes a " temperance beer," which is "unintoxicafc ing." but cannot be distinguished from ordinary lager in colour, taste, body,

bead or smell. It is largely sold in towns where no licenses are granted by the Excise Commissioners.

The heroism of the Russian girls who have joined the revolutionary... party is something which the annals of no age oan surpass. A case has ocourred in Odessa, The chief of polioe bad sentenced a young girl's brother to penal servitude for life.. Inflamed by revenge she sought out the officer and fired at him with a revolver, but her aim was poor. She. was arrested, and will no doubt experience the horrors of E&eria herself. : w