ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1879, 3 January 1885, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

At an auction of intestate property at Newcastle, N.S.W., the other day, an old trunk, containing some tools, was knocked down for a few sCillings and re-sold for 10s. The second pur! chaser opened the box, and found a number of old papers, among which was a tract, entitled "Seek and you shall find," Inside of the tract were three sovereigns. ■'••" A method of military' nocturnal signalling has been devised by a Russian Captain Kostovicb, and successfully tested at Cronstadt, -. To a small cap} tive, ballaori is electric lamp, which;' by meaW-of connecting wires, can be kindled and extinguished at will by an operator stationed on. board ship or in any other convenient position, a series' ot such extinctions and re-ignitions ben employed according to a telegrapsPfcode, first 3 practical movement in the sliapS of paying salaries to Irish members of ParHament has been taken by the electors in Queen's; County, who have presented ,to;.the two--county members, Mr Eichanf Lalor and Mr Arthur O'Connor, s2s6,.each, of ; Xin\ines, 'Mexico, 'five large, springs of Hying , water have suddenly-burst, forth,'on4he, open plains, where 1 there'B&s: beeni a continual 'drought for. bird couli'hotfindsufficienUater;^ jtSjthirgfc';;;^. ,7'.'.-./ money ; cjrouiationin89 oitculation-reported a -yestfago, shows, a decrease in gold oitculaiK||()£ about • £OOO,OOO, jt •-silver -circulation .£8,000,9.Q0,fan paper cukv la)ion;o|i£2s ) QQO;OOo>-' jU barbecue was helSoa 9eptember::2s^tShelb F ille, Indiana, 40,000 persons attending. -Tables were setat.w>ichi66oopdrspn S 'were fed at the Bametune. Thirty.oxen, and 60 sheep were roasted, loads of other eatables were, alad provided. . Tbe.new Alpine Vienna, with- Lake Stance, and shortening the East, hi •been opened by the Emperor of Aug. twain person. Its tunnel ill tho 'third longest in the ouly. Burpassed by those of St,'Qdthard-and MountOenis, "\lLi ~•; The finest college world was erected and is supposed by the funds, of its foiinder—Girardi College, in Philadelphia. ,-A priest, rabbi, or clergyman is not allowed within its walls, even as a visitor England has 27,050 breweries a$ browed 990,000,000 gallons of beeAyear> Qermanv has 25,903 breK and brewed 90(5,000,000 gallonsofbeer during the same period. These two countries lead Europe in the manufaoture of this article. The microscope reveals' that'there are more than 4000 musoles in a caterpillar, and that the eye of a drpne contains 1000 mirrors. There are Bpiders as small as a grain of sand, and they, spin a thread so. fine that it weuld require four hundred of them to equal the siaeqf a single hair. The Jews Jn Jerusalem were until lately a fo\v hundred families who had gone there to die in the land of their fathers,- Now there- are at least 50,000, or about one-third of.thepopu. : lation. ■ They devote themselves almost 'exclusively .'to.mercantile! occupations. The new-co.mers are mostly from Buigaria, Russia, and Hungary. : > -. the •Waterloo, Victoria Disband some other railway stations' in London, AJL is an automatio oaso, painted red JP applianqesfqr wrltJngVwhere, bJwL ping nva penny, a-post-card is bSt out, while twopence, placed in the same manner in' another:: compartment, produces a sheet of paper arid an envelope stamped.- . ". ' . ',/ A victory sayS) been I'.qained in,Belguinj by,|he solution of !tlje, T p;objem Qfjrpmiftiiil'.a'tele, graphic and a,telephonic message along ,tbe.same wiveatthe-samev.time, A trial of this has been made at the Antwerp Universal. Exhibition, where concerts held in important towns in Belguim were heard, the transmission being, made with ordinary -insttunients along ordinary telegraph linesind with earth retqras. •;.-.-■■•,-,.•, : ;: i: . , ( . A complaint ofexcesVin missionary rigourat Eaiatea reached'-the' London Missionary Society.; The Rev'Alberi Pearce, Jhe ; .representative ..-ipf the society recently lpgae'd a code ofLately two Settlers played .»' game cards, and they wer,e at-once before some sprt of Court and'fiiSr As they refused'to pay the Mtfmf were turned out- oNhe.'i island, and-a boat beloneiag-tothemwasconfiscated." • "General" Booth was ftbantly charged at Sunderland, EtjglaJJ, ; wittf-non-payment of the poqr.'ratesW the Salvation Army, barjaeks at 'Monk: wearmouth. E&mption was claimed; on the ground that .'the: building was used for the.-pufppsesof' worship.'': The prosecution urged that; tbesafoof the War Cry 'wiffi-'%' ; building precluded any such The • magistrates fqj 4 payment, : '..'■. . ■■.,•"■ . .There was repe.ntfy/completed-'in'a '; railway engine; shop'/at ;Wiließ>rref-' Pennslyvania, a locomotive which, it was .anticipated, would be able;tb pull a, train-on the New Leigh road at' the rate of 's£SuieV an ' hour. ' The engine':. weighs 100,0001b, and the tender, whWilled with coal and water,:.7o,ooo;KThe' engine, it is stated will-,develope;from. .4-4QP tq J4QO hors&pqwer, '.!.":. ;:; • ! I am a plumber 1" immtdm&i burglar who was discovered in.a-hjJCfP in' Cincinatti/aVmidnight-j: ahd s th«--" r owner turned over in bed wifcjf the ; { remark: ''-Oh,lwa>inhor*sit'wa : si ' burglar and he might leave:me'some-. thing."' : ' : ';z':.:■,:.:'z. A Western editor; who.,wis seen.l entering a church, s .afterwards:apphv-i gised; for.: the ; qcottrrence -that j.t.waa ofsbitja^o^'..''' - ;PinnM»eisjJs|i6M ; r9ttrt-- l tMrl^r v; fekor-Bafoji/Neittenskjold ji :vary.ju> Arctic.experienWß-By.'imlaJfemlStj''* i to reaeh-.the South Pole. -stated, he left burg, in.order to '• \ .tial persons jnhisnew enterprise,.'. % ■"'■ " : ' . : ' Well's **Boi7oH-OH'Ooß^B'v--A?V t fori 5i Well's "Bough on-.()ornfl.V / - relief, complete,' pernfauent oure, Opras/' warta, bunions, h Co,, SyiieT. m G«nftr«lAFent'j;-Ai>vT. •-' ff