ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1895, 22 January 1885, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

'. Victoria Park, London, is 500 acres in "extent; Hyde Park about 3M acres. •'' . A- Yictoriair squatter has purchased •7000 acres at the Thames for £21',000.' A number of persons .have been poisoned in the vicinity of Margate by eating shrimps. y The consumption of butcher'B meat in England annually exceeds four and a-half million tons-

An American, who advertised on the fences of Paris, was fined £lO for annoying the yision of the public. The home industrial schools in New York have sheltered 30,000 children, and found country homes for 6000. • In Germany a, man dare not cut down the .trees !on & own land without consent of the proper authorities, so zealous is the Government in preserving the forests." " f ' .. There.;are 560,000"policemen in the British Empire. London has three theatres owned and managed by women. " The Washington monument at Washington has reached a height of 520 feet' 10 inches.

It is estimated that there were 200,000 tramps in Germany last year.

There ia a firm of female architects in London which does a flourishing business.

Upwards of 650,000,000 passengers are carried annually on the railways of Great Britain,

The Ohurch of England at Opunake is used for storing wool in, and at the present it is almost full. • • The law in the United Statos is administered by about 200 judge's. Most of them are elected for two or three yoars, but' in Massachusetts they hold, office during good behaviour, in New.Harapshiretill the age of 70, and in Delaware and Rhode Island for life. The numbers in the various States rango from three to nine. ,

Few people ave awaro that hor Majesty still adheres to the pattern chosen by the late Prinoe' Consort for the carpets at Windsor, So that when one Bet is worn a new one precisely similar in all respects has to be woven to supply its place. 'The pattern consists of roses, lilies and ferna on a very green ground. ' A story- is' told of the late Bishop Bloomfield-revisiting his college chapel at Cambridge,- after a - long absence. Finding the same verger there whom lie remembered in his undergraduate days, he said to him, " You have much to be grateful for." "I have, indeed, my lord," replied the old man, "fori have heard every sermon that has boon preached in the chapel for fifty .years, and, bless the Lord, 1 am a Christian still!"

The London and . Provincial Bank has

passed a resolution to the effee; that only under exceptional circumstances will any member of the staff whose income is less than £l5O a year be allowed to many, and that if he does so, he shall be disqualified from continuing in the Bank's seryice and ypill accordingly be required to retire from

A wire rope hag been manufaotnred in Llie works of Sir George Elliot, M.P., at Cardiff, for the North British Railway

which is 2300 fathoms in length, or two miles and 108 yards. It weighs 2l£ tons.

Nearly 100,000 fathoms of wire have been, used in making it, This huge rope is to be used in working the trains in the tunnel at Glasgow between the • Queenstreet station and Cowlairf. A frightful accident occured at the Carlton Ironworks, near Stockton, to a steeplejack named Booth. He fell from the top of a chimney 240 ft high, Halfway down his right leg was caught by an iron rail, torn from his body, and remained

fixed there while the dismembered corpse fell to the ground literally Binaslied. His father and his brother witnessed the accident.

A married couple in Alleghany City, Penn,, have separated on account ofdifferences growing out of the Presidential nominations. Tho husband was for Blaine and the wife for Cleveland, As

usual the woman was on the wiiminj side.

. Fifteen hundred and seventeen murders' were committed last year in the United States. In the proceeding year thore were 1,266. Out of 1517 homicides, only 97 were exeouted by legal process,' Thus a criminal's chance of avoiding a capital penalty, when tried before a jury, is about 14 to one. He may, however, be lynched, and 118 lynchinge.ocourred kit year. The most extraordinary thing in names was given in tho Eastern Duly Press, Norwich, England, on Monbay, July 21,' where it is recorded that a dealer at Newtown, St. Faith's, was summoned to show cause why hia child, "Shelomith Beth: eheba Adora Bone' I 'should not ba vaccinated. The mere name QUght to be sufficient protection against amall-pox or any other plague, The favourite stimulants of some of tho great ones of history are as follows Bonaparto used snuff; Byron's favourite drink was gin and water; Pope's strong coffee; Messrs Siddon's porter; Edmund Koan'a, beef tea, cold brandy; W. E. Gladstone's an egg beaten up in sherry; Disraeli was fond of champagne jelly; Lord Erskino and John Kemble üßed ppium. The United States emigration .returns for October last show a decline of onefourth as compared with the. figures for the previous October. The losses caused to the various interests by the strike in the Hocking Valley Ohio, since Juno the 27 last, are estimated ot .4,000,000 dols. A collision has occured below the Iron Gates on the Danube between the Roumanian gun-vessel Padurul and the Austrian cargo stoamer Galatz, by whieh the former was sunk, A strange suicide has been committed at Boulogne-by a young man whose, great horror was tho prospect of a military- service. He tried every- means,, to. avoid it, but to no purpose. He then returned to the village church, and after engaging-in prayer, went to the tower and rang his own death-knell—viz., a stroke for every year of his ago, On the sounding of the last toll he cast himself from the belfry and was picked up dead. In a certain town lived a good deacon who had two Bons, thirteen an! fifteen years of age respectively. Going to the barn one day, he heard some chattering in the hayloft,' and listening, detected such expressions as "I pass" "Down she goes" " Make it spades, U Rightly divining that his boys, In company with some neighbors, were engaged in this abomination. a game of cards, he procured a goodeized cudgel) and quietly mounted tho ladder. Just as he stepped into the loft one of. jhe, hopefuls asked, "What's trnmps ?" The old gentleman answered,, as ho laid'abou!j him - wjth the-cudgel, " Clubsiß tramps, and it's Daddy's deal"

The steamer Duke of Argyle, whloh sailfed for London from Brisbane lately, took 5584 bales of wool, this being the largest- single shipment which has ever left Brisbane. Last year tho 28 cigarette factories of Germany turned out 187,000,000, and the - ?f 'the French, Government cigar*- ". ette- factories was\GOO;000,000. largest •cigarette factfify of the world ii ' that of La;Hdnr'adez, which hasa produc*' - •ingCapacii^'of:2,s3o,oTO;per ; day'!•' ford theweU-knbmp ; . : M.F.H;,; are; learning' 'the '-'rahcWs ■ •busmßß?.:; sW Q'ff • on? a 6Qd mile" fMe^their'kit", , few-" flannel shirt s'and a couple of six-shooters : with cartridges galore. •' ,• A Russian paper'says that the militia or •• territorial army of Russian was up till th» other day very badly armed, and- that in-' • ■ the event of its being called out it would have had-only muzddojdew of a very old' pattern, being looked uppn as."nothing 'more than a substitute for troops generally • • employed for ordinary Bervice at hoiie.rf^ The Marquis of Bute has agreed to the whole of the Bute docks at Cardiff, together with;the railways and rollingstock connected with them, to the,'(faff Railway Company. An application, will be made next session to Parliament to sanction the transfer. The value of the property is about £360,000. An interesting discovery has been'made at Mossman's Bay, New South Wales," an old cannon, an 18-pounder, having been ■ raised from the bed of the stream by a diver. v The relic is' supposed to be one of the guns of the. Sirius man-of-war, which came, out to the Colony with convicts in 17-88, underthe command of Captain John Hunter. ; -7 .

Mr/James Perry, one of Chester's" " characters," died recently, and it • ia; stated that deceased,' whose parismonj ' inl ifewas veiy great, was .'worth over a' million of money. Next to the Duke of Westminister, he was .the : largest property owner in Chester, - -Many anecdotes characteristic of Mr Perry are told. On one occassion he instructed a ■ tenant, in paying over £2, Jo bring; rent in two instalments to avoid af stamped receipt. ' ■ Crematioirappears to be gaining gspuiid in Germany. The latest subject is ■ that' ofDrDulk, who died at Stuttgart, trad was taken to Gotha and there cremated, This makes the two hundreth body cro-' mated there since the a building for that purpose at the- end of .1878. In 1881 and 1882, 33 were- eremated there, 47 last year, and 54 •since January.! Out of thia total there were 128 males and 72 females. The judge got home rather late the other evening and found' a -young fellow sitting on the sofa with the "sole daughter of liis house and heart." ."Well," said the judicial gentleman,: "what are you doing here?" "I have come into court, your honor,, for.the defendant," was the ready replj. Pat came into camp with a goose under his arm. "Didn't you know it' was against orders' to ,'forage on the' enemy? Explain yourself," said the w geant. "Yes," said Pat, "but the hissed at the American flag and I tuok him a prisoner of war." • "What do you pose is the motto of our new ladies social ty ?" asked Mrs Blodson of her husband "Give it up," said Mr B. ■ "No it isn't!" said Mra Blodson, indignantlyits never mind." "First-rate!" exclaimed Blodson: " suppose you try it on once in a while, when I , come home late from my club, will you?" "Do you know, Miss Smitherj," re* marked yonng Featherly, "that there i» something very . peculiar .about youy father?" " Something very peculiar about my papa?" repeated Miss Smithera, who loved Featherly passionately but purely, •'Yes that young man went on, "very peculiar," " And what is it pray?" "It. lies in the fact that although he is not 'a grandfather, he has a grand daughter. In a Southern paper is told an amusing anecdote regarding an old bachelor and a single unmarried lady who lived 'by herself, He had occasion to call ori business at her house, and, says the narrator, he knocked with the telling pungency of his famous business knock, and for answer came the question from a be-laced andbemuslined head thrust from an adjacent window—" Whose there ?" " Me!" " Are you a married man ?" " No, thank God," Then the awful truth flashed' Across hkj mind—it was leap year, and the cravdffl hearted bach, rather than liiidergo the trial of this sturdy woman's right advocate popping the question to him, fled down the garden path, and home to the dignity of his office stool, leaving behind a cloud of dust to mark his track, to bliow his speed, and to veil his retreat, . A married man now collects that lady's rent. The celebrated Abernerhy having asked a candidate at his examination what means he would use to promote perspiration in a particular disease, the student exhausted all the resources of his memoiy and imagination, and Btill the. p.ortihaceous con* tinued to bore him wjtjv "Well'sir and if that failed, then what'would ypu do.? 1 ' The'lad, driven to his wit'B end, exclaimed,- " Then Sir I would - send him to.you to be Examined; and if %t did not make him Bwdatitis my his case would be hopeless." The new play at a Londort 'tHeatre, "The Babes, or Whines from the Woods" (writes a London correspondent), is nowadvertised in the streets by the employ: mentof 40 young girls, all dressed alike, marching along, and bearing light.sand* wich boards with the advertiaeinents J the play on their fronts and backs, ? litte tlmo sinoe men in prision.. garb marched through the street in this fashion to advertise "14Days in Gaol." Anotherform of advertisement is a donkey cart, in which is placed a bottle 10ft. in advertise a brand of Ohampagnei Here is a good story of the Duke of Wellington,' It may have appeared be>,

fore, but no 'matter. A lady much inter'® ested in a oertain church for whichsubabriptions were needed,' wrote to the duke, telling him that feeling aure shemight count on his well-known liberality; 3 slie had put him down for £2OO, and ' 1 hoped he would send her a cheque., The Duke courteously replied that he too was: building a church and was equally con-> vincedthathe could count on her.wellknown liberality to assist in the goojl work. He had therefore put her name down for £2OO, "and so," he concluded, no money need pass between w, It is stated in well-informed circles in • St. Petersberg that twelve professors of of: the universities of Charkoff and Kief. will be deprived of their appointments for holding views of too liberal a character. 4 . George had proposed and been accepted. "Well," she said, "l ean sing and play on the piano and harp, can paint, 'antUt the seminary I was up in the fine affjy and political economy and logic, and I can crotchet beautifully, and play lawn tennis, and, and—that's about ali i think. Now, tell me what are some of your accomplishments, George?" . "Ihaven't got any?" "Not a single one!" "Well,"' he said, with a aigh. -'if the worst should :■ come to the'worst, I think I might, <be; able to cook," •

Japanese newspaper enterprise is makkg rapid progress. It is stated' that-no less than three vernacular nefapapfew published at Tokio and one at Kobo.liiive sent special correspondents to report ; the events of the war in China. • "

A; decreo of President Grevy ia officially published, announcing that: the Universal Exhibition will open on''May 6, 1889, and 'close on October. 31. The conditions of- the exhibition will be set forth in a second deorea, to ba issued &U future date.