ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1900, 28 January 1885, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

k a morning call, pipes andtea are as invariably.brought in at Jeddb as pipes and coffee at Constantinope.. At the conclusion of such, call, sweetmeats' or other dainties,to be eaten with chopsticks,. are served up oh a sheet of paper, some: times purely white, and sometimes ornamented with with tinsel or bright colors. ■ "Pocketing"'is not a vulgarism, bnt.a duty _ strictly imposed by etiquette. If the visitor cannot eat all the dainties, he must fold the remainder in a piece of ■ paper, and disposit them in his' wide; sleeve, which serves its his pocket. At" grand dinners each guest is expected to> take with him a servant or two to caSs off in baskets the remnants of the bangijet. There is come danger that the «na donnas of the world will before lonpe compelled to enter into competition, with a number of pigmy rivals, introduced into the musical .world, by an enterprising Italian who succeeded in training a largenumber of parrots as opera singers. These gay. singers have lately ma<ktheir<Mti4at . Lima', Peru, the programe being a frag, ment from the well'-knownopera "Norma, 1 with solos, chorus, and the accompaniment of an harmonium. The success is said to have been complete up to the cava, tina, "Chasfe goto," at which the hilarity of the public became so boiserous, that the performers lost all self-control, and shriekingly left the stage, not to appear again that day. Even the great are not exempt from the. martinet annoyances imposed by foreign officials, Field Marshal von Moltb, returning a few days ago from Eagatz in ■ Switzerland, where the veteran, general has been spending a few weeks in retirement, was presented by the inhabitants - with a large boquet, it being known that the old soldier is a great lover of floyeju He proposed to return home by «B Vorarlberg, which would necessitatis crossing the .Austrian frontier. Here, however, his boquet was refused passage, it not being permitted to take' flowers across the frontier for fear of the phylloxera. ■ The Marshal, rather than part with his bouquet, changed his route, and proceeded home through German Switzerland. This man of blood and iron has, it would appear, a tender side where the fair children of nature are concerned,

Here is a description of a recent masquerade ball given by James Gordon Bennett, at his Newport (U.S.A;)villa, in ; honor of his principal guest, President Arthur: —"Electric lights were profusely "■ used around tho grounds and within a large tented ball-area of shaven and rolled tan. Beneath the pines, maples, and oaks were many small pavillions connected together, as well as with the ball-room and the supper pagodas, by carpets. At • one end of the dancing pavillion was a mimic iceberg, composed of twenty tons of ice, over the sides of which, from ■ invisible pipes, gushed little rivulets that escaped into grassy basins beneath, the' whole lighted by an ingeniously Qoncealel electrig ligty, At the other endifihe pavillion was a massive pyranljNrV maiden fern, surmounted by the flafa of / ' the host's large steam yacht Namouna. The thermometer beyond tho grounds stood at 85deg, but the icy atmosphere is said to have destroyed all sense of heat in the 600 guests. The church of S.S. Peter and Paul is. the burial place of the Emperors, and a' solemn place it is, The large white tomb- . of Alexander 11. is regarded-with yenera-'" ■ tion, and surrounded with emblems -of ' griof, -They call him. thoir martyr'..' Emperor, and honor him.as the emanciv • .pator of serfs. Next' -lies- his father,' Nioholas I, who poisoned -himself." By his side is his brother who, having married a Polish'lady "for love, abdicated-%■ • throne whiohhehad forfeited by marrying beneath him. He disappeared;-and his death was considered necessary'to avoid a revolution, Our guide, continue, ing 'the'sad history said" Hereliee Paul) ?' who was suffocated; thore is the body: of '■ Peter 111,, who was a'sjiaiihiated; there is the tonvb of Annie, who was exiled. t« .Siberia, and died pf a broken heart, arid next lies her son who was stabbed,"'. $8 looked at the gilded magnificence rahe church, and the calm of the beK&ul marbje tombs, and shuddered with horr'or'H at the recital,—St, Petersburg correspoiT' • dent of the Hartford Tirnes. '';'.:. I have seldom read of so gross a case of i cowardly inhumanity as that which came ■ to light at an inquest at Wye a few days ago. A party of men had been drinking together, and one of them made a wage? that he would swim across the river Ssout:-. The man, it appears,' was drunk,-and. • promptly began to drown. A: strangertried to rescue him, but without auccep ;• • whilst tho ruffian who had made the; ■ wager remarked that " the fellow meant-' to drown"; and drowned-he consequently •' was before the eyes of the whole pa% •■. who then returned to the public house for another glass, The coroner's jury ha'd-tfi ■ content themselves with censuring-the'., inkman-'conductofthemen, who certain'- ' |y have good reason to rejoice that tho - law accepts the distinction drawn iln Clough's "New Decalogue"- .?.'; Thou shalt not kill, but need'at not st-rivo" Officiously to keep alive. . ..... -'