ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1903, 31 January 1885, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

;. The number of persons killed in India by wild animalß and "snakes in 1883 was 22,905, as against 22,125 in the previous year. Of these, 60,067 deaths were due to snako bites,. 985 to tigers, 286 to wolves, and 217;-to leopards. The loss of oattler from "the same cause amounted to 47,47.8, animals, being an increase of' 7710n the figures for" the previous year. : ■The lan<rfrelates"tha£a young girl whp..rec'ently,d'ied-k Hamburg possessed the singular gift of. changing the colour of her hair according-to the state of her .mind;,-When sedate,-her hair was of a naturally dull colour; when excited it became reddish and when_.angry, the hair iblonde. Three days we're-generally re-', quired' fqf the "change to be completed. ..

. A-singular : .case of suicide-recently ■ occurred in Paris. A young seamstress- : resolved to haverevengeonafaithless lover : by" thrb^ving' vitriol' bv*er' Mm,' but was suddenly so overwhelmed by the horror of ■lxev intended. '«rime-!tha't-'-she swallowed the vitrol .instead of putting it to its .intended use. ; ;. : She was immediately conveyed to the'-, hospital where she died in 'dreadful agony. ~' ' ' ' Tlie excessive coldness of the weather ■ and heavy snowstorms have driven herds of wolves from the Carpathian mountains into the cultivated districts, where they ihave in-some cases'spread terrpr : .-.amongst the people. At.Homonria, in' North Hungary,a pack of 120 wolves'entered; the. village', -whilst !-.the.' inhabitants:.were atchurch, and were riot.driven'-'out till a •squadron of Uhlans. attackc'd'.,them, : with 'swords and carbines., Other painful'c'asea are' reported from different parts of the country, It is said that arrangements, have been' made for the amalgamation of the Guion Line of Atlantic steamers with the Cunard, '" . It is said that of .the 27.-.tr-anslaters of the new version of .'the QUI Testament, 12 have died during, the work, ... .'-.-.. The Marquis of Bute, has (says the Times) eiven the munificent sum of £SOO to the fund for establishing a British School of Archaeology at Athens. The editor of London Punch is the father of eleven unmarried daughters, Friends, this unfortunate being : will visit New Zealand in 1885. Let us, as we value our own happiness, try to mako his .sojourn among:us as.pleasarit as possible. ■ Mr Gladstono'e Latin version of Toplady's hymn "Rock of Ages," has been set to music by Dr Bridge, organist of Westminister Abbey; and "it has been decided by the Orchestral Committee of the Birmingham Musical Festival to include Mr Gladstone's work in the Friday morning performance, at the next festival, One of the original corners of Paris is the Rue de Petits Carreaux, where the ■strolling musicians hire out by day or night for the balls or little theatres of the • out-pf:the-way quarters, of the capital. It is in a wine shop that assemble, on Saturdays and the days' preceding all holidays, •the-musicians in search of a job and -the. managers in' searcli of artists,. A Bpsion lady ljas a dog. which, when it or its friend, the cat, wishes to go into tlie kitchen, stood by the door and allowed the oat to jump upon its back, The cat would then reach one paw over the latch and by pressing the other paw on thethumb.piece would be able to open the door. The cat would then drop on the dog's back, and ride into the kitchen in triumph. The Prince of Wales has made an announcement that is sure to earn him a vast addition to h|s already great popularity. His eldest son, Prfnqo Albert Victor, the heir presumptive pomes" pf ago next month, says the "Argus" correspondent, and in view of this evont it has been pretty generally understood that application would be made to Parliament to give the youn? gentleman an establishment. All this it seems was however quite erroneous, The Heir-Apparent has taken note of regent objections made by Parliament on this and kindred subjoots, and he has resolved that lie wpuld not -burden tho Treasury with any demands.for his son whilst the Prince remains under the paternal roof. The decision exhibits again, not only the great consideration of the Heir-Apparent for the feelings of the emmf-ry, but still more his singular, adroitness arid tact; I need'not say the announcement 'has' produced a profound impressbn, MissAnnio Teesdalo, a lieutenant in the Salvation Army, who wasoharged with obstructing the thoroughfare in Blenheim, in evidence stated:—" We all stood still, and the policemen, too—bless them; all I hope is they are all saved, Our object is to get people to hear salvation, We like to keep poaqe with everyone, but best of all we like to please God! ' If' Mr Filder is aunoyed with the noise hero, I do not know what he will dodn Heaven,' as they make a tremendous noise there,"'

A young countiy dentist of good family got recommended to him as a patient no less a person than tho bishop of his diocese, fie made a.get of teeth for him and a day was appointed for Ijis hardship to call, and fit them pn (pr in), It' was a moment of great professional importance to the dontjsfc, as ho watched his noble client examining Himself 'and his new teeth in the pier-glass., Imagine his horror, therefore, when he distinctly caught an expression of a condemnatory character, and ending in "fttion-" from his lordship's lips. 'I daresay they are a little uncomfortable my lord,' he murmured conciliatingly, 'but just at first, and until you get used to them —' f Without doubt he shall perish everlastingly,' expjajmed his lordship with vehemence, ' But, Meed, my lord, if you will but have patience,' pleaded'the dentist; 'in a week's' time—' ' What do you mean?' enquired his lordship, turning round with an apostolic smllo ; why should I not have patience ? The teeth fit me beautifully. It Sb the first time I have found myself able to pronounco the •Athanasian' creed' with distinctness for these 20 years.' Trjjth says:-"Mr Gladstone made this translation, 'Jesus, pro me perforatus,' in 1848, anditwaapifblishod in 1861 in a small volume of translations which had been accomplished at various periods by him and by his brother-in-law, the late Lord Lyttelton, This little book Is one of the most striking proofs of the Prime Minister's versatility, and of the .extraordinary extent of his knowledge, fpr it contains his translations—l, from Greek,' of Homar and iEschylus; 2, from Latin, of Catullus and Horace j 3, from Italian, of Dante and Ma'nzpni; and 4, from German, of Schiller;''as well as from English tp Latin, of Milton, Heber, and-Toplady," '•'.'.

Intelligence received at Berlin from Moscow states the Roieff, a student of the Technical School, who had denounced many of his fellow students as Nihilists to the police, was attacked with a mortal illness, accompanied by symptoms of poisoning, shortly after having received a visit from a stranger. The police have been endeavoring to trace this person, but up to the present without success. The superjntendant of the prison where Roieff was lodged to protect him from the vengeance of the Nihilists was immediately dismissed, • Lawruch'in, another student employed as a spy by the police, had to.. leave Moscow in order to save his life.

The cattle destroyed in the Madras Presidency by tigers and cheetahs' during the quarter ending 30th' September last, included 118 bullocks, 769,,c0w5, 282 calves,. 208 buffaloes, 171 sheep, 239 goats, 22 horses or ponies, 30 asses, 50

dogs, and 20 pigs, a total of almost 2500 animals.

Twenty one thousand houses were built m London last year, The foreign telegrams of the London Times cost in one .single day recently £2OOO. Of the 4090 Chinamen in New York and Brooklyn, over 3500, are. engaged in the Laundry; business..,./ ;;.•'.. '•?■ .: ; 'Jluje meat is a. favourite dish in Paris, .■: .... ''•'"TTi'e'Rdssfan ; '6oyei'nin.ent has decided to manage all the pawnshops in the Empire itself. •

A little girl died at South Guridagi, New South Wales, ..the other day from eating lucifer matches.

After allowing the French copper coinage to be in circulation in England for over twenty years, an attempt is -being, made to stop it;'. Thj "post-offices are now : re'fusing--the'French "copper which has so long done duty for the' English penny." : Two million three hundred thousand shank bones'of oxen are annually required for .the Sheffield ..cutlery- trade. ■■'"'..■ Boston has an apple mission which dis-' ■tributes 4000 or 6000 bushels of apples among the poor every year. The are 150 orphans in a temporary •asylum in Naples."."They lost all their relatives by the ohple'ra".' .

']■■■■ Six millions of dollars worth of silver is" •used in America every'yiar for manufacturing and decorativo purposes. ' , :.. The are'now 312 reformatory and'in-, dustrial schools in. Great Britain, the total number of pupils being 25,337. • -A Kansas man has patented an arrange--.ment to put upon locomotives-for squirting hot -water for driVifi'g'.eattl'e off jthetrack....' ".'.J

It.is computed people go into London by railjeyery day to earn their livelihood, and leave it at and yet an accident rarely oceurs. At Bulls a shop- just opened has this notice in the window:—"Goosberes For .Sail From 4d to t)d pr. quart. Any quantity from 1 quart to AIOO Wait." ' Thero are 2061 Natives in the; ; . Middle Island ,'and there are /reserved for their, use 791,044 of land, or about 38 acres for each man, woman, and child, Seven million six hundred and sixtyeight thousand women in England and ■Wales earn their own living, and several hundreds more'earn' their own and their husbands'living. ...Small-pox hospitals are being constructed of waterproof paper in Liverpool, : Tho large buildings of the Amsterdam Agricultural Exhibition-are constructed of tho same material. "

•A new clock has'been invented, and is coming into use in Europe; which is war-, ranted by • its manufacturers to run five yeai-s without either winding or regulation. The Belgian Government placed one in a railway station in 1881, sealed with the Government seal and it has kept perfect time ever since.

At Burntisdale, on the Firth of Firth, an orphan girl was lately found in a straw rick, where she had been six days and nights without food or drink. She started •to walk from PerthioEdinburgh with only a few coppers, By the time she reached Burntisland she had spent the last halfpenny for food, • England is at the head of the mirror manufacturing industry of the world, producing 760,555 square yards annually, France produces 530,000 square yards, and Germany 340,000 square yards. In America the principal manufactory, at Lenox Furnace, Mass,, produce about 110,000 square yards a year; A Bill for the regulation of the hours of work in stores is to be introduced in the House of Commons by Sir John Lubbock. It provides that a young person shall, not be employed in any store for more'than twelve hours a day, T](e yiqlatipn of the law makes the employer liable to a fine not exceeding five pound for each person employed, . There are in London 251 Congregational churches, with the same number of "chapels," as English Non-conformist churches are called. Besides these there are 145 preaching stations. The oldest of these churches is said to have been formed in 1573, Most of them however have been organised singe JBQQ, There are 222 ministers in ohargo, An Italian paper says the tanners have enjoyed remarkablo immunity from the cholera, and that in all towns in Italy where tanneries existed" the scourge was much less severe than 'in Other localities.

A resjdenj; qj Warsaw, s.t., is' said to be dying frprn tlie P '''#cj;s qf |)af|itei suporinduoed by wearing a pair or' extremely tight boots some three years ago since which time pains in his foet and legs have nexer ceased,

" Iced Goat" is tho name given by the barkeepers in New York to their latest concoction. It is composed of goat's milk, gin, and lemon peel, with a due addition of sugar, and.. jjjq, |t Is sajd. that the <! dudes" bleat for th'e..new h'everage, A shillng fine and costs'have have beet) imposed by a Livevpopl-magigtrato upon a colored man for "carrying a certain article of annoyance—to wit, a large banjo—upon tho footway of Bold street, otherwiso than for the purpose of loading or unloading'iu>y carriage or" of crossing the fqotway."'.-'.! ~.!... A physician of New Lqndon; Conn., has a patient who experiencos-blqodsweating, The disease is not fatal or serious! The patient sweats, bright, health blood from tho arm pics/ TJjeswoating is supposed to be caused by en)aWen]en|; pf jihe pores of the skin, " There" are'pnly ten' similar casqs on record.

DrG, Jaoobson,told fte Ikjtish medjcal Association of a pationt of his, 55 years old, who had lived on milk diet for five years, He took a gallon of milk a day, but not a particle of any other food, Thjs, treatment cured him of Bright's disease.

A gang of Boston Arabß took position, of a vault in one of the qomefcories of Boston, In which they imprisoned a rival bootblack, leaving him there to die of starvation, He was> opportunely discovered by a polioe inspector, on the virge of insanity. The House of Lords has, in tho last 50 years, been reinforced by 181 Liberals and 68 Conservatives. In the same period the Liberals have made 228 baronets; the Conservative total is 77. The rectpr qf a London parish has not been seen within the limits qfhjs within three years, He receives a salary, of nearly £I2OO a year, whilst his duties are very acceptably porformed by a ourato to whom the rector pays £l4O a year. A jeweller of St: Louiß has rendered himself an object of interest by sellin? garters with bells attached. Depending from each garter is a tiny silver hell, , shaped like a sleigh-bell. "The tintin-' abulationof this protty pendant," says the jeweller's "advertisement, "sounds delightfully melodious.' "Ladies wearing these garters are accompanied, by a musical tinkle as they glide gracefully along," , .. " ~ "Mamma," said a young girl of tho West End, " why can't I make my debit this winter ?" " You are too young. You don't even know the duties of Society yet," "Oh, yes I do. I know all the dudes.' There's Dudley Le Clair, and Montgomery Smith, and Fletcher Drew, and—" " Thats enough, my dear," interrupted her mamma, "1 see you.know a great deal, but hot quite .so much'a's y<M mother, Go to. bed now, and I'll think it over."

" Why men drink is what staggers us." say s the leading abstinence journal. What men drink-is. what-staggers ■them. A large horticultural Exhibition i? to be held in Berlin in.-S#tßHfberiLßßs. -Mr' Arthur Miall has just completed-

the story of his father's lifffljdward Miall. '-, ' </W Of fclie 32,000 Indiana.in the territory of Dakota, 30,000 speak the Dakota language, A little fiction-.sketch,-;-"Ohewton Abbot,"-' by Mr-Hugh; Conway, is pw migedbyMessi^ChairflJeiwrx';' ■■' Little'Belgrunr has : f4 : i'ri£wspapers and magazines,, of which; seventy are daily papers.. ••. .-.-. ,-..-. .. r-v- ---.'. The'music professiofcin. Naples is said ,to,have been entirely' broken:ap by the cholera, . • '■•• -"" "■ '• .-" V. . ' The famous Rugby- colony in Tetoesse* is about to turn itsatterition toiyine-grow-'irig. ' '■;' ■'_ '..•;.". t ;* - In connection with the, collection of funds for the Church of' England parsonage atDanevirke (says the'local'.paper), tlo Wqodville.siibsoribera-evidreritly seized upon the occasion of."paying their sub scriptions as'a favorable btfportunity for" having a- hit. at:tKe;-coUectors. Ona cheque was made payable to Parsonage," and -another,'tO'"Churcu dwindle."-"'","' " 'The death' is -.chronicled'-it Buenos Ayres.of Senor Nicholas incKelem, who was probably the richest farmer in the world. His property is'said'toijjfc'e consisted of 1710 square miles of laSJw2,OOO cows, and 200,000 sheep, together with_ a considerable amount of house property in the city The assets "at the timo-of his death were £2,400,000. .. Tour.mountains, thre.eL.of.alum and one of alum ana sulphur mixed, are said to be located in Lower California. The, alum and' sulphur- are almost .chemically ,'puro. It is estimated that in these mountains •,there;are 100,000,000Hons,vof alum and l,oßo',flop'tons'df'sulphurr • ' Tho foilo'wing'amusing clipping is from an exchange:—". A.lady,. when' engagad in the pursuit of "her .domestic duties, encountered a mousein a flour-barrel. Now, most young ladies,' under simiialrj circumstances," would have uttered alewgenuine shrieks, arid' then, sought-.'safety* in .the garret'; but'this than the ordinary degree of genuine courage. She summonsed'the man-servint, and told him to get the gun, call.the dog and station himself at a convenient distance Then she clambered half-way upstairs,* and commenced to punch the with a pole. Presently tho mous|j«.de N its appearance, and started across tlrsjfoor. The dog at once went in 'pursuit. '. The man fired andtho dog dropped dead. The lady fainted; and'fell; down ;tho stairs; andthe.man thinking she and fearingthat -he would_.be'ariested for murder disappeared; and has-not been seen since.' The 'mouseescaped.l" The London and Provincial" Bank has passed the following resolution:—"The board being of opinion that jt is t 6n many grounds inexpedient for clerks employee; in tho bank to contract marriages on insufficient means: Resolved—As a general rule, but subject to any exceptional circumstances which may induce the board to dispense with such; .'rule—That, in future, if any member;Of'.the staff, whose income is less than £l5O, a year, shall marry, he shall be disqualified from continuing in.the bank's service and will accordingly be. required toretire.from it. Minister;" My dear brethrett, in this warm, oppressive weather,-1 cairexcuse a little drowsiness during my sermon, but I do wish you would try to keepawake while the collection is being takeiMft.'^ Philip Armour, the "pork:kitfgJWthe* North-West, is said to be worth-25,000,0C0' dols. He has 10,000 men in his- employ, and has lately made 2,000,000 dols in one transaction. He rises at .five o'clock daily and works longer and' harder 'than any of his clerks, There is no great city in the world that does not contain one of his representatives. -.- -'>

The following is from the'- Naploy Daily Telegraph:—Fjye payes, lrayo bee"]} discovered thirty-three mile's Tfrqni Qopk: town, the walls of which are covered with aboriginal drawings of men, women'and animals, some of which are very good. A few yearsago some mysterious .paintings were discovered in the Weka r Pass of the New Zealand Alps, and ethkojigists are puzzled to account for them. .-It is said that similar rock paintings are found in regions of earth widely separated, and sqme imagine tliat tljey are of Phoenician origin, The Phcenicjans .were famed sailors and they 1 have left%e"reobra f d{"a voyage to South America on a atone found there, giving the number of • ships an! crews. It would, therefore, appear that possibly these bold navigators had visited lje\y Zealand when it was in reality the land of and the Jfessra Legrancj (and reached the chalk in a boring, at Yange, near Pitsoa, in Essex, at a depth of B24f't from the surface. This, the/Athenteum says, settles an important question as to the depth to which the tertiary formation extended in the part of Essex; 305 ft. had to be pierced before meeting with the jq'wer tortjary- bkhf whioh hay.o been proved to be 129 ft thjck, : ' ; --: ; . : '•"•" . A.bufoaiiof scieiitulo 1 mformafion has been'formed in Philadelphia, composed of offioers and mombors of tho..A.cad«my of Science, whoso duty, shall be the imparting through correspondence, of (preciso and definite information' upon'''tW : . t different departments of science. -.The organisation js pr)roly'vo;i'untaiy; ;;, V|h i Is Professor A/ngeJo Ileilprln of ,t|sqafom'y ofSoienoo,'' : ' : '- ■"'", : ,■'■■;'''; '" '"''