ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1913, 12 February 1885, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

Says an advertising agent," You might as well try to shampoo an elephant with a thimbleful of soap-suds as attempt to do business and ignore advertising," A man unknown haa perished from thirst on the Brewarrina run, Ants had commenced to devour him before death took place. '7 On the eve of a battle an officer came to ask permission of the Marechal de Sorias to go and see his father and mother who were on their death-bed, " Go," said the general; "you honour your father and your mother that your, days may be long in the land." -

A Louisville telegram dated December/ 11 says The people of Lee townshp in Brown country, Indiana, are'excitlgaft 'over the case of James Lyman, who wHsr instantly deprived of sight a few days ago^r' One day last week the story goes, while' superintending a clearing, an acccident threw him into an. excess-of passion, and oaths poured like & torrent from: his. tongue. Suddenly the impious deelarations ceased. Lyman fell jith his face dojniwards to the ground, ariSfeu un- . able' to move a muscle, AftSßhirty minutes he recovered slightly,'..biit he was.. unable to regain his speech, and M 3 eyei. , were dimmed. He was borne t6 his- house . . where he has since been lying. in' a half conscious condition,' "'Devout'people, in.; .- • the neighborhood 'look' calamity as a divine judgment .arid a fear-. .':j: ; ful warning against blasphemy.','"; ' '.A; marriage by telegsaph ihas been annulled; by. an Indiana ' Comt £ ' Mis*--Susan Orton, of Pitaburg answered- a. vv 1 '■personal" advertisement,' corresponded ' ' with Thomas Welch" of ' Indianapolis,and finally married him by wire. She found,' however, that Thomas was a 'negro, afir bwugiifr-a witv'fcthave f ceremony declared voidj. whiphi was doriS; Philadelphia has a nase-blanching pro-, feasor, who reduces red noses'to proper-. oolour and'shape for from 15dols to 20dols each. He applies leeches to take out tb' • blood, then electricity to stir up. ', A nerves and "restore the elasticity. 'of I arterial and nervous fibre," andputs on a plaster, to mould and give"things shape, ■ ' There is a tradition that tho numwP'3 is stamped on the royal lino of, England, and there shall be no mqre than three Princes in succession without arevoiution William I and 11, and Heniy.l,;.then tho ' revolution of Stephen. HenryH-, Richard ■ I, John; then invasion of France. Henry ' 111, Edward I, Edward II: the, last was dethroned and put to death, 1 •; Edward 111 and Richard 11, dethroned. Henry IV, V, and VI; then the crown passed to house of York. Edwsrd IV, V, Richard 111, the crown won by Henry Tudor. Henry VII and VIII. and Edward VI; Lady Jane Grey's usurpation. Mary, Elizabeth the crown passed to the house of Stuart; James I, Charles I, revolution. Charles 11, James 11, invatiion of William of Orange. Wfcvaild Mary, Anng; ar, rival pf the house of Brunswick, Here the law provect faulty. ■' A new mechanioal cotton-pioker is said to be an entire success, Commissioners appointed on behalf of the New Orleans Exposition have followed the machine /"W the field, and record their official opinwFV 1 that one ploker, carefully driven, by one mule and followed byUee gleaners, will do tho work of forty pairi" . of human hands. The flying metallic fingers pluck only the full-blown cotton. . The plants are uninjured. The fibre thus . plucked is automatically bagged, The Qourt§ are boqnd tg ad-..'. niiniatec justice, ivijen tl|e pnjsonor black, though tjie heavens fall. In the ; Fourth District' Justice Court atYicks-. ! burg a colored woman appeared and made . affidavit against a colored child, two years at]d a.hftlf old, charging it with , iwder. jn having killed her puppy dog , before it had its eyes, open, The father : of the child brought her into Court in hi*, arms. SHe' was arraigned', arid - when' asked if she had killed the puppy, she--'- . said "Yes." The 'Justice- . thereupon"-• . found her guilty, and fined her 150dol; or • - J thirty days in gaol, A big bet on the presidential election ! was that made by W. ft Jence, of New >' ; Brunswick, N. J., and John Whitehead, !of South JepQme, {t fw forty,GQQ, ant . Vfas pajd qv,er 0® December 10, | 4 story cqmes from the Western part Qf Omaha, that a travelling Baptist preaI qher who had preached a temperancoeri. mon at Antelope, Wyo,, was faWyß' ' .half-a-dozen cowboys to a saloon aiums compelled to drink five or six lemonade glasses full of vile whisky. The cow-boys then started with the preacher to a--temporaiy trading-post in this State, twenty-five miles from Antelope, but be-' fore reaching there tho preacher died from the effects of his rough A Proabytp ( factor of divinity oneg gajq t.Q a reporter the General Assemp bly; I'You newspaper mon must, have" quflQr views of things, You are always looking on and never, taking part. Your knowledge-and thoughts, must be very oicumseribed and superficial, I, suppose now, your idea of the day of Judgement is, that you will have a table off at owside and report the proceedings for the' morning papey, _ V: v is said to be a very disagreeablo man at home, and finds diifioulty in employing servants of either sex. It is estimated thatloo,ooo persons left Paris during the cholera epidemic. The people are now returning in great numbers. ,vy _ Eastern papers are complaining of the increase of drinking habits aippng™|fc, Tjjiijvifle is not cp^ned,tc(%f v Jp. sexfif che humbler class, .but it ig most noticeable in the so-called f'Jadies." The Boston Star claims that .this :is more prfl« Yalent in New York than at. the « hub" gut admits that at great hotels one can* not enter tho dining-hall without seeing ladies with a bottle of .wine before; them, That paper confirms its this habit amongst ladies to .their drinking in public on the principal,-no doUbt, that seems to govern in other matters "in society—that is it is not particularly wrong unless it is found out,. In this connection the story is told by the Star Qf young married lady of Jfew lfqrk Wihoja flame js known in connection with..the grand charity ball# and the flower parties at Delmonico's, who mado a wager with a young batchelor of the Union Leaguro who was staying at the Biime hotel-one not far from the Ocean Pier—that she would " drink him down." The Star, ihe lady is a.fine-looking blonde, and,'attired in an evening dress of white brocade, appeared on the'scene of the refined* con-lA.' test, where Mr' W-™ awaited -her, -aliq to evening coptume. The champagne was ?. r i er^.. a " d )', according to.'th* waiters, the fun began.! 1 It ended by the gentle-man-being assisted from the room. .be/are his third bottle could.be uncorked; the kdy ; with sparkling eyes and luffil cheeks, drank his health in the first: glass.' from her third bottle, and swept frofy the tread. -.- The Pope has • promised to send the Golden Rose to France this year, "and to that lady especially whalas distinguished herself above all othW-ih-Vivdrka of charity. ■ .A coffee plantation has been .established by a landowner in the neighborhood of Rome, It ia stated that. he realifed a •fair profit with this.year's consists of two tons of coffee. per»'h^re. At Toulouse it haa been discovered that a woman supposed to have-died-of cholera has been buried alive,- -The .opffin*'was temporarily placed in. .a'-dead k bbiise,t» and when it was opened again the.position of the body was found to have changed. • - ; ■ • ,! . ■»'/ 4Bkv'