ROUND THE WORD

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1918, 18 February 1885, Page 2

ROUND THE WORD

England has 316 savings banks. Coaches were introduced in the vear 1580, '

Carbolic.acid, and salisylic acid are ob' tained from coal tar.

2MOO° e oysier parks covering .!: Great Britain makes '830,000,090, pins Weekly. .

The average cost of keeping an English prisoner has now fallen to £2l. The railway embankments of the United Kingdom cover 182 square miles. Riisaiawith its population of has only 63 daily papers. ' 'The consumption. ofvEUgaf in England • has risen forty per cent in t.en years. - The average rainfall-in Dartmooris.76 r 'inches annually. _ -• \ ' ' • The railways of the United States orcttab..' £i;3Q'o,ooo,ooo.': Thehusband of;the Queen of-Madagaj.^?^': car is some fifty yearsolderthah herself. > In France whole cherry orchards are .protected from birds by fish-nets, " ' . The Spiritualists of-Boston 'are erecting a temple which is to cost £50,000. One-third of ;the newspapers published in Italy bear the title of " gazetted Pretenders, to the, Throne areHpared to be ineligible to the French Senate In Paris there are one hundred and fifty tradesmen -who' deal in nothing but old postage stamps. _ r ."Sicilian wine.grown is this-year of very superior "quality. Herbert Bismarck will shortly enter jfcha.German Foreign- Office tfs temporary : Under-Secretaiy. '

General Sheridan willie Marshal of the Day for tHe celebration of the completion of the Washington monument..... Fpni 1879 to 1884 the population of Ire!f n 4 thQ-preViwa five yearjj It dgcreftfled by 4?;CK)Q. " England hag now• acres under hops, and the area is.,' aghually ' : ' f

The highest of tho British ljghthquseg is Skeeryroye,. off Tjree, Its height is 158 feet; ■ The waters of tho Paolfio Ocean at (, A Isthmus of Darien are several feet than the ocean level on the Atlantic" sidajS* Californian Indians manufacture waterproof baskets, They are by Migicans in preference to metal 'tabs, anmst twelve and fifteen years, the Ohineae troops are. uniformed in the lines of the rainbow, with black , : and white thrown in W additional attractions. The difergnj; aompaijiep pf {ljo -gani? regiments wear jjiffereiit Color|, ;. -• . A romarkable'perforaaiiQO, aii3 Qiiefu]} of promise, was given by Jwp boy's,;-t)w Pall Mall' Gazette says, at a concertof tho Brixton Musical Society' Recently, tlhe boys were the sons of the conductor, : , Hei'r Schrattenholz; the elder, who ia-12 years old, performed' : pn the voilin, and- • younger II years pj a Pi oj\ tli§ They were heard to graat'adyatjfegij.' is' i quartet by Mozart and,a trjo by ven, in which they play.e'd with a power and intelligence which" ■ astonished Experienced mupianq pr^en|; : : K rap3t striking feature. of'.' the confleyfc''vjag jgjj; dered by the youthful violoncellist'9!'aij introduction arid pojonaise by which wa§' witj),. jm and command' of his Instrument for his age, The boys have not \ peared iji public, ?.niik~ 4 nose to be perfect sjioujd length of the forehead; it may, when jhg forehead is exf§ptionaUy low,longer, than the fqjiel)i)iis' (and jn moat of the beautiful antique statuep.it-ia so), but on.nq account should it'be ahprtep than the brow.

France_ owns about 600 miles on-tha West African coast, jjngland 850, Portugal 800, the Republic of Liberia 850. England will have with the whole Njgey delta 1300 miles in all, and 900 miles are owned by the natives, . At the Glasgow theatre recently, an amatuer tenor offered himself as a sub; stitute, out of the body of the audience, on the announcement that the professional was ill unci could not take his part in' "II Trovatore," The offer was accepted, The substitute acquitted himself aanlirably, being led forward before the., curtains at the conclusion of the perfor'-' mance to receive the deafening applause of the audience.

The students of the University of Madrid, booomin? indignant at the bishops, made suoh threatening demonstrations against the Carlist newspaper ■ offices that the police arrested young men and dispersed the remairAr^* A bi-centenary of a curious and interesting kind has recently been celebrated at Amsterdam, being no less than the celebration of the invention of the thimble, It is just two centuries ago last. October since the first European thimblo was made by Nicolas van Benschoten, a !• ■, young goldsmith, who devised the artiolo .... - for the protection of the finger of his ■ lady love, Mdme van Reusselaor, for thimbles, like many greater things, owetheir origin to Dan Cupid. The English ; were the first to make thimbles on a . large scale, but long beforo eithor Dutch., : v or English thought of thimbles, Chines# .. v ladies were thimbled when they worked • •. •. -,. 1 . at their grand embroidery.' Tho Chinese., thimbles bore, and bear to this day, the ' form of a lovely lotos flower. Thero is ■ no Buch poetry of shape'' in the Western finger-hat, This anecdote took a prize of £1 jn &)) English weekly paper:—" I wag out at'a small dinner party one evening' recently. A boy, evidently from the greengrocer's shop had been engaged to do the waiting. • When he placed two dishes of tarts the hostes3, she, probably thinking it was not correct to know what was comim| asked, 'What aro these, James? WhoRF upon the boy, pointing to one dish and then to the other, replied; 'Them's a penny each, and them's two for three half pence.'" 1 A Louisville man has fumed out some . . sort, of an electric invention fcy whioii 9 ■ ' man can lie in bed and fish. There is no ~. demand for such an invention, for any* " body knows that a'man who will fish can lie anywhere.