ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1923, 24 February 1885, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

The onormous octroi duty and the high rates of wages demanded tend to make Paris prices in leading shops higher and; higher, and the Chinese war will probably aggravate the situation. ■".-.'■ There are-1,403 dust-women in England and Wales, who spend their .lives in raking over dust heaps for. what gain they may find. And they like.the work. ■•"■■•./■..'■

The fancy fair in Glasgow held recently.. with the object of raising sufficient, funds - to build a sick children's hospital has .now • closed, the sum obtained being'rather •.' more than £20,000. • The popularity of J the fair was due to the fact that the stall-.".' holders were the Duchess of Montrose • and about a dozen countesses and.ladies belonging to noble families in the, and south of Scotland. 1 '-'l^'.'.-. The. late Duke of Brunswick be-' queathed to the Duke of Cumberland • • an iron safe in his villa at Heitzing,' '. which was found to contain coin- and currency to the amount of £500,000. At a .pretty English /wedding the . officiating clergy, with-the choir, met the bride at the door and pre'cejkd her to tho chancel step, the choir&ging "The Voice that Breathed O'er JEUen." An accusation of cowardice during the American war,.lately started in Paris against the Comte de Paris,'has aroused intense indignation;, among the party of Complete official return's of the cholera in the province of -Naples, Italy, show that there were 14,037.ca5es and 7,576 ■ deaths, of which number 12,402 cases and 6,629 deaths were in' the city of Naples. '

No better story of life in-an English country house has been told.than this',.■ from the London Sporting Times:—A moßt eligible young lady'arrived on ft. visit. She noticed on the way to her bedroom a bathroom that seemed,very con-, venient. After the family had retired to-, rest, and there being no chance of her being disturbed, she to avail herself of the luxury of the bath/jQfl entering the room; Bhe read on:thelPr a notice not to latch it as the door was temporarily out of repair, and could not be opened from the inside. not likely to be anyone not a great drawback, and room* Scarcely had she done ■ so. than a gentleman, who was also a guest, thought' to avail himself of the opportunity of the bath, but unlike the lady, ho' did not enter the bath cautiously/'but err'the other hand, manlike, came, in with. & bounce, banging the door behind him. He immediately caueht a glance of tho lady, and tried to bolt, but it was no'use. The door could not be opened. He tried to explain matters, and begged to know what lie could do. The lady almost hysterically replied .to his very great amazement, "If you are a gentleman/sir, you will turn your back to me while I lather myself." Tim he did, and making good use of the opportunity, she applied' the soap so well as to completely color the water, after which he could see even less of her than ho had done at dinner time. She then caused an alarm to be sounded, and was soon released from her awkwud position, A^" Mr Edmund Yates in his volumoff Memoirs, iust published by ley, tells the following amusing s® of a fellow-clerk at the Post Office, whom he calls Pitt, and who was much given to practical joking. Middle-aged readers, lie says, will probably remember that'the original shop for Holloway's patent medicines was at the extremty of the strand a few doors west of Temple Bar. It was a long shop, with a narrow counter running the length of it, at which sat a num. ber of men occupied in rolling the pills spreading the ointment &c, - Pitt had often told me that he felt curiously attached to that shop; and one day; (is wo were passing he said, "Can you keep grave for five minutes?" ; I told him I thought I could, little guessing to what test my gravity would-be subjected." "Then come along." And the next minute he sprang from my side into the shop, where in the open space before, tho counter he began leaping about" ; 'and throwing up hiß legs with an agility which, in those pre-Vokes days, was unknown. The shopmen stared in wonder, and one of them was advancing, when Pitt bounded in front of him and asked, " You don't know me 1 you don't recognise jgT The shopman, evidently taking him'wia lunatic, was muttering somethi|j£about not having the pleasure, when Pinpointing to the pthers, asked, " Do none of you recognize me!" A general chorus of "No." "Idon't wonder at it!" said Pitt, "When I was last in this shop, I was carried in on tho.'cabman's backcouldn't walk a step—jiad legs' of'! forty years standing! But .now thanks "tii-- your valuable pills and ointment—look'here I and here!" Once more he. bounded and danced up and down tho shop-and theu we ran for our lives,

French gentloman to his;rustic_s.ervant: " Well Jean, did you give tho Marquis my note ?" " Yes, sir, I gave it to him; but there's no use writing him lettersrrhe can't see to read them, Ho'b blind-r-blind as a bat!" "blind?" " Yes, sir-blind. Twice he asked me where my hat was, and I had it on my head all the time; Blind as n bat!"

,'Oh! have you heard tho news?" "What news?" "Mrs'de Poultice's daughter has eloped with the coachman," " Nothing unusual about that. Sb*iid what all othor women do." . "WJiSfall other women up 1 What all other women do ? What do you mean ?"'•- SheJcok a husband for wheel and whoa." m.

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