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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1934, 9 March 1885, Page 2

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Hallam is singing in Edinburgh; The fnited States Consul at London only receives £I2OO a year. ". . " The fees "for hanging a man in New York amount to £9O. • The Belgian periodical press now n'um- ' bers 641 newspapers and magazines. Nover before have there been so many unemployed men and women in Philadelphia. ■'.:■■ In some parts of New Carolina candles and kerosene are still counted articles of luxury, : i, Gyrus W. Field-believes that electricity wiH-statln ta,ke the place, of steam on the New Tark elevated roads. , ?;.",' Dienßoucicault, announces that jaia 400 plays, will soon be published in a handsome edition of ten volumes. 1 ' .^" i The tune 'of," John Brown.s Bcijiy"Ts of Methodist ; camp-meeting orijfoj£ It was adapted to its present, use by aMJrganist hvHarvard churchin 1961. •'*•'-] The cataracts of the Nile are'due to granite veins, which the river; while working a ; way through the :sa|dgtone, had been unable to destroy or remove. A; cable special'to the' New Yprk" Times says.th'at never since the close of the Civil war iri : America,;hav,e there been;sc-many impecunious Americans' in- London a» now./; •''. ..: •;...•.: ".' ■A tfrenchnobleman;, member of a family' of very :high standing in Bordeaux'jfrance died recentlyjn' a Union workhouse in Kent, England;-' ■■ ' . .- Among thbs'e,who' attended the Mon'tefiore thanksgiving service at Bevis Marki Synagogue was a lady :threa years older than the centenarian »himself. A new German translation of the works of Charles Dickens is being issued. The poor authorities in Paris say they will have to assist 400,000 peopleTthU year. ' ; ' ; V ■ „ .. fl- t Edinburgh, Scotland, is to have-a;line of street cars propelled by cable, ~ ••• -,' The song "Our Jack's come home,' 1 was composed by Mr Jenkins of'Baliarat, Yiotoria. ~. ;'i : ; New York city declared for free-trade, at the election,' by a majority okhearlv' 60,000. , . ■ J ' : I V "Are you supporting anybodyHthi» : ' year?" asked Farmer Furrow of Deacon)' Doogood. "Certainly, the same old' party as usual," replied the mild-faced'" man. "Whatparty!" "Why, I thought everybody knew. My father inlaw, of course," John Howard Payne's " Home, Sweet Home" was written for an opera. It.wa* first sung in the Covent Garden Theatre, at London and made a big hit. One hun* dred thousand copies were sold the first year. Some of our counties pay five cents a tail for gophers, and in Ljj Moure they"" pass for currency. A nfap/gpeß intp'g saloon and for his drink throws on the' counter gopher tails. When the drawer is full they are taken to the pffige an^ : redeemed or paid out. It looks' a little novel |n church to see gopher, narratives going into the contribution box.—Bis : mark Tribune. Terrible (Jestruptipp of }jf e and. property, '., is reported to have been caused bv ft recent typhoon in Japan, especially on., the west coast. At a place called Kurashiki 500 houses were destroyed, and 1,800 perons are said to have been killed. •• At Tamashina the sea walls were carried-' away, 100 lives-lost, and 430 houses blown'' down; while at Imabari, Matsuysma, and' Iyo, 141 houses ,wore wrecked, 118;. junto - sank, and 170 persons drowned. ~•■;. "The colors formerly employed in tip) - rugs of Persia were imperishable. Rugj 100 years old show no deterioration in tint, but rather a softness subh as ol|'-> paintings assume, The jntro(jupi% fj{ aniline dyes at one time threatened tq-, ruin the manufacture of textile fabrics in Persia, but the law against the en>. ployment of aniline dyes enacted by the; Persian Government is enforced with rigor. .■ ' ■ A traveller through Arabia writes that when a Bedouin is asked to drink his answer would frequently be: "No, thanks—l drank'yesterday." In this country the anew usually is i "Well, I've been at it all the morning, but I guess [ can stand another," A bank position in Paris, which paid a salary of only £45 a year, recontly was., applied for by 0,000 persons, "> ;f A case of poisoning from eating spudding made in part of mouldy bread is recorded in the London Sanitary,.Reeord. Frank Saundors, tho Now York inventor of the machine by which athletes could secure the exercise',bT rowing in their" own rooms, killed himself on a recent Sunday while standing beside the., body of his dead wife, who had'.died from an overdose of chloral,' The newest thing' in London 1 journalintt is the little sheet Which the Eronch colony have startedundorthe title of L'Europe. • It is in the truo Parisian style of course in French and might to all appearanceshave been bought on tho Boulevards. It is' intended to furnish the French "iin London with European news of the day in their own language! ,--'<;■■