ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1951, 28 March 1885, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

The Kansas city Times relates' that a Rossville little boy, who,recently received a dollar for learning BOo'Bibie.-verses, has,., bought with it a handsome euchre deck. Of the 2,739,928 peopie ; found -in Paris ' ' by a recent census, only 700,000 were • born within the walls,. The- metropolis drains the smaller towns'. The town Council pfVienna has ordered ' " an inquiry into the ptson why the bakers buy wheat cheap and sell bread dear. During the last year 320,800 steerage passengers and 59,500 cabin passengers landed in New York city. In years they have reigned, Queen Victoria stands ninth among the sovereigns of the world. The following advertisement appeared • the other day in the London 'Telegraph'.: "Christian families reluctantly offer \ fashionable service of silver, plate two pieces new), dozen of tablWaoT dessertspoons, forks, heavy soup spoßls, graveyspoons, etc., stamped 'A' very rare. Valued at £l4, immediately cash "■ 78s, gratefully accepted. Divide half service (thirty-one pieces), 455. • Also, two dozen silver decorated table-and cheese knives, carvers to match, 28s. (id, Approval free.—Address, Lady, etc. 1 Punch' once published a picture repre- - senting an errand boy explaining to a horrified doctor that" Missus had taken the lotion and rubbed her leg with the mixture, but felt no better." Quite recently a woman for whom the doctor had prescribed a porous, plaster mistook the proper use of that article, and ad ministered it to herself internally. The " remedy" was wonderfully successfully. ■ It must be confessed that the .plaster did ' not relieve the pain in the. chest for which it was originally prescribed, but the woman sticks to the statement that it strengthened her and.: restored her appetite, When explanations are forthcoming, the "cure" is perhaps not so wonderful a one • after all, She was living at a cheap boardingSfee, fr, , where fried beef-stakes was the™iief article of diet, and she found the porous plaster, by contrast, tender and appetising The doctor, instead of going into fits over the mistake, was liberal-minded onough to direct his patient to take one plaster daily for the next five days, at the end of which she was out of all. danger It is doubtful, however, if the " new remedy" can be made useful for universal " appji; cation,"

Total shipments of wool from Sydney since July 1,201,354 bales. England's ,tl|e spqt tq live in after all. At Leicester they lately gallec.ted :; a jnoh' ".'■'' of 2000 septuagenarians, whose ages totted up to 150,000 years, The annual value of the oilcloth manufactured in the United States for covering floors, &c, is stated to amount to §7,000,000. Inoluding linoleum and the various table-cover goods it amounts to something like §20,000,000, The annual commercial statistics of fcho United States show that the number of bankruptcies in 1884 was larger than was ever known before, and the amount involved was nearly £11,000,000 sterling over the amount in 1883. The valufc of all kinds of stocks and products (ißpt cotton) had declined. J The year 1885 finds no less than four * English judges still actively pursuing \ their judicial labors after attaining the age of four-score years. They are ViceChancellor Bacon, who is in his 87th year ; Judge Petersdoff, in his his 85th; Judgo Holton, in his 83rd;,(and Judge Bayley of the Westminster County Court, also in his 83rd year. A certain witness in an action for assault and battery mixed things up considerably in giving his account of the affair. After relating how Dennis came to him and struck him he proceeded; • ''So, yer • '- honour,!- just hauled off and wiped his • jaw. Just then his dog came along, and I hit him again." "Hit the dog?" "No, yer honour,, hit Denim. And then lup wid a stun and throwed it at him, and it • roiled him over and over.", "Threwa stone at Denis?" "At the dog, yer honour;.; • and he got up and hit me again." "The. dog?" "No, Dennis. And with that he ' stuck hia tail betwixthis legs and run off." "Dennis?" "No, the dog. And when . he came back at me he got me down and • m pounded me, yer honour." "ThedogAetT back at you?" "No, Dennis, yerhonWrp' ■and he isn'thurt any at all." "Who isn't hurt?" "The dog, yer honour," A gentleman one evoningwasseated by alovejy woman, when the company around him were proposing conundrums to each other. Turning to his companion he said, "Why is a lady ljke a mirror?"' S|ie gavt it up. "Because," rudefellpw, ''a mirror reflects without spqaking,- but •■ ' a lady speaks without reflecting'. 1 ' "And why are you unlike a mirror?'' He could not tell. "Because a mirror is smooth and polished, and you are rough and unpolished." The gentleman owned that there was one lady who did not speak without both reflecting and casting reflections. There is lively real estate speculation under the shadow of St. Peter's itself. ■S.allust's house in Rome, which sold fifteen years ago for 60,000 francs is now worth 70,p00. .;■■'",";.;;: •'