ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1954, 1 April 1885, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

Victor Hugo is reported to be seriously Mr Morgan O'Connell, second son of the liberator, died in Dublin on the 20th January. Sir W. Muir has been appomteiwh'in. cipal of the Edinburgh University. W A perfectly black hare was recently shot on the estate of Mr J. P. Cross, Catfchorpe Towers, Rugby. Queen Elizabeth! breakfasted on beefsteaks and beef; so did Mary Queen of Scots; both being fine healthy women. Professor E Sayco has deciphered an Assyrian record of a transit of Venus in the sixteenth century before the Christian era. The poplin trade in Ireland is much gratified by-orders received in D/'Jni from the Queen for several poplin cLflfcs for the wedding trosseau of Prints Beatrice.

It is said that lemon juice cures cases of malaria that have resisted the action of quinine. This remedy is popular in Rome, Greece, North Africa, Guadaloupe, and other malarial districts, An average Atlantic steamer consumes between fifty and eighty..tons of coal in 24 hours, Therefore, if five tons of coal is sufficient to feed.an" ordinary our dwellings during the entire yjfithe coal consumed on boarda steamer Wone day, would last a small family, burning one fire, from ten to sixteen years. Captain Temple, who has done much for the Punjaub already'in collecting and editing popular stories and leeends, has lately discovered some memoirs by a, Minister of Runjeet Singh, giving the rise of his power and the inner history of its growth. He intends to translate and publish thorn, and they will possess an almost unique interest in Indian history, George Augustus. Sala 'seems to be rather hazy in his knowledge of Austra. lian geography. In answer to an interviewer in New York he'said-" I go to New South Wales, Queensland, Jasmania, and Australia, My objim in travelling is to make a big pile of (iJney by lecturing, bo that on my retard to England I may be able to retire from pro, fessional life."

Mr John Bright, M.P.,ina published letter, takes credit to the Liberal party for all the roforms effeoted during the past fifty years; and he adds that a thorough reform of the land laws is necessary and imminent. ■

A Bill to prohibit the acquirement of land by aliens in the United States has been reported to the House of Rcpresen : tatives bya committee who '■ recommend that it should be passed,: . / Plates of cast glass havo been sujnutedfor copper in the Italian vessel, the joints being made tight bya silicate mastic. The .advantages claimed are exemption from oxidation and incrustation,

Dr Moorhouse's.reply to Mr Justice William's book on " Religion without superstition," is being anxiously looked for in Victoria. The'sale, of the book, which has been ruthlessly assailed by the orthodox press, is something enormous. An electric horse chronometer has been invented, The movoment is controlled by a, prent opened and closed'by the breaking of an almost microscopic cf/ ogr wire stretched across the track. It iIMjL to reoord the 1,500 th of a second. \$ M. Dubois, of Paris, finds that ohlor<>. ? ■form acts with extraordinary rapidity on criminals, after the introduction of alcohol into the system, and terminates in death with startling abruptness. This discovery may form a duo to the fatality of alcohol in some oases,;!

Last year the boats of the British Royal National Lifeboat Institution rescued 596 lives, During the year the Society gmted rewards for the rescue of 159 liuAby means of fishing, and other boats, stfUta. grand total of 780 lives has been saved in the last 12 months through its instrument tality, bringing up. the number of Uvea saved since the foundation, of the instiution to 31,343.

The visits of the Kingof Italy among the oholera,9trieken poor inthe slums of Naples have had two good effects. In the first place they have greatly heightened the esteem and affection felt by the people for their sovereign, and in the second they will lead to great sanitary reforms in Naples, and, it is hoped in .the towns in Italy. • • {h

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