ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1957, 6 April 1885, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

In France a public square is named after Parmenier, tlig iqali) wjio taught Frenchmen tq eat p,qtatoeq, and it is proposed to eroct a statue to his nieniory. Tha reoont snowfall on the Italian Alps is tlie heaviest within the memory of man. Terrible accounts arrive from the villias;es destroyed, It ia calculated that, so far as known, 300 lives have been lost, Locomotives in the Prussian service used for switching purposes are to be providod with a fire-cxtinguiahing apparatus, by which they can be immediately converted into fire engines. Prince Bismark makes his foreign office. cost only §1,400,000 a year, while those of England and Franco cost §3,000,000 each. His own private .fortune is said not to exceed §500,000, A student created dismay among English examiners at Cambridge. He wrote: "TheGordian knot was a difficult knot which Jferp tjct) anfl by means of which hekept the Empire of Rqme In subjection. The B-epublio of Mexico maintains an agricultural college at its capital, the appropriations for which last year were §339,284.

The soaport towns of England aro . growing at the expense of the inland I (towns and the modern facilities for travel- - ling have brought about a more general shifting of population than was customary in former years. Money doesn't always make the mare r •' go.. Fat man (who is in somethidßif a • hurry), " I'll give you a me to the station in three minutes." Cabman (with provoking slowness), Well, sorr, you might corrupt mo but you can't jjf corrupt that horse, A ;• An enterprising picture-dealer in London has imported'from Berlin 10,000 photographs of Prince Henry of Batteuberg, who is about to marry Princess Beatrice of England, : ,- Port wine, instead of going out of fashion as has often been asserted of late, is said by a French houso to be growing steadily in popular favor. There are 2,480 co-operative in Germany, with a membership 1,000,000, and last year they 1 purchased • over £75,000,000 of goods. • ' A bronze statue of Virgil, standing on l an antique column, lias recently been - erected in a little town of Pietole the i modern site of Andes—where it is claimed 3 the poet was bom, , It is rumoured iii Paris that Louise Miclie, Ims been liberated and is" now in Brussels or in London. Tho American steam brake is use upon nearly, all tho railways • England and' France. fT ' A son of tho.late Professor Agassiz, is professor of comparitive anatomy at 1 Haward University. .. 1 In Glasgow Cathedral a monument'has been erected to the members of the High- ■ 1 land Regiment who fell at Tel-el-Kebiiv The Black Sea is covered by a very ef--1 fieienfc life-savingservice, which is manned ! by Turks, under the , command of an j Englishman. ... _ . • The population of Hew York city -is.. . " 1 about 1,300,000, arid of this number only . 12,220 or fewer than one in 1,000, return ' personal property for taxation-andljas although the city is the great recepjjft 1 for the personal wealth of the countr^T There are theorists who want to imprison murderers, thieves, and liquor-dealers, those who abuse animals, house-burners, forgers and all evil- ' doers, If that plan could bo strictly ' carried out, there would be but 1 little material left to do the voting and 9 hold tho offices in great cities, / J A lady in a Dehverthoatre, thc«ier • night, won in lierlimixtmyhuTOing- ■ birds, which formed a half-wreath about J her head, and which she had trained to 8 sing Between acts for the edification of " tho audience, ? The iittle Jewish Boy Mortara, adopted by Pius IX, who has now become the ! celebrated Father Pius Maiy Motara, 8 went lately to Estella in Navarre with the ■ 3 intention of founding a new convent of • ] his Order. J' A Blank Sunday.—"Not much of a sennon I mvp uncle. Bnt wasn't the ' pulpit prettily decorated with those evergreens?" "Oh yes! Plenty of cover, my dear, but very little game!"' ' George Augustus Sala is the son of an English singer. He was born in London . in 1828, and was the founder and'qai'st editor of the Temple Bar Magazine ' The King of Sweden is said to be trjwg to marry his second son, Prince Oscar, to Princess Louise, eldest daughter of the Prince of Wales, his recont visit to England having that object in view. J A few days since a cable message was . sent from Melbourne, Australia, to Lon- . don and delivered in twenty-three minutes. The distance by land and sea is 13,398 miles, and tlie message was | " repeated " eleven times. Slade, "the spiritualistic . bobbed up again in Chicago in h&aptet writing trick, making the "spirits" i answer all sorts of foolish questions; but . when a reporter asked who would comp ise Cleveland's Cabinet they could only say, "We do not feel sure about it. A remarkable specimen of a man tired of the worM was recently found dead at Caterliam, in Surrey. He was a man of .some wealth, but his heirs do not seem to be known. His name was Keith, and ho i lived in a house on Caterham Common. ; His wife died seventeen years ago, and t after her funeral he never left his house or i allowed any one to enter it. As the 1 windows wero broken lie repaired them ■ with boards or stuffed them with,,."«gs. ' The house was miserably delan* Ad : When it was conjectured that tllfißt i gentleman was dead, as the man who brought him his food could not make him i hear, the door was burst open, The • interior of the house was a scene of r indescribable filth and confusion. Nothing had been moved or even touched for years, Furniture, clothes, books, newspapers, packets of documents, empty bottles, letters, cooking utensils, ashes, aiijjther refuse, covered the floor in the Mr Keith was found dead in his bed under an abominable heap of soiled bedding and old clothes. By the head of the bed was : a chest of drawers, and in it, Untouched and undisturbed, were the clothes of his wife, as they had been left • . when' she died,. The story is a very a'ad one. by any ordinary standard, the unfortunate old gentleman must have been insane; And yet, there was a certain . . method in his madness, Ho was tired of tho world, and ho r the best means of practically cutting himself off from it. ' A lively correspondence is going on in one of the Liverpool papers on the undying subject of seryants.and As a matter of course, 1 ' each party #opvosonts itself its immaculate ahd the ol&r as very much the reverse, and all thesterontypiid charges aro bandied about with infinite zest. The one now feature is to find Maiy Ann making frank confessions of what in former times would have been considered serious offences, but which she now regards as well within hoi- rights. A lady having complained that one of her servants was guilty of. borrowing her bonnets without loave, r cook writes to say that she has' ■often done the saino; What clsijptn be expected, she indignantly demands, when wages are so low that servants'cannot afford to wear nice bonnets of their own ? Besides, the borrowed ones are generally- " only home-made things, "and not worth makinga fuss about. Tltis spirited damsel further says that she has struck against caps and aprons, that she goes out when; she feels inclined, and that jt it) jjor - tion to get all shecan anddoaslittle as possible in return.' Another proud maiden reminds the" missusse?" thathfiVisemftifla ■ are of quite a superjor gfltf tfl jperal : vants and must bo treated accordingly, ■ She herself has literaiy accomplishments, and can play the piano. But owing to tho work required of her, she is debarred from improving her musical education except > when the family are away. So far she hSH felt it necessary to submit to mistress tyranny, but she protests vohomently that nothing would ever induce her to allow herself to be called by any other appelation than the ; "nice name"to which she has a legal right. VDos T DIE IN THE house,-" Rough on Eats' . clears out rats, mice, beetles, roaches, bed-bugs' flies,' ants, insects, moles, jack-rabbiMKofiliers. 7|d—N.Z. Drug Company. ; . _ Natuhe is one vast oabden for ' tion of science, and its products, culMby akilifu' hands, can be readily applied to medicinal pur . poses,• Thomeaneß&Bhrab, thaigrowsbath's wayside, hath a virtue that, intelligently .com.: i{ prehemled, ntay be turned tft profitable account, The world knows the intrinsic properties'of ttg' celebrated Juniper-berry, but itjremained to one original conception, so to extract, and compound its marvellous essences, as to genw»te r . that equally wondrous restoratiVei-known M Udolpho Wolfe's , Schiedam Aso'iutis! Schnapps ■ \- ; .

Actress (to washerwoman, who lias breught lior bill)—" How can you bo so impertinent as to dun me in this way?" Washerwoman—'"lmpertinent! What do you mean? . Who are you, I should like to know? If I choose to pay for a gallery ticket, you. have to faint on tho stage for fpy amusement,". '-i . Mr Sankey has decided to apply a part of his profits from -the sale of his sacred songs and solos to the erection and furnislfa.of a public library building in Newcastle, his Pennsylvania home. At Sheffield a man named Armstrong lias been sent to prison for a month for begging. He was attired in woman's clothing, had a hired baby in his arms, and was accompanied by a man who was represented to be the husband out of work. The heaviest load carried by any European soldier is that of the Swiss. V\ When fully equipped ho carries a burden w of 751b, while the Russian carries G9lb, the Italian 071b, the English C2lh, the German G2lb, the French Glib, and the Austrian GOJlb. The oldest railway employee in England, John Glass, died near Darlington on Dec, 26. He was engaged in the construction of the Darlington and Stockton Railway in 1822, and continued in the servico of that company for a period- of sixty-two years. /fL Weakly amateur, with a vocal organ him like unto that of a sucking dove, playing Macduff:"Ha! ha! My voice is in my sword! Critic in the gallery:— "That's all right then, oldmumblechump, we was a wondering up here where it was." For the past twenty-live years the chief cartoon in Punch has, with a single exception, been drawn by John Tennel. It sometimes has to be changed a very short time before publication. One of the Gang .—A. clergyman bought a pair of hor-ses'from'a : set' of copers in Brighton. When 1 he had taken them home and found them-useless, he returned and A complained'bitterly to the landlord of the inn in whose stables they had been stand--•r ing 'Well, sir,' the mau said, 'any one could see they were copers, and I precious soon got rid of them; but—you will excuse me, sir—you were so jolly green 1 thought you must be one of the gang,' AMERICAN.CO.'S, HOP BITTERS ~ ARE THE PUREST AND BEST & BITTERS EVER MADE. vrThcy are compounded from Hops, Malt, Bucliu, Mandrake, and Dandelion —the oldest, best, and most valuable medicines in the world, and contain all the best and most curative properties of all other, remedies, lifcing the greatest Blood Purifier, Liver Regulator, and Life aud Health Restoring Agent on earth. No disease'or ill health can long exist where they are used, so varied and perfect are their operations. They give new life and vigor to the aged and infirm, To all whose employments cause irregularity of the bowels or urinary organs, or who require an Appetizer, Tonic and Mild Stimulant, American Co.'s Hop Bitters are invaluable, being highly curative, tonic and stimulating, without -intoxicating. '{■ No matter what your feelings or sympi' toms arc, what the disease or ailment is, use Hop Bitters. Don't wait until you are sick, but if you only feel bad or miserable, use Hop Bitters at once. It . may save your life. Hundreds have been saved by so doing, £SOO will be paid for a case they will not cure or help. ' Do not suffer or let your friends suffer, but use and urge them to use American Hop Bitters. Remember, American Hop Bitters is no vile, drugged drunken nostrum, but # Purest and Best Medicine ever made, tho Bitters to-day, Get at Chemists a, Druggists. Beware of imitations, jg Genuine lias Dr Soule's name blown in p bottle.