ROUND THE WORLD

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1990, 14 May 1885, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD

" What is'.the, meaning of that red line above tho fourth storey of your house'/" asked a stranger of a fanner near Pitteburg. "That mark shorshow:.high the water was during the great OveiC&about i'y'e'ar'agu." " Impossible; liM water had been that liigh the whole town would have been swept away."'"The water was. never that. high... It onlyjameaji to the first storey■- window, but the cased boys rubbed it out three or four I put it up there, where tWey can't get at it. It.takes a smart man to, circumvent these boys; [This" little" story is not a bauVone, but it is by no.means new, being 'liiefely an adaptation by a Yankee writer who was apparently fond of the "steal pen." : It originally appeared in German paperain 1858, and the scene of the occurrence, was then laid 'at Vienna.-tEn. W.D.].: OBtrich fanning in South' Afriefihas advanced with such.strides that the number of tame birds there is estimated fl&avo increased for 80 in 1805 to at in 1884, producing feathers for export of the.value of about ■• 3,ooo,ooodc'ls. per annum.

The " first fiddle" in an "amateur orr chestra waß passing along Booksellers Row, London, lately, and caught sight of a book which much interested him. " What is this ' Cicerone's Opera?'" he asked the bookseller ;•" 1 never heard of any such work before; is the. music good?" "It isn't music," replied the nian, "it's ' Ciceronis Opera,' a Latin book;' 1 - -" Oh, the new notation, 1 suppose," ; saiaVithe musician, with an expression of-inV) contempt, as he passed on.—GlobeTr '/ Mr Samuel Smith, M.P., speakin v g"at the annual meeting, of the Liverpool Chamber-.f Commerce, stated that the amended Manchester Ship Canal Schemo was not free from the dangers of the former project. They had no objection to Manchester making a canal, but the scheme still threatened harm to the estuary of the Mersey, and, therefore, they must renew their opposition |tit, Mr Ross O'Connell states in Notmnd Queries that a letter written in IGO2 mentions a "Desdemona in the flesh" in Venice, who had been murdered by her husband in a fit of jealousy, which the people believed to be without cause. Like tho Moor, he sent his wife to confession befoie slaying her. Mr O'Connell suggests that this murder would be known to the Venetian Ambaassador in London, and that thus Shakespeare must have heard ofit. -. .

Heilbron's German Worm Cakes and Fitzgerald's Koromiko Extract are Patented,—Anvr.