ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2099, 19 September 1885, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

. AnAmericanrpaper of June 4th says of a contest between two New York compositors:—"The best record for type-setting was broken to-day in tlMf match between Ira Soraers, of the World, and James McCann, of the Herald. The former set 6,032 ems of solid minion in three houru, and the latter 6,342, thus beating his opponent by 310 ems, and winning tho 500 dollar stakes and the championship of' America, Mr McCann set 254Jines of type, and Mr Somers 241, without correcting. The latter's proof was much more perfect than McCann's, and he gained two lines on him in making corrections.. The winner was thus but eleven lines ahead at the close. .The score is tho moat remarkable ever made in type- • setting contests. Arensberg set 5,500 in the same time fivo years ago, and his record wan not equalled until to-day, when both men beat it. ■ A man named Davidson living iis»y. ville, New York, has been interviewed by the Philadelphia "Sunday Despatoh," He has just ejected' from his stomach a frog wuich has heen living there for fifteen years! Mr Davidson, says.the "lowa State Register," has had a great deal of trouble with that frog, It .used to begin to croak at the most unseasonable'hoursjF When Davidson would' go to church, ftf, instance, the; frog would remain, silent " until the congregation engaged iii silent prayer, and then : it would set up suoh a terrific howl that' the sexton- would rush in and' collar Davidson, and drag him out to -quiet him down in the graveyard. Sometimes the frog would 1 give a nocturnal sorenade'after Davidson was fast asleep in bad, and then Davidson would rise, as mid r.s anything, 1 and seize a stomach pump and try anddraw the frog up. But the subtle reptile had that trick played on it too often during those fifteen years, and it always shinned up. the tube a piece, out of the draughty and-waited till Davidson exhaused himself;' ' Davidson never fooled ■ that frog a great deal. When frogs were in season, Dawdgin used to fish for this one with' a flywut it always refused to rise, and the-fly buzzed round so in Davidson's alimentary canal that it nearly tickled him t6 death. One day the frog thought it Would come up and go and see a friend; and"when it did come Davidson killed it with a fork/ r He said the frog used'to eat twice' as mKj aB lie did; but wo have been thinkinglt over, and it seems to us the : statement must bo. exaggerated,.—American Paper. The institution of mar riage lias furnished many persons with food' for many sort? of reflection,' and among other'things it. has frequently been, exacted, byway of reparation, from tbo careless aiid tqu I ardent lovers, says % St Jakes', Qazetk, but we cannot rememher that it has ever before been inflicted upon a young woman as a punishment for theft. Thishrilliani expedient was hit upon by tjie'magistratea of Stratford petty session's,' A young woman pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing o watoh, two rings, and other valuable ornaments, and had no' better defence to offer than that she was "too fond of jewelry," Thereupon a " young fellow" observed that he had promised to marry her, and would do so at once if she was not sent to gaol, With the alacrity of geniuathe Bench closed with tlusnoMe offer, said they " thought marriage \vrfmbe a good thing tor the prisoner," and let her out on her own recognisances, explaining that if she actually got maryied she " would hear no more o,f aw»Whether their view was that if the "young feilw' 1 married her he would giyehev'as muoli jewelry as she wanted, or that the oaros of matrimony were likely to prove a better corrective than the picking of oakum, is not clear. But is is certain that the marriageable damsels of Stratford will be deterred by this awful example from providing themselves wis a trousseau gratis J ,''""