ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2105, 26 September 1885, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

Tie Marquis of Salisbury, replying to a letter which he had received from the unemployed working mon of Wolverhampton, says that the Conservative Cabinet is considering the whole question of trade depression.

A new {ayajjjngthe vineyardsto even a theater extent than the phylloxera, has appeared In great numbers in some parts of Roumania and Bessarabia. A scientific commission has been sent out to investigate the matter.

The pret%st qcfyjrae tor, lanc(, CTabtyiig yet Revised,is thus describe,d A man and his wife 'separate! and aft«Mr . getting a divorce, they go toafamqj>lf locality and take up adjqiping Having requirements an(| secured clear titles they become reconciled, re-marry, and, settle down on a double homestead, ! Lord Salisbury's Cabinet oantainn ' thirteen memhers of the Britsh aristocraoy, j who own 650,000 acres of land, and derive' ■ therefrom an annual income of £600,000, There has been recently exhibited in London a composing, distributing, and • justifying machino, the invention of a Stockholm gentleman, which is said by trade journals to be the tho kind yet made, only complaint about the machine is its noise, 'for the rest (says the Plinturs' Register)" it ia rapid, and, so far as the actual setting and distributing are concerned, simp}? j while the automatic justifjpf is at cinca the most ingenious, tho most (ntorogfc|ug, and tlie'npptintelligeijtpicceof mechanfem attached to a composing machine yot brought out, Whether it may always be relied on, or whether some of its parts are liable to become deranged, we had no opportunity p,f judging, ilifo' ' ' howeyep ( \ye <wn say : that we gave rjo . intimation of our visit, tliat we fqund amt in perfect order, and that there was hitch of any kind while wa were present," The machine, pecypjes. a floor apace of/' } about oft (jjn by {!ft, and its ' height i? rather more than 6ft. As regards rapidity of execution, the Swedish com(?ositors who work the machine were timed, and it was found that they set and 1 . justified tan lines, consisting of 480 types, in three minutes and a-half, [This is at the rate of nearly nine thousand an hour, a man's speed being under two thousand,] The machines, which cost about £2ooeach, are to have an extended trial in one of % principal London offices, j '

Texas must be a delightful place in which fco attend the theatre. In the town of Laredo, in that State, two local dignitaries—a State Sonator and a captain of rangers-came together the other night in tho gallery of a theatre, and at once proceeded to pull out 45-calibre revolvers and pop away at each other. Twelve shots in all were fired, and the only result was a bullet through the shoulder of ths ranger, Tjje monotony of the performance, hpweyer,was relieved, as both acfcirs and audienoo stampeded, "ijl Madame Materna, the greatest of dramatic singers, is .the daughter of in* poor pedagogue in Styria. Ohristinr*'. Nilsson was a ragged street singer. Jenny lindwas a peasant child. Campanini wsb ', a servant. Brignolli was a cook, Nicol- ■" ini "tended a bar, " Had not Rossini : given Alboni instruction, the first half of the century might have lacked a great contralto. Her successors—Cary, Emily i and Hope Glenn—are simply American girls. The Bach family, iliua.' trious musicians for 200 years, .were always . so poor that they had to take ieaaonafrotri ' , each other. Balfe w<w the son of an Irjslj' ; cottager, Beethoven's mutter vfaaa QQok'4 daughter. Qaydii's father, m a wheals ". Wright. Gungl, who has written : the . moat delicious dance musio, learned to • sing while his father wove stockings, Lucca is a peasant's daughter. Paganinl, m born and bred in want. Schumann's. childhood was spent in a print shop. Thie ; | ; father of Liszt held a petty Government.ofcee. Wagner's father was a police oourt" Dogbeiry. only represflutativei gML royaltfy .whp attained a respectable -placjr in my sic was a woman—the Princes* ■ Amelia, sister of Frederick the much for the'democracy of art t '' ' : r At a meeting repently donvened, ; - ; London by the Duke of Westminster,.;*®] \ resolution was adopted declaring necessity'for the extension of sohook It was stated that there are now ' 50,000 children in 187 ragged eohoola ill London.'