ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2145, 14 November 1885, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

.... _ ■ ■ He had fallen into the stream, and had already sunk once, and was going down a second time, when a brave man leaped into the angry waters, and laid hold of the unfortunate one; The latter looked at his rescuer in a beseeching maimer, and gasped, <,' I beg;'iny dear sir, that you will permit me to sink once more—iri the interest of literary tradition you know. No person I ever read of was rescued; until he was going .down for the third time. I may die, but I Bhall have the satisfaction of knowing-that I have not departed from the time-honored and revered custom." Mr 6. Sykes, a respectable itinerant preacher, was remarkable for" wit' and humor, as well as for eloquent preaching. Being once on a journey, and night coining." oh before he could possibly reach the residence of any of his friends, he was under the necessity of tarrying all night at a village ale-house. Happening to be the fair day there, the landlady informed him that' he was welcome to stay if .he could accommodate himself to sleep with two other gentlemen, as they had but one spare bed, And that was alreadVjmgaJted to carry double. He he preferred a bed even on those to none. However, about bed time he contrived to be the first to retire to rest After having secured the door withall possible precaution, he fell asleep, from which he was quickly aroused by the chambermaid. " Who's there?" enquired our traveller, " The two gentlemen want to go to bed," replied the girl. "1 think the bed is full enough already," said he. " Well, who is there ?" " Here is George Sykes," calmly repliedtho man of God, "a Methodist'■• preacher, and myself." The maid ( was satisfied, and Mr Sykes slept comfortably till morning. , A military execution took place recently at Kloster Kraditch, Moravia. The culprit* was a sergeant-major of the One Hundredth Line Regiment, named Lopatinsky. Last autumn, to revenge himself for a punishment which ho considered unjust, he fired with a revolver at Colonel Sedelmayer, the commander of his regiment and slightly wounded him. The colonel, instead of trying to arrest the man.took to his heels, and so did the major and a captain who witnessed the scene. For their show of poltroonery all three officers have been cashiered, Lopatinsky, after shooting at his colonel, attempted to commit suicide, and lodged two bullets in his own body. He lay for months in a hospital, and on being cured was tried by Court-martial, which sentenced him to death, Ho met his fate with great firmness. Margeret Alice Gibson, aged twelve, of Red Rock, Wigan, whilst 'goihg'over Carnarvon Castle recently, fell from the summit of the Dungeon Tower, a depth of 90 feet. Strange to say (remarks a Home paper), when the girl was rescued from the bottom of the dungeon by Sergeant Watkins, the custodian of the castle, she was found but little the worse of her tremendous fall, Her father and brother were with her on the top of the tower, when a gust of wind blew her from the place where she stood. Medical men were soon in attendance, and found that the girl had only sustained slight internal injuries. A peculiar prosecution under the excise laws took place in one of the Bombay Police Courts lately. One, Abraham Jacob, was charged by an excise inspector with manufacturing and selling wine without a license from the • proper authority. The bottle of wine, which was produced in Court, had been purchased by the accused from another Jew, at the instigation of the inspector. The contents of the bottle had been tested by the chemical analyst, who reported that the wine contained a small portion of alcohol, not greater that "that usually found in light wines, The accused proved that he was employed by his coreligionists to prepare the wine for their religious services. This wine was made from raisins, and sold to Jews only. The Magistrate, in dismissing the case, said it had been proved that the liquid before the Court had been prepared for use in the celebration of Jewish rites and ceremonies, and it would be an interference with religious liberty if the Act were to be made applicable to this particular liquor.

Telegrams published in .San Francisco papers report the successful completion of another exploring expedition across OentralAfrica. TwoPortugueseexplorers, Capella and Ivens, who started from Massamedesin March 1884,•arrived at Cape Town on August 24th, They had traversed Central Africa from west to east, while Stanley and Cameron crossed, it from east to west. They reached Quillmau in June 1885, after having marched 8,000 kilometres, 5,000 of which had never been explored before. They discovered the sources of the Lualaba, a tributary of the Congo, in a country rich in copper, Eighty of the 120 men employed by them as an escort died on the route,

Mr Patrick Ford, the editor of the ' Irish World' is about to be sued by Susan Gallagher—the woman who was with O'Donnell at Cape Town when he murdered Carey—for the sum of 2,000d0l which he promised her, she alleges, at the" time of the trial, in consideration of the "valuable aid" she rendered the lawyers entrusted with the defence. Ford denies the promise; and as for the services of which she speaks, he points out that she was not called upon to give evidence at the trial at all, it having been ascertained that what she had to say would rather damage than benefit the prisoner, so that the money spent in bringing her from tho Capo was a dead loss. Miss Gallagher, however, insists upon having her share of the £IO,OOO collected for O'Donnell's defence, or, failing that, upon knowing what he has done with it. Mr Ford refused to be questioned on the subject with as lofty an assumption of dignity as any French - Minister of the Interior jtnight be supposed to put on if an imper'tinent deputy .asked for particulars aS to his mode of disturbing the Secret Peace Fund. <! It would bo practically giving information to the British Government," was his reply to the rather pressing questions oi a New York journalist, "if I were to say how the money was used. No; 1 cannot tell you how it was expended, except to say that it was used for the good of Ireland." It is to be presumed that'the servant-maids who subscribed the money will consider this answer satisfactory. At the Leeds assizes Mr Justice Willis passed sentence upon William Swallow Whitehead (45), who. number of years was employed gas engineer by the Bradford Corporation, and who "pleaded guilty to a series of frauds upon his employers, .During a. period of seven years the prisoner had obtained £4,200 by sending in accounts for work alleged to have been done by, a gang of men which had no existence.'. The prisoner having put by the money, ,had repaid the whole amount. His Lordship said the fact that, instead of squan: derine; the money, the prisoner had made provision for what appear to the, world to be a respectable old age, hardly seemed to him to be a circumstance .in' mitigation, and he'sentenced him to fiw, years' penal servitude. ..,..:;•: The fountain op perpetual TOUTH;does not ' spring exclusively within the ■confines of <Jaßs|e; ■' story. Its fresh'and living waters 'flow to-day. ■ from other well-heads. ~ The weak and' the de* ; • bilitated havebut to drink of Udolpho AVpi«% '■ Schiedam Aromatic SohnappSj and soon'they' start to renewed vitality, It is the modern revivifler, tduohing to elasticity and strength, impaired in health and ithe' suffering wi|h/ ' disease. •'".' ■•;•"•..".- v ' : .': .'"". ';:■ ■■■..