ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2146, 16 November 1885, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

A-correspondent of the Otago Daily Times gives fearful aceounts of the rioting and drunkenness amongst the navvies on the Otago Ceiitral Railway. The-Christian Record, of Dunedin, frankly says-; Newspaper people have a chronic dislike to religious customers—and for this reason: thoy usually' endeavour to get a pound's worth of work done for ten shillings, on the plea that the object is such a good one. Tho natives on part of the East Coast are suffering greatly from a most unpleasant skin malady, which nmkeg it extremely disagreeable, and even dangerous, forthose Europeans who have business with them to meet them, The Hotchkiss gun, imported for the Hineinoa, stilll remains in the store at Wellington, as they are afraid to put it on board fpr fear of accident. A new insurance company in Hungary pays its policy-holder? from 100 to 600, florins if their wifes elope, An lowa Judje has decided that a man is in duty bound to tell his wife where he spends the evenings when he is away from home. Every Settlement" of the Anglo-. Russian dispute about the Afghan frontier; on the north, finds the Russian frontier further to the south, and nearer to Herat or Cabul. In this last Russia gives up an untenable claim to Zulficar, and gets Meruchak in exchange. ; The largest piece of amber in the world without blemish is one of eight pounds, being exhibited in the Mark Museum at Dantzig. Other notable pieces are a flute belonging to Frederick the Great, and a complete tobacco-pipe belonging to Frederick William 111. A young lady at Pushaw Pond recently got rid of a troublesqjne admirer by accepting an invitation for k boat ride from him, upsetting the boat when it got into deep water, /ind swimming ashore, leaving the boatman to follow at his own conven r ience.—Augusta Me,, Journal, ' ■ Manchester has cut the first.rump-steak of its ship canal. An ox was' roasted whole to celebrate the. triumph, and a gentleman connected with tho canal cut up the roasted animal and .distributed it

to 400 people, who had each an earthenware plate presented-to him with an inscription on it recording thedateof the event. The next thing will be to give the world the canal. A pretty ceremony held at Albert Hall was the crowning of a rose queen at festival of working girls. A deservili| young working , woman was crowned queen, and presented with a puree of gold. A shower of rose leaves sprinkled on the queen by her attendant courtiers was a charming episode of the ceremony, and music and addresses formed a portion of the proceedings, "Why don't you finish eating your hash, Tommy ?" asked a Brooklyn mother of her boy, who suddenly laid down his knife and fork, as he caught sight of the servant dishing out ice cream. " Impossible ma," replied the lad. "Why?" " 'Cause it's crowded out to make room for more interesting matter," answered Tommy, who is working in a newspaper office during his vacation. The explorers of the Congo Valley are surprised by the crudity of life there. Thenativeshave.no domisticated beasts of any sort, nor do they raise or catch,any animals to eat, as they know nothing of flesh as food, No is worn, and diet is to spontaneous products of''the soil. Letters from missionaries say, too, , that the negroes there are so low. in mentality that any hope of Christianising them must be based on a long and patient course of intellectual training. They are too densely ignorant to comprehend the simplest statements of doctrine. A novelty in marriage proposals is reported from Antwerp: The Congo King Massala, a special favorite of the ladies of Antwerp, is reported to have lately won the heart of an English lady, who, nothing loth, wrote to the' King offering himher handheartandfortuno of £so{|,ooo. Massala, evidently flattered by the proposal of the lady, who described herself as' no longer young,' caused an answer to be written to her, in which he- expressed regret that, as lie was provided with' a sufficient number of wives during his stay in Europe, lie could, not enter into a matrimonial bond, If, however, she, would choose a man from hissuitej Massala would be happy to further the arrangement. It seems rather absurd to talk about a steamship beating a railroad train in a long distance contest, but it begins to look as though it might happen. It is already a fact that the fastest boats on the transatlantic lines make almost as good time as the Pacific Railroad lines do from the Missouri river to the western coast. From Omaha to San Francisco, by the Union and Central Pacific lines is a distance of 1,928 miles, or about two-thirds of the distance between Queenstown and Sandy Hook. The schedule time of the fastest train between Omaha and San Francisco is eighty-eight hours, lackingtenminutes, which made the average rate of speed under twenty-two miles per hour, The Etruriaonher recent trip, which "beat the record," made an average across the Atlantic of 455 miles per day, or almost exactly nineteen miles per hour. ITie steamship has thus come withm three miles an hour of the transcontinental train, and, aB the time of the ocean passage is being steadily cut down, it lookßas though one would before iong cross the Atlantic as rapidly as he can get across the western part of the Continent. At present our direct steamers steam faster than the N.Z. railway trams crawl. Lawyers's clerk, examining a client: "You say you made an examination of the. premises. What did you find TWitness! "Oh, nothing of consequence—"a beggarly account of empty boxes," as Shakespeare says," : " Never mind what Shakespeare said. He will be summoned and testify for himself if he knows anything about it, Few people who.have not tried it know how comfortable an ordinary hat may be made by having the leather lining taken out and a flannel, or, bettor still, a felt lining, substituted for it. Is it a mistake to have leather pressing upon the forehead. It is cold in winter and hot in .summer, whereas flannel or felt is just the reverse, Many of tlio London hatters will now put a felt or flannel lining in their hats at the requegj of a customer, without additional charge. A Chicago paper has a column headed " Births, Deaths, Marriages, Divorces, and eloqements." This is a specimen of its notices under the last-named head From Carthage, near Cincinnati, Mrs Thomas Horton, thirty-eight years old, with a fat boy of seventeen, namo UU' known.

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