ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2156, 27 November 1885, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

"Look 'ere, Mr Photographer, 'off. • muchd'yer want to take ine. and the missus and the young, kids altogether." Photographer: "Well, I could take a carte of yuo for. five shillings." " Cart, oh no, stick us in a waggonette,". •. In Lifton, Devon, James Arboiy, master of the Brideslowe Elementary School, was lately remanded on a chafer' of manslaughter in connection with the death of a little boy named lon Heath, from the effects of a blow on the hand.

Two dozen photographs of Bourke (N.S.W.) have been sent to Mr Larmer by the Bourke railway opening. demonstration committee. Mr Larmer is the sole survivor of Mitchell's pioneer e&edij tion, and he was the first whitoman®qn the Darling. A young lady in Cincinnati hag invented a combination bustle and chair, and wishes to get it patented. To all appearances it is like any. ordinary dry goods store bustle, warranted not to wear down at the heel, but inside there are arranged in such a way that when she bends to sit down they drop. into place, thus enabling her to rest anywhere that - she feels so inclined, Now, -while this may be a nice thing to have CGOtfaled about one's person while atroUin'JSrong the sea shore, or out at a Suhdayr'sehool picnic, it would be hardly the' tiling to wear to church or the theatre. " Imagine a woman or a young miss entering a theatre with a gentleman and attempting to sit down in a ohair and - then have - those legs suddenly .straightened out. The audience would howl, and sho would be so mortified and mad that she would never look her escort, in the-face again. Who can describe the feelings'of a young man when his best.girl sits down on his lap with one of those infernal • things on! He would excuse himself oii the plea of sickness, and never door again, The bustle may take' well among invalids, but it is safe to say that it will never be a success with those who are able to hump around and find a chair . or a horseblock to sit upon, List; 0 Chained Ones!—A lecturer on optics, in explaining the mechanism of the organ of vision, remarked: "Let"any. man gaze closely into his wife's eye, and he will see himself looking so exceedingly small that-—" Here she lecturer's VQiOQ was drowned in shouts of laughter. A tramp tound a woman alone in a "Vermont farm-house, and threatened to kill her if she did not give him five Jata. " Well here it is," she said, coin; '' but I guess I'll shoot it to you" j and she dropped it into a barrel of a shot* , gun. The fellow did not wait to ty&a' •$; How is it," excising the late Soyi ■ ace GregW d a y tQ a : that sucn a blunder as this could in the 'tribune' ? I wrote that name, 1 Black,' and here it is printed' 'Brown' I' The. subordinate pondered the matter, and 1 then replied "I suppose the compositor > and proof-reader must both be color- > blind. ' Among the relics of old Christ Church ' in Boston, U;S., is an ancient ! book, on the .fly-leaf of which is 'written, ' "Major Pitcairn's compliments to the | head singer, witli the request , that sho. J will not sing, bo loudly, as it is iiripoasib.jg j for him toslce|), '