ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 24 December 1885, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

Frftnca is not without its election - ' > l ' minors. During the recent contest, , which hasresulted in the triumph of poll-;'. lervatisin over Republican principles, it i, . ivas made a cause of complaint that some ' < persona had incited a Parisian crowd to riot by cryine; " Long live the King." Ehe ' Galois,' an organ of ■ the Conservaiives, explains that'it-is amistake. The persons complained of shouted, ".Long [ live Prance," and only thoiight . 11 Long \ live the King," This subtle' distinction was probably present in the mind of a , iealoiis commissary of police, who, in ;he same brawl, mounted i doorstep, and f' shouted to a mob of . Beveral thousanda ' persons, ".I arrest the whole of you." • He was enly laughed at. ( Hero is rather ah amusing Volunteer shooting story, for the truth' of which a ■ :orrespoiident. vouches i-'-About a' jrear £ t iince a,local paper gave a list of: pi'izea [fon.and scores made in a competition a't,■; Exmouth. ),Two noughts brought up the rear.with ; half-axrown . and the other with » three-aiid-s&pence,'[ This !was passing 1 [ strange, .but' 1 not so strange as the explanation fpr difference' between the • ;wo awards,;';. The t ivinner had fed more shots-than 'ortunate companion, so he was itvMffil for his more 7, numerous misses with an . , >• Mra shilling." After all, this was but :arrying'out .the Bpirit of the regulation, which prescribes the firing of a ceftain ; iumber of shots at the test; of efficiency, . ivithous regard to the effectiveness of the . . i • ire. •• :' 1 , 1 ' .✓/ ■.