ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2188, 8 January 1886, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

Thirty-five feet is said to be the greatest height of an ocean wave, but you can't stuff that down a laud lubber who has been to sea in a storm. He is wjfljwg to take an oath that the ones he saWworo three hundred and thirty-five feef nigh. A biographer of Paganini says the great violinist played " now like an angel, now like a demon—never like a mortal man." There are thousands ',qi violinists in this country who possesses one of Pag's They don't play like a mortal man—flJPP an angel, either—though we never saw an angel play on a violin. We always supposed the harp was their favorite musical instrument, '' Vegetarianism has spread and is spreading very rapidly in London. Ten years ago it'was difficult to find an avowed vegetarian, but now more than 2,000 persons refresh thowselves daily at vegetarian restaurants. Within the last few weeks two new places have been oponed, pledged to provide a vegetarian dinner of three courses for a shilling—a price whioh is, of course, a very tempting one, in the metropolis particularly—and the number of dinners served has increased until now it has reached about 800 daily. Not one of the earldonis-and yet there were twenty-created by William the Conqueror, exists, nor a single honor conferred by William Rufus, Benry 1, Stephen, Henry 11, Richard I, iflJohn. Dugdale'B" Baronage," publisheSKWFj, contains all the English peerages created to that period. The index occupies fourteen closely printed columns, a single one of which would easily include all tho dignities that remain out of the category. In the town of Vistabella, Province qf Castellon, Spain, a couple of well-to-Jo people were recently married, and celebrated the event with a grand dinner. All who ate the dinner, including the bride and bridegroom, and the poor, among whom the remains of the feast were distributed, were suddenly seized with symptoms of poisoning. No fewer than 17 died, and over CO were in a critical condition. From a local paper it appears that the fither of tho bride owed a small sum of money, which he would not, or could not, pay.- The creditor went to see him just as the dinner was being prepared, and threw some poison into one of the dishes.

A fire has (says a Vienna correspondent), taken place at a distillery at Baja x near B'uda Pesth. Three hundred were burnt to death. Query—Tlfo they going to distil the oxen, or liad tls produced them in tho distillery ? It is said that (hew are a considerable number of illicit stills in Ofngo. Glorious News for Schoolboys.—A tailor advortises boys', jackets as defying anything to beat them. Sidney Smith once described a man aei bo dry that if you were to bore hotor• in him with a gimlet, sawdust come out.

" Let me see,," said, a rriiniator who wag. filling out a marriage certificate anil had forgotten the date, " this is tho.fi fth, is it not f " No, Bir," replied the bride, with some indignation, " this is only my second,

Insurance agents are called assurance agents in England. They know what's what in England, don't thoy J They call a spade a spade,

Little drops of | Little grains, o.f Mako Kentucky whiskey, And the morning horn, And the little cocktails, Humblo though thoy be, Make red eyes and fill the. Pen—Men-tia-ry, A very curious thing (a pondent writes) seems to have olprred at Eoija, province of Seville. A thunderStorm, passed over tho town, and two hours after it had coased, upwards of , 3,000 persons wore attacked by diarrhoea and vomiting, and all the symptoms of cholera, Two thousand more weiV\ attacked the day after. All theso persona* were completely prostrated for 24 hours, but recovered without any deaths occuring among them.