ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2196, 16 January 1886, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

it the- following statement in a London contemporary is the truth, what becomes of all the pathos said and written over the remains of Benjamin Disraeli ? We read —"ln the churchyard of Hughenden there is a dilapidated grave. The iron railing around it is rusty, and owing to kerb having sunk, it isbrokenandcrooked. Beneath this dirty, neglected and ruinous spot repose the remains of Lord Beaconsfield. He was a man of much ability, and will occupy a prominent figure in our history. Conservatives, Primrose Leagues and such-liko persons are too much occupied in lauding the principles of toe deceased statesmen, and in calling unpn fools to vote for them because they laud them, tokeepihisgraye in decent repair. Would it not be well that Liberals should ekpend a few shillings in having-it looked after!" , ' X : - : ,-'

Ayoung physician of Nirnes, Dr P., was lately consulted by a female patient if regard to Borne trifling ailment. He took from a gla'ss-caso a box containing Borne white powder, and gave it to her with directions for use. Mine. R., the patient, took a small pinch of the powder and, finding it bitter, expressed some ; doubts to the.doctor", To quiet her feelings, he swallowed a good-sized, dose of the powder in her presence, and dis-; missed her. Shortly after, before reaching her house, she fell in a faint, and was carried home by neighbors, whb called another doctor. Emetics were administered, and she soon out of danger, when she related what had occurred iu Dr P.'s oliice. • The physician at once rushed to the house of his brother practitioner, but found him lying dead on the floor. Tho white powder Was strychnine. This painful accident shows ouce more the wisdom of the Erench pharmacy laws which forbid physicians to dispense their own medicines, and direct pharmacists to keep all poisons by themselves in a locked, closet/the key of which must never leave the dispenser's possession.

The following circumstance is as true S3 it is singular. A few years ago two gentlemen, who had been left executors to the will of a friend, on examining the property, found a scrap of paper on which was written, "Seven Hundred Pounds in Till," This they took in the literal cense, and examined all hid apartments carefully, but in vain. They sold his collection' of books to a bookseller, and paid the legacies in proportion. The singularity of the circumstances occasioned them frequently to converse about it, and they recollected among the books sold (whicli hud taken placo upwards of seven weeks before),, there was a folio of Tillotson's Sermons, The probability of this being what was alluded to by the word '■ Till" on the piece of paper, made one of them immediately wait upon the bookseller who had purchased the books, and ask him if he had the edition of Tillotson which had been sold to him. On his replying in the affirmative, and tho volumes being handed down, the gentlomon immediately •purchased them, and on carefully examining the leaves, founa bank notes, singly dispersed in various places of the volumes, to the amount of seven hundred pounds!. But what is perhaps no less remarkable than (the preceeding, the bookseller informed him that a gentleman at Cambridge, reading in his catalogue of this edition to be sold, had written to him, and desired that it might be sent to Cambridge, which was accordingly done; but the books not answering the gentleman's expectations, they had been returned, and had been in the bookseller's shop till the period of this very singular discovery.-Odd Fellow. An extraordinary case came before a bench of magistrates at Melbourne the other day. An elderly woman, calling herself Mary Moore net Gleeson, sought maintainanee from E. W. Moore, in years gone by a Bailor, then a laboring landsman, and latterly a tobacconist, Her story was that in 1862 sho was married to Moore; that they lived together in the suburbs of Melbourne; that two girls were born of this marriago; that they afterwards went to'board, at furnished lodgings in Carlton ; that Moore thon left her, Baying that he was going to soa; and from that time till quite lately she had neither seen nor heard of him, though a warrant for his arrest for desertion has been in the hands of the police for years, On the other hand, the defendant, who admitted having married Mary Gleeson at St Francis Church, in Melbourne, in 1862, and also admitted recollection of places, persons and events to which the complainant referred, declared emphatically that the complainant did not bear the " faintest resemblance" to his bride of '62, and refused'to recognise her as such, The Bench were unable to come to .any decision in the face of such extraordinary testimony, and adjournad the case for the productiun of evidence.