ROUND THE WOULD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2206, 29 January 1886, Page 2

ROUND THE WOULD.

When the Jubilee fund was proposed to be raised in the Congregational churches of Great Britain, tho committee agreed to give the Welsh churches £IO,OOO a year for fivo years, if the Welsh should rain* the same amount yearly. Three year* have passed, and our Welsh brethren havo already raised £62,000. This' fund U used to reduoe ohapel debt* Cashmere is now the only part of IndU where cows may not be killed; formerly there were many Hindoo States where this was the case. It is said that the Maharajah had a strong desire to visit England, but his Hindoo eduoatioa and toolings prevented him, His reason waa that ho had heard that the flesh of tho cow was exposed in shops in London. It is said a piece of zinc placed on' tho \k owls of a hot stove will clean tho stow V pipe. Tho vapor produced carries off the • soot by chemical decomposition. A Brooklyn mochamo has invented a, wonderful sewing machine, which, it la claimed, will do 80 per cent more work than any machine now in tho markot. An experiment with steam power moved. it with a speed of 2200 stitohes a minute, and it was started and stopped instantly. It is simple in construction, isoasilyoper* ated and sews all kinds of fabrics, from loathor to fine linen. !

A correspondent, writing of the lata Lord Sfcrathnairn (Sir Hugh Rose), Bay* he waa ono of the laziest of the "dandies " Except in pursuit of a women in'lave or an onomy in war ho waa tho mostindolens lackadaisical, languid person who ever dawdled about Piccadilly. When he waa devastating Central India, and'winning the splendid victories that immortalised his namo, lie was so lazy that he could not be got to dictate the despatches recording his own triumphs. .Months elapsed before these documents could be extracted from him, and then they were brief and meagre to the last degree. Ono day Sir Hugh Rose was entertaining a gallant company to dinner during tho crisis of tho mutiny. With the utmost sangfrwdhe was delighting those near him with one of his best anecdotes. In the middle of it his orderly entered, and, after saluting, exclaimed, ".Wa have captured 200 rebels, sir." J\j mm the General turned, and, with that elegant courtesy of manner on which he prided himself, serenely repliedThank you, sergeant." But tho man sill remained. Again interrupting the chief, ho said, "But what are we to do with them, sir?" "Oh," replied Sir Hugh, with a soft smilo, "Jiano them of course," and he resumed his anecdote. In a little while Sir Hus»h waa acain interrupted in tho middle of another story by the sergeant, who came in and said • "Pleasesir, we've hung the lot, sjr. l( The Generol turned, bowed slightly and in thesweetest manner lisped, "Thanks sergeant-very many thanks," and' thoq went on with his anecdote as if nothing had happened. This story came to the ears of tho Queen, and she was so angry that it nearly cost Sir Hugh his peerage,

Tho late Mr E. Fox, Secretary to the Cabinet, who died the other day, was a very old journalist. Ho ins educated to literary hfo on the ' Manchester Guardian,' and was a reporter on that journal yerrs flgo, when tho freetrade agitation was aflame, and many of Cobden'» and Wight's best speeches were recorded with Mr Fox's aid. If you could got behind his reserve he would tell many stories of the old journalistic days especially interesting to members of his profession. One in particular occurs to the writer at tho moment. An Engli»h bishop, who was celebrated for tho .eloquent charges he delivered to hla clergy, was, on one occasion, applied to in advance by Mr Fox for his MBB Ihe bishop explained that he had to deliver the same ohargA in two different parte of the diocese, and it would never do to publish it until he had delivered It he second t me. Mr-Fox said his instructions were dear, and ho must obey them* tho charge he must have, and ho would take it down in short hand. The Bishop, said his intentions were fixed; the charge should not be purchased till he chose. When the day for its delivery came, the reporters were put into a,place where they could not; hear distinctly, and the Bishop read offhis charge with the utmosi rapidity consistent wjth episcftpaf dkV nity, In order to prevent Its beingreported; but nevertheless every word was published next morning, to the intense surprise of his lordship., Mr Fox had arranged for a corps of reporters. Each man took down what he could hear and catch, and then all set to work to assist each other in piecing the fragments' to-'. (?ether, with the, result that a verbatim