ROUND THE WOULD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2231, 27 February 1886, Page 2

ROUND THE WOULD.

Here is a story fresh from America which is too good not to bo true. At a cortain art'school in the wilds of the Fa? West the students considered sufficiently advanced to draw' thssguj& from the antique. The. feead master accordingly sent to New Orleans for a few casts from ggnje. of the most famous, models, h comae of time the packing case arrived, Clytie and Psycho and the Apollo Belvidere wero all unpacked amid the delighted satisfaction of the students, But when they came to a casiljjtf ths Vonus of Milp, with her arms bJjjTeft of short, their rage andipdignatioja knew no, bounds. Theii. anger aga.iii.sj} the abomw* able carelessness (if the bfljciala took tho, form of an fpr damans against the railway company. The story goes on to add that the art school won the suit and recovered heavy damages ■ To realise the advance that Iw bfoj made in ordinary printing of newspaper* by machinery, we fow only to. read of theastonishment manifested, when, in 1814, (he. itew woss of that period was able, to, produce \ 100 copies per how, and to, know that at the present tunp, by the use of the press such as used by tho 'New York Herald,' with its revolving impression oyliuders arranged so as to print both sides at onco of a continuous roll ot paper, the number of sheets produced por hour ig 12,000, and the papers leave, the maohine cut, folded, and counted. Strangcßt of all to the uninitiated is the fact that two attendants are sufficient to serve the maohine working at this rate of speed.

A police sergeant was boasting of the honesty that prevailed in his precincts. " Why," ho said, " you might hang your gold watoh on a lamp-post in theoyenjng, and find it there in the, maining!'' say. take the watch'f exclaimed the' listener. " No ;'I mean to say nobodywould tako. the lamp-post," said tlie sergeant. " ' v Nearly every part of the yew-Jroe k employed usefully. Th,e po.d iq hard, of a fine grain', flexible, Bplii, and nos mudi affected by changes, of the weatlfe It in tjn| from red to brop, \M white sap-wood, It takes a high poljih, The cabinet-maker uses it as a veneer, and the turner makes it into vases atiif bpxos. Yew timber is. the best for pumps, piles, etc., as, it resists air and water, The French uso it for aJiioji, The branchei arc u.sofuj for stakes, hoops, and baskets, Yew lias been recommended for wooden bedsteads. The Yew is alo\v tree,, the. trunk rising three or four feet from.ihl) ground, and then sending gut wdejy« spreading branches. The tallest Yew lii' England, is jn. Harlingion churchyard, near Hounslow, and is fifty-eight feet high. Its growth' atopa at a> hundred yeara, but it will last for centuries. Tho Yews at Fountains <ibbey, in Yorkshire, now living'are said to have sheltered the monks while thoy built their abbeyr in 1132. jh :: .... The latest, trick about town isflpedthe Clock Puzzle. You mention, it to your friend, hk curiosity prompts him to enquire what it is like. You take out your watch, ask him to select one of- the hour figures, then offer to bet:;:him cigars you can tell him which one. he selected, tho only condition being thaflU you go rambling over the dialß for the number he shall tell you tho nu.i|? ber which, added to your oojnt, will male, twenty. Ear jnitanfie/you begin by pqinting yo'ur pencil at 3, counting; one, then to 6J counting two, then, at numbers selected at random, counting eaohono until you have counted eight, when you begin at the 12 and proceed in the direction opposite to that which the hands travel. If your friend has selected the 12 he informs you that your count (eight) and the hour number, at wb.(cfl you are theu pointing «#ed, t'Wiej, make twenty. Jf h'e has selected the U he st'ppj su' there, as your count. (nine) - and the eleven makes twenty, and bo on;'' taking in all the hours. ItVa very simple thing, 1 biit'ifc has beenAtiii for manya cigar.—Napier Telegraph,. .-i:' It is woeth atrial.—"l was troubled formany year's with kidney complaint',' gravel/Ac, ray blood became thin, I Was dull and inactive, 6ould hardly; crawl about, arid was an old wdrn-'out pan' alf dver;and>ula;getn.o,tbj,pgtftholppwi|f I got Aineficatf Oo's'Hop Bitters, andjß . am as active as a man of thirty, although lam seventy-two, and I have no doubt - . ' it will be as well for others of thy agei-W-'-is worth tho trial.'-(Father.) Notice.