ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2274, 19 April 1886, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

At the Sutter' Home, Sacramento, & New' Yorker, newly arrived, was lamenting'his condition, and hia folly in leaving an abundance at home, and especially two beautiful, daughters, who were just budding into womanhood; when he asked the other if he had a family t "Yes, sir; I have a wife and six children in New York, and I never saw one of them." After this reply, the couplo tat down for a'moment in silence, and then the interrogator again commenced—" Were you evor blind, sirT "No, sir." "Didyou marry a widow, sir ?" "No, sir." Another lapse of silence. " Did I undeistand you to say, sir, that you had a wife and six children living in New York, and had never seen one of them ?" "Yes, sir, I Btatedsu." Another and a longer pause of silence. Then the interrogator again inquired—" How can it be, sir, that you never saw one of them I" "Why," was the repose, "one 0/ thru was born after I left." " Oh! ah V and a general laugh followed. After that the first New Yorkor was especially distinguished as " tho man who had sii children, and never saw one of them."

Sir Allan M'Nab was once travelling by steamer, and, as luck would have it, was obliged to occupy a state room along with a certain full-blooded Yankee. Both gentleman arose early in the morning; and whilo Sir Allan was dressing, he was astonished to behold his companion making thorough researches into his (Sir Allan's) well furnished, dressing case, Having completed his examination, ho propeeded, while the chieftain remained in petrified astonishment, coollj to aolecfc the toothbrush, and therewith to bestow upon his long yellow fangs an industrious and energetic scrubbing. Sir Allan said not a word, When Jonathan had concluded, the old Scotchman aravely finished washing himself, silently set the basin on the floor, soaped one foot well, and, taking the tooth-brush, applied it vigorously to his toes and toe-nails. " You dirty fellow," eiclaimod ' the astonished Yankee, who had watched every motion, ''What the mischief are you doing that for J" "Oh," said Sir Allan coolly, " that't tht W I always do that with!"

When Foote wont first to Sootland, he was enquiring of an old Highlander, who had formerly been promptir to an Edinburgh Theatre, about the state of tho country, with respect to travelling, living, manners, <k, of all whicK the Scot gave him very_ favorable accounts. "Why, then," said Foote, ''with about £3OO "ayear, one may live like a in your country I" "In tratfy Master Foote," replied his informant, "I eannot tell that, for as I- never knew a man there who spent half the sum, I don't know what might come into his head who would attempt to iqmiuUr (k ujhoh," - Miss Belle Franklin \ a young Bchoolteacher of McHenry County, U.S.A., was

sleepinsrin"a."shack," which"sliß' built upon horolaim; denly awakened by the crackling ripiae M .<,; ft.praitie,flrt*, L<ioting <mtshe flameß sweeping acrosa: the plain. knew t!iat her neighbours, half a tniledis*'; tant, were, away from'ho'trie, and- tho i 'fire;: would'soon ■•envelope; the house, 'barrij-* hay, and gralh, Jumplng'from her .bed,- s she hurried away to the low barn in which \ the farmer's extra-team was'.tied.-; .''Etaft'E nessing the,animals she rushed them 'out,/ to the ploughi:, and bejme'(flie: fjre,;hadf reached the premises turned ' Beveral furrows, amU 4 which saved the : :4■ The death of J. "Dla-U mond King' 1 and quack at •■ San, Antonio,-: ■ Texas,who left £20,000; flloses a remarks ■}. able .career. Six years ago Lightall,'then. ( only 24/ took;ihe rok of a.",euw»tlli" ; :- : :i and "sold: what' he called "Indian Oil"' on;, the street, corners/ He made money,.-.' and employed, a band of eight persons ; to ,; draw a orowd. .'■. He added to his cure for consumption, tooth powdor/and: blood purifier; He -had a slight know-;-ledge of dentistry, and- extracted teeth;'; . free, the one occasion,; it -is, ssid, fourteen beinjj; drawn- in ; nineteen \ seconds, "Indian!,, oil" having been previously been .rubbed.; on the gums, i'The band played during;,, the operation tg' drown the yelling of .the, patients. • years. ago >' the " Dr" ; worked Nashville, .Tenn.;.-there.; being : eight'meu ,and4wo women.iiilthebnnp- : ; among whom was of . I Elmira, When' Lightall liflfcred thai, persons wero. selling. '■ InflfjoU" -he - changed the name to and •■■ increased his' company Wsixty-one per* ■ ' sons by taking in ■ several ' Spauiardi,' y Indians,, and Mexicans,-'.and: thereafter ! showed'in a lOO.ft found tent : Concert*,: were given while Lightall and his assist-'-, antssold' it among'the-audionce. Th'a ', medicine, except the consumption cure;'-I: was manufactured • 'at Peoria,; Lisfhtall's mother and her third husband; - Isaao.Wright.'.FromPeoria the precious" ; stuff was .shipped-iirbarrels to: Camp; ■ where it was put iu bottles, and labelled.'. Litrhtall ! s father;was a chief ; bf the Tonawanda Indians.. Lightall was known as the "Diamond King, 11 on account of hie. ; great love fordiamonds. He wore a ring in wluch.wero;l73 stonea.and a pin. fchafc. 4 was simply efiprinous. He bad a watch made for him with twenty-two. stoner: encircling the case. -,' ... .-. ',-V ■': Two doctors have (says the Daily News) ■ been practising in Sydney, New South j Wales, with aauccess that oould not b». wondered af, were their professed oures; but -well authenticated. Theyissert that;'; a few doses of their magic syrup, admihia- | teredsurreptitiously in a father's tea in'con--,' tiuently changed his' nii« 4 ,isbout his' j daughter's trousseau, pro. •' vided- her with..a hand«JHH[ havingpreviously refused any, thereto a pleasant little dowry. A married ruati, I 'Who had been a victim to jealousy for a I I period of thirty-two years, wsb completely' '", cured of this disagreeable malady, at ths j age ef sixty.' The'magic syrup, it will be ) 'seen, directly attacks the disposition, and treats infirmities of temper as ailments. ,j The professors'of this new. science have '•',!, ■met with'considerable success in Sydney, : : and the particular of the different 'case*,*: at givenjm thoir handbills, are a source of : much amusemeut to the educated part of . the community.' .;..'." Avouching incident is reported in connection with the last houre of Captain: Marinow,- adjiifant and;frieud of tho v Prince' of Bulgaria. Marinow had' been-' mortally wounded in the recent Jwar, and was lying at tho'point of death in Sofia, i ; when a messenger.. arrived /from the ■ Emperbr.ef Russia bringing the military cross of honor. 'The dying man's medical ■ attendants would only admit him im con-:, ditionthafc he did not speak .a word to;' agitate the mind of the patient,' The'■'. envoy entered tho room in ioverenl; silence, and softly laid the cross Upon tho pillow of the bed. Marinow' stretched.: out a feeble hand, carried the cross to hla-; lips, kissed it,and then &id it on the/, fatal wound iiphjs breaifc A teiider • smilo lit up lus emaemted wuktenanance for a momont, hisses closedlnd he fell ■" asleep in death;-;i>. ■"'-.; Apropos of the French impressionists, a - couple of • stories are current-in Paris; which will .bear" Repeating. At a recent exhibition in that.city, a young lady comr plimented one of the artists on the natural motion he. had. given to a horse which: was running up £ hillside, and was horrified to learn from the. indignant painter • that it was : ri'6ty& horse but a-house. ' Another artistliadsold a landscape to »>, ; wealthy Connoisseur, who thought it wquld be improved by-the introduction of a figure, which was painted in for him by a '■ friend. It was. that of an old peasant, woman walking down a road. The artist from whom It had been bought was absent V from Paris while'the addition was made, and when he returhed he was shown the alteration, " Miserable man I" he exclaimed, " what have you done ?. This is not a road through the centre of my picture; it is'a\river!"

In the Gentleman's JTjpine there appears a somewhat impowit article by Mr Justin M'Carthy Mx-important because it formulates tho demands of tho prominent member. What the Home Rulers want, he sajs,_ls to see Ireland'placed in the same relationship to the Imperial Parliament as that in which a state of the American Union stands to the central glferning body in Washington. " Home pie," he • goes on to say, " dpssnot meanfyhe dumemberment of tho Empire, or disintergration of the Empire, or any iujury. whatever to the Empire. It di ei lioi mean separation or anything liko ;separ« ation. It does not inoludo any.conlrol of the army or navy,, or any power over what may be galled Imperial taxation,. or negotiations with foreign Powers. It does not purpose to abrogate in anyway.tho Imperial functions of tho English Par; liament," Nor, he asserts, will : tho Protestant minority suffer /oppression at the hands of the Catholic majority; for the mut beloved heroes of the Irish people have been Protestants, and their present leader is a member of that faith. As to protection, he Bayß it is an open question, and may be settled when the whole question of Borne Rulpu argued over at Westminister Invigorate the system JKh Woira's Schnapps the purest stiiEjmt in th« world, W HAirAsMBP.I-"I never," vwrote a, young lady to a friend,-" go to csurch or■':■ lecture but I am halt asleep, and I never; know afterwards what the sermon or lecture was about." It was a plain case of nervous lethargy, produced by want of action of the liver and digestive She was persuaded to .try Amorican Co'a: Hop Bitters, and now she writes ! "How ; intelligent and bright are sormons, and lectures npw, and'how glorious fche-Wbrld-. we livo in is! Dr Soule's Hop Bitters ara ;; . indeed a blessing to me." Notiee- ■ - "

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