ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2292, 11 May 1886, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

During the long drought of last summer, an American paper says, water bncame soscarco in a certain parish, that tho farmers' wives were obliged to send their milk to town genuine.

Cl:iusSprecklos, "the sugar, king of the New World," as ho likes to call himself, is said to derive nn income of 85,000,000 from his sugar plantations m the Sandwich Islands. In his domain lie wields the most autocratic power of any monopolist in the world His home at Honolulu is like the dream of a Sybarite, His wants are served by an army of Negroes.

The Emperor William has juat given orders that in future prayers are to be offered for the German navy *t all the churches of the Empire. A clause has, consequently, been added to the old prayer for the army. Th# Birmingham Town Council proposes to erect twenty public clocks—at the interaction of street* by preference. These clocks are to be controlled by electricity, and ar« to be illuminated at night. The eat.imated cesk is only £2BOO for th# Establishment of the clocks, ani £2OO & Y*ar for their maiutemnco, or only £lO per lamp.

Balloon signalling promises to take a place in warfare. Brace's system is considered the most perfect. In using it an ordinary balloon of very translucent material is employed. In the inside of the balloon electric glov lamps are arranged, The balloon is a captivo one, and the rope whioh attaches it to earth is utilized for the support of tho wires to convey the electricity to. the lamps. When the balloon is sent up at night tho lamps' are caused to illuminate it at intervals of longer or shorter duration, so at to present signals to tho distant observer in accordance with the Morsi alphabofc. The use of liquid fuol for steamers Is extending. The Clyde Trustees' steamers, plying between Glasgow and Whiteinch, now burn oil; and the Tarbutt Liquid Fuel Company, of London, has quite recently fitted an oil-burning apparatus on a steamer designed for the Black Sea trade. A trial trip has been very successful.

One# upon a time a 'certain man got mad with the editor ud stopped his paper. The next week he, sold his corn at 4 cftfa below the market price bicauaeh# tasn't posted, Then bis property vas sold for taxes, becausolu didn't re»d the delinquent notic#. He was arristed and fined Bdol for going hunting on Sunday, simply because he didn't know it was Sunday, and lie paid 3dol» for a lot of forged notes that had been advertise! two weeks, and the public cautioned not to negotiate for them. He then paid an irishman with a foot like % forge hammer, to kick him ill the way to i nowspaper offici, where he paid throe year's subscription in tdrance, and got the editor to lign an agreement to knock him dovn and rob him if he ever ordered his piper to be stopped again. Such ii life without a newspaper. " According to d correspondent in the' city of Chihuahua, in Mexico, the doga | there can give points to a Scotch collie and beat him. The Mexicans educate them to tend their flocks and herds, and they perform their duty with more fidelity and satisfaction than a man. They will take a flock of shoep or hekj of goats out in the morning, drive them to the feeding gVoands, defend them frqm Jhel attack of predatory " varmints,'' nnd bring them back to the heddlog plaoo at night without losing a single hnimal, Up in Inew Mexico there was an isolated ranch, which was one of a ayatem controlled by a wealthy sheopman. He or one of his agents usually visited it twice a year to shear the sheep and tai#provisions j to the paatora or herder. On one.of these Bemi-annual visits he found the herder I

dead in his cabinet, and his body nearly,,, decomposed. The sheep weroquietly fecd- v in a fertile canyon near by'); jealously) guarded by the dog. In the ite ol tiid' corral, into which,the sheep were driven every night, lay the bleaching skeletoiii, of a dozen or more, sheep, ' Astonisfied ■ at the sagacity of the dog, the ranchman secreted himself f and waited until night. As th# sun began to sink jtifcep came trooping in ivith ; at the rear. They crowded into the corral through the narrow opening, and as the last bhe pushed forward the dog seized and killed him and dragged the liloleaa body to the rear of the corral, where he made a comfortable supper off » portion of the carcass, leaving the balanco for future meals. He had been doing this ever since death of his laastor, and would probably have continued hii , guardianship ovor the flock until he died, The President of the Society of Engineer, Mr P. F. JNuraey, has delivered his inaugural concluding which he said The facts I have brought before yon also point to the moral and material progress of the world. "The bee that hummed its busy hour through the bowers of Paradise," wrote Sydney Smith, "fashioned its hexagon with tho same mathematical precision which it does now and here. Six y«ars has added nothing' to the the horse, or the intelligence 'uf llire-dog. 1 ' But how widoly different withpnan 1 He, commences a« a fire-wiaffipper, and rises to a Newton, a Stephen- • son, a Siemens, He tempts, the river in a few fragments of bark laihed togethei; with thongs, of raw hide, and crosses the Atlantic in an iron steamer of--22,500 tons burden (the Great Eastern). He burrows in the earth, and then bullqg a city with four millions and a half of inhabitants. He sticks a dried reed in a lump of fat to light his mud hutt, and carbonises 2,200,659 tons of coal pjr annum to illuminate London. Ho takes weoks to send massages on sticks to Montezuma, from the coast, and at last reports in London the details of a battle fought in the Soudan the same morning, He slays his foe with a sling and a pebble chosen from the brook, and meets the enemy with a machine gun firing GOO rounds a minute by nrnns of its own recoil (the Maxim gun). He laid siege to a city with a balista, throwing a fragment of rock, and finally attacks a fort with a gun weighing 110 tons, projecting steel shell of 18001b, with a charge of 9001b of gunpowder. The axe-head that floated ! for a few seconds on tho Jordon 3000

years ago, when " the iron was a miraclo indeed, ' Thjjto w the beginning and ending? ■ qjKience a? regards the present only. 'They are by no means final as Bciftiice never stands still. They ace but the landmarks of our times, which, as Emerson puts it, are " trivial to tho dull; tokenß of noblo and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which tho past leaves its history j thoquarry out <.f which the genius of today is building up the future."

William Beach, tho champion oarsman, waß presented with the following testimonial when passing through Melbourne recently " To William Beach, Champion Sculler of tho World.

"Dear Sir,— " We, the Victoiian Rowing Association, congratulate you on voyaging tho Old World to meet all who may wish to teat your mettle and your prowess, "Whatever be the result, it will evor be a source of pride to all Australians that you were tho first man able to lowor the colours of the hitherto uncynquered' Hanlan, whom we hope, to see again, Like our sculling representatives jn the past—Green, Trickett, and Layeock—we look to you tojahow that Australian champions are not only giants in strength and skill, but are also generous, straightforward, honest, and manly, Oafe '' 0 f the rowers of Victoria wo you success. 1^ (Signed) " Henry 6. Turner, President. "F, W. Wiliums, Secretary. " G. E. Upward,- Treasurer, " Melbourne, 30th March, 1886." According to the Lyttelton Times; Mr Jacobscn, who, it will bo remembered, was closely connected with the diamond finds in Alford Forest some years aco, and who is still prospecting there, sont a special messengor down to Ashburton recently to say that ho has found untold wealth in silver and tin ore,

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