ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2307, 29 May 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

ROUND THE WORLD.

Tin- catacombs of Pans are reopened to tourists on the 27th'ult,, ■having been closed since Inst year. :

The rnternational Congo Association lias, for want of funds, abandoned several of its stations in Central Africa.

A), de Lessens is confined to his bed in Paris from the effects of a fall on board a steamship when returning from Panama.

A Paris despatch says that M, M. Rochefort and Duqnerey have been arrested at Deoaseville and taken'- in fetters to prison; Sir Joshua Reynold's famous picture of the three Ladies Waldegrnve (daughters of Maria, Donohcss of Gloucester), is offered for sale. Rourding-ho-JS'.'s lor Americans are increasing in London and the accommodations a>'« declared by many to ha preferable to hotels

The Socialists of Paris are very indignant over the arrest of Messieurs Koclicfoi-t anil Duquerey, and propose some retaliatory measure.

The ladies of New York are pledging themselves not to go shopping on Saturday afternoon, in order to promote the half-holiday movement, The Smith College girls have organised a society for the protection of. birds. The lark of tho gentlemen will receive their first attention. :. A.World's Fair.in 1892, in the capital, to commemorate the fourth centennial of America's discovery, is just now agitating the Washingtonians,;' .■;■;;" ... Mistress— 1 Why, Delia, what in tho world, have you done?', Delia.'Shnre ma'am, the master said the gas . : W(ih leaking, and [ put up the pail to Hrch.it.' .... True, aged ninety-five, of ; PittshYld, N.H,, is. down with the 'whooping-cough, but expects to be faboiit her work again soon,—Worces-ter-Spy. ■ ■;.-.. S;A'clever definition of modesty given ;h|;;a>; ; w!tl'y woman:"An ancient ■sjieclejiiof. violets, .which the present ;gi;iimtion knows only as-an artificial NVit. %A'ntoh'Ruhenstein. according to the •Moscow. German Giizette,:.is : to. have the title of Imperial Russian Music Director-General conferred upon him—a distinction never heretofore given to any composer. ■..?. ('.■■■■.

In all probability the Grovesnor Winter Exhibition of next ve.ir in London' will consist of pictures by Van 'Dyke, of whom England can 'l>n a «t ~„' piwssin« more and finer specimens than any otW country,

... In iho Ppslisiwurcpmetery, in. India; is the following amusing npif ar ,|, ; '_ "Sacred to the memory of Rev!-—, missionary, aged-, murdered by bis' eiiowkidr. ' Well done tliou go«d and faithful servant.'" "■

.;..-. A ..number of Belgian .women lme : hepn 'arrester] on the German frontier, while cnsnjrrd in smuggling annrchiat prints into Belgium. . . ■■:.;•.Qnftft" Victoria.has paiil the hills" for Princess Beatrix's " wadding, $25,000, and will.not ask' Parliament to jive anything toward it. ■ '

Two Brockton, Mass,, papers have h«m'fined 85 pnch for publishing advertisements concernin? a local fair at which lotteries were held,

•'Sec here, you scamp," said an irate Irish gentleman to a tramp; "If I were only as near von as yon are to me I'd break your head." ~ The Dutch Government has introduced in Parliament a hill to increase the import duty on foreign raw sugar by fonr florins per 100 kilos.'" 1 Mrs Sarah Drew, of Halifax, If ass,, who on March Ist pissed the 101 st anniversary of her birth has recently cut her third set of: noper teeth., ' A wmmittee is heing formed in England with a view to the celebration ofthebirthdavof Lord Bvron on its centenary in January. 1888.

There are 2,093 newspapers publi.ib.pd in Omit "Britain— a growth from Ml in 1846. Finr hundred and nine papers are pnWi'-lierl is London nlone.

Work has been Wtin at Sheffield England, on the art psllerv for which the late J. Newton Mimpin loft .215000 for a building fund and pictures valued atJIOO.OOO. It will be named tho Mappin Art Gallery.

In 1851 there were. nfty-onci sni»n. tific and art schools in Great Britain, Now there are 1.927 institutions, with 87,777 students in scienee. The entire eduction establishment is under Government control,

The nerve of a man who fell under a railway train at Tamaqua on Thtirs. dnv and bad one of his legs cut off was admired hy those who witnessed the Accident until they ascertained that the several member waR a wooden one. —Philadelphia Ledger,

According to a statistical statement in the Cronstridt. Gazptte, no fe<vet than twp.ntv-six vessels of vnriortß tvpps have lippn begun, completed, or equipped within the last year for tlio TWtic and TClaelc fkl fleets of Russia, cr for the Siberian

Thn most striking result of the agricultural depression in the north of England is the migration of a number of Cumberland farmers to Warwickshire and other midland counties, wlipre land can .he obtained at a lower vent. ■ ■ (

The liabilities of the Princpgs Helena of Ypsili aresm'rl toammintto£Boo,ooo The. great indebtedness is said to have been caused by the extravagance of the Princess and her husband, who have spent .65,000,000 in ten years.'