ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2313, 5 June 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

ROUND THE WORLD.

How lo visit a session of Paijiiinienl. Advice from an old traveller to a young American about to visit Europe: "Goto Westminster Hull, the entrance to the Pinliiimfliit buildings, 'shy up ■m a policeman,' toll him yOUa're at American, lee lum, and request t<. pass." The diiections were followed to the letter and with entire success,

A poor girl begged for a holiday to go and see a man hanged. She had a long way to walk, some sixteen miles. On her return to Oainsboro' at night her mistress found her in tears. '' What is the matter with you,'child; what are you crying about 1" "Ob, ma'am," said the poor girl, bursting into tears again, 'the man has been reprieved."

"If [ could afford it," said a promiment Bnptist clergyman, in a dinner table conversation, overheard by the New York Star, '• I'd insure my life on the endowment plan, the insurance t< fall due when I'm sixty, for [ notice that they generally put ministers on tho dry-dock when they are sixty." "Surely not Baptist Ministers," exclaimed a young lady at the table.

A certain divine, who had wandered in the course of his travels heyond the convenience of the railway, was obliged to take to a horse. Being unaccus tomed to riding, he said to his host; I hope you are not so ungenerate in these parts that you would give me a horse who would throw a good Presbyterian minister V "Wall, I dunno," was the reply," we believe in spreadin' the Gospel!"—lndependent. A treasuro trove has lately turned up in England in the shape of a copy ot Mis Elizabeth Barrett Browning's earliest poem, " Marathon." It is said to have been written when she was eleven (1820), and to.have been published, in a limited edition of fifty copies, by her wea thy and admiring papa. It antedates by some six years her earliest known volumes. "An Essay on Mind" (1826), which was reprinted by Richard Herne Shepherd eight years ago, and it is probably more curious than entertaining, At the Dublin corporation recently, Councillor Clancy (Nationalist) moved to alter thenam-'s of Sackvillo lane to O'Oonnell place and O'Connell lane. It was statrd to he the desire of every true Lißhman to banish English names from their streets and thoroughfares, The Nationality Lord Mayor, and other numbers, however, resisted the motion as a troublesome proceeding and it was negatived by a large majority. Au episode of Swiss heroism is to be solemnly commemorated near Luc< rue 'his July-th- sacrifice of Arnold oi Winkelried, who at the battle of Senipnch threw himself upon the Austrian spears to encourage his flagging com panions, aiW whote bravery secur-d the victory. IVqiimeenlciiary ot'li-c batt'o will be kept by erecting a commemorative monument on the field, and the neighboring cantons will furnish a grand historical procession in tho costume of times.

The Mahdi's outside Omdurman is now marked by a plain monument, erected by his successor, Sheikh Abdul la. The False Prophet is buried on the spot where he died in his tent, his sword uiul silver helmet lying on his tomb, where four dervishes watch and pray continuously, Now the grave is inclosed in a stone and brick tower, about fourteen and a half feet in diameter. The outside wall is whitewashed and decorated with an inscription, in huge block letters, that the "Ambassador of God," restß beneath

The Bill before the Housb of Com. mons compelling railwayK to revise their freight rates 'has produced consternation among the great conpanies' The rates arc now so unfair that it costs less to send wheat from New York to London than from Sussex or Keut. Mr Mundella's bill hits hard at this abuse, It is denounced by the company as destructive to their property, and meetings of the shareholders have been summoned in hot haste. There is good cause for this excitement, too, although the railway interest is still strong in Parliament, it is outweighed by iiulependiuit members who will insist on fair play. 'I he days of railway monopoly are now ended, and public interest must now prevail,

A new malady t-lmt ling puzzled the medical faculty is known us the cai<sion disease, tlmt is restricted to the men who work in cassinns constructed for operations curried on. under the water by mtfans of compressed air. To show the itnnnmlons cnndiliobs under which the operatives have to curry out their work. Dt A. V, Megis relates, in a recent lecture, that a visitor once opened his brandy Husk while in the compressed air chamber, and, recorking it, placed it in his pocket; When he got hack to the outer air, the flask exploded with violence. "No more telling story could be told," said the, doctor. " than that of the lirnndy flask ! to show what must occur with every |. liquid nrjtl «as contained within the 1 human econoir.y npnn coming out of' the air chamber," While under pres- : sure, mme of the workmen were ; attacked, but (in leaving the chamber | they were all chilled to the bone, and•! their vital, enemies were paralysed! i In Eu'jLmd the men aie now \vy\,' under strict medical control while \ doing their work, and the per cemauo of mortality is stated to have been I very largely reduced. j