ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2343, 10 July 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

ROUND THE WORLD.

• Mr John Jones atood his trial for bigamy inLoudon the oilier day. Said the Judge, at tha two sternviiaged women who were regarding the offender with looks that bodod him no good,' I intend to i nil id upon you • the severest penalty in my power.' Here the prisoner covered his face with 1)18 hands and wept. ' I shall sentenee you, to seven years' penal servitude. Wbiiareyou laughing at f 'I thought,' Milled th 6 prisoner through his tras, • you were a-going to turn me loove,' A volume devoted to the ability of prance to. cope successfully with Ger. xaiuj has been published at Paris. The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good souse, the third good humour and the fourth wit. Gen. Lew Wallace iR meditating oyer a new novel, the Rcone of which 1« to bo laid in Nortuorn Africa.

Chang; Yen. Woon, tho Chinese Minister and his companions bring their baggage in a multitude of yellow wicker boxes.

. J. H. Darwin, son of tho late Charles Darwin, is understood to have his father's biography nearly ready for publication.

Gen, Dacras, of the British Royal Artillery, who has been in the service fer marly seventy years, has been mude a field marshal.

. Miss Rose Kingsley, the daughter of dmrlesKingsley, is to become on" of the editors of one of the new English magiunes for young people. In an English church in London the Holy Communion service is celebrated once a month in Hebrew for the benefit of some converted Jews.

.During, the French Parliamentary Tucation Premier de Freycinet will moke a ucw departure; he will go on the stump of an electioneering tour. On Holy Innocents' Day in Antwerp boys and girlg are dressed up like men »nd women, and for that day are allbwsd to be the masters of the house. ~ Th©r« Bcarce can be named one quality that is amiable in a woman which is not becoming in a man, noi excepting even modesty and gentleness •future.

fi Prince Albert the negro charm-seller bow order arrest in Georgia, was bom of royal blood in Egypt, educated in Jerusalem, and can speak half a dozen languages The latest and most preposterous strike announced, and inall seriousness, ia that of a number of Brooklyn school children, who struck for shorter hours of study. A Chinese student in the junior class at Yale has received the right by scholastic merit, to be one of the eight speakers selected for tho exhibition next month. . The Lower Houss of the Prussian Lsnd-tag recently, by a vote of 2H to 131, adopted the hill expropriating the land of the Poles iuPosen and colonising the Province with Gortrans. C. S. Sevton,formerly a astockbroker In New York city, was killed the week before last in London in a singular manner. He was examining an electrical gun of American invention, which he was about to introduce to British trade, when it went olf, putting a bullae through his heart. ■ G. A. Faritii, who ha* recently travelled extensively in thi> Kalahari desert, north of Cape Colony, in Swnh Africa, now reports that he fnmvi millions of amv of nutritirions grasps. Midhebclii>vtsthißso.(.'>jlUl desert will in time beciiiiwuin of the jiiwest, cattle producing couiiliie.e in llieworlil. The Christmas piintomine at Drnry lane whs still running when the hist mail left England, with every promise of continuing its successful career up to Esster, Mr Harris, the fortunate leseoo of the " national theatre," has cleared £5,000 by the piece, which has been a veritable Aladdin's lamp to him.

Prince Alexander of Bulgaria desires not only thathis appointment shall hold for life, but that in default of his own msleissue it shall pasn to his brother Prince Francis of Battenberg, Mies Jeffreys Lewis had to request •n audience in Southern California recently to cease munching and crushing th* shells of peanuts, so that the voices of the actors might be heard.

. ,A ." Cent-a-raile" Fare Bill has recently paused the New Jersey House, providing for fares on ill railvayswithin twenty mile* of New York *t that r&te between the hours of 5 and 7 morning and evening. The Duke of Portland, bead of the Cavendißh.Benthick family, and the richest nobleman in Britain, ban i 1,250,000 per year from London ground ground.rents. He is the person who wag at one time reported as 'engaged to Mary Anderson. , . Tho Manchester papers note as an Interesting fact the decay of Dissent in .that city, The reason for this is said to be the vigorous and aggressive work of the Established Church, which has in a large sense become the church of the people in that part of England.

It it said that Branson Alcott was on» day holding forth on the advantages of a vegetable diet, and urged the argument that if a man eats pork he will grow to look like a pig; the beef «'at»r like'a bull, and so on, There, upon somebody rather confounded him by dryly adding: " Yes, Mr Alcott, and he who oonfineshimself to vegetable diet will be in great danger of finally resembling a very Btnall potato."