ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2349, 17 July 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

ROUND THE WORLD.

ADnnodin man Ims betm ssnt to gaol tor keeping n cow, The cow belonged to a neighbour.

The Italian Government is inviting an intentional competition'for designs for a facade' to Milan Cathedral, which shall be in harmony with tho rest of that magnificent structure. A premium of not less than,£l6oo is offered for the best design, and there "will bo boviral smaller prizes. What a run there'will, he',on the few'■remaining 1 copies of Franchetti'a description of chut duomo, with its engraved details, published 65 years ago!

An Audoboni-jsctety bas.been formed in New.York for the protection of wild birds other, than game. One of its : objects is to discourage the use of wild birds'pluniflge.as an article of'dress' or adornment, from inquiries instituted by the society, and by, scientific; and other papers sympathising with the movement, it appears that upwards of five million small birds, pass through tho great millinery'establishments of tho United States iu a single year 1 .

Sir Arthur Sullivan, and Mr. Gilbert have, it is said, bit at last upon a plan which they believe will prevent their works from being pirated in the United States, It is to associate an American author in the next opera to such au extent as will lot him copyright the work, Tlie'plot of the new' piece—au Egyptian opera—is now so far developed thab'tlie New' York colabor has received his assignment of several brief passages'of dialogue and music to write. ... ■■!.-• ••••■.'

Science lias its voluntary martyr.-, as well as ! aft, and it is' painful to learn that Pasteur's nerve-straining researches into the causes of disease, and their remedies, uro beginning to tell severely on his system. He has already had one serious paralytic stroke, arid it ia feared by his friends that a second may incapacitate, him for the' further pursuit of those investigations to which hfi has devoted himself with so much advantage,to his fellow creatures.. . . The gaino hazard, which is prohibited in every club in England, and not even permitted in tripots in France, flourishes in Berlin so much so that the Union Club, in consequence of several recent grave scandals, have determined to put a stop to it. Germans may be tslow gamblers, but they play uncommonly heavy at' times, if it be true that one petty, prince lost 8125,000 in one evening,"' having• pivwimsiy $500,000; and- a Baron a" tntle of 665,000 on another night, A hollow "steel float, eighty, feet square, anchored in mid ocean, and bearing a sixty-toot tower, is the. suggestion of an English inventor, He would have this known as a harbor of refuge in distreps, or a place of transmission of ship hews by telegraph, and as a weather station. The saving of cost in cable telegraphing alone by the use of relay'instruments on this light, ship would, in his opinion, bo sufficient to pay its current expenses. He under, takes to. provide -secure anchorage, stability and harmless deflection of waves.

There is no lead pencil in existence to-day, and there have been none tor more than forty years past, There was a time when a spiracle of lead cut from the bar of sheet sufficed to make marks on white paper or some roughed abraiding material, Tim name lead pencil comes from the old notion that the products of the Cumbnrlaiid minrci in England ate l>-art, instead of tieiii" plumbago it graphite, a arbbriate' n'i iron, cajai'lcof l<-avin!> » h-ad-colored mark. With tiie original leml-piineil or strip, and With t!ie earlier Myle.s of the "lead-pencil" made direct from the Cumberland mines, the wetting of the pencil was i necessary preliminary of writing..

Going down town in a Fourth avenue car, a big Irishman who bad evidently been drinking doep potations of Gladstone elorjpence, arose from his seat and gave the bell strap a sharp pull. The conductor exclaimed angrily, " Here don't do that, you're ringing the bell at both ends of the oar." "That's all right, bedad, an'l want both iudsol thecar to shfcop,"—N.Y. Star.

A roll of papyni" was exhumed from Herculaneum in the middle of the eighteenth century. The process of unrolling was begun at Naples and continued until a few years ago, when the untouched, rolls were completed in England, They have now been edited by an Oxford scholar, They are, for the most part, Greek dissertations on the epicurian philosophy, selected or written by Philodemus, the friend of Cicero and Horace.'

A lady, unable to read, thought she could impressher neighbor that slie bad learned, and'accordingly asked for the loa iof a book. The.neighbor" smelling; a rat," lent her the Bible, Keeping it a few days, she brought it back, 'and was.askedby the lender how she liked it. She replied, "I think it ivw just lovely! They"got manied after all, didiiVtheyT The bonnet of the season, it seems, is to be simply a coral leaf, dyed any color the purchaser pleases, and laid on the head. Among its advantages is, that it is" lighter than jet," and it is to be on'view .at the coming Exhibition as a Colonial exhibit. A.s the hut of the season is unusually high, there will thus be no excuse this year for the male creature's hitherto pardonable inability to distinguish between a hat and a bonnet.