ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2367, 7 August 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

ROUND THE WORLD.

The Philadelphia municipality hi« jwt v.o.tedJ2,6QQ to. bujiiwlyors for the police"."" ~ '" The run of seals on the Peoifio Coast in laid to be uuprecented. Th« oldurt settlers declare they have novsr knoivu thorn more .numerous. _ Tho trade in fresh' poilt- in Sarv Fhm cisco, which has long been, controlled by Chinese, has passed into tho bniidn of white dealers, 'Some spidors have as many-, as thir«ycs, but the majority only have two, In some parts of Mexico, precious woods ara said to be so plentiful thaS the natives build pig-styes of rosewood logs. _ Without the express consent of bis wife, no married Austrian subject can procure h passport for journeying b*. yond the frontier. Railway travelling has beerjimprovsd to such a degree in England, thai it k ■said a person is safer in a moving twin than in the streets of London. The gathering of "witch hazel" 5k becoming a recognized industry in Southern Vermont. It is bought for medicinal purposes at thieo dollars ■«. ton, Minneapolis is to have a twelve story hotel, with the-dining-room in tl> tenth story, the kitchen in the eleventh and the laundry and servants' quarterin tho twolfth. It will cost $750,000. tind accommodate five hundred guests. Tho ostrich farm in Culifonia is so famous that visitors come from far and near to see the chicks,and willingly pay an admission fee. Tho OBtricb, however, becomes very much excited at seeing strangers, and often injures his chicks in his nervousness. It seems atrango that in so small a country as England, and one which has been civilised so long these should be found any new plants at this late day ; yet ut species of lichen, hitbertounknow n to occur in BritHin, was recently discovered in Westmoreland. Calipnim Koacidium is its botanical name, An indication of tho financial prosperity of China is furnished in the Empress Regent. having assented (o tho official salaries being raised to tinhigher scale in force before tho Ik* ping rebellion. A Rouen despatch states that « gentleman whose wife had run awa* from him discovered her singing at » theatre. He drew a revolver, and aboi her dead or. the stage. A panic oc currcd among the audience, ami tVn assassin was arrested,

Theaea serpent has turned up again. this time on tho Danube, so nt least j certain fishermen of the town of BobMrgyer aver, They had, they state, never before seen so extraorrliimry «j monster. It was the body of a ooloasu! fiah-llke creature, which ruy» io resurface and disappeared again alter-j nately, violently agitating the surface j of the stream, Exploring parth 1 ? It»vf since been reconnoitring, bin tne <»ii;, monster has kept out of the way. " Real Whitby jet" doss not come Jrorn Whitby at all, but is swit to Whitby from near Gijon in Spain Within nine miles of Gijoo any amount. of jet- is to be found iu tlio distrio= called Las Meridas, It is, in fact, a well of triassio formation ninninp from Villanosa to within two miles • i Gijon, It is usually found in a dn composed bluish sandstone, ninninf; in very irogular layers of a umxiiuum thickness of two and a quarter, inches, The Grand Jury of Washington territory has indicted ten persons on 1 the charge of having organized the latr-anti-Chinese riots at Scattlf. Tbi

report of llie Grand Jury i\ m the evidence received shows the exi: tenoo in the country of a treifionaMi' organization known as the lied Ameri Ciin International Working Men'.-. Association, the- main article* of who*' oreed are arson, robbery, and muniur. of an essentially anarchical character. The Pacific Coast Lad bwn seleuinl »<■ the Held for the work of thii) wria 'ion. Aft English paper Bayi;;-"A ourious scene was enacted in StUeorg&'s Hall, Liverpool, recently. A )'v,t\t dirty and ragged struct qtwiin wm, stopped bv an angolic faced gentleumn. carrying a paioel. Some conversation Nwu?d between, them, and then dirty and ragged boy began to dive:.' Moißelf of his raiment, The gentleman opened his parcel, and discloaad to l!ir delighted youth a Uand new suit ijf clothes, which the naughty qarmn vn?. ioformsd were intended for him. W-ben the bov was duly installed and buttoned up in his new suit, he reoeived suSeicnf mouoy to go and buy two down ««*!■-. papen, and siuo a trifle wherewithal lu purchase eorae tsffee, It appear* ihat good gentleman is in the bsbit. of clothing street Arabs and giving them a surprise iu the manner named, If he intends clothing all the ragged dirty boys in will have to star' a factory on his own account.

• Oh, * raggedy gang lo tht danced, of tatterdemalions all, (ill t.lit corpulent butler diovo them th*nce. beyond the manor wall. The raggedy piper turned and' cried 'A minstrel's curie on thee, you lubberly, duck legged son of a gun, for a-settin' dorga on we.' Pretty, isn't it!. You don't get that sort of poetry every day. There in a pleasant twang of (ho medieval potto allied to the modem G. R, Bimaian method, which is in6nately charming I need hardly say that the man who can write such lines deserved »testimonial, something imefu!, whiih he can pawn when tho dark clouds of adversity loom over his luniiniou.ii path. —Auckland . Observer's Melbourne Correspondent,