ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2433, 23 October 1886, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

Last year the number'of'cattle and sheep in the United.Jrtinsjdbm were'respectively, in round numbers, ten.millions and thirty millions. Afcllib'saine time tlie flocks and herds of' British North America and Australasia alone numbered nearly seventeen milliiins cattle and eighty-two millions sheep. \d/4, >' - The German naval manoeuvres at Kiel this year were to last from the middle of A ugust till the oud of September. With regard to the principal feature, tho torpedo service, tho boats wore to bo tested, lirst, as to their oflicioucy for coast defence, and, socondly, on tlie high seas, as escorts and assistants of lino of battle ships in a regular naval station.

An anonymous donor, who had stipulated that his identify was nub to_Wnade known, recently paid into the.jßk of England' the sum of £14,980 id New South Wales bonds towards the fund for erecting a new parish church for Potson. The mterost on the above sum lip to thq Ist of July was £2BO, so that tho anonyminis contribution amounted to £15,!!G0.

M. Victorion Sardou, is, according to a . correspondent of the London Daily Telo- ;> grapll, ; liard at work on a new speotatular ■■ • pieee-for tlioPorto Saint Martin. He says;;.. that it is a comedy of modern life with : scones,in the East, and can be witnessed by children without danger to t\oir ■ ■ morals. In M, Sardou's opinion thereat drawback 'of the theatro now-a-Mye is •■< that it is impossible to tako school-girls : tliore, : and if report bo correct, ho is now . trying to chango all that, According to the Massowah intelligence published in tho Afret, .Abyssinia is slowly preparing for a Russian protectorate. The Greek priests from the Holy-. Laud, from Mount Athos and from Egypt. » are acting purely as political agents, They. ••' are distributing a lariju' amount of money, ■ • and aro almost unobserved, asjimilatiug'. the Ettoopiau Coptic Church, to; that of. the Greek orthodox rite, Those priosts' are freely admitted to all tho churches and'. chapels, and are introducing tho habit of coupling tho Czar's name with that of tho - . ' JSfegus in thoifSunduy praymv '.QuJBon. Elizabeth stylo of drAis ex- •. pocted to come in again about JroS. Tlik is indeed ruff,

Archibald Forbes' book entitled "The/ Kiugs 1 Jidvo met," is not a treatise ou poker.— Boston Post. It is said that a railway is to bo made toMandalay, Burinah, at an estimated cost of some two millions, sterling.. ASclilionianu, the explorer of Troy and the discoverer of the tomb of Agaiiieinnon, is an old Cahfornian, and used to buy sold dust in Sacramento away back in tho flush/times.

There is a suspicion that old man Hamlet, of Denmark, waß a Bhoemakor, from his son's remark: " Take him for awl and awl, we shall not look upon his likeajfain."—Boston Bullutin.

The eccuntrio Mrs Weldon, who is wolf •• Inowu in the London Imv courts luw become a tricyolist, For tlie future her triumphal procossioiie to and from the lawcourts will ba performed on whoolo. She> announces that alio is taking to tricyclingin order that she may obtain icci'eation and health, In enable her the better tocombat with " those horrid oldjfcjfocs." Attached to her tricycle (says a 'Pjreßentative of tlie Bicycling News who interviewed her) is a black bag, which blio call* . her " brief bag." In this bag aim carriesall the papora relating to the various trials . all of which she is. she says, following up with " intense eagerness." Francis Gliaiming, who was racontly elected to a seat in Parliament from East Northamptonshire, England, is mpji tf tho late Kov. William 11. Chanii% of Bouse, of Brook Farm famo, aiid' is also brothor-in-law of Edwin Arnold, thopoet.\. Miss 11. S. Mills is the heroine of Dakota She edits tho Hawloy Star, a weekly nowspaper of considerable circulation, planted fivo acres of treos on a tree claim, built a Bawmill/and when she has proved up her homestead' will havo 480 acres of land in her own nanio.

Maid 'servants are supplanting mon. servants in England. In 1851thoro were--74,000 muii employed as indoor sorvauts. In 1881 tlio iiumbor had fallen to 50,00* although the population of tho country had jiiuanwhile risen from 18,000,000 to--2(5,000,000. ~ -'..

A. <pd story anont FauuyAembl* floats across tho horizon from thdjUinryof an oldorly lady who know ho^ell,. It was in tho timo whon Boston was thegroat actress' nominal homo, and hor summors wero spoilt hero' and there in. rural Massachusetts. Slip had ongagod a worthy neighbor to be' her chanoteor during tho season of one of hor country Bojpurniiigs, and they wore s'ottiiig out on. their, first excursion. With kiudMrtod. loquacity ho was beginning 'to 7 exiMate< on tha country, the crops, and the history of tho people round about, when Fanny romarked in hor imperious, dogmatic fashion: " Sir, 1 havo engaged you to> drive for mo, not to talk to mo 1" farmer coasod, pursed up his lips, and ever after kopt bis peaco. Whan the vacation weeks wore over, and the dam*, was about to return to town, alio sont for' her Job and his bill. Ruuuing her oyej down its awkward columna she pauses}'.. " What is this item, sir!" said she, " I.' oanuot understand it,'.' And with equal gravity he rejoined: "Subs—live dollars, I don't often take it, but whon 1 do, I charge!" The bill was paid, and tiW tragodieuno and tho bucolic philosopher wero fast frionds ovor after,-Boston Beacon.

There is at Berlin an assocwSon jif' atudonts which has fov yonra obaSfed on. the Wednesday boforo Ascensioti Day tlu> curious custom of divining for the • Kmperor'B destiny. Themombers 01 tho Association proceed from Berlin to villago of Picholswcidor, on tlie fiavol, and horo they c'olobvato the anniversary; of tho guild. Thoy immediately oliuib up an oak tree in the ceutro.of taurant garden, and seat themselvos ou. the branches. Boor is handed up from, the ground, and after tho third glass has ' beon drained the president delivers th* -.: . anniversary speech, after which a cheer is given for tho emperor. Then at word, of.coinmand all glasses are hurled to tho< ground, and tho notion is that the. Emperor will live as many years as. there* are broken glasses. This year twelve ' glasses wero broken, so that the,Emperorshould yet bo a centenarian. The curious . custom w«B observed by a large number.' :. of people. ; •-'.'.' . A German newspaper gives some statistics as to the railway enterprise of the world. At the ond 1884 tho aggregate, miloage was 290,750, of whioh there were in Europe 117,604 miles, in Asia 12;757, in Africa 4,075, in A nuirica 148,738, and. in Australia 7,486 miles. Of thejotai ,£■ mileage not less than sixty per.consra in. • V ; t English speaking countries. §'. boasts the'largest amount' of /railway- \: ' accomodation hi proportion to population! s ■■■ and the; United States and Canada cqn»s'f next. ,|.'Th» cost of. constructing' >'tKeie£'' ; railways is estimated at £4,800,000,00^, -sfi ■ and m been highest in Great wuerelt amounts to £4UOB per wllsMl ■ agains££27,797 in BolgWs4sß;iM-France;-181,041, in Germany(State 1 'v»'.v-'; ways)',"£2o;Bßs(?)iu-.Australia, £l6Mft> •in Russia, and £12,650 in ttonflnitMli '■' states,.' ,;; "■"■■ f : ; :