ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2712, 11 October 1887, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD.

Spiders are largely concerned in the cure of ague, In Ireland, the sufferer is advised to swallow a living spider. In Somerset and the neighbouring 7 Counties, he is to shut h large , black spider in a box and leave it to perish, EvouinNew England, a lingering faith. . in the superstitions of the mother country leads to tho manufacture' of spider web pills for tho cure of auguo, • and Longfellow tells of a popular cure for fever—'• By wearing a spider hung . round ono's nook in a nutshell."—This was the approved ' remedy oi" our British ancestors for fever and agu( and in Busbcx a live spider rolled, up' in butler ia still considered good ia cases of obstinate jaundice. An irascible old gentleman who formerly'held tho position of Justice of. the. Peaee, w&s recently accosted in.tho street in a manner that did not come up to liia Honor's idea of the leepert 'flue to-him. .Youag man,'V,BpW.'he J! ;..'..; > , " I fine yoti twenty shillings.■' .!■ tempt of court." " Why, Jqdpll. ■ said the offender, " you aro riot in . session." "This court," roplied'the' Judge, is always in session, and consequently always an'object of contempt."- . Arohdeaeon Farrar 'gays that " in India the English have made 100 " " drunkards for ono Christian." Tho late Judge Cadwallader of Phil-. adelphia,.had ■ a wealthy brother, who,. while the Juds;e was tented on thi . bench one day, appeared,-in -liia bluffV: -"n fraternal way, said How' are you, John) I have been summoned'to actas 0 grand juror." Said the Judge :""\pen ! ' J ara 014 the bench lam addresse® aa Judge" ." Don't be a JoJin"'Baid the business man. ;' ,i; Fipo. Mr Cadwallader oue .hundred dollars." '

i said the Judge and he was fined... 'Xlie'.loddon. Ecoi'ioniiat states,-that ; the criticisms; of'fcho-colonial loans have- had: ft beneficbl. >ffe«t.- ; , J she loans floated this ' year amounted ' to ; eight millions, ail against 'fourteen and a half millions in 1886, . vTtie result of such''a reduction that colonial stocks havwapidly risen, . v ' ■ Victor Hugo did uot know the araouci / of his fortune until some o* his friflnj*: in'lßß4, enquired of the .! They. discovered that he 6,000,000f deposited withastonished him greatly ted him with the fact, -