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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3645, 22 October 1890, Page 2

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There is', ft 100-acro tomato farm hear Griffin, Ca, A Philadelphia restaurant soils all the soups by the quart. ... England has 45,000 women who earn a livelihood as printers. The white rose -is the -favorite flower in France this summer. The railroad capital of tho world is estimated at L 5,800,000, ' A visit of British farmer delegates' to Canada is tain? (irranged, A decree has been promulgated ini Brazil, establishing the Mortgage Bank. A Baltimoro Chinaman was refused a license at Towson, his intended bride being white. The last eye witness of the battle of Trafalgar, a centenarian seaman, • has just died in England. The natives pronounce Newfoundland " Nulfonlon," with the accent hard cn the iost syllable. England has put in a claim for]j L 2,000,000 indemnity for the recent * row in the Argentine Republic; Leigham Court. Strcatham, near London, comprising 6G acres, has just been sold for £90,000. By an eccentrio will lately probated in Dublin, two heirs tQ a Scotch estate, get their weight in one pound notes. The cabriolet in use fifty, or sixty years ago, has reappeared in Hyde Park, including the tiger at the back. The authorities of Finland have forbidden the Salvation Army to' carry on propaganda work in that country, A barn near Faifinount, N,J, is covered, it is said, by shingles that were put on it when the structure was built in 1781, In the maw of a,cow killed nea Darien, 6a, a fow days ago, wa found a pound of sixpenny nails and ' 5 cent piece. a In the principal hotels of Paris. smoking has been prohibited. Thisfc is with a view to offend and drive away Gorman guests. He; ''The cutlet is cold again darling, What would you do if ® scolded just a little She : "Mak it hot for you, dearest I" , The London Times believes that the eventual result of the American Silver Coinage Act will be the adop tion by Aworica of a silver stan dard.

His purse was low, his honor scant, Ho did all sorts of things ho shouldn't; He was in truth a mendicant, And what is more, amend he wouldn't. The successor of Cardinal Newman is likely to be a German, The Popo does not look with favor upon the claims of Archbishop- Walsh to that position, Mrs Rodarigo Yallinerh has died at New York, after-abstaining from food for 43 days, with the object of curing herself of dyspepsia. She drank nothing but water daring tho fast. 6 ''« Henry Rochefort spends much of his spare time in London in the art galleries and the British musoum. Ho runs his paper by telegraph. Ho W 1 grown to like the English. There is.aireapect due to age, but tbcro is also a respebt due to youth, the lack of which , accounts for many a failure in tha household, and in systems of education, People have got to be shooked to wake them out of old absurd routine, Use paralyzses us to almost every injustice, When people are shooked they begin to think and enquiro,— H, B. Stowe. An international conference, for tbs purpose of fixing a common meridian, is proposed to be held in Rome next year. The meridian of Jerusalem is mentioned to replace Wsshington and Greenwich. Mrs Stanley, m Tennant, has a peculiar fad, Her hobby is parasols, of which she has a wonderful collection, They undoubtedly exoite the liveliest admiration of a man so careful of his complexion as Btanley, A young Russian noble, tho Baroness Loubanomki, is going to ride from St Petersburg to Odessa, 1500 miles, to win a bet and to break the record which was set some years ■' ago by tho Austrian Archduchess Maria Theresa. Female slaves are still giVen to tho Sultan in old-time pomp, An exquistjk/ itely beautiful girl of sixteen, is Georgian, that his aunt sent him, was taken to thoYidiz Kiosk in & gift coach escorted by a troop of gigantic eunuchs, Oxford is a littlo. excited over a. find of a monstrous metal knocker, the alleged god-father of Btamm College, having been discovered in Stamford fulfilling its proper offioo on a door. The original, antique, great, and only brasen nose is said to havo resembled tho facial trumpet of Friar Bacon,

A son of Nordenskjold is following m his fathor's footsteps as an Arctic explorer. Tho young man is one of the threo naturalists who havo been sent to Spitsbergen this summer by Osoar Dickson, the Swedish' millionaire, whose large contributions in bohalf of Arctic discovery have given him a world-wide reputation. A newspaper in Queensland, reviewing a work and prognosticating the - wondors of scienco, remarked, "There need be no further demand for Jules Verne's and other blackguards' works of imagination." Tho correction appeared in tho issue for the following week us follows: "For 'other blaokguards' pleaso read Rider Haggard's," • ■ , The English sparrows have loanrtJL, a new dodge Bince. electric lights* replaced gas in the New York city parks. When the current is turned off at dawn the bottoms of the globes are filled with hundreds of insects, which liavo been attracted by the light killed. The sparrows com e around alter the globe has cooled off, and devour the insects. One of the standing properties of tile prison of Uskub, Macedonia, is a collection of large ants, Fifty ants, placed on the body of a man chained to the floor so that he can't move limb or head, will cause as extremo |n torture as can bo | One of the features of an electrical | exhibition at Frankfort ia to be the transmission of power (500-horse) a distance of 140 miles. It is not pretended that this can be done economically, but the mere doing of be one of the wonders o£ the exhibition. The following remarkable statement has lately appoared in a novel: it that moment the worthy pastor appeared on the threshold of tho manse, His hands were thrust into tho pockets of Ms large, loose coat, while he turned over t!io leaves of his ; prayer-book and wiped bis epecta^jftf'