ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 118, 6 September 1876, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Cattle said to be the heaviest and ba in the world have arrived at Philadelphi for the Exhibition —among them an o weighing 4,000 pounds and a heifer weigt ing 3,300 pounds. India is by far the most extensive as populous of the dominions of the Britis crown ; its direct Government is in E* land, it has not even a Parliament. ' j The Pall Mall Gazette says that no ves sel carrying Chinese immigrants ought t be allowed to start for an English colon or dependency without carrying a certai number of respectable Cninese women. It is stated that as the late Julia Ma thews had expressed her intention < making America her home, it was decidf that she should be buried there. Att! grave, the lid of the casket was remove and a last look taken of her face, whi bore a calm and peaceful expression. Nearly all the coachmen who drive p vate carriages in New York are regul John Bulls. There is a society to wli six hundred of these Anglican Jehus I long. The Scientific American says:—"' have heard of iron-as thin as paper, 1 just had a packet of specimen iron she brought to our office not half thick as t sheet this is printed on." The publishers of the New York Tit print an edition of their paper on tin Walter Press every morning-, in the Eip sition Building, Philadelphia. Duplia plates are made in New York. Plate swimming is the latest novelty aquatics in London. Round paddles, size and [shape resembling plates, arei tened to the hands and feet, giving gn extra power. The London correspondent of the &' man writes :—" Considerable attention! been excited by an article on " Cavafe; 'in Vanity Fair. I have reason to belif that it is from the pen of Colonel Bat Mrs. Baker is allowed to visit her husbs in prison every day. She goes at two p.! and remains till night." A late English paper furnishes the 1 i lowing :—" The two elder sons of i German Crown Prince, now pupils at i public gymnasium at Cassel, attract ntf popular sympathy by their natural audi presuming ways and their easy earns derie. The newest story about the which has given great satisfaction popular circles in Berlin, where i Israelite element enjoys a certain f minence, is that they have struck up ardent friendship with a young Jewish Is the son of a poor woman, the widoif one of the ill-paid teachers at a Gene public school. The masters gave the' a good character, and the Crown and Crown Princess are reported to W particularly applauded the choice mw their sons. Last Easter vacation the) princes begged as a favor that they ojj bring their schoolfellow home with t* to Potsdam. Permission was g£ granted; but young S , the scW fel'ow, declined the invitation on \ ground, delicately expressed, that he' not consider it right to presume upon passing fancy which the royal cluM had taken to him. Reassured on » point, he still hesitated, on the gro that his mother particularly wished' to adhere rigidly to the Jewish law in spect of meat and drink. The prijj found themselves in a dilemma, w they promptly communicated to tt parents. The Crown Prince at <» ordered that young S , during h^ at the palace, should be orthodox Jewish fare. Upon this ir accepted, and, as a fact, spent the■ !*■ holidays at the Crown Prince's palace* the great] satisfaction of his co* gionists."