ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 152, 16 October 1876, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

From the first number of the Whitehall fiericic we take the following extract: — " Members of no less than fifty different tribes of North American Indians will be represented at the Philadelphian Exhibition. Six of tliem are said to be remarkable athletes. One can climb up a rope two hundred feet high. One can stand on his head for eleven hours consecutively. Two can throw a spear a hundred and twenty yards or thereabouts. One can dive under water a hundred and t.n yards in.seventy seconds. And the last has accomplished the feat of jumping with the pole six feet six inches high, and twentyone feet two inches long. One representative of a tribe will be a woman, mother

of twelve children ! who is said to be the best boxer of the fifty, and can give any one of them a ' tarnation thrashing!" One Cnoctow Indian is said to speak French like a Parisian, and will keep a cafe with Id on parte Franqais inscribed over it. A gigantic ' Westener ' will also

exhibit himself. He stands about seven feet five inches high. Altogether, the exhibition promises large things. If it be true that, in the conceits, cannon are to supplant big drums, the exhibition may prove rather noisy, and be occasionally enveloped in smoke." Countless accidents, as everyone knows, arise from the use of matches. To obtain

light without using tliem, and so without the danger of setting tilings on fire, an ingenious contrivance is now used by the watchman of Paris in all magazines were

explosive inflammable materials are kept. Anyone may easily make a trial of it. Tr*ke an ohfeng p :ial of the whitest and <*'.> arest ghtss, and put into it a piece of phosphorous about the size of a Pour some olive oil, hinted to the boiling point, upon t!>e ph'-spi orus ; fill the phial about one third fuil and then c>rk it rightly. To usa this novel light, remove

the c >ik, allow the air to cntjr the pliial, aii'l t'.:ca recork it. The empty space in

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