ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 171, 7 November 1876, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

At the conclusion of the bnstncM before the Sandhurst Court on Monday, 2nd October, a respectable miner, named George Conlson, came f'»r--:'.r,t and rf-itod fsays the JJrnditfo fh; •' "•?. out his will or consent a boy of 'ni;<, aged fourteen years and nine months, " had got under the influence of Madame Sibly, the mesmemt," and he was informed that " he was so demented as to follow her like a dog" at Echuea. He had written to Madame Sibly respecting the boy, but having received no answer, he wished to know what he could do in the matter, and having been advised a.s to what steps to adopt t*> secure hi* son, he left the Court. A new invention called the electric pan consists of a small electric engine on the top of a holder, which is used as a pen. This works a needle that pierces the paper, making 5,000 to 6,000 holes per minute, so. that in writing, such is the rapidity of the motion of ttte needle that the point does not drag r>r tear the paper. The pierced paper or " stencil" is pb-'ced in a frame, and an inked roller is passed over it, which tills the fine perforations with ink ; a sheet of paper is then placed belew the written paper or " stencil," and the roller is again pas-isd over it once or twice, when a perfect of the writing is obtained. It is stated that thes„> fttc-ximiJ-sx can be produced at the rate of four to five a minute, and one writing or '* stencil" will suffice to print 1.000 copies. A very euriotts soientide apparatus, an English paper says, will shortly be submitted to the medical profession, an instrument for recording the pulsation of the heart. One portion of thta apparatus is affixed to the wrist of the patient, the other inscribe on a dial the number of beats witi an accuracy which is impossible to the physician, who marely stands wntch in hand, making hU observations with more or less of hapaar.vd. He was decidedly a social philosopher who sat on the wharf fishing recently, and gave his opinion with regard to the hard times- H* said the tr-:.ub£;; w;» tint capital was opposed to tabor, and, n-> matter how anxious a man w«a to work, capital would make no concessions. He wanted work himself he sa'd.an I ottcre he thought of giving up ; but now his wife was ald a to take in washing, and he would never yirld. He intended to-say mur.r, but he was obliged to go oif to attend a ball matt-!'..—Sew York P.spor. The Duke of Richmond and Gordon has fottr.d that his n;--w title lias c rcain iae--»n-Vftticticos. His Grace had tension Uj , writ; to a lady fr.»m t!;e I'nic-.'d States who is tit proa nt in this conntry. 2v>w, y:t:~«:n3of the St-.r.es. bo'h male and female, pid-.e themsJvss upon t :e : r ignorance of British titles and thv.ir indi:f rsne- v to cttrptttt;?. But. thb lady had some eX'JtfS' for h hs mistak:? she ma i.% Seeing the signature " Richmond and Gordon," she fancied that the letter came from a firm, and a ■ & began her reply with " Gentlemin," and addressed the letter ''Messrs. .Richmond and Gordon." This was an unpleasant surprise for the re- ; cipif nt, who did not relish a blnn ler s«> derogatory to his position ; and he is believed to be less proud of bis new di'iitty than he was before finding that it could give rise to such a misunderstanding. A man has been missing for the pa3f ten years from the town of St. Jean de Lux, and commonly reported as dead, especially by his wife and her sister, who made htsr absence the pretext for soliciting charitable donations, which, however, they spent in orgies. The man was not dead, but had lost his sight, and his wife had shut him up in a miserable pigsty adjoining the house. Its whole furniture was a plank couch and a water-bucket, his only clothing mimmer or winter, a ragged shirt, and for food be had bread, potatoes, and water. Meanwhile, in the adjoining house, and w;t:dn his hearing, the women of the household gave themS'jlives- up to the most infamous practices. After leading this mis. table existence for over nine years, a happy thought occurred to the captive. One night he s>roke a hole in the wail of his prison, escaped, and groped his way to a neighbour':* house. The police were sent for, and the two women arrested and conveyed to the prison at Dayonne. In IS4O there arrived in Hobson's Bay a family of eleven—father, mother, five sons, and four daughters. Uut of the original eleven, eight are still alive, rJter a lapse of thirty-six years ; and from the nine children, ninety have been born in Victoria, of whom eighty-three are still living. " Atticus," who mentions this, says :— ,k If every oti.-er married couple in the colony did as wed as that, there would be no necessity for any one ever talking about assisted immigration."