ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 185, 23 November 1876, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

That Heathen Chines. —A Chinaman in California, whose life was insured for a luge amount, was seriously hurt by falling from a wag;on. There was some doubt of his ever getting better, and at length one of his friends wrote to t e insurance company—" Charlie half dead, Itkee ha.tf money." The postal card manufactory in Springfield, U.S.A., is running ten hours per day. turning out about 500,0"JO cards per day, and is 3,C»00,000 behind its orders. The number of cards printed during the quarter ending July Ist was 35,000,000, an increase of'tiearly 10,000.000 ov«r the corresponding quarter of ISTO. Mr. Bolton, aged eighty, late borough treasurer of Hull, has admitted defalcations to the amount of about £IO.OOO, extending over twmty-ftve ye in. Mr. Brooke, his assistant, smpect.d of coiiipticcfy. committed suicide. There are tree things which a good wice s.vould ressmbL*, and yet tfiuse t:irte things she should not resemble. She should be like a town clack—keep time a:id regularity. She should not be like a town clock—spjak so It»u I thai all the town bkiv hear her. She should be I ke a snail—prudent and keep wit.iin lur own house. She should n< >C be like a snail—carry all she has upon her back. S.ie should be like an echo—speak wheu spoken to. Site should not be like an echo—determined always to have the List word. The waters should not be allowed to close over the head of one of the crew of the Dandenong without a special tribute to his metno-y. The allusion is to Thomas J. Bunting, who is a niar relative t> John King, the Australian explorer. Bunting was King's and he wa* married to t.ie sister who so long nursed and looked after th j deceased htro. And Boating show*! Januelf well worthy of

his connection. He was fireman on the steamer, and he worked belov." fires were extinguished, and then went to give assistance, first at the pumps, and then at the boats. As he stood on the part.s •yhy, a brother fireman in the last boat ceiled out lo liim, " Come into the boat, .J err}", there's a place for you but Bruiting replied, "No, I won't leave until I have seen all the women and children out of the ship," and so he was left to his fats. In this noble manner he died, and his comrades say that no better or braver man perished in the disaster. Mrs. Bunting's position is a sad one. She has been deprived in turn of a gallant brother and a wortln* husband, and she is now in the world friendless, and wiil have to address herself to the task of earning a livelihood. She should find sympathisers in every quarter.—Melbourne Daily Telegraph. The last idea propounded as to the Bravo mystery is this: The deceased's drink was Burgundy. It is well-known that when the Germans invaded France certain wine-growers poisoned their wine fjr their uninvited guests, and perhaps one bottle got consigned by mistake to Mr. Bravo. It is certainly a far-stretched notion, but up to this date no better explanation has been afforded. A confirmed humorist, who is no rcspector of persons, relates that lie had been to a suburban theatre where this domestic tragedy formed the subject of the performance, and was called " The Bra?o cf BalJiam ; or, Catching a Tartar (Emetic)." "The True History of Punch," which his for some time been appearing from .ha pen of Joseph Hatton in "London Societv," is to be concluded next month, and to be republished in the winter or early next year with considerable additions. It is interesting in the history of j mrnalism to know that Punch was sold to Bradbury and Evans for £*lso, and that it owed its publishers £B,OOO before it paid sixpence. The mo.st absurd story is going the rounds of the Roman journals, which, of course, comes from Paris. Some diplomats were talking about the Oriental question, and one of them expressed a wonder as to what England would do eventually in regard to Turkey. The Persian Ambassador said : " England will do as the monkey did." The Persian told tow a learned man of the good old times, wishing to test the power of maternal ;iJect : «»n in a she monkey, took one, with a "young monkey, and put both in a high, large tin box, wliich box was placed over the tire, where it gradually heated. W .en the box began to be hot the poor monkey s.-ized the little inoukey in her arms and jumped and danced about on .the hot floor o! the box. At last the floor was so hot that all her leaping was of no use. Then w.iat did luot.ier monkey do / She took aer Laby monkey, put it down on the tloor and stood on it ! T..e poor little f How roasted, but her feet no longer ourned. Up to the present England has shown a mother's heart towards Turkey, but wiien the fire becomes intolerable s.je will cook her young monkey. A remarkable paper, which evoked considerable discussion, was read at a philosophical meeting in Wellington lately, by l>r. Dr. Newman, on the influence of the climate of New Zealand in human development. The learned doctor contended —That the lower atmosp.ieric pressure and absence of phosphates Here, must render children born or brought up in this Colony inferior, mentally and physically, to tho3e brought up at Home."