ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 199, 9 December 1876, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

' navy consists of forty-five war, and the army is composed of men. congress of chimnej'-sweeps assembled receHtiy at Cassel to prepare a petition to the German Reichstag for uniform legislation throughout the empire, and to arrange for a central hospital and asylum for the sick widows and orphans. It was on March 9, 1543, that, by Act of Parliament, permission, was given to read the Bible. The Act declared " that it shall be lawful to all men to. read the Bible and Testament in" the mother tongue. The Chicago Handeh Zeitung has been the first German newspaper in the United States to adopt the style of printing in Roman letters. In Germany a movement has bee i started to use Roman letters in school books.

When fruit does harm (says the Medical Journal) it is because it is eaten at im-. proper times, uk improper quantities, or before it is ripened and fit for the human stomach. A distinguished physician has said that if ..his patients would make a practice of eating a couple of good oranges, before breakfast, from- February to June, his practice: would be gone. The principal evil is thafcwe do not eat enough of fruit; that'we injure its finer qualities with sugar; that we drown them in cream. We need the medicinal action of the pure fruit acids in our system, and their cooling, corrective influence. A large establishment has opened in St. Louis for drying eggs. It is in full operation, and hundreds of thousands of dozens are going into its insatiable maw. The .• eggs are carefully handled by hand.—that ' is, examined by . a light to ascertain whether good or not—and then are thrown •into an immense receptacle, where they are broken, and by a centrifugal operation ti the white yolk are separated from the J shells very rnuch as liquid honey is taken from the comb. The liquid is tnen dried by iieat by a and the dried article is lefu resemffijjrg sugar, which is put in barrels ready for transportation anywhere>--Tnis dried article has been taken twice across t.ie equator in ships, anil then made into omelet and comj.aL\id with ohislyfc male from fresh eggs m the same manner, and the best judges could not detect the difference betwegn the two. Is not this an age of wonders f\ Milk made solid ; cider made solid butter made into bricks. From official information supplied to the Lord Mayor of London, it appears that there will be dependent upon the public generosity, owing to the recent disaster on board the Thunderer, 24 widows, 51 orphans (21 boys and 30 girls), and 26 other relatives, besides some of the injured and maimed sufferers. The Government has granted a pension of £IOO per annum to the widow of the chief engineer, and a gi'atuity of a year's pay to 15 widows and 3 mothers of the stokers killed. A small pension will be. granted to the four widows of the dockyard men, but the widows of the contractors' servants will be without any support. The amount subscribed : to the Portsmouth committee-is £6,864, while that sent tp,. the Lord Mayor in addition is£9B2, ornearly £B,OOO in till-. It is roug.dy estimated that at least £14,000 will be required to meet the necessities of the case, and probably a much-larger sum, and in this light both the Lord Mayor and the Mayor of Portsmouth are making every effo"-t to collect what is needed. Field-Marshal, the Marquis of Tweeddale, whose deata was announced in Lon.v\ don on the 20th of October, was better,' known in earlier days as Sir George Hay. He was born in 1787, and was therefore in his 90th year at tne time of lrjs decease. He was Colonel of the Royal Horse Guards, Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Haddington, and a representative peer of Scotland, He was aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington during the Peninsular War, and was wounded at the battle of Busaco. The Marquis, -who held the post of Governor and Commander-in-Chief at Madras between 1841 and 1846, is the father of the Duchess of Wellington and of Lady Peel. He was made a Knight Grand Cross of theßath, March 19,1867Some attention has of late been excited by the trial on the Thames of two or three remarkably swift steam launches, which are supposed to be torpedo boat 3, constructed by contract for some foreign power —said- to be Austria. They are not much longer than an eight-oared galley, very narrow, and low in, the water, and they make scarcely any noise when in motion. Taeir spee4 .is extraordinary, one of them having exceeded twenty-four miles an hour, anctljijf-is rumored that their makers have; undertaken to increase that speed to thirfy Grilles. The service these boats are-designed for is to carry .torpedos fleet, running in and droppiijggpne alongside the ship> and rapidly out of harm's way before or. the more hazardous torpedo outrigger cm the top of a pole against the hull and tiring while alongside. n> torpedo boats of this class in the IfjpP &jhy«i&vy. jx \