ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 202, 13 December 1876, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

The Herald of Health remarks on some medical evidence which was recently given at an inquest held in Marylebone, on the bo'ly of an infant of three months : '• Three hundred-babies are smothered "to death every year by drunken parents in one section of London, and seven tenths of them on Sunday mornings. Is or is not this worthy of the attention of. Her Majesty's Home Secretary'{"' Th' 3 DeputyCoroner made the statement, and said the frequency of such cases was alarming.

The amount wolves eat is enormous. In two or three hours a pair will eat the half, of a horse weighing 350 kilog., they themselves not weighing more than 50. A dangerous peculiarity is their trick -of appearing to be dead. A Russian peasant found a wolf' apparently dead on the ground, beat him with a cudgel, and took him home on his sledge for the sake of his skin. In the night he heard a noise and found the animal on the table. It jumped at his throat, and his wife, who rushed out for help found him dead on her return.

Lapland mothers are not in the habit of staying at home with their babies. The Laps are a very religious people, and take long journeys to hear their pastors. As soon as the family arrive at. the little wooden church, and the reindeer are secured, the father shovels a snug little bed in the snow, and the mother wraps the baby in skins and deposits it therein. Then the father piles the snow around it, and the dog is set on guard, while the parents go decorously into the church. Often as many as thirty babies may be seen laid away in the snow about a churchy

It has hitherto been the habit to recommend in hot climates .a temperate use of animal diet, and to replace it by a free use of vegetable food. Tiiis has been prove! by Dr. Livingstone, by careful observation and experiment on himself during his travels in Cential Africa, to be a false theory. He says that amongst the natives the appetite foranitnal food is voracious in the extreme, and it is-not the result of a savage nature, but a natural conse-_ quence of climate ; and his conviction was that " for all climates; and under a 1! circumstances, the most valuable of all food is beef."

TJiey understand the art of advertising in Omaha. In that enterprising town of the Far West, as we learn from an American paper, an individual, is printing an edition of the Prayer-book, which he gives away to every attendant at church. The right-hand page contains the .usual prayers ; the left-hand is allotted to advertisements ! Another person was endeavoring to purchase the privilege of using the outsides of the pulpits for posting the merits of a pat3nt baby- jumper. The same journal is responsible for the statement that in Chicago the backs of. the policemen are let to advertisers by the Town Council.

The population of Columbus is no more than one hundred and fifty. There are about a dozen families, and thirty-live or forty buildings of all kinds. Most cf the houses are adobe. The water tastes of borax. Coluulbus and the vicinity are as desolate as anyone can imagine a place to be. Not a tree, or shrub, or sage bush; only grease wood here and there, very scattering too. Not a, spear of grass, or

any living thing, animal or vegetable, can be seen for miles. It has the- appearancj of ground, that, after being ploughed afif harrowed, a heavy rain fallen on it. When the wind blows over it, the air is filled with dust, which resembles a heavy fog rising from the marsh. CVlumbus is located on ground sloping to the south and down to the marsh. - The mountaim, surrounding are entirely bare,-in some! places, even of soil. American journalists (says the Graphic) are more noted for energy than delicacy, and their latest display of zeal savoura somewhat of bad taste. Commodore Vanderbilt, the well-known steamboat owner, recently lay in a dying condition at New York, and at two o'clock in the morning one day thirty-five reporters waited puttside for the news of his decease, anxious to carry the first intelligence to their respective journals. They had arranged with a servant to display from the window a red shirt if the sick man was dying, and a white shirt if he died. The Commodore, however, rallied, and the thirty-five reporters had to return without witnessing the expected signal. The spiritualists have got hold of the late Captain Gray, of the Great Britain. The following appears in the London Medium and Daybreak of the 7th July last, extracted from a letter from Cape Town :—" We had a seance last night of a very remarkable nature. Our familiar friend ' John ' brought some friends who were sailors on this sphsi'e. A spirit who gave his name as Captain Gray, once the commander of the steamer Great Britain, said he was murdered, and did not commit s ucida (as was thought) when under the influence of drink. He was thrown overboard by two of his crew about 'five bell?.' They locked his cabin door, and made it appear he had done it himself. I;wa , »at 'eight bells' that the ship was a)a in id. T~iis took place ia 1873.. The m, d um gave us the whole scene in the form of cvC.ing, whilst calling out for a buoy, and then the names of his wife and diugnter. One of the sailors, in a brutal vva-, said, 'l'll have the wife, and the other the daughter.' One of the murderers has since died ; the other vrill be swim i up in three months, as he will be co.npilljd to make a confession, his torment being so great. The captain said it was in about 18 E. of Cape Meridian, and 37 S. latitude. (I think this was it, aLhoug i I am not positive, not having a note.of it, bat trusting to memory.) "