HARVEST CALENDAR OF THE WORLD.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVI, Issue 994, 28 November 1883, Page 6

HARVEST CALENDAR OF THE WORLD.

We are all taught (says a Home paper) that by reason of the inclination of the earth's axis, the several seasons happen at different times in different portions of our globe, so that seed times and harvests do not correspond in the various zones. But probably few persons realise that if all the harvest periods of the world were grouped together they would be found to occupy more than three- fourths of the whole year. As a fact, leaving out of sight altogether the equatorial and neighboring regions, in which different seasons are actually contemporaneous, there are, perhaps, only two months out of the twelve in which the harvest is not being actually gathered somewhere on the face of the earth. Thus, in the greater part of Chili, portipns of the Argentine Republic, Australia, and New Zealand, January is the harvest month. It begins in February in the East Indies, going on into March as we come north, Mexico, Egypt, Persia, and Syria reap in April ; while Japan, China, Northern Asia Minor, Tunis, Algiers, and Morocco, and also Texas do so in May. California, Spain, Portugal, Ttaly, Sicily, Greece, and sonn of the southern departments of France gather the harvest in June. July is the harvest month for the greater part of France, for Austria, South Russia, and the greater part of the United States of America ; Germany reaps in August, with England, Belgium, the Netherlands, pa-t of Russia, Denmark, part of Can-tda, and the North-Eastern States of America ; September is the time for Scotland, the greater part of Canada, Sweden, Norway, and the northern midlands of Russia, while the harvest drag 3on slowly throughout October in the most northern parts' of Russia and the Scandinavian Peninsula. It would thus seem that November and December are the only months which have not a place in the harvest calendar of the world.

The learned judge of the City of London Court, who is nothing if not OUtspoken, told a suitor recently that "a jury is at all times the most incompetent tribunal known to the law of England." However that may be ('adds a Home paper) it must be -admitted that individual jurymen sometimes do strange things ; and the conduct of one of the Coroner's jury which had been inquiring into the " Waltha nßtow tragedy " waa rightly described by the doctor concerned in the ■ case as scandalous and indelicate." The juryman in question bad visited the mother of the murdered child, and he admitted that In "might have used" such observations as that it was " no use trying to get her husband off the rope," and that " in the opinion of the jury she had driven h* husband to commit the crime through jealousy." It is not at all surprising that the poor woman's recovery should have been retarded by the juryman's visit, although he assured the coroner that the visit was " of a kindly nature, to see if : he could be of any service,"