ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1629, 10 March 1884, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

The following very remarkable statement is made by the Glasgow ' Daily Mail' of December U last:—"Dr Carter Moffat gave the first of a course of popular lectures at Stowo on Wednesday night to a large audience; The Rev. Mr Burnside in the chair, with the Rev. Mr Beveridgo at the harmonium. Tho subject was " The application of chemical science to the improvement of vocal tone," and the results of Dr Moffat's chemical discoveries in Italy went to show that the beauty of Italian vocal tono is due to the peroxide of hydro gen existing in tho Italian atmosphere, and that the utility of Italy as a sanatorium is due also to the same constituent. The vocal illustrations were given by the U.P. choir, and it may be said that the inhalation of the chemical compound at once produced an extraordinary effect—a softness and mellow beauty of tone—which was greatly applauded, Dr Moffat's own illustrations also went far to convince the audience of the exceptionally taluable nature of the plan of training the voice by chemical meaus. The doctor's voice has been made a tenor of astonishing range, some twenty notes from, the lower F to the high Oiu alt, of great beauty, sweetness, and power—the latter note being rung out clear •and pure from the chest in the line devotional air " I will arise." A Jewish Club has been opened in Melbourne. Valentines in Australia wero very scarce this year, Paris has still 500 oil lamps for lighting the streets. Tho Salvation Army threaten an attack on Wanganui, Nearly 1000 ladies are now practising medicine in England. At the first two days' racing at Dunedin the stakes fell short of the totalisator profits by £25..

On November 10 the first stone was laid, at the Pope's native place, of a hospital to be built at his cost. Sullivan, the Yankee ' slogger,'has backed himself for a thousand dollars to knock down an ox with one blow.

In Belgium and Holland the railway embankments are fanned out to a company which raises apples upon them, Typhoid fever is so prevalent at present in Victoria that the provisions of a stringent Health Act have had to be put in force.

A Hungarian Jew sent to a Vienna paper a grain of wheat on.which he had written three hundred and nine words taken from Tissol's book on Vienna.

The English Jockey Club will in future prevent jockeys betting on races or owning racers, This is a fatal blow to a brother of Fred Archer. Lord Falmouth has also decided to relinquish racing.

A Victorian constable lias had a conspicuous monument erected to his memory in the Melbourne cemetery, a large amount of money having been collected for the purpose by the wife of a former comrade, The following is, in round numbers, tho religious condition of the world : Heathens, 856,000,000; Roman Catholics, 190,000,000: Mahommedans, 170,000,000; Protestants, 116,000,000; Greek Church, 84,000,000; Jews, 8,000,000.

An ancient canoe, that was apparently hollowed out from a single massive oak trunk by the stone axe or fire, was recently unearthed near Pul borough, Enlgand. It was found under a river bank.

Paris has sixty Roman Oatholio churches and some thirty chapels Cor other denominations. It is estimated that there is a placo of worship for every 20,000 of the inhabitants, and even this is more than sufficient for the number who go. The London Telegraph thinks the time is not far distant when every nightfarer will cany his own ray of electricity about him enclosed within the compass of a machine not larger than the watch now ticking in his pocket.

Mr J. J. O'Kelly, M,P,, who some years ago represented the New York Herald during the Cuban insurrection, has been despatched by that journal as its special war correspondent to the Soudan. The lion gentleman was not, therefore in his place when Parliament met.

A St Louis clot'gyman Ims asked the newspapers not to report his sermons, since somo of his congregation absent themselves from the house of worship because they can read the substance of his discourse at their ease at the breakfast table. The twentieth birthday of Prince Albert Victor, eldest son of the Prince and Princessof Wales, was colobratcd at the Sandringham palace on January 8. In connection with this evont the West Norfolk hounds had a by-day, the " meet" being at Babingleyßridge, The Prince and Princess of Wales and Prince Albert Victor, and a number of the guests, went out with tho hounds, and the young Princesses and a large number of the aristocracy of the neighborhood were present at tho meet, Mr J. L. Toole's company gave a per-. formance in tho evening in the ballroom, the pieces played being " Paul Pry" and « Mr Guffin's Elopement." As a punishment for. talking, J. J. Nansfield, an assistant master at the Greencoat school, Whitehall street, London, tied a strap round the tongue of a boy called Arthur Parry, aged eight, and fastened the strap by a string to a chair. For this he "was brought by the boy's father before the Thames Police Court. The Magistrate, however, said that, while punishment in schools should be of a mild character, it did not seem that in thid case there had been any real punishment at all. The boy appeared to have been very ■ much given up to talking,