Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-08-30
FOREIGN FINDINGS.

A MINING claim on Douglas Island, Alaska, has just been sold for s2, soc, 900.
 CHILL and the Argentine Republic are to be connected by rail over and under the Andes.
 THE railway casualties in England last year include thirty-three persons killed and six hundred and forty-seven persons in- jured.
 THE more important cities of Colombia are almost as well supplied with telephones as the average city of the same population in this country.
 Two STATE railway carriages have been built in Paris for the Emperor and Empress of China. The dragons the panels are of gilt bronze and they are very magnifi- cent all over.
 THE telephone disease" has been dis covered by Prof. Wilborstadt, of Berlin. 1 The use of the instrument produces dis order ln the vibratory chambers of the ear, generally in the left ear TELEPHONE rates are comparatively low in Sweden. At Orebo, for instance, the subscriber pays an annual rental of but four dollars and gets the use of a telephone system extending one hundred miles into the country.
 THERE are six hundred and twenty-one newspapers printed in Berlin. Fifty-four are official papers, seventy political one hundred and siXty-five have to do with lit erature, science and art, two hundred and seventeen are commercial, and thirty reHg- iouS.
 AN immense terrestrial globe, on the scale of one-millonth, will be feature of the 1 Paris exposition of 1889. It will be about /; forty feet in diameter and will give impor- tant spaces in their actual relative size. i Paris, for example, will cover about sixth Of square inch
 1 COUNT MAURICE EsTERHAzY has been put | under guardianship to check his mad ex- 1 travagance. He owns, free and clear of 1ncumbranccs, more than 22O,0OO acres of land in Hungary, and can travel Tn Q straight lni more than fifty miles without ! quitting his estate.
 l THE morphine habit ill Paris is cnslaving 1 thousands of women in the upper classes. They provide themselves with miniature | apparatus, which can be concealed about 1 the person and actually practice the vice in i public, injecting the drug while visiting or attending the theater.
 DURING the recent celebration at the Bo- l logna University the students of Parma sent their Bologna brethren Parmesan cheese, weighing one hundred and eighty pounds, and covered with Latin inscriptions worked in maccaroni. A tun of wine was dloO SclG CO WdSu IL uOWu WlIu.
 Ex-QUEEN ISABELLA, of Spain, has an in- come of one million dollars year, but is al- l ways in debt. She maintains no house in Paris, but always resides at hotel. Her executive ability is alearly shown by the ease with which she %%stantly spends more than her enOrmohS iINOme amounts to.
 AN atmospheric phenomenon was wit messed in the English Channel lately. The atmosphere rarefed to the extent that ob- jects thirty and forty miles distant could be discerned by the naked eye with remarka- ble distinctness. Almost every prominent object could be picked out along the French coast
 A SOCIETY called the Columbia has started carrier-pigeon service between Strasburg and Vienna, and recently a number of pig cons were started at the latter city at five o'clock one evening, and the first of them reached Strasburg at six o'clock the next morning, having travelled at the rate ot over thirty-one miles an hour all night
 THE sardine and other tins, of which such thousands are thrown away, go to support 6 branch of industry in Paris which is deeply interesting to the youthful part of the pop ulatlon; for, after being stamped into shape by machines of simple construction, they reappear in the form of countless armies o1 tin soldiers, which are sold at prIces so low that the manufacturer could not possibly afford to buy his materi al new from the tin l man.
 SEVERAL of the French railway companies and other public bodies have adopted the practice of having their printing done or green instead of white paper. The reason for this alteration is that they have conclud ed that the combination of white paper witt black characters endangers the eyesight 0. their work-people. Black on green has al ways been recognized as good combination for this purpose, and many railway ticket: are so printed