Connecticut western news., 1888-04-25
PROGRESS ABROAD.
Notes of Real Interest from Foreign
 Sources.

The Switchback railway is known at the Gingerbread Fair in Paris as Gle Chemin de PAmour."
 An actress in tho Paris opera bouffe has created great sensation by appearing in black not only from head to foot but apparently inside and out.
 British residents in Japan are subscribing for the repair of the grave of Will Adams, British sailor who was shipwrecked in Japan in the reign of James l., and who lived for many yeats at tho court of Iedo where he ob- tained extraordinary influence His grave was discovered some years ago on the summit of one of the hills overlooking the Government Arsenal at Yohosuka, near Yokohama.
 True loves most signal triumph over poverty and age must be the recent marriage in Devon- shire between spinster of 75 and a batchelor of 68, both in receipt of parish assistance.
 Twenty thousand nine hundred and for ty-fve students have attended the twenty universities of Germany during tho winter session which has just closed. At Berlin there were 5,478, at Munich 3,414, and at Leipsic S,2SS Bonn is seventh, with 1,119 students, and Heidelburg is only thirteenth, with 832. the students were f. treigners. Of the whole, s, 735 students belong to the philosophical fac ulty, 6,65O to the medical, 5,79l to the theo- logical, and 5, 769 to the juristic. The North China Herald says that agents of the Panama Canal made arrangements to kid ! but the enterprise failed.
 Mir. Bonanza Mackay's little grandson, the | Priuceling Colloana is dangerously i'll. Valentine Bakers favorite charger, beauti- | full white Arab, has been sent to his sister, Miss Baker, in England.
 Since 1853 the English Congregational Chapel Building Society has assisted 673 | churches.
 Bismarck is one of tho largest paper manu- 1oilv of his mills at Yarzin averages something over | fifteen tons. He is also a distiller on a large scale, and as 8 timber merchant he is only sur passed by the Prince of Saxe-Coburg- -Gotha, wfo owns the great Thuringian forest and the Prince von Furstenberg, who disposes of all the timber cut in the Black Forest by heridit- ary rights.
 The fakir Singh, who lately espoused the daghter of Gen. Booth of the Salvation Army, was an Englishman named Tucker, and re- | christened for salvation services in India At the marriage ceremony in London collections amounting to f5, 900 were taken up for the happy pair. When the ring was brought out Gen. Booth suggested that all the jewelry present should put into the collection boxes and in great deal of it went
 correspondent of the London Standard says that the Russian Nibilists, having failed to make the desired impression upon the peas ants, have for the past few years devoted theil attention chiefly to the army and navy, and Wltn sucCeSS u IS suspected Inat Il Russia becomes engaged in another war the revolutionists will not permit her triumph 'If our armies emerge victorious from com ing war;" say the Liberals, ''the abominatior of dcsolation will be inaugurated in our coun try. and will last indefinitely"
 Tho trade in birds for womcn's hats was st enormous last year that single London dealer admitted that he sold two millions of smal birds of every kind and color. At one auction in one week there were sold 6OOo birds of par adise, 5000 Impcyan pheasants, 10000 hum ming birds, and other birds from North an( South America, and 30O,OOO feathered skin from India.
 The sweating system in London produce
 fearful reports. MT. Lakcman, one of the Fac tory Inspectors, met woman in the East Enc , working for sixteen hours day making wa ist , coat buttonholcs at tho rate of five for two pence. In fur-cape making awoman said: '' , work fromS to &, and earn five shillings week sometimes lrss. I have nothing to do for si moutGs in tho year." In the East End, an; even in central London. for the lowest class O , mems shirts, sold wholesale at eleven shilling . dozen and rctaied at thirteen shilings an sixpence, the workers remuneration is on shilling dozen by machine work ant
 threcpcnce a dozen for button holes and but
 tons. A woman by close application may mak
 a dozen shirts day, and thus painfully ear
 six shillings week; the finisher must be con
 tent with three shillingS.