Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-23
PEOPLE OF ALL LANDS.

''MOsT Russian ladies smoke cigarettes" says Lady Randolph Churchill in her article entitled "A Month in Russia"
 THE Japanese keep their bric-a-brac in fireproof buildings, to be taken out one at time and admired, and then replaced by an other.
 IN the higher realms of Turkish society it is considered quite the handsome thing to give a friend as a birthday present a plump young Georgian or pretty, fair-skinned Circassian.
 WHEN Chinese girl is married, she must wait four months before her etiquette al- lows her to pay her first visit to her mother but after this initiatory call she may 20 to the home of her parents at any time. THE wealthy Japanese make no display either in the architecture of their houses or In the display of ornaments. In the way of furnishing, their pride is in the delicacy of their mats and the richness of their satin cushions.
 THE Chinese are q great nation for flial piety and respect for ancestors generally. The Empress-Regent of China, desiring to honor Sir Robert Hart, has thought of no | better way than to ennoble three genera tions of his ancestors dead and buried. THE Mantchus, of which race comes the | reigning dynasty of China, do not cripple | the feet of their women, therefore the ladies of the Imperial family are not and never l have been subject to this degrading and de- | moralizing practice. It is the Chinese prop l CT, the subject and not the conquering race, 1 who torture and maim their women. l IN Spain, where men drink little, fat man is unknown. In Paris, where the men l content themselves with slipping thimbles- l full of absinthe or small cups of black coffee, the French are thin to a remarkable degree. The women, on the other hand, drink great quantities of champagne, Bur- gundy, and, latterly, beer, and they are, as a result, prone to stoutness
 A French missionary gives a serious &C., count of the state of slavery in Ecuador. Though it is not a legal institution, yet the law permits an Indian to sell himself as a
 slave when he IS unable to pay his debts,
 and once slave he is rarely able to free
 himself. He may be bequeathed by will.
 The majority of the interior Indians have
 been reduced to this condition. 1 A WRESTLING language'' of the inhab- 1 itants of Gomero Island is described by
 Lieutenant Quedenfeldt, of the German
 army, as ordinary speech translated into l artlculate Whistling, each syllable having | it's own appropriate tone. It is unknown in
 the other islands of the Canary group, and,
 as 1t may be heard Q milo away, it is sup. posed to havo been adopted to enable the l people to talk across the many deep, un-
 bridged ravines separating their homes on l thls island.
 THE Mongolians, or inhabitants of the
 land between China and Siberia, do not
 bury their dead, but cast them on the plains
 where the flesh is dcvoured by dogs and
 wolves. The Chinese and the Mongols ex. plain the difference between their customs
 in this way: earth returns to earth, flesh
 to flesh; thus the Chinese whose bodies are
 fed by the grains of the earth, that is, veg
 etarans, return it as natural recompense
 while the Mongol, who is a flesh eater, must
 as natural result feed the animals in re
 turn. Evidently they have some sense o1 | natural justice.