Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-13

BITS FROM ABROAD.


 THE guitar is becoming very fashionable tn England.
 CYCLING has become the rage in parts of Spain, and large numbers of machines ara being shipped to Barcelona. ENGLISH army authorities are consider ing project for enlisting young boys and | letting them grow up into soldiers. | FENCING has become so popular among ladies upon the continent that many con- | vents include it in their curriculum. ONE of the qualifications for membership
 in the Topers' Club of Tokio, Japan, ;s the | ability to consume seven bottles of sakke at a sitting.
 | A "NIAGARA IN LONDON" show is to have
 Q photographic reproduction of the real
 thunders of the cataract to supplement- the | pictorial attractions.
 CPARIs women now have whlm for nat
 ural flowers. They are worn on the shoul-
 der, epaulette fashion, where they are in
 no Ganger of being crushed. l A FOSSIL tortoise found in the city of Per- | pignan, Ill the Pyrenees, is over four feet | long and thirteen feet in circumference,
 and is the largest specimen in existence. | THE oldest musical society in tho world, the Antlizgesellschaft, celebrated its two hundred and seventieth anniversary re- gently at St. Gall, in Switzerland, with
 great eclat
 | THE London & Northwestern railroad has
 put dining car upon one of it's trains, and
 the whole English nation is open-mouthed
 with wonder at the progress railroading is | making in Great Britain | IT has just been discovered that out of
 twenty-five thousand native Kanalzas in the
 island of Noumea, four thousand are af1ilct-
 cd with leprosy of the worst sort. Efforts
 to stop the scourge are under way. JAPAN apparently leads the world in the
 number of houses destroyed by fire Quite i frequently twenty-five or thirty buildings | go up i'll smoke, while several times within | the past year the number has been thirty | times that amount.
 A PARIS gentleman engaged cafe con-
 cert company to entertain his guests at a | recent reception, and before the evening
 was over q handsome baritone of thirty
 won the heart of the young lady of tho | house, and eloped with her while the con-
 pany were at dinner.
 ASSAM swarms so with leeches that the
 lives of men are in danger, any person fall
 ing from faintness or getting stuck in a l swamp or mudhole being sure to be sucked
 to death by hundreds of them. Animals | frequently fall victims, and recently an ele-
 phant and his keeper, after having been l several days missing, were found in bog in 1 the jungle, the man dead and the elephant | so covered with leeches that it died the day 1 after it was rescued. Every body there
 carres salt as protection against the | bloodsuckers.
 THERE is q little yellow bee in Honduras
 that is very much like the little yellow flies | found about corn silks. The bees are with
 out stings, and the most industrious little
 insects imaginable. They build in hollow
 trees and wherever they can find lodg-
 ment, and they gather double handful
 of honey of delicious flavor in thesc nests
 of rough comb. So plentiful are they that
 person can take a hatchet and cut into the | lnot-hole in the trees and soon collect all
 the honey he wants to without the danger
 of being stung by the bees.