Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-12-13
OLD WORLD INTELLIGENCE.

THE distil1eries of Edinburgh, Scot land, produce over 4,00O,0 ,0OO gallons of whisky annually.
 IT is said there are not more than one hundred negroes Tn all Paris, and throughout France very few persons of African blood are to be found.
 Two HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS are spent in China annually on ances- tral worship alone. The ratio of gifts to income in several families ranges from one-fifth to one-third, and in no case is so small as one-tenth.
 ENGLISH child-life is said to wither in the delta of the Ganges, one of the ma larial tracts of India. There the British race can not reproduce itself, if unmixed with Indian blood, beyond the third generation.
 AN Englishman has discovered the ancient porphyry quarries where the Romans obtained the stones used in their famous buildings. The quarries are ninety-six miles from the Nile, and B,65o feet above the level of the sea.
 IT appears that besides having ships with no guns England has cavalrymen with no horses. For example, the Third Regiment of Household Cavalry has but 500 horses for 1,3O0 men, and 17,O0o dragoons and hussars have but 10000 horses. In the German army the usual proportion is 1000 horses to TOO men.
 THE most high-toned dynasty in the world is that of Japan, according to a Japanese lecturer in the. Berlin Academy of Oriental Languages. The Mikado is descended from the gods, and is the one hundred and twenty-frst of his race. The national religion, Sintoism, possesses 5000, ,O00 gods and saints, and there are 1s6, 1000 temples.
 IT was not until last year that the Moors would permit an examination of the cliff dwellings which have long been known to exist some days journey southwest of the city of Morocco. This strange city of the cave-dwellers is al- most exactly like some of those in New Mexico and other Territories which archoeologists have explored. The dwell ings were dug out of the solid rock, and many of them are over two hundred feet above the bottom of the valley.
 PoAcHING was formerly heinous of fense in England and severely punished, but in dealing with offenders English justice is now tempered with mercy. At Ipswich justice of the High Court ot Justice ruled in the case of a poache, who had severely wounded gamekeep CT that the keeper had no right to ar. rest and hunt poachers as he would wild beasts. He said that poaching was only misdemeanor. The jury acquitted the poacher on the ground of self-defense. ONE of the oldest industries in Egypl is artificial egg hatching, principally engaged in by Copts. There are said to be 700 establishments of this nature in the | country, and the productions of chick. | ems from the ovens is estimated at from | 1O,0O0,000 to 12,000,00O annually. The season for incubating lasts through three months of early summer. The country people bring eggs to the pro prietors of the ''farroogs," and give two good eggs for every newly-hatche6 chick.
 A LITTLE northeast of India is Kafir istan, whose lovely valleys arc densely populated by tribes that are physically among the handsomest of Asiatics Their country is almost sealed book te us. Only one white man, MT. McNair, ha! | succeeded in crossing their threshold About four years ago, staining his ski1 with walnut juice and in the guise of al Indian doctor, he pushed some way il the territory, until the suspicious na
 tives became so inquisitive that he
 thought it prudent to retreat.