Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-18
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PARIS Figaro prints special edition ID an office 500 feet up in the Eiffel Tower.
 LONDON is to have ''Monkeries'' at which 1000 monkeys will be on exhibition.
 ONE of the most eminent Russian con- posers Is General of the army. Cesar Cui. He has written several operas.
 THUNDER-sToRMs have never been so ire Quent in Paris as since the Eiffel Tower has been there, and 1t is becoming recognized as the cause
 IN Breslau a factory chimney fifty-four of papers held together by special cement The chimney is fire and lightning-proof.
 THE height of snobbishness is reached at English bazaars, where money Is taken as the price of an introduction to this and that beauty or titled lady presiding over tables
 IT appears that the most of the members of the upper and middle classes of England, including several members of the royal family, are tattooed, and the fashion Is said to be gaining in favor.
 A PROMINENT Turkish official in Constan- tinople laments the spread of Christianity among the women in Turkey on the ground that it will lead the Turkish ladies to dress as immodestly as Christian ladies.
 PUBLICITY is given to the fact that the curse of opium is being introduced into the South Sea Islands, the Chinese opium-deal, CTS having found that large profits can be made on the drug amongst the natives of Polynesia
 FOR long time advertisements have ap- peared offering to procure presentations at court. A woman who carried on this traf. tic described as "person of honor' and a member of the old nobility, has been dis. covered and perpetualiy banished from court.
 NEARLY seven-eighths of the population of Zanzibar are slaves. Some owners have l,00Q A negro boy costs about s2O, strong workman about s1O0 or s12O, pretty young negress from $50 to s1Oo, Abyssinian women from $200 to $500, while the women from Jeddah, in Arabia, bring fancy prices.
 IN Beverley, a village in Stafordshire, Eng, there is girl who Is forewoman in a planing-mill. Her father was foreman. but was killed by an accident, and the girl. who was often in the mill with her father. offered to take his place. Her offer was accepted and she has proved herself very competent.
 TEE Adelaide (Victoria) Municipal Coun- ell has passed bylaw requiring cyclists when riding to keep bell continuously ringing so that it can be heard at @ dis. tance of one hundred yards, to show a red headlight at night, and prohibiting ma. chimes being left in the streets for more than half an hour. The cyclists protest that the law is impracticable.
 THE London Daily News tells this anec- dote, in sketch of the late Laura Bridp- man: When Carlisle impertinently asked: {: "What great or noble thing has America ever donea" somebody replied: stShe has produced girl, deaf, dumb and blind from Infancy, who, from her own earnings, has sent barrel of four to the starving sub iects of Great Britain in Ireland"
 OVER the American section of the ma chinery hall at the Paris International Ex- hibition an inscription has been put up stat Ing that the United States possesses steam engines of 450, ,000- horse power, the power whichis transformed into electrical energy: that, apart from transmission of power. this energy Is used to supply current night ly to 2 2000,000 incandescent lamps and 25O,- 900 arc lamps.
 MR. SYMoNs, the English meteorologist, would have three kinds or degrees of drought recognized and precisely defined. A period of fourteen or more consecutive days without rain should be termed an ab- solute drouth; one of twenty-eight or more consecutive days with 8 rainfall not exceed- Ing quarter of an inch should be called . partial drouth; and at least sixty days with not over two inches of rain should be . long drought