Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-27
INTERESTING INFORMATION.

AN item for returning tourists to ponder over: For every trunk carried over five hundred miles by rail, one is damaged to the extent of three dollars
 THERE are altogether about 1000 Arabs in this country, and not ten per cent. of them have settled home or any other means of support than peddling.
 THERE are now 65,OOO Italians in New York City, according to MT. Carlo Barsotti, who speaks with knowledge, and nearly all of them have come within the past ten years. IT Is estimated that the amount of gold and silver coin on the bottom of the Atlan- tic Ocean Is about $50, ,O0O, 900, and 1t is fur ther estimated that most of it will stay right where it is.
 THE Arya Samaj, or Aryan Society, was founded about twelve years ago, and now has over 100000 adherents. The organ ization is opposed to idolatry, and would re- store the ancient Aryan religion as formu- lated in the Vedas.
 THE largest sailing vessel in the world is said to be the new ship Liverpool, which Is of the following dimensions: Length, 333 feet; breadth, 47 feet 10 inches; depth, 26 feet inches; with a dead-weight carrying capacity of 5, 900 tons, $500 tons net register. A LONDON periodical has been concerning
 
 of sixty millions. His fortune in sovereigns, piled singly, it says, would reach to @ height of seventy-three miles, and in five-pound notes would reach from London to Moscow; {; but what is more interesting fact is that he is "rich enough to give a shilling apiece to every one at present alive"
 |, A CONDEMNED criminal in England must be allowed to see three Sundays between his sentence and his execution. Of course, he can thus be hanged in little over two weeks, but the three Sundays must pass over his head before the gallows claims him. The custom is a relic of medieval times, when Q criminal was allowed that much of a respite to prepare for death. THE waste by fire in the United States in | the past five years has averaged a110,OOO,- r GOO annually Gan amount equal to double the annual interest charge on the National debt). To this must be added the expense of maintaining fire extingufshing depart ments and appliances, and of conducting in- surance companies, to obtain the estimate of what people pay out on account of fires. WHEN we think of Africa we are apt to think of it only as desert. But the fact is that Central Africa, especially, is very beautiful country. The land is rolling and covered with forests. The scenery is di- | versified. There are rivers and waterfalls and lakes, one of which, Victoria Lake, is as large as the State of New York. Besides,
 the country has population of 200, OO0, ,0OO, more than twice the number of people who dwell in the Western hemisphere.
 | IT is estimated that the expense of main- | taining the prisons of the United States amounts to *75,Ooo,0OO year; but this is | only small part of tho cost entailed upon the people at large by the existence of the criminal class. The maintenance of the po- lice departments, it is calculated, costs
 another s75, 100000 Then there are in tho United States moro than 2,OO0 courts pos- seasiug criminal jurisdiction, to say nothing Of more than 60,000 justices of tho peace, a gna3or5ty of whom have Q limited criminal t9aladlQfaoh