Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-21
FRAGMENTS FROM ABROAD.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA is becoming @ wine producing country.
 THE annual returns show that 7S ,684 per sons emigrated from Ireland during the past year.
 THE electric light on the Eiffel tower, Paris, is reported to be visible at Orleans, sixty-nine and a-half miles distant.
 MORE than 5000 acres have been bought in the Bahamas by British American capi- tal1sts, to be devoted to raising sisal hemp.
 THERE are over twenty thousand young women in Great Britain studying music stars.
 THERE is O spot in Siberia about thirty miles square where the ground has not thawed out for the last 100 years, and where 1t Is frozen to depth of sixty feet.
 A BRONZE statue of General Gordon, late ly unvailed in London, weighs two tons, and it took two hours to hoist 1t into place by means of a huge three-legged crane.
 THERE are thirty oyster beds in Tangier sound, whose united area is 17,976 square nautical miles, with twice as much addi- tlonal bottom where oysters are occasionally caught.
 :. CARDINAL GIBBONS has started move ment for the erection of a memorial to Ce- cilius Calvert, second Lord Baltimore, the pioneer of civil and religious liberty in America.
 "NEvEn beforc," says the Paris core spondent of the London Telegraph, "has work been SO abundant and so well re- munerated in the city as during the exhibi- tion season."
 A SYNDICATE has offered e4, 4OO, 600 for the fertilization wall surrounding Paris and the ground attached to it. The wall cost G3, 700, 900. The French War Office has recom- mended the demolition of the circular wall.
 THE sole panacea for every ailment in China is plaster. So great is the national predilection for this method of treatment that the Chinese ha$e not inaptly been de scribed as a plaster-and- -blister-loving peo- pie.
 MIR E1FFEL, the builder of the tall tower of Paris, is expected in Quebec shortly, to build s5, ,OOO, 900 bridge across the St Law renee, which would make continuous roadway from ocean to ocean on Canadian soil.
 A MOVEMENT is on foot in St. Petersburg for observing Sunday as it is understood in the United States and Great Britain. It Is said that 1900 St. Petersburg merchants lately declared themselves willing to keer their places of business closed on the first day of the week.
 AN English paper states that some days ago there was terminated at Warsaw law. suit which lasted four centuries. The suit was over 8 forty-acr piece of unculti. vated land. It was commenced in 1490, and was, curiously enough, brought to an end by amicable arbitration.
 ITALY has been almost devastated by the Abyssinian Embassy bearing presents tt King Humbert. The King 6f Abyssinia's brother headed the delegation, and sever al dignitaries accompanied him. Their ap petites are enormous. Ten of them atk thirty-seven steaks at one sitting. THE Germans are distinguished for thei1 love of titles. The climax in this direction was reached recently in Darmstadt, wher the Grand Duke created man "Court Sauer-Kraut Cutter" Hereafter he mus be addressed according to custom as "Mr Court Sauer-Kraut Cutter" and he vii be offended unless the title is used.
 THE German Government has issued | regulations for tho management of public dances organized for the diversion of chil | dren on national holidays. Dancing Is no | to be until after noon and in no case to be continued after eight o'clock p. m No one but school children to join ''tht mazy." Boys and girls who happen to bF undergoing preparation for the ceremon. of confirmation are absolutely forbidden tt indulge in terpsichorean festivities Waltzes, polkas, quadrilles and cotillion! arc forbidden. Other amusement tha, | dancing is urgently recommended for chil dren of tender years.