Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-04
BEYOND OUR BORDERS.

A HOTEL to cost st,125,ooo is going up iu Sydney, N. s. W.
 A CELEBRATED Samoan beauty is an American widow, thirty-six years old, and has 15O, 900 acres of land.
 LONDON and Paris railroad, street-cars and omnibuses are allowed by law to carry only certain number of passengers.
 UP to the end of August IA, ,4S6, 900 tickets were taken at the Paris Exposition. In 1878 the number was only 2, 125, 900. 7. THE birth rate of Ireland is less than that of any European country but France, Rus sia standing at the head of the list.
 A COMPANY with capital of $1 ,OOO. 900 has been formed for the erection in London of tower twice as high as the Eiffel tower at Paris.
 RECENTLY kerosene lamp exploded in a passenger running between Buenos Ayres and Rosario, and now the Govern ment has decided that the kerosene lamp must go, and that all trains must be lighted with electricity.
 THERE is a new Count of Monte Cristo. The Marquis Carlo Ginari, of Florence, has bought the island and it's title. He intends to construct residence there whose splen- dor will outdo those of the grottos of the late Mir. Edmond Dantes.
 HERE is the quantit. of cosmetics used daily by the women of Berlin: 444 pounds of rice powder, 257 pounds of rouge, 137 pounds of other colors, no pounds of cream for the lips, GA pounds of glycerine and B pounds of cold cream.
 : LOCOMOTIVES in England are not supplied with headlights or bells. Headlights are not used because guards are stationed along the roads at intervals of @ mile, and no liv- ing thing is allowed to go upon the track. fhoNo crossings at track level.
 THE true title of the head of the Germanic confederation is "German Emperor" not Emperor of Germany" Article four of the imperial constitution provides that the 'tKing of Prussia shall ex-ofdcio be presi- dent of the confederation and bear the title of German Emperor"
 THERE is curious little museum in Ber- lin in which no relics are kept except royal garters. It is run in conjunction with the Hopenzollern Museum, and was founded by William 1. Garters of all the Princesses who have been married since 1877 are to be found in this unique collection. | TIE Prince of Wales chief footman, a f1uukey, who enjoys Ahe title of sergeant footman," was lately fined by London pc his own account without paying the usual license required by British law for the priv | uege of having male domestic servants. THE Australian Government is building a fence of wire netting 5000 miles long to di. vide New South Wales and Queensland, in order to keep the rabbits out of the latter country. Australia is paying not less than
 5000 per year to keep the pests down in
 what are known as crown lands. The offer
 Is still kept up of e20,000 to any man who will produce something that will extermi. nate the pests.
 IT appears that exactly one hundred
 years ago the authorities of Paris were do
 ing their best to prevent the sale of melons, ice and oysters, on the ground that they were injurious to the system and Unworthy to enter the human body.", The good old French folks evidently did not dream of the time when people would eagerly give three francs per dozen for natives, and ice would
 be 50 extensively used that its manutacturt became most extensive industry.