Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-27
REPRESENTATIVE TIDIN0S.

TIE total number of bodies registered as buried in cemeteries used by London is 1,276, ,875.
 THEY have politics in Japan now. under the constitution, and one of the parties is called the Jijito.
 THE Duke of Fife was revealed lately as a partner in the banking firm of Henries, Farquhar & Co.,, as well as in Scott & Co.
 THE fashionable London wedding ring has recently been of dull gold, but Princess Louise went back to the old fashion and chose hers bright.
 THE Czar of Russia has purchased new dog to replace his favorite mastiff, recently killed in a railroad accident. The Czar is a great lover of dogs.
 ENGLAND will adopt the German method of having the price of the journey printed on every railway ticket. It is convenient facility for travelling.
 PARIS talks of building three more Eihel towers and then turning the four into the legs of huge platform whereon sani- tarium can be built for invalids.
 THE Countess of Roseberry recently un- vailed fine Maltese cross, erected as a memorial above the hitherto neglected grave of Charles Dibdin, the greatsea-song writer.
 THE Paris dressmakers are said to be de-
 
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 THE Emperor of China, who Is young and progressive man, is anxious to make Q tripsto this country. He is in constant com munication with the Chinese Minister at Washington on the subject.
 THE heat in Russia and other parts of Northern Europe has been intense of late. The Central Observatory at St. Petersburg has not recorded such high temperature at the same time of the year slnce 1774.
 ON the occasion of the former visit of the Shah to England he tried earnestly to buy the Duchess of Manchester, and went so far as to offer an enormous price for that lady. These facts were brought to light by his present visit, as the Duchess positively re- fused to meet him.
 long lain half buried in the ground, has at length been lifted by foreign machinery and hung in a pagoda built of iron by a for eign firm. According to prophecy, this bell was never to be lifted until China had entered upon new career of prosperity.
 ACCORDING to the Burcharest correspond ent of the Exchange Telegraph Company two thousand houses in the principal cities of Roumania have been mortgaged in order that the owners may visit the Paris expo sitlon. Many ladies have pawned their jew els in order to raise the necessary funds.
 THE English Lords Day Observance So- ciety has begun 8 vigorous effort against the cheap Sunday travel offered to the pub lie by the various railways running out of London. A circular is beipg sent around, signed by seventy-four shareholders of the Brighton road, condemninR the cheap sys- tem. The road shows no inclination to con- ply with their request.
 PATRIOTIC Germans are hard at work wedding out words of French extraction from their vocabulary. Among them is a tobacconist of Dusseldorf, who. wishing to banish the word cigarre from the German dictionary, offered prlzes for substitutes that should be thoroughly Teutonic. Two of the words offered are said to have been glim- stengel (burning stalk) and giftnudeln (poison tubes).