Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-26
FROM FOREIGN FIELDS.

THERE is growing demand in England for human skin leather.
 MORE deaths occur in England from bron- chitis than from any other disease.
 THE residents of Hawarden have decided to erect statue to MT. Gladstone in con- memoration of his golden wedding.
 THERE is a large body of English Mussul- mans at Cape Town, the descendants of Malay seamen. Their language is English, but they are provided with mollahs and Arabic teachers from Constantinople.
 THE Empress Frederick, in fulfllment of a wish of her late illustrious consort, sent, on the anniversary of the battle of Sedan, sums of money to great number of needy soldiers who were wounded in that engage ment.
 THE heir to the Brazilian throne, the Condo d. En. in reply to Q republican man. ifesto said that when the people signifed by their votes that the Imperial family Is 8 hindrance to the progress of the Nation they would retire.
 THERE is place in the Paris exhibition plan marked 'sPanama," and in the grounds little building bearing that name; but there is no plan and no exhibit. Just as the exhibition opened the Panama Company went into the hands of the liquidators.
 THE French authorities undertook to em- ploy German specialist to check the spread of cholera in Tonquin, but tho French medicos preferred the disease to the German doctor and recorded 50 vigor- ous a protest that his appointment was canceled. i
 THE Forth bridge has stirred the engi- neering world so that Schneider Co.,, the great French iron makers, have prepared g design for channel bridge from Dover to Calais. The length is twenty-tour miles, and fha r,,vulnr of r,iera yroposn6 fo faa built in the sea is 120. A BALL and concert were gotten up by an English clergyman in order to provide the parish with 8 hearse., This has been out done by 8 ball which was held at Dingwall, in Rosshire, Scotland, in order to provide an operating table for the Ross Memorial Hospital in the town.
 KING OTTo, of Bavaria, narrowly escaped being killed a short time ago in his castle of Fuzsteureld. While passing through the dining-room the chandelier fell from
 the ceiling and just grazed the head of his Majesty. An attendant who stood near. by was badly wounded. The rooms of the castle have since been examined, and with two exceptions, declared unsafe and unfit for habitataon. The King is now con | fined to these two rooms.
 A LONDON paper announces that 1 Worcestershire village, from tho fact of 1t.
 being called Broadway, first attracted tn. l attention and then the visits of Americans and now there is quite an American season ! and a small artist colony, which is six mile, | from 8 railway station. The American
 artists have established 2 Broadway schoo at this spot, which, with its ivy ana l creeper-covered Worcesters hire houses, Ii l regarded by them as the most typical O
 English villages.
 | THE admirers of Prince Bismarck in Ger many are developing plans to found Bis l marck Museum in Berlin on the next birth l day anniversary of the Chancellor. Collec
 tions have been made already and request
 sent out for all relics pertaining to tn
 Prince or his family. It will, in all proba
 bility, be arranged somewhat after tn
 style of the t1ell-known Hohenzoller1
 Museum, which is in one of the palaces Q
 Frederick the Great. The Chancellor |
 f1attered by the idea.