Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-12-23
FROM LANDS AFAR.
ITALY has 1, 800, 900 trees, which pro -uco 1 1,26O. .00O, 900 lemons per annum.

ITALY has 4,S0O, 900 trees, which pro -ucc 1,260. 1000, 900 lemons per annum.
 IT is proposed to light up ho rses' heads with el Jctric light during fogs in Lon- don.
 THERE are now sixteen Browning so- cieties in the various provincial towns of England.
 CREMATION is coming more and more into vogue in Germany. At Gotha 100 bodies have been cremated since Janu- ary 1.
 Ar the Paris Exhibition of 1867 the theaters took in $2, LOG, ,00O, at the expo sition of 1878 $2,6O0, ,000, and in 1889 $3,- 05O, 900.
 THE Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Switzerland has resolved to banish cats from the republic on the ground that they are killing off the birds.
 THE artistic wealth of the Paris mu- nicipality in paintings, sculpture, en- cravings, etc., is estimated at g., 500, GOO, outside of the great treasuries owned by the nation.
 THE Leeds Mercury says that Lesseps and his colleagues will soon have to abandon the Panama canal. The sub | scribed capital is nearly exhausted and no more can be raised. IN little town of Schleswig- Holstein l there is tax exemption for dogs ''that | sleep with their masters and mistresses and so preserve them from gout, rheu- matism and like pains." THE German Government does not make two bites of the Salvation Army. It simply shuts down on the meetings of the active reformers and announces that there is no appeal from it's decision. l DURING the last two years the Italian army has been increased by 80, 900 men, 900 field guns and 5000 cavalry. Never was the army so numerous or powerfully organized as at present, under the at tempt to keep up with Germanys mili- tary step.
 THE Eiffe1 tower will remain melan- choly and unvisited on the Champ dc Mars at Paris this winter. In the spring it will be reopened to visitors. M. Eiffel has chamber at the top, into which he can retreat when he wishes to be alone and work hard.
 VISITORS to the vaults of the Pan- theon in Paris remember the echo which the guide used to produce by shouting and pounding on drum. This has been forbidden by the Minister of the Inte- rior as ''desecration of the abode ot the illustrious dead"
 SIR JOHN LANES, the greatest author ity in England on agricultural matters, estimates this years wheat crop in the United Kingdom at S,733, ,525 quarters and the quantity available for consump- tion, after deductsAg two bushels an acre for seed, at s. 09s, ,545 quarters.
 IN 1891 the charters of all Canadian banks expire and the plan upon which they shall be reissued will soon have te be determined. Whether it is better to continue the old system or take pattern by the 5.-er and simpler method in the United States is the point to be decided
 A FOSSIL forest has been discovered near Franent in Scotland. Forty or fifty fossil tree trunks have been already laid bare and the full dimensions of the for est are as yet unknown. One of the trunks is about three feet in diameter and they are for the most part of free stone.
 A WEALTHY English syndicate has been formed in London to engage in ex tensive mining operations in Honduras The Government has granted them spe cial privileges which will facilitat tt operations and the Ro.hschilds are pro viding the financial backing for the en terprise. Extensive deposits of gold silver, lead and copper are known to ex ist in Honduras and there have beer occasional discoveries reported of opals emeralds, cinnabar and asbestos.