Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-16
TRANSPlRIN0 ABROAD.

IWENTY-EIQHT munlclpal 0mcere o1 MaQ- rid were recently arrested, charged with defrauding the city government
 BRITISH soldiers not in possession of swimming certificates are forbidden to enter boats for purposes of recreation.
 TuE use ot the term Havana on packages of cigars Is forbidden in England in case tho said cigars do not have any Havana tobacco in them.
 SIR EDWARD WATKIN has formed a con- pany with capital of s1,oO0,Ooo for the erection in London of tower twice the height of the Eiffel tower at Paris.
 EARRINGS, long out of fashion in England among aristocratic people, are to be worn again, because the Duchess of Fife wears a pair which were presented to her as we'd ding gift
 SLEEPING cars have been of sloW intro duction in Europe. It is now announced that train of these cars run between Paris and Rome. Each car is divided into seven compartments, two having four berths each and five ten berths each.
 EVERY scrap of iron or wood within reach upon the Eifel Tower IS completely covered with names and dates. The interfere of the lifts are covered, and the glass wind pro tectors of the elevators and on the various floors are rapidly being filled up. PERU is making large efforts to stimulate her agricultural industries. Under g new law which has just gone into effect no duties will be charged on animals imported for breeding purposes, on agricultural ma chinery of all kinds and on seeds and plants.
 A VENETIAN publisher is about to isspe book describing bold project mooted by two Venetian engineers. It, Is the excava- tion of ship canal right across italy from Venice to Spezza, which would form di- cUotpruNov Adr1offc And the Gulf of Genoa.
 WHILE the Shah was ip England the So- ciety of Friends of Bradford presented ap address to him and also copy of the Bible in Persian. The Shah expressed his thanks and said he would have pleasure in reading the book, as he was desirous of informing hipself of its contents.
 THE Austrian Qoverpment, which 0n- trols the tobacco trade, made g great fnap- clal loss by raising the price of cigars In Vienna alone 35,00o 900 fewer cigars have been sold, with corresponding increase in the consumption of clgarettes and pipes. In all the loss amounted to 710, 900 forins
 WITHIN short time more than fifty thou sand acres have been bought in the Ba- hamas by British and American capitalists, to be devoted to raising sissal hemp. The Bahamas had for some time lost all their commercial life, but the discovery that hemp would flourish there has wholly changed their prospects.
 THRopaHoyF Italy the principal towns are, one after another, providing buildings for the treatment of hydrophobia according to Pastepr's system, and the municipal council Of Rome has lately decided to devote the necessity sum of money to furnishing Pasteur institute there. This is strong proof of the increasing confidence felt in the treatment.
 AN anti-seWing- machine guild has been formed by the Chinese tailors of Hong Kong 4 Chinaman who had joined "the party of progress" and had been using the sewing machine was recently waited upon by a deputation from the guild and re- quested to pay to it's members thirty taels as compensation for using the foreign devil" He refused and was instantly as- sailed, The police saved bis life, but he is not quite so eager now to use the sewing machine.
 A CURIOUS exploration Is now being under taken in vast region of Scandinavia, which has practically run wild tor nearly a hundred years, when whole villages ns well as homesteads and farms were de- serted on account of an epidemic. The tract has been bought by a London syndi- cate, who have commissioned Sir H. Pot tinger, one of the pioneers of Norwegian travel and J. Sargent, the well-known Ok ford ''coach," to report upon thls almost forgotten territory.