Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-22

Uassved a. second class matter at the Water bury Postofnse.
 Ex-luEEN ISABELLA, of Spain, boasts that sine is moro in debt than any woman in Europe.
 THERE has lately been an extraordi- nary and alarming increase in the num- Der of suicides among the officers of the German army. In ono monta twenty eight officers shot themselves
 THE organ which once belonged to Marie Antoinette, and on which Mozart and Gluck played when at Versailles, has been restored and placed in ono oi the side chapels of St. Sulpice.
 FOR several years the receipts from the sales of public lands in Canada have not been sufficient to cover the expense of surveying and management. Last year there was deficiency of more than $S1 ,O00.
 THE editor of London Truth has this year again received ten thousand new sixpenccs from the anonymous benc- factor who has for so many years made his annual offering to the poor children in the London work workhouse schools and infrmaries.
 THE Emperor of China lately sent 8 large tablet of wood, six feet in length by two feet in width, covered with gold leaf, and bearing beautifully-worli in scriptions in Chinese characters, ir acknowledgement of the gratitude of the Chinese people for the assistance rendered by South Australian people during tho famine.
 REGENT excavations in Rome show that the ancient plumbers of the Etcr- nal City were obliged to be vcry particu- . lar with their work. There have been unearthed great quantities of lead water pipe, each plainly stamped with the name of the owner of the house, the year of the plumbing, tho name of tho Consuls for that year, and that of the reigning Emperor.
 A DREssEp-BEEF question has arisen between Franco and Germany. The butchers employed in slaughtering sheep at the great shambles of La Will lette have held an i: lignation meet ing to protest against th> importation of slaughtered sheo p .:..!n Germany. to their detrimcnt. '.'h,, favor the i'm portation of 1.-Two animals. Eut are against imported dressed h@"t
 ABOUT 13O, 1000 trees have been system atically planted in Victoria during the last season, including pines, poplars, larches oaks, birch, planes, clms, ash and eucalyptus of ,rious k inds. Nurser- ies, under both private and colonial auspices, have been started all over the colony to provide trees for planting, and the work will DO continued next year on Q much larger scs.e.
 THE electric light has found curious l. | t;,,p saintly images in cathedrals. Thus q magnificent figuro of the Madonna just placed in the Alexander Newslly Monastery, loaded with precious metal> and gems of immense value, stands gilt tering in the focus of an electric beam which is also the case with the ''Kasan' Madonna in St. Petersburg. From ncai and afar thousands make pilgrimages to these shrines. It has been decided to so illuminate the ancient monastery of St. Ursula at Olmutz, the first in stance on record of its use cxclusivel, in a monastery.
 THERE are in Franco SIT association of employers, s91 of workingm men and 50 of farmers. The work ing mems associ ations, which were formerly politica organizations, have become for th'
  cieties of late years. The agricultura associations do not agitate political, like our grangers. They arc to a larG' extent cooperative and technical. I'm Farmers Association near FontainC bleau, for instance, own q slaughtV house at which every member has hi cattle killed at very low prices. Thi and other similar cooperative device of tho French farmers association show that the French peasant is not S stupid and helpless as he is general supposed to be.
 THE women of tho Russian telegraph service are raising q great outcry in tn press against the h;lrds ship of the law il force in Russia that they may onl marry telegraphists, and that, too, onl those who arc engaged at tho sam station, tho official idea being that tho thereby, in cases of need, would be abl to take the place of their husbands. . young Russian woman writes to Novgorod paper: II have, there fore, l do not choose to forfeit my situation first to fall in lovc with an elcctrica swain, then to manage that ho falls i love with me; next to arrange that he transferred to my station. This Is hard task for a girl who is rivctc fourteen hours every day to her a( paratus and does not wish to lose he pittance of seven hundred and twent rubles year."
 A Remedy for Influenza.