Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-03-13
FITS FROM ABROAD,

AN English -2ilway company has set l Apart q ,oCGial find from which to re-
 ward acts Of bral cry on the part of it's
 employca.
 FIVE years a"o there were five girls
 schools iE Yokohama and Tol1io. To-
 day there are more than thirty, and all
 well ratroni=ed
 | IN one day last summer 1O5 Americans
 visited Eurc3' hirthplace The pill l grims during the year numbered 20,OO0 | to the cottage and :3G. coo to the monu- 1 ment.
 IN the British navy in 1888 the sick 1 list included 9S7 men out Of every 1000 in the service, and that was the best showing the navy had mado since 1856. The death rato was 5.71 to 1000.
 THERE is no taxation uron either real or personal property at Para. bat when piece of real estate is sold tho pur- chaser is required to pay Q fee to tho Government of fivo per cent. on the sell ing price.
 THE Minister of the Interior at Rome recently ordered a committee to investi- gate and compare the police uniforms of | all nations, preliminary to choice for
 the municipal and rural police through
 out Italy.
 IT is proposed both in Vienna and in
 Paris to water the streets with disin-
 fectant miXturc-with water having
 powerful antiseptic matters dissolved in l it. They are tired waiting upon the microscopists to discover the influenza luicrobe and mcau to get rid of the dis order as best they may.
 TIE French pa DOTS are filled with | % in-,1 al I.>
 war of faces in the United States, rep
 rcsenting the condition of affairs in the
 Southern States as most critical. 'Poor 1 American says ono paper: lighting over the question of color for a hum drcd years-and not settled yet.''
 AN English brido received great shock of surprise the other day when | Queen Victoria actually sent her for a
 wedding present 8 diamond pendant containing 8 lock ct her Nlajcsty's hair. ! Tho Queen has rarely given any thing
 for many years but India Sl.ayvls (which are given to her by hundrcdsl, so that | her wedding presents Go not cost her 1 much.
 TIE rccently-published statistics of l the Imperial German Iost-Office De- partmenJ show that In l;%5 there were | lS50S ncat-uGCc3 in Germany. with | lo.ol6 telegraph offices and G2,2SS of ] licials of all grades; 2.22G, ,S0T ,95O pieces of mail wore handled, 22. l25, 1G7 tele- grams were sent. Tho money orders of all offices in the country amounted to | l1.OSS. 9i:,, 4 l6 marks.
 THERE is g movement on foot in | Russia to give married women personal | passports. Hitherto they could only be inscribed on those of their husbands. | They could not leave the country with
 out their husbands consent. This re- | form. if carried out, will put an end to the intolcrablo sufferings of those poor | women to whom divorce is impossible because of it's expense.
 TUE Pall Mall Gazette states that 1 Lhcro lately arrived from Alexandria at | Liverpool a consignment of nearly l twenty tons of cats, numbering some 1 iS0.OG0, taken out of an ;Icient sctt2r | rancan cats' cemetery discovered about | one hundred miles from Cairo by an ] Egyptian fellah, who accidentally fell into this cats cemetery, which he found completely filled with cats, every one of which had been separately embalmed | and dressed in cloth, after the manner ! of Egyptian mummies, and all laid out in rows. In ancient times the Egyptian cat was buried with all honors, but those shipped to Liverpool will be used IS fertilizing material.