Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1890-01-31
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FOREIGN GOSSIP.


"A new French invention is smok>
bomb, intended to be fired into the
ranks of the enemy who uses smokeless
powder and obscure his view.
"A London lawyer, was lately dis.
barred for telling his client to what
country he should fee after committing
crime, without danger of extradition.
There is small cemetery for sui.
cides only near Berlin, where are buried
all suicides in or near the German cap
ital whose bodies are not claimed by
relatives or friends.
The three thousand new blocks
erected in Rome, and the eighty-twc
miles of splendid streets, have So
changed the capital of Italy that it is
scarcely to be recognized by those who
visited it twenty years ago.
Strikes have even spread to Egypt.
The Cairo cigarette-makers are the first
to introduce this Western system into
the land of the Pharaohs, having struck
against some extra strict regulati ons en-
forced by their employees.
Russian officials have decided that
the telephone is dangerous to the
state" In Warsaw orders have been
given that telephones be removed from
all restaurants, coffee-houscs and liquor
saloons. Similar orders have been issued
in all other large Polish towns.
The Desert of Sahara is said to be
growing. A French scientific official
reports that the sands are invading
Tunis, and the whole southern portion
of that country is becoming desiccated,
there being an insufficient supply of wa
ter to support vegetation.
-Lepers arc still numerous in Nor
way. The number is upward of ono
thousand. most of whom are found in the
sea-coast districts. There are four leper
hospitals. Leprosy, once common in
Europe, has maintained it's hold in Nor
| way longer than in other countries, but
is gradually being eXterminatcd there.
The work of attending to trees in
| the Paris avenues, boulevards and parks
| is in charge of PIG men, who are headed
| by sub-engineer and two forest in
| spectors and whose work costs S75, coo
| francs annually. Their work, however,
| does not include the Bois dc Boulogne
nor the Bois de Vincennes.
In Berlin the street-car fare costs
| from two and a half to seven and q half
cents, according to the distance you ride.
| No one can be carried after the seats are
| full. The ears stop to take on or let off
passengers only at certain points, which
are three minutes apart. This city leads
the world in street-car mileage.
| The number of cloisters and monks
| in Spain have increased with astonish-
ing rapidity Of late years. Spain now
| has 20. 600 monks and %, 600 nuns in $50
cloisters and l79 orders. In Barcelona
alone there are 163 cloistors for women.
In the IA years the number of monks in
Spain has been scXtuplcd and the MINI.
Der of nuns has been doubled.
-Parisians have lately been enter
tanned by a remarkable artist, who dis
plays wonderful skill in her peculiar form
of painting. With plates OF various col
ored sand before her, she takes the SAM.
in her right hand and causes it TO fall in
beautiful desi z;hS upon Il table. n bunch
of grapes is pictured with violet sand, a
leaf with green sand, the stalk with
brown sand, and relief and shadows by
other sands; whom tho work is brushed
away a bouquet OF roses and other OBJ
jrctS are represented with the same dcX-
tcrity and dclicIrr.
In Spain farming = ,.::-,actcd in Il
very primitive wa. t..,,in il eat with
a small rcaping hook and thr" ARA rs in
the timo of the Caesars, that is, by
tramping about with asses hitchcd to u
stone boat. The pillow is a crooked stick
pointed with iron. In the towns are to
be seen heavy wooden carts drawn by
token. Most of the carrying, trans
ierring, etc, is done by donkeys. Sand
brick, lunber-in fact almost every
thing that has to be moved-is carried
on their backs. These animals are used
all through Spain, and for every pur-
pose in the same way in which we use
them i'll the almost impossible canyons
of the Rocky mountains.