Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-17

BY paying two dollars in spot cash you can get a livorce in four hours in Japan.
 EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, re- gently discharged an attendant who had been reading French novel.
 THE Ediso.i waltz and the Buffalo Bill galop have supplemented the Boulanger march as DO )ular music in Paris
 THE Chin ,se coast, two thousand miles in extent, is lighted at night by as com plete Q system of lighthouses as tho shores of any civilized country.
 FREDERICK KRUPP, the head of the great metal and gun foundry at Berlin, has established fund of S100 900 to en- able his employees to build their own houses.
 THE electric lights have reduced the average time of vessels passing through tho Suez Canal from thirty-scven hours fifty-seven minutes to twenty-five hours thirty-two minutes.
 THE labor question is said to be push ing every other out of public interest in London, the demands of the laboring classes for the bettermcnt of their con dition having become so loud and fre- quent.
 THE Turkish Government refuses to interfere with the trade in Circassian women, and h"s instructed it's dclo- gates in the African conference at Brus- sells to oppose any intervention in the traffic.
 ONE of the pot dogs of the Princess of Wales strayed away the other day from the Hotel Bristol at Paris. ttook refuge in shop, where it was recognized by the inscription on it's collar: "Tommy belongs to the Princess of Wales"
 THE Shah of Persia has added to tho bewilderment of his subjects by appoint ing a special commission to draft new civil and criminal codes, and has upset his sons and courtiers by expressing his willingness to forego some of his per- sonal prerogatives.
 AN Englishman has bought the con tents of the royal castle of Nuremberg, containing the most cG"lplete collection ofinstruments of torture extant, costing G6, 900 in all. There is q library of 5000 volumes, giving the history of crimo and torture for many centuries.
 Two OR threo years ago the Russian Government established credit banks for the purpose of assisting tho owners of large estates who happened to be pressed for money. The effect has been that the number of mort%agcd estates is much greater than ever and many be- longing to high noblcs are to be sold this year for non-pay of the inter- est on loans.
 AN unusual contrast was lately wit messed upon one of tho grimy Lon don wharves-an auction of a beautiful and interesting collection of sculptures just imported from Italy It comprised works by the most prominent Italian artists of the present, Mainotti, Tempua, Fausto, Olivieri, Froli, Fcrrarini, Dag mini, Levy, and other Florentin0, Roman and Neapolitan sculptors.
 TIE modern land of Babel is Austria Hungary. Every body there wants tu speak a different language from every body else. A now telephone line has just been opened between Buda Pestt and Prague, and the employees could not agree what language to use to each other. Some wanted to speak German some Polish, yet others Magyar ol Czech. At last tho difficulty has beer got over by an ordinance that French shall be used.
 THE famous gold mines Of the province of Carabaya, department of Puno, Peru which were formerly worked extensive ly by the Spaniards and Portuguese, bu were subsequently, abandoned, partl. on account of tho attacks of savages ant partly because of revolutions, arc nov exciting great interest. Many quart and placer mines arc being taken up, as with the advance of civiliza tion and i'm provements in the ~oads, enterprise il taking rapid strides in that district where there is immense mineral ant vegetable wealth.