Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-02-19
DRIFT FROM ABROAD.


BRAZIL has law for the medical ex-
animation of persons about to marry,
to determine their fitness.
GENERAL Won MoLTKE says that sheer
is a far moro dangerous enemy to Ger
many than all the armies of France"
FREE meals are proposed for twenty
five thousand London school-children
who do not have sufficient food at home.
THE oldest member of the French
Legion of Honor is a soldier ninety-nine
years old, the last survivor of the battle
of Trafalgar.
THE London City Council has swal-
lowed up the ancient court of burgesses
OF tho city and liberties of Westmin-
ster. Ono by one the old landmarks
disappear.
The adventures of Vienna tailor who
travelled from Vienna to Paris in a pack
ing case as EAST freight in order to
save expense, are exciting the risibili-
ties of the French capital.
The Duke of Westminster is believed
to be the anonymous donor of half a mill
ion dollars for convalescent hospital in
London. The Dukes income is s., ZOO
per day, chiefly from rents in Belgravia.
CHINA, with population of $50, OOO,-
900, has only three newspapers at pres
ent. Considering that an editors head
is chopped off on the slightest provoca-
ton the wonder is that there are even
three.
The Mikado of Japan has had con-
structed line of telephone between
Yokohama and Striznoka, distance Of
about one hundred miles. est is the
first telephone applied to the public
service in Japan, and has SO far been
completely successful"
SOCIETY in Vienna, the object of
which is to furnish food for poor people
at a nominal cost, has now ten cooking
kitchens in which ten thousand people
dino each day. The average cost of a
dinner is eight cents, the menu inelud-
ing soup, meat, with vegetables, bread
and sweets, and the cost of q supper is
four cents.
IN his speech 1T the opening of the
Legislature of the Province of Quebec
tho Lieutenant-Goycrnor announced,
among other things, that during it's ses-
sion the Legislature will be asked to
pass 2n act granting one hundred acres
of land to the father and mother of
every family Of twelve or more living
children born in lawfGl wedlock.
a MONTREAL. man has been condemned
to pay the sum OF one dollar as damages
for having called upon a person in a
factory with view to collecting debt.
The court held that the domicilo of the
debtor is the proper place at which to
demand money that is owing. 1t fur
Their declared that to ask on the street
for money that is due constitutes an as
sault.
LIE Gar keeps very close watch over
his son, the heir apparent. During the
young mans recent visit to Paris he an.
nounced to a member Of his suite that
he was going to see a certain rather
scaly comedy. In the course of the day
he was surprised to receive q telegram
from his imperial father, telling him on
no account to be seen in the theatel
where that play was performed.
THE hangman in New South Wales is
looked upon with such horror that ht
recently found himself completely boy
cotted on reaching Wagga-Wagga tc
perform an execution. The cabmen re-
fused unanimously to drive him away |
from the railway station, the porters |
also declined to carry his luggage and |
the unluclly executioner was obliged to |
trudge off on foot, struggling with his |
various traps.
"A CLUB of German students in b. |
iiemia has been dissolved by the police. |
1t had adorned it's assembly-rcom with |
Of the Emperors Wilhelm II. |
and Friedrich III, of Bismarck and OF |
Moltke, and with two pictures Of the
German national monument on the
all of which tended to |
glorify the triumph of the new German |
empire. This was brought forward in |
the Austrian reichsrath as sign of the |
an IT, Austrian sentiment of the German |
element in Bohemia, and the club was