Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-02-28
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

They have no patent medicines of any
account in Spain, and the reason is that
the government requires first to be con-
WINGED that the cure is cure. If the
compounder can't show a cure for con-
sumption behind his labor then he is
stepped on and heard of no more
Detroit Free Press.
According to the new laws to be
promulgated, says the Novoye Vremya,
Jews will be forbidden to hold real es.
tate in all the dominions of the Gear in
Europe and in Asia; Jewish craftsmen
will not be allowed to settle either in
the capitals (St. Petersburg and Mos,
cow) or In any of the large cities of the
empire.-N. Y.'Sun.
There is temple of silva, near Al.
lahabad, in India, surrounded by high
mound composed wholly of the frag.
ments of earthen bottles. On one OF
the last days of February from twenty
to forty thousand pilgrims assemble,
each being provided with two or three
earthen bottles containing water from
the Ganges and a few copper coins.
The indiscriminate use of dried
mushrooms in soups and stews on the
continent has led to unfortunate results
in many cases, especially, itwould seem,
in Berlin, where the police are stated to
have issued a caution against their con-
sumption. The assertion that poison.
Gus fungi are sometimes dried with edi.
BILE mushrooms is sufficiently probable
to cause no surprlse.-London Hospital.
"A company of wealthy men has been
formed to open in st. Petersburg a
''living chronological exhibition" Living
specimens of the various races and tribes
that populate the dominions of the Gear
will be collected for show, together with
samples of their dwellings and the ap-
pointment of their houses, their shrines
of worship, their garments, the food
they live on, the products of their pecul-
lar industries, and even their manners
and habits of life, if possible.
According to NJ. Edouard Marbeau,in
theRevue Franchise de + Estranger ct
des Colonies, quoting from Prof. Leon LIE
Fort, the following is the rate of in
crease of population in several European
countries: For every 1000 inhabitants
there are born in Hungary AZ children;
in Germany, 80; in England, 35; in
France, IS. In ITS the number in
France was Ss.4. At the present rate of
increase, the population would be
doubled in Saxony in As years; in En-
gland, in SO years; in Prussia, in 81
years; in France, in 1913 years.
Some time ago a wagon load of
building stones was detained at Longwy,
on the frontier, when the stones were
found to be hollow, and the cavity
adapted for the conveyance of spirit
cans. 1t appears that the stones had
been specially prepared by a mason in
to the order of a
French furniture dealer, and that they
had cost more than 1900 francs. BY
their means 5000 francs was earned on
each journey. On their return to Ger |
many the stones were filed with wine. |
The furniture dealer has been arrested. |
"A court in the staid old German
town of Gotha has been called upon to |
decide a novel question. A gentleman
while playing cards with a party of
friends in a beer hall was assaulted by
q pretty waiter girl with malice afore-
thought and with a smacking kiss upor,
his manly cheek. The matter was at !
first treated as joke, but turned out to /
be rather serious affair for the kissee,
when his wife heard about it. His
rate spouse would not believe that the /
Kiss was an unprovoked affair, so far as
ner liege lord was concerned, and in
order to vindicate himself has brought
suit against the girl for damages, on
the ground that the kiss has injured
his reputation for morality,