Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-12-05
Foreign kilograms.

lNklhNu u iNcdlalihe fttWSen L rance
and China.
The Prince Of Wales is the colonel of
-iXir'n regiments.
n,mar,k gave dinner in honor of
stanley at Berlin last week.
Sutherland Is making vigorous fight
against the salvation Army.
Canton. China. with population of
l.annN has not single newspaper.
British commissioner has been APP
pointed 10 settle the Transvaal boundary.
Heavy rains have seriously damaged
he rice crop in the province of Chin
kiaus.
Canadian charity has been invoked to
save thc ludiin- in Manitoba from star
WALTON.
II I- reported that the Congo conference
recognized the African International As
-ncihtinn.
The German admiralty considers 80
torpedo boats necessary for the defence
of the G,riuan coast.
\ bloody tragedy occurred a, the Cayo-
non copper camp, in Sonora, Mexico, in
~ hi'h -iN men were killed.
\ bank position In Paris. which paid a
salary 81 only SO year. recently was
applied Tor by 900 persons.
Another letter has been received from
i'"u. Gordon appointing the Mudir of
hongola la-ha and General.
admiral l.c-~cps has arrived from Sam
,ut. Operations ut formosa are at a
~tnndstill. owing TO monsoon.
The Congn committee have agreed I'M
animonsly that free trade shall prevail
Ia the western = art of the Congo basin.
pnri- Is to hay, m elevated railroad in
time Tor the exhibition of ISs9. Fifteen
miles will Ice in operation by that time.
Paris proper made a better record in re-
-pcct 10 crime last year than in 1852, but
the suburbs showed large increase of
criminals.
The museum at Berlin has purchased
Durcr~ portrait of Jerome Holzschuler
from the Iio,zSchuler family. for the sum
II S2r.un.
The Canadian boatmen are we'll appre-
ciated ON the Nile. Without their skill
aud GOODNESS navigation would be impos-
-ible. II is said.
There l. a movement on foot in Eng
land, participated i'll principally by the
scientists. looking TO the abolition of pri-
vate insane asylums.
The poor authorities in Paris ask for
ss.O00tn 40 for the coming year. They say
they will he compelled to give assistance
TO over 400, 800 people.
The British posto flee has given a con-
tract for l5D,000 900 postal cards to Ger
man firm on the ground Of excellence be-
yond those Of competing firms.
The Peking correspondent of the Lon
don Times tclegraphs that the British
minister to China is inactive. and that the
breach Is widening between China and
France.
The appearance of the library at Blen-
helm, the Duke of MarlborOugh's seat, is
most dismal. There are miles of empty
shelves, with no effort made TO veil their
ugliness.
Reports from the south of Chill indicate
great progress in the construction of the
new railways to Traiguen and Victoria.
More than 1900 men are employed on both
railways.
The Duke and Duchess of Connaught
are expected to leave India at the end of
March. and IL Is probable that they will
return home through America by way of
San Francisco.
At an Eaglish wedding the bridesmaids
were dressed Isl white lace, with long
white wells, with the curious addition of
red wreaths ana red shoes as relief to the
predominant color.
The fund for the widow and family of
the late Alexander Martin Sullivan now
amounts to so, 200. OF this about Sl5,-
has been collected in Ireland and the re-
mainder In England.
C,ssa~p.c and o,ber nrominept par;s
Journalists. have petitioned the courts to
compel the Paris Press Club to change its
name becaise IL mas. they say. degenerated
into gambling den.
| Tho Gar NJ Russ;a writes IN tho Covar.
nor Of Siberia thai he considers r. "blame.
able and almost criminal that nothing
has been done TO Improve the condition
OF the Inhabitants there.
| Col. Sir Charles warren who bas inst
.,.rscd 70 the cane 70 ssttia the d;f,ycmI.
ties i'm regard to Bechuanaland. received
instructions not to- resort to force until
all pacific measures failed.
| Tho uvave NJ R,cbard Rexter be. M
atone - mari n in the cha ncsl ~ Chr;st'S
Church Jondon and the v;cer ~ tbot
church asLs for one hundred nomnds with
which 10 remedy tho omiss;on
| ;,
Many Russian farmers complain Loudly
because tney hau 70 sen tneir wAeat 1nls
ycsr ueIow Tug cost Vi proouGtion. Inc
export OF wheat rom the empire mas
ocen comparatively trining SO lar.
| The populatjon of the southern cities in
Italy - found 10 ee increasing third
iastsr tnan tnat IN the horthern cltles oor-
acring the Alps. caused emery py en-
grat'on from the latter TO South Amer
ics'
| A hand of forty.five arieans RECENTLY at
tsrked \ farm near Natal Eovnt Eiil;nr
the proprietor and wounding four ser
vahts. Ihey afterwards attacked the VII,
lage OF Iamo,di, killing two persons and
woundihg others.
A nolitIcal societv IA said tn have heen
formed in Sweden with the avowed nmr.
posc of working for the dissolution Of the
union between Norway and Sweden.
ms tendency is PROVOKED py the recent
ns"'ca Victory IN norway.
| The Geneva Federal Council has or.
dered the expulsion from the country Of
| WarofYski. Russian- CHARGED with in
citing The population Of Basic to a revolt.
| men srrested revolver ana quantity