The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-06
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Will Send Representative-Pass
Made Prisoners OF War-wiu
Marry a Prince.

The American man-of-war Swatara !;
at Zanzibar.
Max Strokosch has again been strickel
with paralysis.
At the Paris Exposition a castin,
weighs ten tons.
The cost of Princess Louise's trous
seau was $4,000.
The English potato crop is in danger O
being poor one.
All Russian students are to be ex
PEELED from Berlin.
-Four son of the King of Siam are bein.
educated in England.
DR.. Carver's Wild West in Berlin i,
said to be doing very well.
Ireland has prospect Of the mos
ABUNDANT harvests in years.
Greece has her current crop, lust az
New Jersey has her peach crop.
PigeoE-fying is growing to be an alb
sorblng amusement in England.
A Paris exhibition stage beauty is 90
ing to enter the harem of Turk.
After many years neglect the English
now begin to appreciate tomatoes.
1t is announced that the P iris Exposi.
tlon has more than paid exp ,nses.
Mrs. Maybricks sentence has beer
commuted to penal servitude for life.
A few Sundays ago the young Earl OF
Dudley lost SOC, 900 at cards in Paris.
The capital stock of the English brew.
cry syndicate is said to be $100, 200, 900.
The English government will not in.
troduce new Tithes bill in Parliament.
A white kangaroo, the first ever known
is on exhibition at the London Aquarium
The first draft of Poe's "The Bells, -
wss lately sold in London for nearly $50
Admiral Kimberly will reach San Fran.
cisco on the steamer Honolulu next
month.
Monsignor Fava, Bishop of Grenoble
has accepted the Patriarchial See of Jer-
usalem.
The prize for shorthand writing at the
Vienna competition was taken by a
woman.
A Belfast firm has just made a vessel
592 feet long, 100 feet less than the Great
Eastern.
Crop reports from Austria Hungary
indicate about three-fourths of the aver.
age yield.
1t is predicted the Conservatives viii
carry the next elections in the Canadian
Northwest.
A Swedish butter extractor delivers
butter from fresh milk at the rate of a
pound a minute.
King Humbert has appointed Inventor
Edison a Grand Officer of the Order OF
the Crown of Italy.
Kate Rorke, one Of London's most
prominent actresses, married f. w.
Gardner on August 9Th.
A Miss Dahl has passed the pharma.
ceutical examinations and will be first
pharmacist in Norway.
A Congress at Posen, Germany, repre-.
senting 10000 BARRIERS, has declared
against Sunday shaving.
While steamer was making tria
trip at Shanghai, last week, her boiler OK
ploded, killing thirty men.
Italy will probably not be represented
officially at tie Monetary congress
which is to assemble at Paris.
AtLyons and other French cities the
cars are run by compressed air. They
cover eight to ten miles per hour.
Bismarck is endeavoring to persuade
Spain to enter the quadrouple alliance in
order to render to France power less.
London has a child barber, girl 4
wears old, who shaves five men in thirty
minutes. She is wonderful little
shaver.
It is estimated that the Paris exposi.
ton this year has caused nearly $l5O,
coo. 600 of American money to be dropped
in Europe.
Russia's finance appear to be in com
petent hands For the first time In years
the reports show a balance in favor OF tht
government.
During public concert at Rome, last
week, bomb was exploded near th'
Austrian Embassy, and eight persons
were injured.
Fifty-two new war-ships are being bull
in Great Britain-additiOnal preparation
for the maintenance of internatlona
peace, OF course.
A dynamite cartridge exploded las
week in q coal mine at Gonon, Hungary
Five persons were killed and a numbel
of others injured.
A wooden doll with jointed arms ane
legs was found in a sarcOphagus, con
tanning the skeleton of ayoung girl, lately
unearthed in Rome.
The betrothal is announced at BerilI
of the Duke of Nassau to Princess Mar
paret. the Youngest sister OF Empero
William of Germany.
The Pope has decided to send repre-
sentative of the Holy See to Washington
in November to attend the dedication 0
the Catholic University.
The Earl of Fife declines to permit hi
wife. Princess Louise OF Wales, to &C
cept any share of the Pariiamentar.
grant to the royal family.
Oueen Victoria has sent Colonel Gour
ond tn Paris to present to Edison one
his monographs, into which she ha'
snoken. warmly congratulating the Amer
ican inventor.
The recent food in Kansas was genera
throughout the western part OF the State
Salt creek at Lincoln went over its bank
and over 500 cottages were submerged
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