Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-04-13
FOREIGN ITEMS.
THE PROPOSED BEAUTY SHOW IN
PARIS, FRANCE.
The Fall Hat EVIL in London-Canada's
Future Doom-Understand Be-
tween Germany and Great
Britain.

have monument.
} Bernhardt is making tour of Algeria
with great success.
The strikes in the German provinces
are rapidly spreading.
Martel, head of the great distillery at
Cognac, France, is dead.
The King of Greece is an enthusiastic
and successful fisherman.
A vigilance committee for Bridge OF
Weir, Scotland, has been formed.
The Prince of Whales has accepted an
invitation to dine with Mrs. Mackay.
The British House OF Commons has
voted Ell 900, 900 to increase the navy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone are preparing
for the celebration of their golden we'd
ding.
A new theatre, to cost 100000, is to
be built ou the Champ de Mars, st. Pc
tersburg.
Charles Dickens favorite Kentish
home at Gad's Hill, and where he died,
is for sale.
Cholera is raging in the Philippine Is
lands and yellow fever in Cuba and Rio
de Janeiro.
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough
have taken a house on Carlton terrace for
the season.
A Portuguese anti-slavary society has
been formed, with King Luis as Honor
ary President.
Deniston, Scotland, has the largest
bread factory. The little baker is disap-
pearing in Great Britain.
M. Beaurepaire, Advocate General, has
been appointed Protector-General of
France, displacing Bouchez.
The British record OF foot ball for 1889
shows the appalling number OF eight
death and five serious injuries.
German builders at Schwerin, Tet-
low, Stettin and other places, and Berlin
wood-workers, threaten to strike against
low wages.
There has been a noticeable exodus Of
Russia students from Zurich since the
discovery that bombs were being secretly
made there.
The Russian newspapers have been
prohibited from publishing reports OF the
discovery of the illicit manufacturing Of
bombs at Zurich.
There is powerful effort in India to
establish the principal seat OF Govern
ment at Simla, but the NlCerOy resOlutely
opposes the movement.
Herbert Bismarck declares his inter-
views with Salisbury have resulted in a
complete understanding between Ger
many and Great Britain.
A public debate has been arranged in
London for May, between Henry George
and Samuel Smith, the Gladstonian mem
ber of Parliament from Fhnshire.
A small leasehold property in Worces-
tershire is announced for sale by auction,
held ''for the risidue of a term of 1000
years created in the year 1900.
1t is stated the Egyptian Government
will probably raise a new loan for irrega-
ton works. Further movements in this
respect are being carried out year by
year.
The Chamber of Deputies last week
adopted bill providing for the distribu-
ton OF the sewerage of Paris ON the plain
OF Acheres, near the forest OF Saint Ger
main.
Countess Rodetzky, granddaughter OF
the famous Field Marshal ROdetzky, COM
mitted suicide at Vienna Monday, shoot
ing herself to avoid critical surgical op-
Grafton.
Among Bismarck's visitors on his sew
entv-fourth birthday was Emperor Will
liam, who presented mastitf to him to
replace the famous Roichshund. There
were many distinguished visitors.
The st. Petersburg police are said to
have discovered in the suburbs of St.
Petersburg an important clew to the al
lodged conspiracy against the Czar. tits
said the Gar is thoroughly alarmed.
The tall female hat now SO agitatas the
minds of the male frequenters of the Lon
don pits that it is proposed that the pit
should be divided like Quaker meeting
house-the men sitting on one side and
the women on the other.
Ash Wednesday no longer interferes
with theatrical performances III London.
Whereas all the theatres used to close on
that day, only two this year paid any
attention to it, and these merely an
nourced that they would keep open.
The statement of the Panama railroad
for the wear ending December 3lst shows
the gross earnings to be $500 $50, an in
crease of $2O1 ,O67. Operating expenses,
including interest charges, $3.50, 114 a
decrease of 1929 ,636, and net earnings
Sl. $50. .544, an increase Of $53O,716.
Paris is to have beauty show where
the first prize will be $4,000, and the pub
lie will he invited to make bets upon the
different contestants. Leghorn recently
had such a show, but the exhibits were
SO unsatisfactory that the audience broke
: up the affair by kissing them off the stage.
Goldwin Smith has a 2-column letter
in the London Times declaring, with his
accustomed yigor, that Canada will be
ruined unless she obtains commercial re-
cinroeity with the United States, and that
the annexation feeling is growing rapidly
in the Dominion solely because the reci-
procity is denied.
From the time her child was born Mrs
Robert Horace Walpole, formerly Miss
Louise Corbin of New York, has been
very i'll, and her friends fear that she can
not recover. Since the scandal between
! her husband and Miss Wieldman was ex-
posed in court few months ago she has
t been very nervous and in depressed spir-
! its. Mr. Walpole is heir to the Earldom
OF Oxford.