Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-07-06
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Minister Lincoln at London Dinner Par
ties-Railroads in China-A Male
Beauty Show in Vienna.
The Shah is at Antwerp.

brother, is dying.
The new English gunboats are all
named after birds.
The black vomit has made Its appear
ance at Vera Cruz.
The political situation in France is be
coming complicated.
The Chinese Government proposes to
begin the construction OF railroads.
Minister Lincoln is in demand as lion
in-chief at London dinner parties.
An interesting exhibition OF Icelandic
handicratt is now open III London.
Eleven thousand factory hands at
Brunn, Austria, have struck for increased
wages.
Russian army officials are experiment.
ing with with speaking trumpets Tor civ
in orders.
In Berlin William Walter Phelps is re-
garded as the next American Minister to
Germany.
The month OF May in England in 1889
will probably rank as among the wettest
on record.
Lord Dunrayen now says he may not
enter the Vaikyre IN the race for the
America cup.
The house in which Prince Rudolf
killed himself, at Myerling, has been
pulled down.
In Ireland building societies have made
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653533 is reported.
A male beauty show is to be opened in
Vienna and the decisions are to he made
by jury of women.
The Duke Of Portland's marriage re-
moves the last really desirable English
peer from the matrimonial market.
Emperor William has been advised to
make a trip to Norway for the benefit OF
his health before visiting England.
The Austrian Crown Princess Stephanie
wife OF Rudolf, who committed suicide,
! is to live on the little island Lacrina.
| The Vieux Chene in the Rue Deau-
bourg, the largest furniture depot IN
Europe, has been burned loss, $oUO, LOO
An excellent demand for American
bonds is reported from London, particu-
larly for the bonds of Southern railroads.
Work on the Corinth Canal, which is
nearly ready for use, was begun under
I Nero. TheEanal will he completed this
| year
The King OF Wurtemberg has been con
templating abdication 1or some weeks,
much pressure in that direction coming
| from Berlin.
Count Heinrich Hardegg Of Austria,
who died few days ago, has lett his
whole fortune, about 600, 900, to the
Vienna University.
We notice in the report OF the Depart
ment OF Mines, New South Wales, that
as many as $4,000 diamonds were found
i'll the lnverell district.
\ petition, containing many important
names, has been addressed to the French
Academy in behalf of a simplitication OF
the French language.
A recent dispatch states that the Pope
OF Rome is well and hearty. He has had
the gates OF the Vatican reOpened and
has resumed his receptions.
Rioting is still going on at Kladrau,
Bohemia. The principal WORK OF the
rioters is seemingly pointed to wrecklng
everything that is wreckable.
1t is said that John Bright's papers
will be treated AS Lord Beaconstield's 8
have been-withheld from publication
during the life OF the Queen.
The large-calibred quick-fring guns
are so satisfactory that the 1-lnch guns
OF that class are rapidly superseding the
6-inch rifles in the British navy.
| Forty thousand invitations have been
| issued for the municipal fete to be given
/ to exhibitors at the Paris Exposition.
The reception will be held at the Elysee.
The Prince of Wales sent to the Lord
| Mayor Of London GlO0 toward fund to
be used for the expenses OF English pa
tients who are treated by Pasten at
| Paris.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mackay's solicitors have
begun proceeding at London against two
well-known papers for libel, with view
to putting stop to periodical attacks OF
enemies.
The idea OF telephoniC church is be-
ing carried out at Tunbridge Wells, En-
glang, where the pulpit OF a Gongrega-
tional church is connected with sixteen
subscribers.
From Russia to Portugal every Euro
pean government declares that it is de-
termined to maintain peace, and yet they
all act as if they were upon the verge OF
going to war.
1t is saiG there is no doubt that con-
ference of the powers will be held some
time this year for the purpose Of devising
measures for the suppression OF the A1ri-
can slave trade.
The Prince OF Wales having gone to
| the top of the Eiffel Tower, acynical Lon
don contemporary remarks: Most En-
glish visitors will feel bound to follow his
example. All Americans will, OF course. "
Rumors OF the German Chancellor s
sudden and serious illness aIe more COM
mon than alarming in Berlin, where it
has come to be felt that, though Death
loves Shining Marck, Bis is especially
exempted.
The Car has written to Emperor Will
liam assuring him that he meant nothing
hostile by his famous after breakfast
speech about the Montenegrian Prince,
and that he is really going on visit to
Berlin this summer.
A new pretender to the throne OF France
has inst made solemn assertion Of his
right, in the person OF Don Carlos, Duke
of Madrid, head of the House of Bourbon,
and known in somewhat limited private
circle as Charles VII, King OF France.
A compromise has been agreed to IN
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