Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-12-07
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hours a week.
The sale of French canned vegetables
is on the increase.
An extensive German Catholic pill
grimage to Rome is being arranged.
Lord Salisbury sees no prospect OF an
American reduction of duty on hats.
Pauper immigration is becoming an
important political Issue in England.
One thousand Vienna button makers
want shorter ho1rs and higher wages.
The German consul at Zanzibar con-
firms the report Of the safety OF Or.
Peters.
The autumnal fogs are reported to be
heavier in London than during any fall
since 1869.
Able Martin of Andes, in the depart
ment OF allier, France, has just been
robbed OF 100000.
The total liberal gains in the recent
English municipal elections are ~, the
conservatives but 81.
Mr.. Bradlaugh, having been ordered
by the doctors to take sea voyage, mas
decided to visit India.
According to statistics, lunacy has been
on the increase in France since the open
ing of the exhibition
Emma Mershon-F aria, Of San Fran
cisco, has scored a success IN "Rlg0letto'
at NigeOvanO, near Milan.
The newspapers of Italy are raising
subscriptions to erect monument to
Columbus on American soil.
The British board of trade returns for
October show a marked growth in trade
between Canada ard Great Britain.
Sixty Neapolitan churches have been
condemned to destruction for the sake OF
extensive Improvements OF the city.
Germ any is importing live hogs from
the United States. and the new enter
prise is said to be profitable all around.
The rental of Edinburgh for the year
lSS9-90 amounts to G2,U65, l20. Thirty
years ago lin l859-60) it was GS2O,690.
The continued celebration IN honor OF
the new government throughout Haytl
makes it difficult to get any work done.
Prince Bismarck's subsidy bill for the
German and East African line gives
those vessels SIS, 900 annually for ten
years.
Sir John Lubbock has just discovered
that the death rate in London is l6la per
1000 as against 17l2 in other English
cities.
Diphtheria, which has been prevalent
for several weeks in Berlin, has become
epidemic, and many parts OF the city are
quarantined.
Many Berlin butchers have gone into
bankruptcy in consequence OF the con-
tinued prohibition of the importation Of
cattle and pigs.
A Birmingham man has invented a
metal that can be distinguished from
gold only by experts, though it can be
turned out for 80 cents pound.
A Paris butler won last month the
800, 900 urize in the Exhibition lottery.
His wife runs the goat carriages for
babies in the Tuileries' garden.
Spanish emigration Las assumed
alarming proportions because OF the
many disasters which have recently be-
fallen the Spanish agricultural districts.
The Australian legislature has passed
a law taxing all married couples living
with their mothers-in-law; 5000 if resid-
ing with the husbands mother-in-law
and $40 if with the wife's.
According to a London daily paper
there are about $500 building associa-
tons with over 60,000 members, in the
United Kingdom. Last year their re-
ceipts were upward OF $lO0,0v0,00O.
Under the presidency of Minister
Phelrs the Americans in Berlin cele
brated Thanksgiving day with a dinner,
followed by concert and ball in the
rooms OF the United States legation.
lLe projected Firth of Clyde Canal to
connect the Atlantic ocean with the
North sea will be begun at once. a firm
of Manchester has contracted to COM
plete the canal at q cost o. GS 100000.
Ex-President White OF Cornell Uni
versitv, Just back from extensive Euro
pear travel, say Vienna has been made,
perhaps, the handsomest city in the
world. Constantinople continues vile.
German papers assert that both ex-
Empress Frederick and her sister, Prin-
cess Alice, regularly reported to their
mother, Queen Victoria, the secrets #
Germany's diplomatic and military orCi
atoms during 1870.
Everything in the country of the river
Chat, in Central Asil, is described 10y a
recent traveller as covered with salt. 1t is
seen on the walls of the houses and on
the banks of the river, and the water
one drinks is very salt.
The members of the royal Savoy dy-
nasty that had long been buried under
churches at Turin were recently ex-
humed and re-entombed in the ances-
trail sepulcher at st. Michael's Abbey, in
Tire high mountains OF Savoy.
The benediction OF the Archbishop of
San Salvador and Primate of Brazil on
the provisional government and republic
Of Brazil shows how the public pulse is
! tending and that the establishment of a
permanent government is destined to be
under peaceful conditions.
The large number Of sudden deaths at
Macy Becskersek, Hungary, prompted an
official inquiry, when it was ascertalned
that there were thirty-eight victims,
most OF them married, who had been
poisoned, fortune-tellers supplying the
~iVes with poison. Fifty-seven arrests
/ have been made.
For many years the Weslevans have
been endeavoring to purchase a site ior a