Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-08-03
FOREIGN FLASH ES.
A Cossack Giantess-Wants to Sell 1t:
African Possessions-A New In
dustry-Widows in England.

Duke.
The Zealandia, at Auckland, reports all
quiet at Samoa.
Wilkie Collins will be unable TO do any
more literary work.
Regent Ristics is reported to be SER
iously i'll at Belgrade.
France has issued S,925, 900 francs in
Panama Canal bonds.
Eight hundred more British troops
have gone to Assouan.
Comparatively few Italians and Ger
mans are going to Paris.
The loftiest mountain in Wales has
been sold for about $2S, 900.
The belle OF the royal family is said to
be Princess Victoria OF Teck.
The physicians attending Wilkie Col
Inns pronounce him out OF danger.
White hats with black bands for men
are becoming fashionable in London.
Paris, following the example of Lon
don, is about to build an underground
railway line.
The VauGel Paper Mills, near Pentar-
lier, France, have been burned. The
loss is enormous.
Whitechapel, the scene OF Jack the
Rippers' exploits, was crowded with
visitors on the 2lst.
1t is rumored that the Queen is anxious
to confer the title of Duke OF Kent upon
Prince Henry OF Rattenberg.
1t is announced that Lord Randolph
Churchill has become newspaper pro-
prietor in Birmingham, England.
The Princess Imperial OF Brazil has Or
ganized corps OF negro troops whose
office is to act as an Imperial guard.
The freedom of Edinburg was conferred
upon Parnell on the 20th, the audience
rising and cheering for several minutes.
The French government mas warned
the electors that Boulanger is ineligible
as a candidate for the COuncils-General.
The dismissal OF officials who sympa-
thlze with the Boulangist movement con-
tinues in the government departments OF
France.
Ex-King Milan OF Servia, will take up
a permanent residence in England or
Scotland under the name OF Count
Takovo.
Russia now uses a considerable amount
of naphtha as fuel Last year $4,000
tons Of it were sent up the Volga for this
purpose.
Earl Clancarty will invoke the law to
af his IN
of age, to Belle Billion OF London music
hall fame.
Advices from Africa are that Zintgraff,
the African traveller, has arrived in lhl,
on the central branch OF the river Bends,
in good health.
The German Southwest African Com
pany is said to be negotiating for the sale
OF all its African possessions to an En-
glish syndicate.
The fashionable color for the hair is
pronounced to be "a particularly beautl-
full and natural-looking shade OF bright
bronze brown"
A Cossack giantess, who weighs $50
pounds and measures nearly six feet IN
height, though only II years old, is on
exhibition in Paris.
The Spanish government has forbidden
any demonstrations calculated to encour-
age the Pope to go to Spain in the event
OF his leaving Rome.
A Russian, nobleman has recently paid
1900 roubles $500 for a pair OF nlghtln-
gales that are said to render delightfully."-
various national melodies.
The British Commons has, by a vote OF
230 to rs, agreed to grant lump sum OF
f6O0, 900. or, as an alternative, EZO,OOO
annually, to build railways in Ireland.
1t has been decided To build a COM
mercial port in the Inkerman Valley,
three miles east OF Sabastopool. 1t is ex-
pected the port will be completed IN 1893.
In French duel. the other day, by
some unforeseen and deplorabie mis-
chance, a man was killed, and dueling in
France has received a severe, if not fatal
blow.
Whoever desire to see the famous Iron
Gate of the Danube in its pristine glory
should go at once. The Hungarian gov
ernment has decided to blow up the
rocks.
In one respect the Paris Exposition ex-
cells all others, for there has never been
collected together 50 fine a display OF
electrical mechanism OF every conceivable
| kind.
The new rife for the Russian army is
not a magazine gun, but is small cali
bre breech-loader, capable Of penetrating
at 6OOO feet three 1-inch boards two feet
apart.
The leading manufacturers of beet
sugar in Europe have decided to found a
syndicate bank at Brussels with capital
OF Sl5, ,000, 900 and agencies in every part
OF the world.
There are rumors that before long the
Pope will publish an enCyclical on the
spread of atheism throughout Europe
and its semi-oficial protection by certain
! governments.
A new Spanish industry OF profit is the
cultivation Of tomatoes. Some OF the inn
portations last year bore 100 per cent
profit, and the trade will be much devel-
oped this year.
The society which has for its object the
prevention of cruelty to animals IN En-
gland has been in existence since lo4Z,
and during that time has secured over
| SO, 900 convictions.
Denmark's foreign egg trade mas grown
to tremendous size, mainly with England.
Twenty years ago the annual Danish ex-
port OF eggs was 900, ,000 now it is reck-
oned at Ill 100000.
1t is rumored that Lord Fife, wl.o is to
marry the Princess Louise of Wales, will