Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-09-21
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Mr.. Gladstone Sympathizes With Sara
Bernhardt-The Queens Wealth
The Kings First Sea Bath.

China has just negotiated loan IN
Hamburg of $40,000,00a.
One weeks water consumption in Lon
don is 186, 1888, ,203 gallons.
The average age of the twelve English
Bishops is seventy-six years.
Germany will strengthen its army to
keep pace with that OF France.
Floods in the mountain districts of
Austria have caused great loss to life.
The bands in Paris strike up "Yankee
Doodle whenever Thomas A. Edison
appears.
Ten thousand French workmen will
make a pilgrimage to Rome at the end Of
October.
A young French lady recently found
,0O0f note in her deceased mothers
chignon.
The promoters Of the tunnel between
France and England hope to build It in
few Years.
There is said to be little doubt in Eng
land that Sir Edwin Arnold will be the
next laureate.
The nightmare is going out. At least
that is the opinion of the Bombay Sur
geon- General.
The stockholders of the Eiffel Tower in
Paris have already received dividends of
429 per cent.
The Queens visit to Wales is such
distinct diplomatic success that it is likely
to be repeated.
Gladstone has written to express his
sympathy with Sara Bernhardt upon the
death of Damala.
Three sisters, named Cavelier, com
mitted suicide at Vesinex, owing to
losses in betting.
The French Chief, in
case of war, would be General de Saussfer,
Governor of Paris.
1t is reported the new German army
200, ,000,00 marks.
A company for the manufacture OF
Irish linen will build extensive mills at
Blackpool, England.
1t is stated that the alliance between
Russia and France will be formally an
next spring.
Mrs. Langtry is reported to be with
Mr.. Gebhardt at AK les Bains Ior the
benefit of her health.
The Queens estate at Osborne com
prises about five thousand five hundred
acres, worth $3.50 an acre.
1t is reported from Wales that extern
sive veins of gold quartz have been struck
at Voel Vamman, Flintshire.
Chancey Depew says in an interview
in London that England has not been
so prosperous for ten years past"
The European press is filled with
articles concerning the coming Congress
of the Americans at Washington.
The first edition of Byron's rare
"Waltz" of 1913 was bought not long ago
by London bookseller for $3.50.
In Switzerland roper cent of the Young
men are said to be untitled, by the use OF
alcohol and tobacco, for military service.
The Marquis Carlo Ginari of Florence
has bought the Island OF Monte Cristo
and will construct there splendid resi-
dence.
Upward of twenty-eight large bales OF
human hair were brought to France in
the last steamer that arrived from the
Orient.
The bark Firth of Solway, Captain
Caise, from San Francisco for London
derry, is ashore on the fats Of Lough
Foyle, Ireland.
1t is perhaps worth while recording
that son of the late Marshal Bazaine is
an officer in crack regiment in the
Spanish Army.
A project is afoot to construct an cleo
tric railway from Lanark to Hamilton,
Scotland. Stonebyres Fall will supply
the motive power.
Mr.. Gladstone has aroused the wrath
of a section of the Welsh Congregational
lists by his recent abstention from voting
oD disestablishment.
Free-trade England is seeing the great
est strike in the history OF labor disturb
ances. The strike is also against Dock
Trust and monopoly.
Wagner's only SOIL, Siegfried, now
grown, is studying to be an engineer.
He looks like his father, but shows no
marked musical talent.
John Bright's memoirs can't be pub
lished, saws his son, John Albert, be-
cause "it will be inconvenient to the
Queen and Mr.. Gladstone"
The children of Mrs. Maybrick have
been adopted by lady and gentleman OF
London, with the approval of the rela-
tives of both sides of the family.
The King of Spain took his first sea
bath at San Sebastian three weeks ago.
His eldest sister, the Princess of the
Asturias, aged nine, carried him in.
The Spanish Government is much dis
tressed at the steady increase OF emigra-
ton, chiefly of able-bodied peasants and
the working classes, to South America.
The richest man in the House OF Com
mons is said to be Mr.. McEwan, Home
Rule member for one of the divisions OF
Edinburgh, worth e92 900 per annum.
If it be true that Germany is seeking
an alliance with Portugal, the reason
NAV be looked for in the eagerness OF the
former power to extend its influence in
Africa.
The sugar planters of Trinidad have
forwarded to Hugh Watt, M. P, resolu-
ton for presentation to Parliament,
thanKing the Government for endeavor-
ing to abolish sugar bounties.
The book for which the Shah bas been
making copious notes during his Euro
pean tour will be published soon after he
oets hack to Persia. 1t will be translated
into both English and French.