Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-07-13
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Labor Organizations-Up in Ballon-
The Fast steamship Line-Beg-
gary as Profession-Notes.

progress all over Germany.
Russia contemplates new loan 10
strategic railways and forts.
Fears in Russia OF bad crops have beel
dissipated by favorable weather.
Queen Christena went up in an arm.
balloon 1000 feet at Madrid, last week.
The railroad to be built from Joppa t,
Jerusalem will have American coaches.
Herr Hasenclever, formerly leadins
socialist member OF the reichstag, is dead
The three missing steamers belonging
to the Wissmann expedition have arrived
at Zanzibar.
Garter won the Midland Breeders
stake at Fair Oaks, Birmingham, En-
gland, on the Sd.
The Shah was received by Queen Vic
toria at the state entrance at Windsor
castle. on the 3D..
1t is predicted that the number o
Americans visiting Paris this summer
will exceed 100000.
There are eight ladies' OF title in En-
gland who carry on the business OF dress
and mantle-making.
Paris has no flies. The Parisians say
that it is on account Of the thorough
cleanliness of the city.
The American team did the best shoot.
ing at the 200, 500 and 600-yards shoot,
ing at London on the I'd.
| Sir Lepel Griffin proposes to colonize
Cashmere with 3,000,0O0 Englishmen as
bulwark to the Indian Empire.
The Russian army is to be equipped
with new rifles Of small caliber. The
weapons will be manufactured in France.
The British bark Ecuado, Captain
Hughes, from Buenos Ayres, April 23d,
for Barbadoes, has been lost with all her
crew.
The French Chamber Of Deputies has
voted the Urgency Panama Canal Relief
bill, and later passed it by vote OF 3S8
to So.
A London paper says 500 Cornwall
families are reported to be wearing Grape
for relatives lost in the Conemaugh
Valley.
The new Duchess OF Portland ranks
eighteen in the list of peeresses, and the
American Duchess Of Marlboro takes pre-
cedence.
Last wear the number Of VISITORS to
Shakespeare birthplace was l6,8OO,
Americans constituting one-tourth ot the
number.
The National Amalgamated Sailors and
Firemen's Union OF Great Britain and
Ireland is now reported to have 10000
members.
A subscription bar is soon to be opened
at Berlin, where for $3.50, paid in ad-
vance, a man can drink all he chooses as
often as he chooses.
Porto Perraio, Napoleons landing
place at the Island of Elba, is now used
bv the fleet OF steamships which bring
iron ore to American.
Princess Louise Victoria Alexander
Dagmar of Wales, eldest daughter OF the
Prince and Princess OF Wales, has been
betrothed to Earl Fife.
Russia has readopted the law which
forbids heirs to the throne contracting
marriage with persons not members OF
the orthordOx Greek Church.
London is so crowded with Americans
that those who have not engaged their
rooms in hotels beforehand stand chance
of having to sleep in Trafalgar Square.
The Gossips OF Europe tell great yarns
about the Shah OF Persia's grandeur. IL
is said that the prescious stones inn
bedded in his throne are worth $50, ,OO0,'
OO0
Arabi Pasha, the Egyptian patriot,
complains that his incarceration at Cey,
Ion is killing him. The climate is toe
damp and he is tortured with rheuma'
| tism.
NJ. Meyer, Paris fnancier, mas been
| sentenced to imprisonment for one yeal
and to paw fine of 5000 francs for being
connected with the Society Mobiliere
frauds.
NJ. Eifel, whose name has been ex'
alted by his great tower, is 81 years Old
| His real name is said to be Bonickhau'
sen, and his reasons for changing 1t are
unknown.
The watchmakers of Prescott, England
who have long been famous, finding that
their trade is declining, have decided tc
build factory and work on the Amerl'
can plan.
The height of snobbishness is reached
at English bazars, where money is taker
as the price OF an introduction to this
and that beauty or titled lady presiding
over tables.
Beggarv has been reduced to an art as
well as a profession in Rome. In q re
cent case before the police an old mar
admitted that ne had rs many as fifty lies
in daily use.
An American has set up a school il
Paris and advertises that he "will teach
any Frenchman to speak the only sensj
BILE language in the world in six weeks a
cost of only $25.'
The large steam hammers in use il
England and on the Continent for max
ing the forGngs required for artillery anC
machinery are to be quite generally re
placed by hydraulic presses.
The new treaty between Japan anC
Mexico mas not been ratified. The treaty
between the United States and Japan
which was signed February Goth, will g
into force February IL, 1890.
The second daughter OF Gen. Boulange
is to marry the son of the sister-in-law o
the ex King OF Nagles. Her title is ;
long way off from royal, however, as sh'
will only be a plain little Countess.
A novel functioDary in Persia is th'
j Chief Of the Press. He edits four news