The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-09
FOkEIGN FLASHES.
a Cossack Giantess-Wants to SaH I.s
African Possessions-A Nec In
oustry-Widows in England.

Paris. ~ -o'uin
The Earl OF File has just been made
Duke ''00
The lealandia, at Auckland, reports Al
quiet at Samoa. :. -
Wilkie Collins will be unable TO do an,
more literary work.
Regent Ristics is reported to be Ser
lously Ill at Belgrade.
France has issued S,a25 900 francs j,
Panama Canal bonds.
Eight hundred more British tnoon
have gone to Assouan.
Comparatively few Italians and Cor
mans are going to Paris.
The loftiest mountain in Wales ba,
been sold for about $4,000.
The belle of the royal family is said I,
be Princess Victoria of Teck.
The physicians attending Wilkie Col
Inns pronounce him out of danger.
White hats with black bands for mar
are becoming fashionable in London.
Paris, following the example of Lon
don, is about to build an underground
railway line
The Vau6el Paper Mills, near Pentar
her, France, have been burned. The
loss Is enormous.
Whitechapel, the scene of "Jack the
Ripper's" exploits, was crowded witt
visitors on the 2lst.
1t is rumored that the Queen is anxious
to confer the title of Duke OF Kent upou
Prince Henry OF Battenberg.
1t is announced that Lord Randolph
Churchill has become newspaper pro.
prietor in Birmingham, England
The Princess Imperial of Brazil has or.
ganlzed corps OF negro troops whose
Office is to act as an Imperial guard.
The freedom of Edinburg was conferred
upon Parnell on the Goth, the audience
rising and cheering Tor several minutes.
The French government has warned
the electors that Boulanger is ineligible
as candidate for the Councils General.
The dismissal of officials who svmpa-
thIze with the Roulangist movement con-
tlnues IN the government departments Of
France.
EXking Milan of Servia, will take Ut
q PEI manent residence in England or
Scotland under the name of Count
Takovo.
Russia now uses a considerable amount
of napiltha as fuel Last wear 800. .OOO
tons of it were sent up the Volga for this
purpose.
Earl Clancarty will invoke the law to
annul the marriage OF his son, 20 wears
of age, to Belle Billion of London music
hall fame.
Advices from Africa are that Zintgraff,
the African traveller, has arrived in hi,
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 it's African possessions to an En-
glish syndicate.
lliC 1d6ulOudDlc lOI Lie ILd1I IL
pronounced to be "a particularly beauti-
full and natrral-looking shade of brigh.
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 60 to Spain in the event
OF his leaving Rome.
A Russian nobleman has recently paid
1000 roubles $500 for pair OF nightin-
gales that are said to render delightfully."-
various national melodies.
The British Commons has, by vote OF
230 to rs, agreed to grant lump sum of
e600, 900. or, as an alternative, s20, 900
annually, to build railways in Ireland.
It has been decided to build COM
mercial port in the Inkerman Valley,
three miles east of Sabastopool. 1t is ex-
pected the port will be completed in 1898.
Ina French duel. the other day, by
some unforeseen and deplorable mis-
chance, a man was killed, and dueling in
France has received severe, if not fatal
blow.
Whoever desire to see the famous Iron
Gate of the Danube in its pristine glory
should 20 at once. The Hungarian gov
eminent has decided to blow up the
rocks.
In one respect the Paris Exposition ex-
GELS all others, for there has never been
collected together 30 fine a display of
electrical mechanism OF every conceivable
kind
The new rife for the Russian army is
not a magaz - gun, but is a small cali
bre freech-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 SIS ,O0O, 900 and agencies In every part
OF the world.
There are rumors that before long the
Pope viii publish an encycllcal on the
spread of atheism throughout Europe
and its semi-official protection by certain
governments.
A new Spanish industry OF profit is the
cultivation of tomatoes. Some OF the IND
rsortations last wear bore 100 per cent
profit. and the trade viii be much devel-
oped this year.
The society which has for its object the
prevention q cruelty to animals In En-
gland has been In existence since lS42,
and during that time has secured over
sc. 900 con nvictions.
Denmark Is foreign egg trade mas grown
to tremendous size, mainly with England.
Twenty wears ago the annual Danish ex-
v,~,,t ri ouve wae Q{)0 JO(}0- now 1t is reck-