The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-28
FOREIGN FLASHES.
English Ironmasters Reioicinp-A Rise
OF 80 Cent IN Hotel Rates in
Paris-A Secret Treaty.

The Shah is in Berlin.
The average rise in hotel rates in Paris
is 30 per cent.
Two-fifths of tho House OF Commons
are bimetallists.
Gladstone spoke at Liberal meeting
at Weymouth, last week.
Mrs. Mackay and her daughter, the
Princess OF Colonna, are in Paris.
The president OF Paraguay now wants
to spend 900 to encourage European
emigration.
An interesting long distance telephone
experiment is about to be tried between
London and Paris.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria has
requested the Shah of Persia to postpone
his visit to Vienna.
The Duke of Portland was married in
London last week to Miss Dellas Yorke,
Lincolnshire beauty.
A confirmation dress was recently de-
scribed by French fashion paper as ex-
tremely ",oquettish.
A new agricultural machine distributes
manures and insecticides, and sows grain
by means of an air blast.
The death of the author of "Don
Quixote" is still religiously commemo-
rated by his cOuntrymen.
Advices from Japan report the burn
ing of 1000 houses and the loss of many
lives on May Sd, at Yokoto.
1t is proposed to keep the Paris expo
sition open for a year with the exception
of the three winter months.
The deepest artesian well in Russia
open with a depth of 2090 feet. The
sinking operations took two years.
In 1885 the Italians residing in France
numbered almost half million. having
increased $1,000 from the previous year.
The Russian vernment proposes to
take steps for rendering the rivers of ST.
IBERIA navigable and connecting them by
canals.
The Vatican has decided that the as
Economical observatory is to be begun at
once, at an estimated cost of l,00O,O
francs.
The prospects of the Icelanders are so
bright this season that it is thought the
flow of emigrants from the island will be
stopped
General Boulanger's second daughter
is to be married to son of the Countess
of Bari, sister -in-law of the ex-King OF
Naples. =
The American Methodist Mission has
arrived, it is stated, at Tschomubirl, On
the Upper Congo, where it is forming
station.
English ironmasters are rejoicing over
the discovery Of new sources OF supply
for Bessemer ores in Spain and Swedish
Lapland.
The German Crown Prince the other
dav received little roam pony as birth
dav gift from his great-grandmother, the
Empress August
The Queen does not approve of Prince
Edwards courtship of his cousin, the
princess Victoria, but she has not yet
vetoed the match.
It is estimated that 400 natives were
killed in recent fight in Zaadani. The
bulk of the party destroyed belonged to
the British Indies.
Miss Jane Golden, the first woman
elected County Councillor in England,
is barely thirty-five years old, but her
hair is snowy white.
: A circular has been issued to- French
prefects instructing them to use their IN
i fluence to prevent skilled laborers from
leaving the country.
Several tribes in Morocco have rebelled
against the Sultan. The rebels have made
prisoners of a number OF officers and
| threaten to kill them.
The riding habit and hat OF the Ger
man Empress at the grand review IN
/ honor of King Humbert were white and
Gainesborough, respectively.
| Andrew Carnegie has forwarded e2s
! as his subscription for the flags which
are to be unfurled from the field OF Ban
mock burn on the 22d OF June.
! London is declared more crowded than
Paris. It is difficult to get bed any
where. American visitors Overrun the
hotels waiting for the Derby.