The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-12-06
FOREIGN ELAsHES.
Money In Organ. .Grindinr-Tha T. I,hara,s
GAIN In observation-disclosures at
Berlin Give Thanks


The bartenders of London work l0
hours week.
The sale of French canned vegetable
is on the increase.
An extensive German Catholic nil
grimage to Rome is being arranged
Lord Salisbury sees no prospect of al
american reduction of duty on hats.
Pauper immigration is becoming az
important political iss1e in England.
One thousand Vienna button maker,
want shorter ho1rs and higher wages
The German consul at Zanzibar con.
nrms the report of the safety of Dr.
Peters.
The autumnal fogs are reported to be
heavier IN London than during anv fall
since 1869.
Abbe Martin of Andes, in the DEPART
ment OF allier, France, has just been
robbed of $6O,OOO
The total liberal gains in the recent
English municipal elections are l22. the
conservatives but 81.
MIR. Bradlaugh, having been ordered
by the doctors to take a sea VOYAGE. has
decided to visit India.
According to statistics, lunacy has been
on the increase in France since the open
ing OF the exhibition,
Emma Mershon-F Faria, of San Fran
cisco, has scored success in "Rigoletto''
at Vigeovano, near Milan.
The newspapers of Italy are raising
subscriptions to erect a monument to
Columbus on American soil.
The British board of trade returns for
October show marked growth in trade
between Canada az Great Britain.
Sixty Neapolitan churches have been
condemned to destruction for the sake of
extensive Improvements of the city.
Germany is importing live hogs from
the United States. and the new enter
prise is said to be profitable all around.
The rental of Edinburgh for the year
1889-9O amounts to G2,U65, ,125. Thirty
years ago Gin 1s5960) it was 9S2O,69l.
The continued celebration in honor of
the Lew government throughout Hayti
makes it difficult to get any work done.
Prince Bismarck's subsidy bill for the
German and East African line gives
those vessels $z25,O 900 annually for ten
years.
Sir John Lubbock has just discovered
that the death rate in London is I6b per
1000 as against 171a in other English
cities.
Diphtheria, which has been prevalent
for several weeks in Berlin, has become
epidemic, and many parts OF the city are
quarantined.
Many Berlin butchers have gone into
bankruptcy in consequence of the con-
tinued prohibition of the importation of
cattle and pigs.
A Birmingham man has invented a
metal that can be distinguished from
gold only by experts, though it can be
turned out for 60 cents a pound.
A Paris butler won last month the
$780, 900 prize in the Exhibition lottery.
His vile runs the goat carriages fol-
babies in the Tuileries' garden.
Spanish emigration Las assumed
alarming proportions because of the
many disasters which have recently be-
fallen the Spanish agricultural districts
The Australian legislature has passed
n 10 WY oll onr,,,1ac
with their mothers-in-law; 5000 if resid-
ing with the husbands mOther-in-law
and $IZ0 if with the wife's.
According to London daily pape,
there are about 2500 building associa-
tions with over $4,000 members, in the
United Kingdom. Last year their re-
ceipts were upward of $l00, 100000
Under the presidency of Minister
Phelps the Americans in Berlin cele-
brated Thanksgiving day with a dinner,
followed by concert and ball in the
rooms of the United States legation.
1he projected Firth of Clyde Canal te
connect the Atlantic ocean with the
North sea will be begun at once. A firm
of Manchester has contracted to com
plete the canal at cost Of eS.0J0,00O.
Ex-President White of Cornell Uni
versitv, just back from extensive Euro
peaI: travel, say s Vienna has been made
perhaps, the handsomest city in the
world. Constantinople continues vile.
German papers assert that both ex
Empress Frederick and her sister, Prin
cess Alice, regularly reported to theil
mother, Queen Victoria, the secrets o
Germany's diplomatic and military oper
ations during 1870.
Everything in the country of the rive
Chai, in Central Asia, is described by ;
recent traveller as covered with salt. 1t il
seen on the walls of the houses and OF
the banks of the river, and the waite
one drinks is very salt.
The members of the royal Savoy dy
nasty that had long been buried unde
churches at Turin were recently ex
hu1ned and re-entombed in the ances
trail sepnlcher at st. Michael's Abbey, il
the high mountains of Savoy.
The benediction of the Archbishop O
San Salvador and Primate of Brazil OF
the provisional government and republl
of Brazil shows how the public pulse i
tending and that the establishment. of
permanent government is destined to b
under peaceful conditions.
The large number Of sudden deaths a
Macy Becskersek, Hungary, prompted al
official inquiry, when it was ascertalne,
that there were thirty-eight victims
most OF them married, who had bee
poisoned, fortune-tellers supplying th
~i7es with poison. Fifty-seven arrest
nave been made.
For many years the Weslevans hav
been endeavoring to purchase site for
chapel at Hatfield, where Lord Salisbur
owns almost all the land. He wouldn
sell to them for any price, but at Las
they have been suited by prrchasin