The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-16

Denmark's Foreign Trade-Threatens
to Run The Telephone-Tried Her
Engines With Success.

beto shape.
Millais is painting his third picture of
MIR. Gladstone.
A new life Of Bruno is to be prepared
by the Vatican.
The Crofters Commission is reducing
rents and arrearages.
Efforts at phonetic writing are active
both IN France and Germany.
Buffalo Bill gave dinner to Russell
Harrison at Paris on the 9th.
The infantry branch of the Austrian
army has been increased by 5000.
Peru observed its sixty-eighth ami
versary OF Independence on the 29th.
Extensive thefts of arms have been
carried ON for years in Bombay arsenal.
An epidemic of typhoid fever is said to
be Raging In the Ternes district of Paris.
Denmark's foreign trade has grown to
tremendous size, mainly with England.
Shares in the proposed American Salt
Trust are already selling in London at a
premium.
A German peasant has been detected
in tapping a telephone wire to cure his
rheumatism.
The silver jubilee testimonial to Cardi-
nal Manning now amounts to a total of
over 1000.
August 4th is the date fixed for re-
burying the French Revolution heroes in
! the Pantheon.
A German firm has made contract to
reconstruct the port of Odessa at a cost of
over $5,OO0,OO0.
The Portuguese who fired at Dom Pedro
declares he was instigated by the Repub-
lican Association.
DIR. Schmelzkopf, Surgeon-in-chief of
captain Wlssmann's African expedition,
has been drowned.
An Erzeroum dispatch states that
Russian troops are rapidly massing near
the Turkish frontier.
Brunn, the Austrian center of textile
industry, is suffering under general
strike OF $4,000 operatives.
Ryan, a seaman on the Jabez Howes.
was drowned at sea on June 18th. Ryan
WAS native OF san Francisco.
Much curiosity has been excited by
the approaching production at Brussels
OF Salambo, a new opera by Reyer.
None OF the railroads in India are
equipped with baggage cars and no
traveller is allowed to carry a trunk.
In a recent domestic rifle competition
at Wimbledon Sir Henry Halford, shoot
ing for England, made 2lO out of his 235.
George S. Ladd of San Francisco. a
ant al tn..f~ liz l.
ousiy ill in a house in Piccadilly, London.
London, excited by the success of
Paris, appears 10 be very much in earnest
in her endeavor to found grand exhibi-
ton in 1891.
Bankers in London do not care for the
papers of the Prince of Wales. The
Prince has not much of a reputation as a
business man.
The English Government threatens to
run the telephone since the business has
been lett to rne company. France has
already done so.
On account Of heavy aud repeated falls
OF snow among the Alps, the season for
mountaineering promises to be late this
year in Switzerland.
A dispatch from Rome says the Vati-
can and Quirinal are doubly guarded on
receipt OF information of a plot to blow up
both with dynamite.
The report that Nine. Nelson has lost
her hearing and memory is emphatically
denied. She is suffering from her old
trouble rheumatism
A Guide to the Churches of London"
shows that the number of metripolfan
churches has increased between 1883 and
1889 from 92S to l,O16.
1t is stated that at the rate the popula-
ton is leaving Norway Tor the United
States, III the next fifteen years not one
| will be left in that land.
The Heavenly Foot Society," has
been started in China by the women,
in rebellion against the venerated fashion
that congresses their feet.
1t has been decided in Russia that
women may be physicians; but they
must cOnfne their services to children
and adults of their own sex.
British reports OF the inland fisheries
show that out OF 1880 salmon captured
in seventeen districts 2,744 were taken
by the rod. The others were netted.
1t is stated in London that Germany
and Austria have instructed ex-Kiny
Milan to restore the supreme power in
Servia in order to check Italian intrigues.
A party of 800 Hungarians who left
Vienna recently for the Paris Exhibition
proceeded, by way of Torino, to call on
Louis kossuth, the great Hungarian
patriot.
Grave fears are felt at Zanzibar for the
safety OF the Upwapwa missionaries.
The Bushiri have murdered an officer of
the East African Company, named
Nielsen.
The Duke of Newcastle is expcnding
nearly ESQ., 900 in building church in
the grounds at Clumber, his place at
Notts. 1t is beautiful edifice in the
Gothic style.
One ef Legitime's Generals had agreed
to surrender portion of the defensive
works at POrt-au-Prince to Hippulyte.
The plot was discovered and an ambush
killed thirty OF Hippolyte's men.
Two hundred and thirty-one foreigners
were expelled from Belgium between the
9TH OF February, 1888, and the 9th OF
February, 1889. Three expulsions only
were ordered for political reasons.
The largest ship in the British Navy,
the Trafalgar, launched two years ago,
has at last tried her engines with success.
She is 345 feet long, 73 feet beam, and
2,818 horse power drove her II % knots.
The greatest diplomatic triumph of
Prince Bismarck's life will be achieved
if he succeeds in his latest project, which
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