Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-06-22
FOREIGN FLASHES.
English Ironmasters Rejoicing-A Rise
OF 80 Per Cent IN Hotel Rates In
Paris-A Secret Treaty

;
/ 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
4 to spend $50, 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,
a Lincolnshire beauty.
A confirmation dress was recently de-
scribed by a French fashion paper as eX-
tremely ''cOquettish."
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 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 l. rance
numbered almost half million, having
increased $4,000 from the previous year.
The Russian government proposes to
take steps for rendering the rivers OF 81
IBERIA navigabe and connecting them by
canals.
The Vatican has decided that the as
Economical observatory is 10 be begun at
once, at an estimated cost Of 100000
francs.
The prospects OF the Icelanders are so
bright this season that it is thought the
flow of emig1ants 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 King OF
Naples.
The american Methodist Mission has
arrived, it is stated, at Tschomubiri, 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
day received little roam pony as birth
day gift from his great-grdndmother, the
Empress Augusta.
The Queen does not approve of Prince
Edwards courtship OF his cousin, the
Princess Victoria, but she has not yet
vetoed the match.
1t is estimated that 400 natives were
killed in a 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
projects instructing them to use their In
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 III
honor of King Humbert were white and
Gainesborough, respectively.
Andrew Carnegie has forwarded e25
as his subscription for the flags which
are to be unfurled from the field OF Ban
nockburn on the 22d OF June.
London Is declared more crowded than
Paris. 1t is difficult to get bed any
where. American visitors Overrun the
hotels waiting for the Derby.
Belini's piano, on which he composed
his earliest operas, has just been found
| in the possession of lady at Catanla,
whose husband bought it fOr G1 los.
Fourteen thousand girls are attending
the London School Board Cookery cen
ters. Still further facilities for increas-
| ing this number are now being made.
CONSUMPTION in the German Army is
greatly dreaded by the authorities, since
the recent Partisan Medical Congress pro-
nounced that the disease was contagious.
The agitation in connection with the
scheme for improving the condition OF
the people of the West Highlands and
| islands OF Scotland continue and inten-
sites.
The Berlin Conference met last week
! for the last time. 1t has been settled
that the election OF the natives will be
held soon after Malietoa has been rein
stated.
The agrarian agitation, which is a re-
suit OF the widespread misery in the agri-
cultural districts OF Italy, has now spread
to several provinces, and particularly to
Lombardy.
A report from Sumatra states that the
volcanic crater on the west coast of the
island, which has been quiet for several
centuries, was active during the middle
of February.
Bankruptcy in England ranks next to
a high caime Ii member OF Parlia-
ment loses his property and be adjudl-
Gated bankrupt, he at once loses his
seat in that august body.
Don Jose Zorrill, called the Spanish
Victor Hugo, is to be crowned Poet Lau-
reate of Spain at his approaching six
tieth birthday. The ceremony Is to take
nlace at the Alhambra Palace.
A French fisherman who was reported
lost. and whose property was divided up,
! -....=noA oil rinht after an ahSence OF TWO