The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-31
FOREIGN FLASHES.
King Alexander to bs Crowned in I,,ra
Emperor William G YES Audience
to the Oh nese Minister.

loan of e5,OOO,OOO in London.
The attendance at the Paris Expositior
thus Tar has averaged II 900 daily.
The cash deficiency of the Melbourne
Exposition is over million dollars.
There is no Improvement in the menta,
condition OF the Empress of Austria.
The American delegates have arrived
at Berlin to study the German river
system.
William O'Brien, NJ. P, has obtained
writ against Lord Salisbury on a charge
of libel. o.
The newest word in London is 'somni-
boat" 1t describes the river steamers
and is success.
An enormous landslide occurred at
SPlesback, Switzerland, destroying cattle,
villages and forests.
Duornovo, Director of Charities. will
succeed the late Count Tolstoi as Russian
Minister of the Interior.
Lord Lonsdale says that he saw in the
Artlc country cataract 200 feet high and
two and half miles wide.
At the York, England. spring meeting
Ring-master won the great northern
handicap and 500 sovereigns.
Emperor William gave audience last
week to the Japanese Minister of the
Interior who is making a tour of Europe.
The Joneses are at the head of the
English clergy list with 45O representa-
tives, while the Smiths follow with 31S.
Miss Sybil Sanderson appeared at
the Paris Opera Comique in Esclarmonde
last week, and her friends predict great
success.
Emperor Francis Joseph has paid
Grown Prince Rudolph's debts. They
only amounted to the trifing sum OF
e4S0, 900.
Houstholm, Jutland, has the worlds
biggest electric light 1t is of 5000 900
candle power, and has range of twenty
six miles,.
The Roths"hilds have arranged for a
Russian conversion loan of $240, 100000
in conjunction with the Dsconto
Gesellschaft.
1t cost the English government $17O,-
1S3 to keep the royal palaces in order
last year, and $445, ,065 for royal parks
and gardens.
Some of the boulevardiers are wearing
Eiffel Tower waistcoats, covered with
figures of the great tower a couple of
inches high.
1t has been arranged that the young
King Alexander of Servia shall be
crow ned at the monastery of Zissa in the
month OF June.
Instead of encouraging emigration, as
hitherto, the authorities of Ireland are
it, the people are leaving
the country so fast.
The authorities in Holland have de-
creed that women cannot serve on
School Board. In Sweden it has been
decided that they can.
Ten thousand weavers employed in the
cotton factories at Thizy, Department of
are on strike. 1t is feared the
strike will extend to Lyons.
T. p. O'Connor says that the Prince of
Wales never pays tailor bill. The
his patronage affords is all
the remuneration Poole wants.
In the British House of Commons a
motion in favor of the disestablishment
of the Church of Wales was recently
rejected by vote of 2S4 to 231.
Already great deal of diplomacy and
intrigue is said to be on foot in order to
get the post of Poet Laureate when Ten
nyson dies. The salary is e72 year.
A rich bed of pure coal, computed to
contain about 225, 100000 poods, bas
been found at place called Pendshakata,
on the line of the Transcaspian Railway.
Boulanger, who has hitherto been
mostly ignored by London society, dined
recently with Baroness ett-Coutts,
various dukes and duchesses meeting
him.
Nearly $9,OOO,OOO have been appro-
priated from time to time by the French
Legislature for the Paris Exposition, and
the buildings and parks occupy space
of nearly two hundred acres.
The death of King John of Abyssinia
and the assumption of the throne by his
rival. King Menelek of Shoa, promise to
he of advantage to Italy in her efforts to
secure a firmer foothold on the Red Sea
littoral.
The street-car drivers who have been
ON a strike in Vienna, and who have
finally succumbed, average about 90
cents in wages for day beginning at
in the morning and ending at midnight
or l a. m.
The London Times says: The Samoan
Conference has come to an agreement III
regard to the Land Commission question;
also. regarding restriction on the sale of
firearms and spirits to the natives. The
election of a King is to be left to the
SamOans.
Prominent clubs were raided in Lon
don last week and several Earls and
T lords and BarOns were among those
found at play and arrested. The Field
and the Adeiphi Clubs were the principal
places raided, and the stakes played for
were high.
Young French priests will before long
he liable TO military service in France II
the new Military bill goes through, as it
is thought it will. 1t is alleged that
thousands of young men enter the
seminaries every year in order TO avoid
the army.
Merchants discovered during the recent
Fair at Nizhnee-Novgorod, Central
Russia. that the turquoises offered for
sale by Persian traders were nearly all
false. These rogues have been imposing
paste upon customers the last six or
seven years.
Emma Nevada has been detailing to
newspaper correspondent her operatic
successes, and giving advice to her
who intend to become
professional singers-tbe mode of life to