Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-01
THE OLD WORLD.

Inc BRUSH Harl1amenC VIII be con-
vened on the 18th of November.
A movement has been started in vi
emma for an international exhibition in
1895 or 1898.
In 1889 Berlin drank269, 247, 100 quarts
of beer-that is, about $50 quarts to
every man, woman and child.
The foolish fashion prevails among
the ladies of London of dyeing their hair
mahogany color.
Boulanger is becoming bloated. His
chief occupation consists in trying to
satisfy his animal appetite.
Chambers has latterly been spreading
in England, the reported cases for last
year showing an increase of 80 per cent
Subscriptions are being taken up
throughout France for the support of the
striking lace workers of Calais. They
number about 10000.
The death of Simonides, the man who
swindled many learned classical scolars
by fOrgeries of Greek manuscripts, is
announced in Albina.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says that
another commission is to be appointed
to study the Jewish question and make
suitable recommendations.
The Spanish government is preparing
for submission to the Cortes measures to
restrict the hours of labor and improve
the condition of Workingmen.
1t is reported in London that Sir
Henry Drummond Wolff. the British
Minister to Persia, in addition to his
physical illness, has become insane.
The consumption of tobacco in Eng
land has nearly doubled in the last forty
years, amounting at present to nearly a
pound and half per head of the popu-
latiOn.
A French syndicate is reported to
have purchased the majority of the
stock of the National Bank of Mexico,
and will soon take control of the insti-
tuition.
Berlin is much excited by the news
that troupe of thirty Amazons-real,
genuine Amazons from the bOdy-guard of
the King OF Dahomey-are about to APP
pear there.
A detachmeg of troops are guarding
the mines of ~ ~-HNd Carvin. in North
ern Franceatf' m2d' the miners are on
strike, a' -elDus assaults have
beens-e IN t6Risa',.es laborers.
The loss OF the Italian torpedo boat
which left Naples for Spezzia some time
ago is confirmed. She burst her boilers
and foundered at sea. Three officers
and fifteen sailors were drowned.
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The recent experiments by the United
States in testing armored plating for
war vessels has caused the English gov
erEment to pause before completing
their eight costly new IA, l50-ton battle
ships.
For the purpose of encouraging sheep
breeding IN Crimea the Ministry of the
Interior has decided to advance money
on profitable terms to ranchmen who
will import and breed the best kinds of
sheep.
A lawsuit begun 200 years ago has Just
been decided by the Imperial Courts of
LeIps1c. 1t was between the cities of
Lubbock and Mecklenburg, and concerned
the possession of lands on the river
Trave.
The Director of Russian Prisons left
st. Petersburg on September 6 for
Tchetchen, small island in the Caspian
sea, to examine the place with view of
planting a penal colony there, like that
at SaghalieR.
Steps are being taken to obtain the
attendance of American delegates at the
International Congress of Miners to be
held in Paris next March. Great Brit
ain, France, Belgium and Germany will
be represented.
Consul-General King of the United
States has brought his name unpleas-
antly into the columns of the Partisan
press. He moved suddenly without
paying his rent, and is now trying to
explain his action.
The English torpedo boat saved by an
American schooner on the Nova Scotian
coast was afterward being towed to Hal
flax by the war vessel Buzzard when a
terrific storm came on, and the torpedo
boat was cut adrift and soon sank.
The order compelling Jews to leave
Sebastopol was issued, it is explained,
because Sebastopol has been made
naval port of Russia, and according to
the custom in such cases it is necessary
to exclude Jews as foreigners from the
limits.
1t is authoritatively stated that Amer
lean charity is not needed in Ireland.
owing to the blight in the potato crop.
The general condition of the people in
the congested districts is such that thew
are able to bear the losses without char
table assistance.
1t is stated that patent medicines have
paid to the British government in 1890
the enormous sum of 9220,00O, or ST.
1000, in the shape of duties, and it is
estimated that before the end of the year
81 800, 900 will have been expended bv
the owners of these nostrums.
The French people are in uuandarv.
They do not know whether to retaliate
for the passage of the Mckinley bill or
acknowledge that the decree against
American pork is wrong and withdraw
1T. The Lyons Deputy proposes to intro
duce retallatory measures in the Cham
bers, but the Lyons Chamber of Com
merce wants conciliatory measures fol-
! lowed.
Emperor William proposes to erect in
a Berlin suburb 4 1000 model houses and
to place them at the disposal of the poor
people at the monthly rental of IS. The
houses are valued at 1900 marks, and
the cheap rental stands in lieu of paw
ments by installments on the property,
so that the tenant or his family enters
into ownership of the house after twenty
years occupancy without extra payment.
More than 5000 stone masons in Ber-