The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-02
FOREIGN NEWS.
A Cobra Visits a Printing Office
in Bombay, India.
Excursion Trains to Be Run From
the Interoceanic Railroad to
Popocatapetl Peak.

Toronto Is likely to have system OF
street railways.
Rich opal discoveries have been made
in Queretaro, Mexico.
The centennial of the Swiss confedera-
ton is to be celebrated next year.
The Teheran- Caspian railway will be
made by Russians with French capital.
Henry M. Stanley has finished the
work of revising the proof sheets of his
book.
The operative bakers in Sydney have
demanded the adoption of the eight-hour
system.
Travellers in Russia are now obliged to
have their photographs annexed to their
passports.
The peculations of Scazziga, Treasurer
of Tlcino, Switzerland, amount to 7,5OO,-
600 francs.
At the drawing of the Panama Canal
lot cry at Paris the company won the
500-franc prize.
President Carnot intends to visit the
honse in which Napoleon was bonn when
he visits Corsica.
Leading Cuhans and newspapers of
Havana are openly favOring annexation
to he United States.
This years Cuban budget calls for $1O,-
29S,S 50 Tor army, navy and police ex-
peuses aud $15, 900 for schools.
At Ber9amo, Italy, the roof of a weav-
ing mill, in whicn 800 gi,ls were at work,
fell in, and seventeen were killed.
The Shaw has granted concession to
En- ,lish cap taiis for a tobacco mouop-
oily with exclusive rights in Persia.
The steamer Northcote ran down and
sa?k Gu ter off Ostend, Belgium, and
five OF those on board were drowned.
The Mexican man-of-war Democratic
has sale from Mazatlan under secret
orders. She had 300 soldiers aboard.
An excursion train to run from the In
te; oceanic railroad to the peaks of Ixtac-
cihuatz and Popocatapetl, Mexico, is pro-
jected.
Italy has constructed several strong
military fortresses in Abyssinia, with
VIZ " VI ONSUPy hCI dHuCACo
permanently.
England thinks her chances for win
ming the champ; ;onship game in Africa
have been much lessened since Emin
signed with the Germans.
From November to May the exporta-
ton of cut flowers from the little town OF
Cannes, ON the south coast of France,
reached the sum of S713, ,865.
A confagration at New Landic, Prus-
sia, destroyed 13O houses. The fire orig
mated in the Jew sh quarter, and is be-
lie we'd to have been incendiary.
1t is probable that the body of J. S.
M rgaD, who died at Monte Carlo, will
be lakeu to London for interment. His
estate is said to be worth $30,000,000.
Professor Harekel of the university of
Halle, who is on scientific exploring
expedition to Algeria, was arrested as a
spy. The German Consul secured his
re;eaSe.
The census having shown that there
are over $4,000 Germans in Paris, the
newspaper La Soir is led to say that it is
time the government stopped the inva-
sion of Germans.
Heavy rains are prevailing in New
South Wales, and Darling river has over
flowed its banks. The town of Boarke is
inundated, and residents are compelled
to remove to the highlands for safety.
General Salcedo, who was arrested in
Madrid few days ago for writing letter
advising resistance to the authority of
the government, has been sentenced to
two months imprisonment in a fortress
The Hamburg American Steamship
Company has decided to send its steam
ships from Filbury Fort, at the mouth OF
the Thames. instead of from Hamburg.
Tn service will commence in November
next.
A great national horse show will be
held in Berlin, commencing on June II
and lastirg until June % next, under the
auspi es of the Union Club of that city,
10 show and illustrate the great results
att ined in Prussia and the other German
States in breeding fine horses.
Denmark has adopted new rifle, after
the system of Krag-Jorgensen. The
weapon has a caIiber of eight milli-
met es, weighs a little over eight pounds,
and can be used as repea er or other
wise. Compressed powder of the Ordi-
nary sort is TO be used for the present.
In overhauling the Cars civil list
with view to economy recently one OF
the items discovert d was the payment of
>7.Oa wear for "lip salve," which has
been made to one family ever since the
time of the Empress Cathari1e, who is
supposed to have once had chapped lips.
While the compositors of the Bombay
Gazette were at work in the composing
room one evening re emily, full-g1own
cobra dropped in upon them through
windows in the 70 #. 1t was as badly
scared as they were, and attempted to
escape through window, but was killed
with an iron bar.
Sir Samuel Baker. the African explor-
er, in letter to the London Times blames
| England for the loss of all the positions
gained in Africa by the enterprise of in
dividual Englishmen, and points out how
Germany may in few months, by estab-
fishing stations at Victoria Nyanza and
forming an alliance with the King of Ugan-
da, secure control of the equatorial prov
ince.
French scientific men and engineers
are discussing the feasibility of railroad
across the Desert of Sahara. 1t Is claimed
that such an enterprise is necessary to
confirm the hold of France upon her
possessions upon the " st coast Of Africa
and to develop the North African PROV
inces that she holds.