The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-11-28
FOREIGN LANDS.
The Peters Pence From
England Meager.
SERIOUS FLOODS In SPAIN.
The Municipal Elections in England
Forecast the Triumph of the
Gladstonians.
SERIOUS FLOODS IN SPAIN.

London has 5000 telephones.
England has 10000 barmaids.
London has ten main railroad lines.
Switzerland has abolished national
banks.
Serious foods are reported in Valencia,
Spain; also at Cadiz.
The potato crop in Northern Hungary
has failed, and famine is feared.
Prince Bismarck opposes the law which
reduces the army service in Germany to
two years.
Catholic prelates in Italy have no
doubt that Pope Leo's successor will be
an Italian.
The Argentine Senate has passed a
bill repeating the tax levied upon private
bank deposits.
The Austrian police have confscated
the report of the Brussels international
Labor Congress.
Lady Dixie has decided on continuing
her trade-union campaign among the
women workers.
Thirty thousand men are idle through
the strike OF the engineers OF the Wear
side Durham, England.
The municipal elections in England
forecast triumph for the Gladstonians
in the coming Parliamentary elections.
The duty which France proposes to
put on American pork is % francs per
100 kilos, equal to about 2A cents per
pound.
1t is daily becoming more clear that
French financial houses are saddled with
more Russian stocks than they are able
to carry.
The people of Afghanistan, groaning
under the heavy taxes their ruler i'm
poses, are skipping over the border at a
lively rate.
Rain has fallen in torrents in the prov
ince OF Malaga. The ower-lying quar-
ters of Golila and Perchel have been
submerged.
Earl Dufferin' appointment as Warden
of the Cinque Ports is viewed in England
as bribe to cause him to adhere to the
Conservatives.
The height of fashion in Paris is to
have everything Russian, the glamour OF
the French Russian understanding en-
phasizing the fad.
bill has been read the first time in
the Brazilian Senate, the object OF which
is to close the coasting trade to ships
under foreign flags.
Birmingham has beaten London in
the struggle for the possession of great
watershed in Wales as a permanent
source OF water supply.
There are rumors at St. Petersburg
affecting the stability of ten banking
houses, some of which are considered
the soundest in that city.
Inquiry is being made into the unlaw
full extension of mining galleries at Lich-
tenau, endangering the safety of the
Silesian Mountain railroad.
Emin Pasha has written letter stat
ing that he intends to enter the territory
of the King OF Ruhanda, which has
never been visited by Europeans.
Those Alsatians of official prominence
who attended late Ferry banquet are
being dismissed from office or forced to
resign by the German government.
The House of Representatives of New
Zealand has passed bill granting resi-
Dental suffrage to women and qualify
ing them for election to Parliament.
In recent report of the municipal
head of Moscow it is shown that the
corruption of the Court of Probate and
Public Administration is very great.
The Moscow Gazeue demands the for
nation of Ministry of Agriculture
which, it sets forth, would prevent the
conflicting policies leading to the famine.
The Empress of China has recently
been endeavoring to give an impetus to
the manufacture of silk in that country
by starting silk-weaving department OF
her own.
A new paper, The Wandering People,
will be started in London next month.
1t will be published in the gypsy tongue
and edited by George Smith, the king of
the gypsies.
The Danes do not require the makers
OF oleomargarine to stamp the kegs in
which it is packed, but they do require
that it be nearly white in order to dis
tinguish it from butter.
Much disappointment is reported to
be felt in Vatican financial circles at the
extremely meager results of the offer
ings for Peters pence from England, the
amount being only about G500.
1t is said the Russian peasants are
eating straw in their bread. The French
peasants were eating grass by the road
side not long before the Revolution of
1898. History may repeat itself.
With ready market for an enormous
wine crop and with its crops of cereals
considerably above the average, Italy
ought during the coming year to enter
upon new period of prosperity.
The German government has decided
to establish ship building yard on a
small scale on the shores of Lake Vic
toria Nyanza, and measures are being