The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-12-05
FOREIGN LANDS.
Russian Peasants Prac-
tice CannibaliSm.
THE IRISH LINEN TRADE.
Japanese Fleet Will Not Cooperate
With China Against the
European Fleets.
THE IRISH LINEN TRADE.
Italy's finances are improving.

Italy's finances are improving.
Emigration in Prussia increased 30.7
per cent. the last year.
Mr.. Jackson, the new Irish Secretary,
is rich Leeds tanner.
Russia is preparing to monopolize the
sale Of spirits and tobacco.
The loss of vessels at Martinique dur
ing the storm was $5,000,0O0.
Lucien Bonaparte, who died the other
day, spoke eighty different languages.
The Japanese feet will not cooperate
with China against the European fleets.
Bremen is the first city in Germany TO
operate all its car lines by the electric
motor.
The French Senate has passed bill
regulating the hours OF labor OF women
and children.
A company controls the flower girls of
Berlin, who wear the national costume
and make money.
The imports of oil into India are 80
per cent larger in quantity than they
were five years ago.
Emperor William will soon begin a
crusade against gambling in the civic
and military services.
During the past year at Monte Carlo
the total receipts from the gaming tables
amounted to $4, 100000.
A German syndicate is working the
petroleum springs recently discovered at
Gillano, near Bologna, Italy.
A bill will be introduced in the En-
gllsh Parliament to abolish actions for
breach OF promise OF marriage.
Baron Hirsch is reported to be ar
ranging an international Jewish Con-
/ gress, TO be held in London next year.
A vegetable cartridge shell, which is
entirely consumed in firing, is now
coming into general use in the French
army.
Gladstone has declined the tender of
a banquet at Paris by Frenchmen who
favor the withdrawal of British troops
from Egypt.
Dom Pedro is reported to have an
nounced that he is willing to return to
Brazil to assist in restoring order and re-
uniting the people.
The difficulty in fighting the famine in
Russia is increased bv the improve
dence, ignorance, selishness and fatal
ism of the peasants.
Women convicts at the recent wreck
of the steamer Enterprise in the Bav OF
Bengal formed a human life line and
rescued six fellow voyagers.
1t is rumored at Valparaiso that the
government of Chilli will amnesty all
but some twenty OF those who promi-
nently supported Balmaceda.
Cycling is gradually making its way
throughout the armies of Europe. In |
Russia each infantry regiment is to have |
four orderlies mounted on cycles.
The Duke of Portland gives all his |
profits at racing to charities under a |
promise to his wife, and since his mar |
riage has given $4,000 900 in this way.
Notwithstanding the Russian famine.
large quantities of English wheat con-
tinue to be imported to England, the
amount rather exceeding that of last
year.
A Brazilian Government decree just
issued orders a lease of the State rail-
ways for thirty-three years at gold |
rental, half of which is payable in ad-
vance.
A newspaper correspondent named |
Eugene Wolff has been expelled from
German East Africa TO. writing biased |
reports discrediting the Governor of the
Colony.
The number of deaths at Altoona from
trichinosis, caused by eating diseased
pork, is now reported as thirty. An in
vestigation as to the origin of the meat
is in progress.
The famine in parts of Russia is 30 Sc
we're that peasants practice cannibalism.
The death role from diseases consequent
upon the absence among the people of |
the necessities of life is terrible.
The ships that were built to carry beef
from the Argentine Republic to Europe
are now employed in conveying fish be-
tween the same points, the beef business
having apparently proven unremunera-
tive.
The Russian government is said to
contemplate more rigorous supervision
of the sources of news sent to foreign
newspapersfr from Russia, which is claimed
to be in many respects false and exag-
gerated.
The London Spectator has recently
shown that in England the tendency of
population to the cities is irresistible,
that the young men and women are de-
serting the agricultural regions and that
farmers are unable to get the laborers
needed for cultivating the soil.
The st. Petersburg Nouosti, which has
already commented unfavorably upon
the speech of Emperor Francis Joseph
to the Hungarian delegations, returns to
the attack in a second article, wherein
Austria is dubbed "a wolf in sleeps
clothing always speaking peace while
arming to the teeth for war;"