The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-02-21
FOREIGN NEWS.
Relations Between Portugal and
Great Britain Strained.


Charles Chapin, the French painter,
is dead
The American saddle IL bong used by
the British mounted inianny.
ltuly's governmental expenses for 1891
will be- about tl2,O0o,OOO greater than
her revenues,
The German census shows an increase
OF nearly 100000 In the population OF
the empire since 1850
The authorities oi Cologne have re.
solved tu furnish employment 10 l3,OOO
lille men in~that city at Is pence per day.
The American claims to dig at Delphi
are refused, and France will probably
get the concession on the lsm1 OF NIFTY.
lcne.
President Cnruot believes in the powm
ut peace, tie contcmplatcs the entire
demolition Of all the iortilicutiuns around
/ Paris,
The bears ON the London stock market
are now attacking the credit oi very
large houses supposed 10 have business
relations with Chilli
Il IL reported the Chilau insurgents
have been obliged to abandon Ia Serena
in Coluimm, aud the harhor OF lqruquc
has been rcoprncd
Shares in brcwcrics are held by twenty
six members OF the Engish House OF
/ Lords nud hy iurty-scycn mcmccrs oi the
House of Commons
The coal fields OF Touqun are turning
ont 80 we'll that il IL thought that VI.
Ferry may ht restored to popular favor
upon that ISSUE alone
Deposits OF mica have been discovered
! i'm the northern pdrt oi South Australia,
and a shipment ol about one ton has
been made to Port Adelaide,
1t is said that in Paris twice as many
crimes are committed hy persons be-
/ tween the ages Of fifteen and twenty ~
by those between twenty and forty
/ War between Honduras and Guatemala
/ ~ momeuiurlly expected according 10 n
message from Honduras from II high oni-
cial to II business firm in New York
Forbidden TO hold public meetings in
! Germany, the messengers uf the Saliva
/ tiun Army in that country are visiting
the public houses and singing and pray
ing in them.
The physicians Of Berlin assert that
! their practice has fallen of - per cent.
since koch's operations began, and con
scquently they demand from the govern
mcnt free lymph.
The municipal authorities .pf Cahors
| having expressed desire to have there
mains OF Gamhctta conveyed to that
town, it If thought likely that President
Canot will acccde to the request.
Queen Victoria is taking great interest
in the promotion of large whisky dis
tillery in Wales. She has had the plans
and photographs sent to her and agreed
To take Il Cask OF the creature itself.
The committee appointed by the ltal-
ION government to oinvestigate and report
n plan to connect the city OF Rome by II
ship canal with the sea has reported that
the project would cost SO,00O,0 600 lire.
A London firm Of engineers has re-
cciyed concession for the building Of an
electric railway, five miles in length, be-
tween Naples and Capo iii Monte. The
work must be finished within nine
months.
The new magazine rifle and the man
ncr by which it was introduced into the
British army have become subjects of
investigation by Parliament. One Off
cnl is said to hold ten out of thirteen
patents on the gun.
A recent survey has established the
number OF glaciers in the Alps ut ,l55,
of which 2i0 have length OF more than
four and three-iourths miles. The French
Alps contain l44 glaciers; those of Italy,
7S; Switzerland, All; Austria, 462
| Some one has summed up the Stanley
expedition as follows The distance
travelled by him in the interior is est-
mated at 5,400 miles, of which all but
900 were on foot The expedition Voc-
cupied three years, and rescued 800 per-
sons at u cost of less than 100000.
At an open-air meeting Of the unem-
ployed III the East End II speaker, who
had worked in General Booths work
shops, denounced the General rs a
sweater" pure and simple. He had
discharged men earning 6la pence an
hourto make room for. those who would
work for pence an hour.
Russian merchants in Central Asia are
demanding that the Jews be expelled
from that region. The sole pretext for
! the demand is that the Jews outwit the
Russians in trade and are monopolizing
the traffic of Asiatic markets. It's be-
lieved that the desired order forNhe ex-
pulsion of Jews will be issued, if indeed
it has not already heeh sent quietly to
the Czars representatives, in Central
Asia.
Professor lIensch of the medical fac
ulty Of the University of Berlin, a dis
tinguished authority on diseases of chill
dren, reports unlavorably the treatment
with lymph in his department. He ad-
ministered lymph to twenty-five chill
dren, only one of whom seemed to i'm
prove, and the improvement in that case
was only temporarily, while many of the
children became worse under the treat
ment. He therefore stopped expert
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