Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-09-11
FOREIGN NEWS.
Germans Will Explore
African Lakes.
THE BARMAIDS OF BERLIN.
Defamation of a Heavy Gun Smashes
the Windows in a Passing
Railway Train.
THE BARMAIDS OF BERLIN.

The population OF Russia is estimated
at 10, 100000.
Police statistics are said to show that
there are 100, 900 paupers in Naples.
French newspapers are inclined to
poke fun at London's proposed Eitfel
tower.
Mr.. Stead's defense of the Prince of
Wales is said to have made converts Of
many.
They are talking OF introducing the
American trolley car on Edinburgh's
streets.
General Latino Caelho, the celebrated
Republican leader and poet of Portugal,
is dead.
There are $4,000, 900 farmers in France,
the total population of the country be-
ing 100000.
A bill is to be introduced into Parlia-
ment to limit the personal caricatures Of
the royal family in comic papers.
A dispatch from Zanzi bar says the Sui
tan has declared his dominions within
the zone of the Brussels spirit act.
Two thousand Frenchmen claim re-
wards for bravery displayed on the occa-
sion OF the St. Mande railway disaster.
Prof Koch is still experimenting with
his lymph regardless of the sneers of the
French medical men, who are mot in
it."
1t is again denied that the King of
Italy manifests any GOODNESS to the
American ladies in waiting upon his
royal wife.
Advices from Buenosr Ayres are to the
effect that the Argentine Republic is OPP
posed to the wholesale immigration of
Russian Jews.
Unless new outlets for Russian cotton
manufactures are created, there will be a
wholesale dismissal of workmen from
Russian mills
The formation of an Irish club has
been begun in London, the Irish popula-
ton there-about 800, 000-having no
place of rendezvous.
A German expedition has been organ
lied to explore the African lakes. Lake
Victoria will be sounded and its banks
thoroughly explored.
Italy's deficit for the last fiscal year
was $4,000, 900, and in spite of all the
SJdIClDg
army is being increased.
The French Foreign Minister Ribot
has advised Servia to adopt pacific at
titude and refrain from offensive demon
stration against Bulgaria.
Renewed efforts are being made to Sc
cure the pardon of Mrs. Maybrick, who
is confined in an English prison for the
murder of her husband by poison.
BY order of the German Emperor the
Prussian Minister of the Interior has is
sued decree forbidding the use of bap-
tlsmal names OF a political character.
Sally, the famous chimpanzee in the
London geological gardens, is dead She
was the most popular figure in the gar
dens since Barnum took Jumbo to
America.
The defamation of new heavy caliber
guH atIngolstadtrecently smashed all the
windows of railway train that was
passing the artillery range at the time.
Fortunately none of the passengers were
injured.
The grand prix de Paris will in future
be worth over 10000, as the French
Jockey Club has added a sum of 150, 900
francs to it, while 80, 900 francs more are
contributed by the principal railway
companies.
The Paris walters, who have formed a
trade union, are now discussing their Ill
timatum with the restaurant keepers.
They not only insist upon their right to
wear boards and no uniforms, but also
to smoke when not actually serving.
A Russian press censor permitted the
following item to appear in a Moscow
paper: sit is our opinion that Russia
needs new railroads, and she will have
them" For this the censor was sus-
pended for three months and the editor
fined $500.
In November next there will be held
at the Crystal Palace in London an in
ternational exposition of electricity.
which will last several months. 1t was
projected IN consequence of the success
tul one held at Vienna, and will be sub.
ject to the same conditions.
The barmaids of Berlin have started
an organ, the HerzbIdH. 1t offers oppor-
tunities for literary work and for the dis
closure of cases of i'll treatment. The
subscribers form material aid society
to help needy members, to secure places
and to appeal to the courts if necessary.
The Belfast Medical Inspector. DR.,
Stafford, asserts that the recent sensa-
tlonal statements regarding the Irish
practice of drinking ether is g gross ex
aggeration." For example, instead of
$4,000 gallons forming the annual CON
sumption about Kilrea and Loeb Neaoh
only about 140 gallons were sold last
year.
A letter from an officer on an English
war ship at Valparaiso asserts that BAL
maceda insuIted and quarreled with the
American Minister, Patrick Egan. and
the French Minister. The latter refused
to accept an apology, but Minister Eoan
renewed his relations with the govern
ment under threats from Senior Godov
that If Mr.. Egan gave Balmaceda troubIe
they would send him home aboard an
English war ship.
Inc RetchSgeset Btau publishes an or
der to the effect that the prohibition of
the Importation of swine, pork and sau-
sages OF American origin shall no longer
be enforced when such live hogs or hoo
products are furnished with official Ger.
stating that they have been ex-
ahmed In accordance with American
regulations and found free from Qualities
dangerous to health. The ChanceIIor
has sent instructions to the proper Off
Gals that an order be given immediately
to that effect.
While conducting experiments with
!. view OF determining how a weak soIu-
Ilon OF cocaine would prove efficacions
Is as local an@sthetic, DR.. E. C. Sleigh of
Berlin made rather remarkable discov-
cry. He found that a simple water in.
lection in the skin with a syringe rem
1ers the flesh at that point insensible
and the effect of water is to create
illght swelling, resembling that caused
oy the sting of gnat. The space
marked by the SWELLING rannnina -