Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-08-28
CABLEGRAMS.
Egyptian OphthaImia Prevails in Some
Sections of Germany.

Verdi, the composer, will endow with
$4,000 hospital at Milan for poor and
aged artists.
The German government will estab-
llsh telegraph system on the German
East African coast.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, British Minis
ter, thinks the Chinese situation more
serious than reported.
Belgium consumes nearly 100000
cartridges and forty tons of powder a
year in testing firearms.
The crofters of Skye in the Scottish
Highlands do not take kindly to the idea
of emigrating to Canada or America.
Egyptian ophthalmia has Frustrated
half the children and many adults in
Arbergen, Mahndorf and Hemelingen in
Germany.
The German autumn military maneu-
vers will be postponed on account of the
condition of the Emperor, who cannot
mount a horse.
A. Stanley Williams of Sussex, Eng
land, has just discovered three delicate
but distinct markings in the equatorial
region of Saturn.
Brazilian capitalists have secured the
services of several experts from Pitts
burg, who will bore wells in the hope of
obtaining oil or gas.
A movement is on foot in Norway for
the raising of funds to provide visits to
the country during the summer for poor
and hard-worked women.
NJ. Henri Lecomte, the Director of the
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Paris, proposes TO endeavOr to cross At
RIGA by balloon, starting from Mozam-
bique.
The German government proposes to
prohibit clergymen taking fees for bap-
tisms or marriages. The government
has set aside 100000 to pay the
| preachers.
The movement in favor of Roman in
stead of Gothic type is rapidly gaining
ground in Germany. Many medical and
scientific periodicals are printed in Ro-
man characters.
| The German method of dealing with
Turkish brigandage is complete. The
| brigand is paid all ne demands, and
sight for the bill.
Lord DonoughmOre recognizes the
malady of which st. Kilda children die
as one we'll known on the west coast of
South America, where medical skill has
been totally unable to grapple with it.
The India press is greatly worked up
over the execution of the two principals
in the Manipur massacre by the English
government, and are endeavoring to es-
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! latter.
One of the Cordelia's six-inch guns
having burst with fatal results, the Brit
ish admiralty has decided 10 withdraw
all guns of that mark, which at the pres
ent moment most threaten the safety OF
her Maiesty's gunners and sailors.
The judicial authorities in Germany
are preparing a report which favors cleo
| tricitv as a means of putting murderers
to death. The French scientific Journals
also have ventured to prophesy that this
method will supersede the guillotine in
| the next century.
The report of the Central Committee
If the Worlds Convention of the Y. NJ.
;. A., which has just closed its session
1t Amsterdam, shows 4,15l societies. OF
which ,405 are in the United States.
iermanv has 800 and Great Britain GA.
here are also s2 in Asia and Is in Africa.
ondon was chosen as the place of hold
NO the next Worlds Convention in 1894.
The old monarchical families of France
re gradually trickling into the recep-
ions of Nine. Carnot, which means the
cceptance of the Republic. Ladies who
ave shut themselves up for twenty
ears in the Faubourg st. German are
,eginning to appear at the Palace OF the
,Ivsees. With this tendency and the
a1ction of the Republic by the Catholic
ihnrch the royalist irreconcilables must
oon be very few.