The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-07-09
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Swarms of Locusts Reach Algeria
and Tunis From Sahara.
RELIGIOUS EQUALITY IN HUNGARY.
Cotton Now Crown In Turkestan and thC
Russian Provinces Of Central
Asia-Frog Lymph.

III ls intended 70 lay submarine cable
in the Caspian Sea.
Succi, the faster, is insane and now in
an asylum near Paris.
French imports showed for the last
year gain over the exports.
Fewer suicides occur in Ireland than
in any other country in Europe.
Tenders for the Canadian loan of $12,.
900, 900 have just closed in London.
England has begun through its press
TO bitterly bewail markets lost in Amer
lea.
Lord Salisbury's protection speech is
said TO be still causing dissensions in the
British Cabinet.
Foreign physicians are now expert
menting with frog lymph as preventive
OF hydrophobia.
The year 1891 saw the first increase in
the export OF Chinese tea that has oc-
CURED in ten years.
II is estimated that there are less than
10000 paupers in the Japanese Empire,
with its population Of 237,0O0,000.
Nathaniel Rothschild in retiring from
the turf announces that he will dispose
OF his stud-the biggest in Austria.
English nautical journals are not in
sympathy with the proposed Corbin line
OF American Transatlantic steamships.
The associated railroads OF Austria
have presented the Emperor with
magnificent new special train of twelve
cars.
DIR. Newman Hall, the eminent Lon
don clergyman, expects to retire from
his pastorate in July. He is now 76
years of age.
Some French artists affect to be indif-
ferent to the hill now before Congress
asking for reduction of the duty upon
works OF art.
The consumption of coffee in France
has increased within thirty years from
one-half pound to three and one-half
pounds per head.
Aresolution in favor Of religious equal
ity has just been adopted in the Hun
garian Chamber after an agitation of
twenty-five years.
Heligolanders are by no means recon-
ciled to their lot since annexation to
Germany, and are full of grievances and
troubles of all kinds.
The King OF Siam is greatly interested
in eleC 'rical progress. Through his eff.
orts Bangkok is to have an electric road
Of American manufacture.
Swarms of locusts have reached AL.
geria and Tunis on the Mediterranean
after having crossed the Great Sahara
Desert and the Atlas Mountains.
The overflow of the Danube and its
tributaries covers 240 square miles, of
which one-half ia cultivated land and
the remainder forests and meadows.
1t is possible to become Prince in
Italy by the payment OF $4,000 in fees
and other costs. The title of Duke NAV
be had for $4,000, and that of Baron for
$4,000.
London Truth says that Sir William
Gordon Cumming, the principal in the
famous baccarat scandal, will stand for
the House of Commons in the Eighth
borough.
Cotton is now grown in Turkestan and
the Russian provinces of Central Asia,
the quantity produced being 81, $50, 900
pounds, or say $4,000 bales, in 1883 and
52,560,0 900 pounds in 1889.
London has forty-four theaters, with
capacity for seating 10000 spectators.
Its music halls and other places of en-
tertainment number 475, with capacity
of more than 100000.
Not a single case of influenza is now
known to exist in Paris. The epidemic
is said to have cost 5000 lives in 1892.
but in 1890 it was far more yirulent, for
10000 people are then said to have per-
ished.
The Grand Trunk railway of Uruguay
to Montevideo has been completed, and
opens out a vast tract of fertile land
hitherto comparatively worthless, the
area OF which is only little less than
Belgium.
Mummies taken from the Egyptian
tombs, beaten into a fine powder and
mixed with oil for paint is one of the
latest industries at Cairo. The color of
this human-dust paint is rich brown of |
lively tone.
A wire-netting fence 500 miles long is
one OF the late Australian wonders. The
fence separates the colonies of New
South Wales and Queensland, and its
object is to keep the rabbits out of the
latter country.
The drouth in France hardly can have
failed to affect crops. In May the total
rainfall was only .27 inch up to the 25th
OF the month. The April rainfall was
only .S9 inch. The total for the two
months was the smallest in fifteen years
or more. The average May rainfall ex-
ceeds two inches.
The work of laying a telegraph belt
all around the Island of Great Britain
has been begun, and it is expected that
it will be completed at the end Of the
year. The coast guardsmen all along
the line will then be able to commune
cate with each other instantaneously for
the purpose of offense or defense.