The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-03-26
FOREIGN LANDS.
Mr.. Crispi Retires From
Public Life.
THE CENSUS OF INDIA TAKEN.
Vienna Municipal Authorities Have
Imposed Tax Upon Women
Who Wear Trails.
THE CENSUS OF INDIA TAKEN.

Paris may build an underground cleo
trio road.
Cotton at Liverpool has reached the
lowest price on record.
The French Chamber has refused to
abolish theatrical censorship.
A large force of Salvadorians are re-
ported on the Guatemalan frontier.
Saonz Pena is the candidate OF the ma
tional and civic parties of Argentine for
President.
The Prince of Naples is visiting Aus
traia TO inspect it as a field for Italian
immigration.
Premier Canovas del Castillo says the
Spanish government has decided upon a
policy OF retrenchment.
Queen Natalia of Servia continues to
be the cause Of fierce debate and bitter
feeling in that little kingdom.
At Athens M. de Imezes has been ap-
pointed Minister OF Finance and NJ.
Mielstopouloe Foreign Minister.
A correspondent writes that the Rus
sian famine sufferers who eat at Tolstoi's
free tables look like living skeletons.
Prof. Huxley hopes that England and
America will give support to the pro-
posed marine biological station at ia
maica.
European governments are becoming
alarmed at the movements of the unem-
poyed, and labor day is looked forward
TO with some apprehension.
English livestock dealers are opposed
to the United States Treasury in refusing
entry TO imported animals unless a GER
tain pedigree can be shown.
Crispi's retirement from public life is
announced in the hope OF improving the
strength of the opposition, and Signor
Zanardelli will be the leader.
Asugar and coffee firm of Antwerp has
failed, with liabilities amounting to
100000 francs. A French house in
Hamburg is the largest creditor.
Miss Mary Reed, an Ohio lady who
went TO India as a missionary, is a vic
tim of leprosy, and is hopelessly wasting
away in leper village in the Himalayas.
The immense Southeastern railway OF
England placed SO enormous a valuation
on a small strip of its land near Ber-
mondsey as to charge at the rate OF $65,-
000, 900 an acre.
The Midland railway in England has
now running between st. Pancras and
Bradford trial trains fitted with hot
water apparatus supplied from the en-
gine for heating the carriages.
The Manchester (England) ship-canal
report states that the receipts from near
ly all sources and G200,000 in addition
have been exhausted and G2,500,000 will
be required to complete the canal.
In the German Reichstag the bill en-
powering the government to proclaim a
state of siege in Alsace- Lorraine in the
event of war or serious danger was after
much debate referred to the committee.
There is bill before the French Leg
islature to enlarge the present divorce
law. 1t proposes to turn separation
DEGREES" into obligatory divorces, in
stead of optional divorces, three years
after an application for such conversion.
The Neue Freie PreSSe of Vienna has
just published an elaborate article on
the subject of Turkish armament, and
declares that the Sultan has succeeded
in raising the effective strength of his
forces to l, 900, 900 men, of whom 100000
could be modified.
There are intimations from Berlin that
experiments with tuberculin have been
steadily progressing under the direction
of DIR. Koch and his chosen assistants,
and that in little while proofs OF re-
markable successes with refined tuber-
culin will be made known.
Since the fire at the Benedictine mon
astery it has been revealed that almost
80 per cent. of all the benedictine brewed
is consumed in Finland by about 100000
people. 1t is the national drink. 1t is
drunk in tumblers, three or four young
men not thinking anything of consum-
ing couple of bottles.
In recent interview Baron de Hirsch
spoke of the new Jewish colonies in the
Argentine Republic. He said he had
sent 5000 Jews there and had negotiated
for the purchase of 100000 acres of
land, but the government would grant
only 100000, as it did not wish too
many aliens to settle in body.
The census of all India shows a popu.
lation OF 287, 100000. OF these 207 654.-
4O7 are Hindoos, 81, ,S65, ,2O4 Mussulmans,
2,2S4,191 Christians, 1,416,1 100 Jains,
1907, 1886 Sikhs, 7,10l, ,057 Buddhists, &c.
SS7 Parsees, II ,1S0 Jews, 9,402 ,OS9 forest
tribes (animal worshipers), 2S9 atheists,
agnostics, etc.
DIR. Dawson Burns, the English physi-
clan who annually promulgates letter
on drink consumption in Great Britain,
says the yearly expenditure per head of
that population, counting children, is 20
shillings, and that figures show growth
in the drink habit, but at slower rate
than formerly.
Japanese orders have been conferred
on noted Mexicans as follows: Presi-
dent Diaz, grand ribbon of the chrysan-
themum; Secretary of State Mariscal,
first;class ribbon of the Imperial Order
of the Rising Sun; Maurice Waltheim,
Secretary 5of the Mexican Legation in
Japan, third-class ribbon of the Impe-
rial Order of the Sacred Treasury,