The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-12-31
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
The Imperial Cholera Commission
in Germany.
FAMINE IN A RUSSIAN PROVINCE.
Renewal Of Friendly Intercourse Between
the Gar aud the Dreibund-
Wolves In Russia.

Sweden has increased her army con-
siderably.
There will be no performance at Bey-
ruth next year.
The Noble Rothschild corner In Baku
naphtha has collapsed.
Kaiser Wilhelm has devised q warship
with many novel features.
South Australia has had forty admin
istrations in thirty six years.
Physicians have declared that Mrs.
Maybrick's life is not in danger.
Bismarck says the chrysanthemum is
new flower and not very pretty.
A cooperative laundry, to be run by
women, is being considered in England.
The young Duke OF Marlborough is
said TO have inherited about E25, 900
year.
Since 1881 Hamburg has been visited
by cholera fifteen times and Berlin
twelve times.
The Russian authorities have forbid
den Sarah Bernhardt to play "Fedora"
in st. Petersburg.
On several OF the railroads in Russia
iron telegraph poles are TO be substi-
tuted for wooden ones.
The use of the merchant marine as an
auxiliary feet in event of war is being
tested practically in France just now.
The British admiralty have directed
designs to be prepared for a new class o
gunboats for service in foreign waters.
Mr.. Labouchere said the other day in
Truth that Europe would shortly have
at her disposal at least 20, ,O0O, 900 trained
soldiers.
Out OF a population OF 30,0O0,0OO in
Prussia only 2, ,435 1858 persons possess an
income Of over 800 marks year, which
is equal to about 1925
The renewal OF friendly intercourse
to the Czar's annoyance at the Panama
and Carmaux scandals in Paris.
There is less danger now OF being lost
in London than formerly. Electric bell
signals are now used in London while
navigating its streets in the fogs.
The Governor OF the province OF Yer
onezct, Russia, has made application for
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stricken pessantry of the province.
Some OF the English pumping engines
perform work equal to the raising OF
l20, ,000, 900 pounds one foot high by the
consumption of 100 we ght of coal.
Wolves in Russia destroy annually
upward OF SO0,OO head of domestic ani-
mas, valued at 5000, 900 rubles. Their
number does not appreciably decrease.
The walls OF the old Chateau DIFF in
the hsrbor of Msrseilles, made famous
by Alexandra Dumas in his "Monte
Cristo,'' are covered with autographs of
visitors.
Gibraltar has been nearly brought
into ailway connection with the rest
OF Spain. The railroad goes now to Al
geciras, just on the other side of the Bay
of Gibraltar.
The Indian Government Is going to
curtail, possibly abolish. the trial by
jury. 1t has been found unsuitable to
Eastern conditions, and has been but
little practiceo.
1t isreported in London, says the New
York Sun, that another wealthy Amer
ican gentleman is to try the publica-
tion there of daily newspaper on the
American model.
The French Academy OF Sciences has
resolved to open an international sub
scripton, with the object of present
ing testimonial to N. Pasteur on his
seventieth birthday.
The report in the Lerant Herald that
the HISTORIAN patriarch, Mar Shimun,
had brought his people into submission
to the Church of Rome is contradicted
by the patriarch himself.
France is going largely upon wheels,
and seems to be willing to pay for it.
The new tax upon bicycles in France will
be 81. AS there are about 225 900 cyclists,
the revenue will be about $3.50, 900.
Great efforts are making in Vienna to
build up there toy making industry to
compete with the famous factories OF
Germany and France. An exhibition
of toys is now being held in the Austrian
capital.
The water ways of France have total
length of 1896 miles, OF which 2,735
miles are rivers navlgable naturally,
$3.50 miles rivers which had been rem
dered navigable by dredging and the
rest canals.
The Imperial Cholera Commission in
Germany announces its discovery that
wine-claret or hock-will kill the
bacilli of cholera in a few minutes.
Tea will kill them in an hour.
The Scientific Commission, appointed
for the purpose of selecting site for
new capital for Brazil, includes five
civil engineers, two astronomers, q
naturalist and an expert in hygiene.
It is said that President Ca not in.
tends to establish q new military order
of merit, which will bs conferred on
such officers as are debarred from ob-
tanning the Gross of the Legion of