The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-06-25
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Submarine Cable to be Laid in the
Caspian Sea.
FRANCE BUYING HORSES IN IRELAND
Spaniards Advocate a Closer Alliance
Between Their Kingdom and
the United States.

1t is intended to lay a submarine cable
in the Caspian Sea.
The Rothschilds have doubled the
wages OF their cashiers.
The new British coinage will bear the
Queens head without her crown.
London in monetary value is worth
two and one-half times as much as Paris.
The English Liberals are preparing
for great campaign, led by Mr.. Glad
stone.
1t s estimated that the striking Eng
lish coal miners have lost $20OO,000 in
wages.
Several titled Russian women have
cold their jewels and laces for the fam
inc sufferers.
Representatives OF the French govern
ment are buying horses in Ireland for
their cavalry.
Paupers who die in Berlin while being
taken care of at public expense are here
after TO be cremated.
The importation OF patent medicines
into Turkey has been forbidden by the
government OF that country.
The Hollanders are not pleased with
the report that the little Queen is to he
betrothed to Prussian Prince.
Experiments are being made with sys-
tens OF simultaneous telegraphy and
telephony on the London Paris circuit.
None of the English nautical journals
are at all pleased to hear of an American
registry having been given the Inman
! line.
The bicycle fever has invaded Sweden.
A club OF ladies has been organized
there, and they are reported as enthusi-
astic.
France favors silver. She wants the
white metal rehabilitated, and says Lon
don has the power to bring about that
result.
Dublin will be gay city through the
week beginning July 4. when the ter
centenary of Trinity College will be cele-
brated.
Spaniards are advocating close alli-
ance of their kingdom with the United
States and the Spanish. American Re-
publics.
The sale of the Kaiser's photographs
taken when he wore a beard has been
forbidden and all the negatives ordered
destroyed.
There is said to be treasure amount
ing to $50, 10000 francs in gold in the
julius tower of the fortress of Spandau
in Prussia.
Influenza has attacked the British feet
stationed at Malta, and numerous cases
are reported. On board the Undaunted
alone there are forty cases.
The Russian government is about es-
tablishing corps of paid officials to be
distributed about the Empire to give in
formation concerning the crops.
The Rothschilds are locking up inn
mense quantities Of gold in London,
Paris, Frankfort and Vienna, presum-
ably to assure the Austria Hungary gold
loan.
In Aberdeen, Scotland, tests are short
ly to be made on cattle killed by elec-
tricity to ascertain if the current has
any detrimental effect on the quality OF
the meat.
English engineers have great conf
dence in the proposed bridging of Bos-
porus. The estimated cost of the work
is 10000, 900, the same as that of the
Forth bridge.
Indian tiger hunters are beginning to
hunt on foot, having found that the mod
ern rifle admits of their doing away with
such accessories as elephants and plat
forms in trees.
1t is reported that DIR. Gerdes OF the
University of Halle has at, length dis
covered the long-suspected bacillus OF
epilepsy in the liver, lungs, kidneys and
blood of patient.
The number of Russian Jews who
have settled in London after being
driven from their own country has be-
come so great as to have serious effect
upon the labor market.
Women as dinner tasters in Paris
spend a part of each day in visiting
houses, tasting dishes intended for din
ner. They teach new ways, and suggest
improvements in cooking.
Cardinal Manning did not leave prop
erty enough to pay funeral expenses.
These amounted to 81, 100, and to meet
them subscription was started among
his relatives and intimate friends.
The concession granted by the Danish
government for working the free port OF
Copenhagen IL for eighty years, the
State, however, reserving the right OF
taking it at the end of twenty-five years.
The Deacon case continues to excite
great interest in France, opinions being
divided as to the advisability of his par
don. The people of Nice are disposed
to make hero of the prisoner, hut the
prison rules are not relaxed in his favor.
John Morley complained in the House
OF Commons the other dav that the IL
brary of the House did not contain a
copy of the works of John Stua Mill.
He added that the library was one of
most stupid collections OF books that
could be imagined.