The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-10-01
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
japanese Profit by Their Learning
in German Schools.
DECLINE OF POPULATION IN ERIN.
President Mendoza Becomes a Dictator
Robs the People and Church
and Then Resigns.

Great distress prevails among Welsh
tinplate workers.
E;gypts cotton crop is Is per cent.
higher than last year.
American vines are proving successful
IN resisting the phyIloxera in Germany.
England has removed the restriction
against the importation of American
sheep.
Ihe German Reichstag and the Prus.
san Landtag will meet the last of No.
vember.
Japan is soon to have two electric
railroads OF twelve and seventeen miles
respectively. '''''
Smokeless powder has become 90 much
in demand that the price of camphor is
affected thereby.
Emperor William has sent 30 600
marks to Hamburg for the relief of
cholera sufferers.
Peru is to send confidential agent 10
santiago to treat in regard to pending
matters with Chill.
DIR. Gray, the Afghan Ameer's physi-
clan, reports that forty feet of snow fell
at Cabul last winter.
The Watkin tower, at last decided n
pe quit at Wembley Park, will be 100
feet higher than the Eiffel tower.
Catholic congregations in Prussia are
increasing in much greater proportion
than the increase of the population.
There are about 10000 houses in
London, which on cold DAYS consume
4o,O tons OF coal, emitting 4S0 tons of
ulphur.
In England the consumption of tea ia
rapidly increasing and coffee diminish
ing: Cocoa has increased "a per cent.
in five years.
The Berlin Post announces that the
Empress Frederick will spend the first
part OF the winter in England with
Queen Victoria.
Beginning in October, Russian will ho
taught in two of the Parisian colleges
and perhaps be put on the same footino
as German and English.
The Hdmburgische Correspondez states
that the new military bill contemplates
permanent increase in the BUDGET of
7S,C00,0O0 marks annually.
The Campania, the new Cunarder. has
been launched in England. This vessel |
is 6O0 feet long, ninety-two feet less than
the Great Eastern.
1t is officially announced that the
government of Belgium declines to allow
the International Monetary Conference
to be held at Berlin.
Belgium has not refused to allow the
Monetary Conference to be held in
Brussels, Notwithstanding the published
report to the contrary.
The rainy season has fully set in at
the lsthmus of Tehuantepec, and work
on the railroad has been susnended
For many miles the track was washed
away.
The Prince of Wales, HON burg cor
respondent relates, has been deserted nv
the cloud OF American heiresses and pro-
tesslonal beauties that formerly sur
rounded him.
Three men in France competed to see
who could drink the most water. One
swallowed twelve quarts, the second
1ine and the third seven. All three died
rom the effects.
The last Irish census shows a decline
II population since 1881 of 470. 900. The
lumber of foreigners has increased
'hletiy owing to the large immigration
# Russian Jews.
Berlin is bringing all the force of mod
I'm science as applied to medication and
anltary regulations to bear against the
pread OF cholera in that city, and with
uccessful results.
The french government has protested
q Berlin against German traders tur-
fishing King Behansin in Dahomey with :
improved guns and ammunition with
which to fight the French forces. :
The German telegraph service has q
dopted copper bronze wires, and is re-
lacing all its iron and steel wires bv q
he new metal, which is used of a small t
iameter, and weighs about lSO pounds {
D the mile. t
King Humbert has created the com.
landers OF the various foreign war =
nlps which went to Genoa for the pur- =
ose OF taking part in the Columbus =
elebration, Commanders of the Order ., q
st. Maurice and st. Lazarus. :.
The railway over the Andes between p
le Argentine Republic and Chill has
cen SO TAR completed as to justify the
'eamship companies in Europe selling
trough tickets from Southampton and
liverpool to Valparaiso by this route. d
In New South Wales the government =
kpended over 100000 from 1888 to 81
$50 endeavoring to exterminate rabbits. d
eside that greater sum has been ex b
ended in private moneys. In one year 81
',2SO,OOO skins had royalty paid upon
lem.
The seriousness of the situation in
amburg is seen from the fact that it's d.
sople have to go back eighty years for al
parallel to their present plight. In IS
~ there were 13,9OO deaths from - -
lolera; this year already there have :, -
ZEN 1880. &C