The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-10-29
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Statistics Of Emigration From the
Port of Glasgow.
COTTON LOOMS IN GHENT STOPPED.
The Large Amount Of English Capital
Invested In the Railways Of the
Argentine Republic.

The barley crop Of France is 20, 900, ,OC0
bushels less than last year.
The French Free Masons have resolved
TO take more energetic part in politics
New docks for the transatlantic trade
will be shortly started at Stettin, Ger
many.
The London police returns show a
great increase during the last two years
in the number of drunken women.
1t is estimated that SAC, ,OOO, 900 gold OF
British capital has been invested in the
railways OF the Argentine Republic.
The CROSS on the top Of the pantheon
in Paris, which has been go great an
eyesore to the Radicals OF that city, is to
come down.
A leading Japanese newspaper COM
plains that the good manners OF the
Japanese women have been ruined by
the importation of Western civilization.
A company with 10O,0OO,OOO francs
capital is trying to get license for
gambling establishment at Mondorf, sit
uated in the Grand Duchy of Luxem-
bourg.
In Kin-Kiang, China, there is man
who has taken vow to watch three
years by his mothers grave, during
which period he will be cared for by
neighbors.
Considerable interest has been awak-
ened among the literary circles of Berlin
by the sale of an edition de luxe of the
complete works of Frederick the Great
for 1000 marks.
A remarkable shower of volcano ashes
recently occurred in several parts of Fin
land. The ground in some places is
stated to have been covered to the depth
OF nearly an inch.
A Glasgow paper publishes the stats.
cs OF emigration from that port for 1892,
and these show that forty-three started
for Australia, ! ,056 for Canada and 20, ,637
for the United States.
A corner on vaccine was brought about
recently in Moscow, and in view of a
threatened epidemic of small pox the
price of the virus was increased some
thousand per cent.
1t is stated that DR.. Pellegrini will sue
ceed Senor Plaza as Argentina Repre-
sentative in London, and will be charged
to propose terms for final arrangement
in regard to the debt.
The Liverpool Journal of Commerce an
nounces that reduction of seamen's
wages is probable, 10 per cent reduction
having been decided upon at Hull. A
great deal of trouble is feared.
The cigars made in France last year
realized total of about $40, ,4S0, 900.
Cigarettes made in France were sold to a
total of about $4,029,000, while tobacco
for smoking in pipes fetched $34, ,43O, 900.
An English company is being formed
for the acclimatization of elephants in
South America. The Valley of the
Amazon and its tributaries are thought
to be very suitable for elephant farming.
A statistician of the German govern
ment short time ago investigated the
records Of the Department OF Compulsory
Insurance and according to his investi-
cation the most unfortunate day is not
Friday, but Monday.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
London Times cables that English mis-
sionaries have been mobbed by natives
in Kieng Yong. The house of Mr.. Phil
lips, head of the mission, was destroyed,
and he and his wife fled for their lives.
The Emperor and Empress of Russia
are soon to pay another visit to their in
valid son, Prince George, at his noun
tain retreat, Abbas-Tuman in the eau.
casus. The Prince will continue the
heroic treatment for his lungs another
year.
The British Admiralty, wishing to
make the display of British warships at
Hampton Roads next spring as imposing
as possible, has invited Admiral Hos
kins at the conclusion of his furlough to
select the vessels which will be available
for the occasion.
Experiments with different kinds of
lights for libraries show that $50 hours
OF an electric light of 144-candle power
produced no yellowing effect upon the
leaves of books, while 24O hours of
tifty-candle gas light produced notice
able change of tone.
The new army bill to be submitted to
the German Reichstag at its coming ses-
sion will call Tor an outlay of 1000, 900
and a permanent addition to the budget |
of $29, 100000 year, the government
contending that the increased military
establishment will be absolutely neces-
sary to make sure of the retention of |
Alsace and Lorraine.
In the recent competition of horses at
Rouen, France, for the worlds champ
ionship leaping sweepstakes an English |
horse, Las Mania, cleared the bar at a
height of seventy-four inches. The
highest leap of French horse, New
Moon, was seventy-two inches.
One hundred and twenty thousand
copies of Zola's "Debacle," have been
sold in less than three months. He has
received 100000 for the publication in
feuilletons of nineteen volumes, and by
their publication in book form he has
made about 100000 more. In twenty
years altogether he has made about |