The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-12-24
FOREIGN CABLECRAMS
The First Chair Of Egyptology in
England Founded.
AMAzoNS WITH WINCHESTER RIFLES
The New German Emigration Blll-The
Siberian Railroad Scheme Max.
Ing Slow Progress.

English farmers are preparing 10 make
radical demands OF Parliament.
The London unemployed will not be
allowed TO make torchlight parade.
Count Leo Tolstoi has settled his en-
tire property upon his wife and chill
dreR.
The Argentine Minister OF Finance
declares that it will be impossible TO re-
sume cash payments.
The total receipts OF the gam bling
tables at Monte Carlo last year were
over 23, 900, 900 francs.
Nine. Etelka Gerster has made a most
successful appearance in the Grand Du.
cal Theater at Weimar.
The section Of London society known
as 1.-THE Souls" has abandoned its prof.
ect OF publishing magazine.
The Amazon warriors of the King of
Dahomey at oguessa were armed with
Winchesters and sharp sabers.
London's six principal railway lines
carry annually over 200, 900 600 people
and the tramvays about 10000 600
Russia is again active in her efforts to
maintain the very highest degree OF ef-
fciency in her military organization. :.
Major General Sir George Stewart
White has been appointed Commander
in'chief of the British forces in India.
In Sweden and in Denmark the Par
liaments have voted that the Office of
stenoSapher shall be filled by women.
The Council OF the Society OF Authors.
OF which Tennyson was President, has
elected George Meredith as his successor.
The London Times says that the great
Siberian railroad scheme IL badly man
aged and is making very slow progress.
Christine nilsson has given IS, 900 to-
ward founding hospital in France for
The treatment OF sufferers from throat
diseases.
The Berlin police are kept in readiness
in the barracks, owing to expected dis
turbances by the unemployed, who now
number $4,000.
Indignation meetings are being held
and petitions drawn up all over Germany
to protest against the proposed increase
of the beer tax.
The German health office reports that
there have been in Germany this year
19,647 cases OF cholera, of which S,575
have been fatal.
Hercultile, the new French explosive,
is 30 powerful that half pound Of it in
recent contest displaced stone weigh,
ing thirty tons.
In Germany aluminium cravats are
now on sale. They are advertised as
feather-light, siver-white work goods
that will wear forever.
Eiffel of tower fame will assist Prot.
Jansen, the astronomer, in building his
observatory on the top of Mount Blanc
at an altitude of 4,s00 meters.
1t is claimed that there is lighthouse
to every fourteen miles in England, to
every thirty-four miles in Ireland and TO
every thirty-nine miles in Scotland.
The new German emigration bill,
which is before the Reichstag, prohibits
the emigration of men between II and
25 years of age who are liable to IniG-
tary service.
An outflow of population from Europe
to South American ports is now In prog
ress, and promises to assume enormous
proportions as soon as some existing diff
ticulties are settled. j.,
The Gear OF Russia has the stamp-cok
Iecting mania. His collection is said to
be worth over 5000 900 and to contain
nearly every stamp of the pact or pres
ent issues of all nations. ~ 4.
The Russian government has declined
the offer of French syndicate to finish
the construction OF the Siberian railway
No foreign capital will be employed in
furthering the enterprise.
The trial by court-martial of the per
sons concerned in the cholera riots in
Saratoff, Russia, in July last has ended.
Twenty-three prisoners have been sen
fenced to be hanged and fifty.six. to :be,
imprisoned in Siberia. ....
DIR. Collingridge reports to the London
Port Sanitary Committee that there .is
an almost absolute certainty OF an out
break of cholera in the spring, when all
the precautions now adopted will be far
more severely strained than hitherto.,~
Forty-six Spanish Anarchists are on
trial by court-martial for completely in
an attack on the prison of Xeras, in
January last. At the trial they were.
acquitted. In Spain a man may have
his life twice placed in jeopardy fopsthe
same offsnse.
There is report from Jerusalem that
Baron Edmond de Rothschild has COM
pleted negotiations with the Turkish
government for the establishment of
Jewish colonies on the Rothschild lands, j,
in Palestine, and also for permitting
Russian Jews to settle there. -.
The first chair of Egyptology in Eng,
land has been founded by the will of the
] ,te Miss Amelia B. Edwards, who died
in the spring of this year; and the Ed
wards professor at University College,
London, is now Flinders Petrie, who has
just been formally appointed.