The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-12-10
FOREIGN CABLECRAMS
Large Legacy for the Benefit Of
British Workingmen.
GERMAN KAISER MAKES A PRESENT
The Centrists VIII Probably Defeat the
New German Army Bill-The
Poet Laureateship.

China will have no vessel in the great
naval review next spring.
Tennyson makes the list Of burials In
Westminster Abbey 1873.
The Theosophical Society is TO send
propagandists all over the world.
The Egyptian is taxed 50 cents on the
palm tree that grows in his garden.
Lord Rosebery's reported engagement
TO the Prince Of Wales daughter is de-
MED.
Edwin Arnold appears at present to be
the most likely candidate for the laure-
ateship.
Glasgow is about TO try the ex experiment.
Of working as well as oWninE its tram.
way lines.
The pilgrimages to Rome on the oc-
oasion OF Pope's Jubilee will begin at the
end Of January.
The report that the situation in Samoa
is unsatisfactory to the German Foreign
Office is confirmed.
The government of Austria has re-
solved to take control of the telephone
lines in the kingdom.
The London Financial Neus says that
$3.50, 900, 900 will be left in America as
the harvest OF the fair.
During the coming year France will
spend 81 100000 for arms and ammuni-
ton for the cavalry alone.
The NOuvedu Temps, the leading news.
paper OF 81. Petersburg, will probably
establish a Paris edition. -
A freight car thirty-six feet long has
been built OF steel in Manchester for the
Mexican Railway Company.
About 250,000 Jews have left Russia
within the past two years. and are pro-
hibited from returning there.
The Turkish government has Issued
an edict prohibiting army officers below
the rank Of Ma jpr from having more than
one wife.
1t is stated that Sir William Harcourt
has promised to favordbly consider the
proposed coinage of silver by the colony
Of Victoria.
Emperor William and the King of
Saxony, it is said, have quarreled be-
cause the former insisted upon prosecut-
ing Bismarck.
Sir Charles Tupper's negotiations in
Paris for the conclusion OF commercial
treaty between France and Canada are
making favorable progress.
An elaborate plot to start a revolution
in Chill has been unearthed at Valpa-
raiso. 1t originated, it is stated, with
sympathizers with Balmaceda.
During the month of October the out
put of the ship yards on the Clyde was
fourteen steamers, aggregating 1884
tons and two sailing vessels, 1880 tons.
Austria's new rifle fires 120 rounds a
minute, and is sighted at 2,700 yards.
Though it pours ou hailstorm of bull
let1, it does not become too hot to handle.
Switzerland has 101 telephone ex-
changes, 1886 stations, 1925 miles OF
lines, and limits each subscriber to 800
conversations in the course of the year.
Prince Bismarck has suddenly changed
| from pessimist to an optimist. He ex-
presses belief that war cannot possibly
break out for the next two or three
years.
The Centrists of Bavaria, Baden and
Wurtemburg are almost unanimous
against the new German army bill. This
is believed to portend the defeat OF the
| measure.
The Postmaster-Ge General of Norway has
ordered that January /, 1898, the bicycle
shall be ueed by all country postmen for
the delivery of mails where the roads
will permit.
DR.. Hansen, the Norwegian explorer,
will start for the North Pole next June,
going by way of Nova Zembla. He will
try to find the Arctic current, and may
be gone five years.
The German Kaiser has presented
so, 600 marks to the Society for the Pro
motion of Aerial Navigation for the con-
struction of a colossal balloon, which
will be fifty-six feet in diameter and as
tall as a four-stori,F house.
The late Thomas elson, the publisher
of Edinburgh, left s3 O,000 in legacies
for the erection and Nluippment OF five
workingmen's clubs I'D reading-rooms,
which will be erec J gradually, and
will be 80 fitted up as to attract working
| men.
The money voted by the British naval
defense act is exhausted. The new
regime favor the building of ships of a
lesser tonnage than heretofore, and pro-
pose that the tonnage of the future war
ship shall be reduced from IA, 900 to 10,-
600 tons.
Some French capitalists are engaged
in an attempt to form a new company,
with capital of $50, 900, 900, to take the
assets of the old Panama Company and
continue the work.
The English Registrar in Bankruptcy
is now inquiring how it is possible that
Mrs. Parnell could have disposed of
G10o, 900 received under the will of her
late aunt only year ago.
The Reichs Anzieger OF Berlin pub
fishes Ministerial circular prohibiting
the circulation in Germany for two years
! of the Autonomie, German Anarchist
paper published in London.