The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-02-11
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Large Sum Of Counterfeit Silver in
European Countries.
A LUMINOUS FUNGUS FROM TAHITI.
Foundations Of Roman Villas Unearthed
Near Cambridge, England
N. Deyelle.

NJ. Develle is Minister OF Foreign Al.
fairs in the new French Cabinet.
The Marquis OF Queensberry has made
his appearance on the lecture platform
in England.
New Zealand has set apart two Islands
for the preservation OF wild birds and
other animals.
China is declared by the North China
Mail 10 be on the brink OF revolution
through all its southern provinces.
The North German Lloyd viii pay $780,
900 salvage to the steamer Lake Huron,
which rescued the disabled Spree at sea.
Coal dust mixed with air is TO furnish
smokeless fuel to the North German
Lloyd and Hamburg American steamers.
London has "United Committee for
the Prevention of the Generalization OF
the Native Races by the Liquor Traffic. "
The quarantine authorities OF Victoria,
Australia, recently cremated the body OF
Chinese leper as measure OF safety.
The London Daily Chronicle announces
that the Cabinet has decided to create a
Department OF Labor in connection with
the Board Of Trade.
The rupture Of commercial relations
between France and Switzerland has led
to a considerable increase Of the GUS
toms force at Geneva.
By the condition OF the France Russian
convention, each country is to hold itself
in readiness to place l,200,000 soldiers
in the field in case OF war.
E.fel seems to have got more than his
share OF the Panama Doodle. He owns
up to having received $6,500,0O0. 1t
was charged up to machinery"
A large proportion of the French
statesmen who extorted money from the
Panama Company spent their ill-gotten
gains in the purchase of decorations OF
honor.
The Sultan has ordered a competitive
trial of Krupp and Gail common. The
latter are used by the French army, and
the Ottoman army has been using the
former.
Several German papers demand that
the government at once prepare an emf
grafton bill to meet the emergency Gre
ated by the United States quarantine
regulations.
The Canadian government has been
notified that Germany and Sweden have
prohibited Canadian Emigration Com.
missioners from carrying On active work
in those countries.
Captain John Vine Hall, who COM
manded the Great Eastern steamship on
her first voyage to New York, died
Christmas day at Ham pstead, England,
in his eightieth year.
The French Royalists at Madrid are
intriguing, but their efforts seem to be
without V gor or directness. Their party
has no head, no strong figure for the
Bourb IL adherents to rally around.
Ru ,sia will send three war ships to
New York to take part in the naval dem
onstration in connection with the Colum.
bus fetes. These vessels will be under
the command of Admiral Kaznakof.
Leopold de Rothschild has remitted
to his Buckinghamshire tenants 20 per
cent. off the rent due at Michaelmas last,
in addition to reduction of 30 per cent.
made every half year since March, 1886.
About II per cent of the pauperism in
Scotland is attributable to the charge
ability of natives of England and Ire
land, the total of that class in the past
year being 9.7l:, of whom 1852 were
Irish.
A new luminous fungus has been for
warded from Tahiti to Europe. 1t is
said to emit at night light resembling
that of the glow-worm, which it retains
for period of twenty-four hours after
having been gathered.
A ship has just left Melbourne with q
cargo of $4,000 cases of butter, valued at
e35, ,0C0, and on every pound sold the
Victorian government grants bonus of
8 pence or so, more or less, according to
the price the butter fetches.
A forecast of the Indian budget has
been published by Calcutta journal.
In place of the estimated surplus of four
teen lacs of rupees it is stated that there
will be deficit of 100 lacs, brought
about entirely by the fall in exchange.
The Queens cousin, the Prince ol
Leiningen, who holds the rank of Ad-
miral in the British navy, is about to
succeed the Duke of Edinburgh as naval
commender at Plymouth, which is one
of the fattest billets in the British naval
service.
An interesting piece of information
brought out through the Brussels Con-
ference is the fact that there are at
present no less than $l00, 100000 OF
counterfeit silver money in circulation
in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy
Spain and Portugal.
Mrs. Edward Lloyd, who died in Lon
den the other day at the age OF ninety,
when girl helped to entertain Bluchel
on his arrival in England after Waterloo
and was present in Westminster Abbey
at the coronations of George ", William
" and Queen Victoria.
It is thought the British government
will withdraw funds enough from the
Land Purchase Commission to compul.
sorily purchase portions of estates from
obstinate landlords, with enough to
make loans to evicted tenants to enable
| them to start farms anew.