The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-09-30
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Welsh Miners Return to Work
at Reduced Wages.
VICTORIA's EYEsIGHT FAILING.
Students, Professors and Women of
Rank Arrested for Plotting
Against the Gar.

Vienna is to have circular city rail-
way.
An electrical horse whip is the latest
in France.
Italy has 80 ships Of war, III heavy
guns and 9,224 men.
London emigration TO Argentina is
much greater this year than it was last.
An eleven-year-old daughter of Emin
Pasha is being carefully educated in Eu-
rope.
The French wheat crop is estimated at
a decrease Of l2,5O0,000 hectoliters from
that Of 1892.
The Crown Princess Of Sweden is try
ing to establish women photographers
in Stockholm.
Much anxiety is shown in Cairo,
Egypt, because the Nile has yet shown
no signs Of rising.
The Socialists Of France propose TAX
ing an active part in the shaping Of leg
islation in the new Chamber of Deputies.
1t is said that the Russian fancy for
English and French ways have been su-
perseded bya liking for things American.
At Carlsbad you are up by 6 a. NJ. and
| in bed again by 8 P. NJ, no matter how
fashionably late your hours were at
home.
The Pope will publish shortly third
edition OF his Latin poems, entitled
Leonis PIP NH, Carmina ct Inscrip-
tones"
The miners in the Borinage district OF
Iai Dals .
strike Immediately, unless the wages
are raised.
Germany has changed the dress of ho- |
tel walters to short jacket like that OF
ships steward, and Switzerland is soon
to follow suit.
Jane Cakebread has made her 26lst
appearance before London magistrate |
for her single offense, intoxication and
bad language.
The new programme of public instruc- |
tion adopted in France devotes more |
time to the study of English and less to
the study Of German.
A conference of Finance Ministers of |
the German Empire to draft a taxation |
bill to cover imperial military expenses |
is being held in Berlin.
Women who want to marry should |
turn their eyes toward Johannesburg
in South Africa. There are at least ten |
men to one woman there.
Fifty thousand Christians of the to-
bacco-growing district of Latakiah have
suddenly gone over to the Mohammedan |
faith. The Sultan is delighted.
The London Times announces the
death at Altnacraig of Surgeon Major |
Parke, who accompanied Stanley's ex-
petition in search of Emin Pasha.
As an indication of how the slave trade
survives in Africa, it is stated that last |
summer caravan of 10000 camels and
1000 slaves left Timbuctoo for Morocco.
Part of the hesitancy of English spin
ners to buy cotton is attributed to their
belief that silver is liable to go lower and ]
so embarrass the India and Chinese
trade.
Eighty-tive students, eight professors
and five women of rank have been ar
rested at Moscow on suspicion that they
were implicated in plot against the
Cars life.
The recent appearance of salmon above
London bridge in the Thames after an
absence of sixty years affords no small |
encouragement to the Sewage Disposal
Committee.
France was very much disturbed by
strikes last year. An official return
shows that in twelve months there were
close upon 800 trade disputes, affecting
los, 900 workmen.
The old Swan Inn, close to the quaint |
copper-spired St. Ma1y's Church, Bat
tersea, has just disappeared, and pala-
tial tavern, "The New Swan" has been
erected in its place.
No fewer than 10000 Welsh miners
have just gone back to work on 20 per
cent reduction of wages, and 80, 1000 more
who are still out are expected soon to
accept the same cut.
The prolonged drought will have the
effect of rendering the wine harvest of
France record breaker. Wine this year
will not only be extremely abundant,
but exceptionally superior in quality.
The Russian government has post
poned until June next the final transfer
of Jews to their assigned places in the
Jewish settlement. The Minister of the
Interior is empowered to grant delays in
certain cases.
The Emperor-King of Austria Hun
gary is having a new palace built for
him. 1t occupies commanding plateau
overlooking the Danube, and the gardens
are going to be remarkable alike for their
extent and beauty.
An agricultural writer reckons the loss
this year to English farmers at 92 an
acre, which means that the farmers have
upward of e70, ,000,0 900 less to spend than
they would have had if the crops had
been up to the average.
Queen Victoria's eyesight is failing,
and the royal oculist has frequently to
be called into requisition. Her Majesty
now has to use very powerful spectacles
when it is necessary for her to sign any
State documents. Blindness is heredi-
tary in the family.