The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-05-13
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Count Herbert Bismarck to Re-
appear in Public Life.
JAPANESE WOMEN FOR CHICAGO.
Women Employed as Station Agents
in France-Belgian Suffrage
Rioters Sentenced.
FOREIGN FLASHES.
WOMEN FOR CHICAGO.

British India has lO, All licensed opium
shops.
The revolution in Honduras has been
suppressed.
Victor Vifquain has been appointed
Consul-General at Panama.
1t is estimated that 10000, 900 of peo-
pie in Europe wear wooden shoes.
The latest record breaking time be-
tween Bombay and London is thirteen
days.
Grasshoppers in China are so numer-
Gus that soldiers have been ordered out
to fight them.
A Toxic paper says 300 young Japan
ese women are to be shipped to Chicago
for immoral purposes.
1t is reported that seam OF coal has
been struck at depth OF 200 feet at
Newport, near Melbourne.
The Reichstag has passed by a large
majority the bill providing for the more
careful preservation Of military secrets.
Count Herbert Bismarck is about to
reappear in public life. He has become
candidate for a seat in the Prussian
Diet.
Cape Colony's export of gold during
March amounted in value to G43O 900, as
against 1894 900 in the same month last
year.
The Pope has ordered that PRAYERS for
rain be offered by Catholics throughout
Italy. Rain has not fallen for two
months.
The province OF Quebec is endeavoring
to float a new loan in Europe in order to
pay off the Mercier 100000 loan, ma
turing in July.
The Russian government confesses
that in the first two weeks of April there
were 359 deaths from cholera in one
province alone.
Nearly 500 women are employed as
station agents in France, but they get
only half as much pay as men in the
same positions.
The famous clock said to have been
made by Louis XVI. was recently pur-
chased by member of the Rothschild
family for $l6S,0O0.
, Germany's wine crop OF 1892 was little
more than half the average production
OF the previous ten years, although the
quality is excellent.
Sanction has been recently granted for
the construction of railway between
Tachikawa and One, Japan, to be known
as the One railway.
In the relief of paupers g2191. 172
was spent by local government relief
boards in England and Wales during the
last half OF last year.
Queen Victoria abandoned her pro-
jected visit from Florence to Venice on
account of the alarming reports as to
the prevalence of cholera.
The Prussian Landtag has approved
Finance Minister Miquel's proposal for a
property tax, the most contentious part
of his financial reform bill.
Sir Andrew Barclay Walker, who made
a fortune of 81, 900, 900 as a brewer and
spirit merchant and in coal mines, left
500, 900 of it to Liverpool hospitals.
The total stock of wheat at twenty
eight cities in continental Europe de-
creased 3,403,00 bushels in March.
Stocks on April were II ,S75, 900 bushels.
The increase of population in the
whole OF Australasia during 1892 is esti-
mated by the government statist at 85,-
600, of which only 600 was due to emf
grafton.
The Jews of Bulgaria gave to the bride
of Prince Ferdinand an album inlaid
with diamonds, rubies and emeralds,
which cost $4,000. The Pope sent
diamond ring.
The latest crop report of the Hunga-
rian Agricultural Minister says frosts and
north winds have done much damage to
wheat, and a considerable area Of rye
has been killed.
Ouida's latest novel promises to be
startling even for her. Mr.. Gladstone
will figure as villain in the plot, and
she promises to make him as black as
any she has ever painted.
The Franco-Siamese difficulty is re-
garded at Singapore as serious. The ST.
amese traders, as they fear there will be
fighting, have ceased importing rice, and
the dealers are boarding it.
Many of the men who participated in
the recent suffrage riots in Mons, Bel
GUM, have been sentenced to short terms
in prison, and the Socialist leader, Bre-
nez, was sent to prison for five years.
Notwithstanding that every year from
5000 to 5000 ships 60 up and down the
river Seine, carrying 2,5OO,OOO tons of
goods, it is said that there is no map of
this important French stream in exist
enCe.
The official estimate of the condition
of the French wheat crop ON April shows
the area to be about the same as last
year. Twenty-eight departments report
the condition very good, fifty good, seven
satisfactory and two medium.
The Empress of Austria is to visit vi
emma again after years of wandering
about the world. She is extravagantly
fond of flowers, and the florists of her
loyal city are forcing their roses and
orchids in order to meet her unexampled