The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-03-11
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Emperor William and the Duchess
Of Sparta ReCOnciled.
A VERY ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SCYTHE.
Woman Dies From BlOOd-PdsOnlng Caused
by Rubbing Sore on Her Face
With Her KID Glove.

American hardware is driving tn
English product out OF South Africa.
Cotton culture in South r lssia is r.
ported TO b. giving promising results.
the city OF Lubeck, Germany, is pre-
parng TO celebrate this year its 1901
anniversary.
Brussels boasts OF clock which
never wound up by human hands. VIM
power does 1t.
In Prussia the price OF medicine il
regulated by the State, and a new price
list Issued annually.
The German Emperor has had piano
forte constructed for him made entirely
of bits Of stage horns.
An association for preventing the i'm
migration of destitute aliens is vigorous
ly at WORK in England.
In thirteen years, ending with 1889,
100000 rabbit skins were exported
rom Victoria, Australia.
Mohammed Beniveda, Governor OF the
city OF Morocco, is prosecuting the Jews
Of that place in most barbarous man
ner.
The natives of Singapore have lately
been astonished by the advent OF the
electric car, which they call wind car
riage.
The movement inaugurated against
the privileges enjoyed by the bureauc
racy is stirring the middle classes OF
Prussia.
An Egyptian scythe. dug up on the
banks OF the Nile in 1890 and said to be
as old as Moses, is exhibited in Lon
don museum.
The Clericals are doing their best to
split the Liberal party in Hungary on
the compulsory civil marriage policy OF
the government.
Germany will not use any white horses
in the army in future. In battle the
enemy can discern white horses at con-
siderable distance.
| Twelve hundred beds at a penny a
night each are offered to London's home
less poor in new Salvation Army shell.
ter erected ON the bank of the Thames
near Blacktriar bridge.
A bill has been introduced into the
New South Wales Legislature to restrict
the admission OF Syrian peddlers, on the
ground that these destitute aliens are
becoming public evil.
The Board of Guardians of Sheffield,
England, propose to classify it's paupers
hereafter by making distinctions between
the worthy but unfortunate poor and the
professional loafer or vagabond.
Wallace Bruce, United States Consul
at Edinburg, has been elected to succeed
the late John Greenleaf Whittier as
Life Corresponding Member of the Scot.
tish Society of Literature and Art, Glas-
gov.
The Italian papers are evidently try
ing to excite Swiss prejudice against
France in connection with the building
OF railroad by the French government
from France to Chamonlx, at the foot OF
Mont Blanc.
In breaking up the Volta, an old
wooden cruiser OF the French navy, +
loaded shell WAS found in her timbers
1t is believed the shell was fired into
her at the bombardment Of Foochow
nine years ago.
The Lord Mavor o. London has voiced
the big project of keeping the rive
Thames at constant high water leve
throughout all its reaches.
A lady at Ashford, Eng and, has ju
received bequest o GI50,u0I from al
old gentleman, an entire stranger, tor p
small act OF kindness rendered to hin
i've years ago.
An Austrian woman recently die
from blood-polsonng caused by rubbins
a mall sore on her face with her b ack
kid glove. Inflammati n set in, her hea
swelled enormously, ami she died after
q very brief illness.
The Egyptian correspondents OF the
London newspapers seem TO be gener
ally agreed that the English troubles IN
Egypt are not by any means over yet,
nor will be settled so long as Russian
diplomacy can keep them alive.
Tobacco and snuff has long been sup
piled to the paupers in the Lambeth
workhouse, and now the Board of Guar
dams has passed resolution "that the
old women in the workhouse who do not
take snuff be supplied with sweets"
According to the Berlin correspondent
OF the London Standard the problem OF
smokeless mbustion of coal seems at
last to be solved by new ly patented
process which is exciting an immense
sensation in Germany.
According to the report of the Ameri-
can Colonization Society the colony of
fourteen families sent to Liberia is doing
very we'll. One of the colonists has his
own house completed, and has planted
over 5000 coffee scions.
The monomaniac who in 1889 stopped
Queen Victoria while che was riding on
horseback in Hyde Park and proposed
marriage to her has recently died in
, Bedlam, the celebrated insane asylum
, of London. He seemed to be perfectly
, sound on every other subject, was well
educated, and wrote very sensible mem
oirs relating to insane asylums and the
reforms which might be made in them.
He was 81 years old.