The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-10-28
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Novel Method to Secure the
Payment Of Taxes.
ROCEN CATHEDRAL IN DANGER.
Canal du Midi to be Extended-FlOw
Of Bar Silver to India-POstal
Service by Camels.

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Drought is interfering with farm work
in Italy.
Germany has a clock which, it il
claimed, will run 5000 days without
stopping.
The Russian authorities have forbid
den the publication Of marriage offers in
the newspapers.
The population Of the English town Of
Nottingham has increased l27 1896 in the
last sixteen years.
London has been holding an exhibi-
ton OF fire engines. The oldest one
shown bore the date Of 1870.
Spain has excepted from quarantine
all Russian war ships touching at Cadiz,
unless there il disease aboard.
In Paris at the sale OF autographs the
letters Of Zola realized IS each; Maui
passant, 5s; Victor Hugo, 6s Sd.
The American colony in Paris now
numbers $500. There is a falling off
from the census of two years ago OF
200.
No less than forty Italian Bishops are
now without their exequaturs, owing TO
a conflict between the Vatican and the
Quirinal.
A water-drinking contest was recently
held in Paris. The winner swallowed
twelve quarts, the second nine and the
third seven.
Among the novel societies incorporated
in Europe recently is "The Society for
the Protection OF Non-Smokers in
Lower Austria.
Abbas Pasha, the Khedive Of Egypt,
intends to visit England in the spring OF
1894, provided that the English court
shall be willing.
The British government has decided
to act as a mediator between the striking
miners and owners provided it is accept
able to both sides.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria is in
great financial straits, and his father-in-
Jaw and Baron Hirsch have each loaned
him 900 900 francs.
Returns from the various viticultural
societies of France show that the wine
crop of the country for the year amount
ed to 100000 hectolitres.
Prince Bismarck has sold his memoirs
to London publisher for 50O,OOO marks
on the condition that they shall be pub
lished Immediately after his demise.
Unsuccessful efforts have been made
to get German bankers at Berlin to form
syndicate to take great Italian loan,
the reported amount being 1920, 900, 900.
The worlds fair to be held in Madrid
in 1894 will seek to surpass the Colum-
bian Exposition in all the attributes of
greatness. 1t is very large undertak-
ing for Spain.
Emigration from Spain to South Amer
ican Republics is assuming considerable
proportions, owing to the extreme dis
tress prevailing in the country, especially
in the agricultural districts.
1t is currently rumored in London that
William Waldorf Astor is about to build
in that city the largest and most costly
hotel in the world, which, it is estimated,
will cost more than $7,000,000.
The Queen Regent of Spain has de-
cided to fulfill a heartfelt wish of her
husband and establish college in the
Escurial, bearing her name, for the
teaching and study Of Christian sciences.
Apollinaris water comes from a spring
in the valley on the Abr in the Rhine
district. A whole villuge is engaged in
bottling it and shipping it. From 1O0,-
600 to 100, 900 bottles are prepared in a
day. -
took its name from the dirty novels
which clustered on it, has been converted
by the London County Council into
clean and beautiful park. 1t cost $25, 900
to make the change.
The report that eleven rebellious Sc
poys were blown from the guns at Cabul
is denied by later news from Simla. An
officer was shot by an orderly, and the
latter was executed. That was all the
rioting and the only execution.
1t is reported that the French govern
ment has determined to suppress bull
fighting in that country. The Society
for the Protection of Animals will bring
suit against Mayor who authorized a
fight in order to test the law in the case.
Fully 1900 people are to leave Iceland
this year for the Canadian Northwest,
and as the Canadian government will
pay their passage and in other ways en-
able them to settle in more desirable
homes, the exodus is likely to continue.
Rouen Cathedral is in danger, the west
front being seriously dilapidated. The
local authorities will not pay for the nee
essary restoration; SO, unless the State
comes to the rescue speedily, this fine
old building promises to be irreparably
damaged.
The French government has just Gre
ated in the nature of an experiment
postal service by camel express in the
French territories of 0bosh and the So
mali coast. In connection with this
service a special provisional stamp will
be issued, the value being s francs.
1t is under renewed contemplation to
extend or supplement the old Languedoc
canal-Canal du Midi-built some 200
years ago, from Bordeaux at the Garonne
river to the Mediterranean by means of
a new canal, to be q feet deep, 14O to
200 feet broad and some 800 miles long.