The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-05-27
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Emigrants Leave England for
Mozambique, Africa.
THE FOREIGN TRADE OF JAPAN.
Emperor William Finds Fault With
the Bishop Of Metz - Herr
ROzwadOvski-Etc.

Cholera reports are again coming from
Europe.
Sir Charles Dixie wants the British
government to get out of Egypt.
Emperor William forbds all German
clericals to NEEDLE in political affairs.
Steps are taking to effect a combina-
ton OF all trades unions in Great Brit
ain.
The long drought in Austria has been
broken and the wheat crop placed be-
yond all danger.
Russia has communicated to the Pope
her intention to send permanent Min
lister to the Vatican.
Scotland's population in the middle OF
last year was 4 1853, ,452-l 1861, ,4OI males
and 2,l0205l females.
Heavy frosts have greatly injured the
vines in the wine districts Of Austria,
Switzerland and France.
The question of ocean penny postage
has recently engaged the attention OF the
British House of Commons.
Adelina Patti has commissioned the
Italian composer, Emile Pzzi, to write
short opera for her American tour.
The late William B. Astor's personal
estate in Great Britain has been returned
with an official valuation of 81 ,320, 900.
The British Consul at Bordeaux re-
ports that last years vintage, though
large in quantity, is Of very poor quality.
Russian cotton spinners boast that
they will soon be in position to dis
pense with American cotton altogether.
Japan's foreign trade for 1892 exceeded
that of 1891 by 2O,OOO,OOO yen. The
principal increase was in the values OF
silk and tea.
1t has now been decided to light the
whole OF the southampton docks with
electricity, while the cranes will be
worked by hydraulic power.
Bismarck according to an interviewer
thinks that the anti-Semitic troubles
will be gradually settled by the inter-
marriage of Jews and Gentiies.
Thirty miles of underground electric
railway similar to the City and South
London line has been proposed for Ber-
I'm at all estimated expense OF SO, O,000,-
900.
Something strange lately affected the
fish in Hongkong waters. For many davs
they were in a state Of stupor, and al
lowed themselves to be caught by hand,
making no effort to escape.
The Jerusalem and Jaffa Railroad
Company is said to have inaugurated
real-estate movement in Jerusalem; to
have laid out additions and run up lands
from 81 an acre to $1,000.
The Italian Chamber of Deputies has
commenced the debate on the naval es-
Inmates, which the commission on the
subject proposes to increase from 80, 700,-
600 lire to 10000, 900 lire.
A Spanish engineer proposes to build
a bridge of aluminium across the Straits
OF Gibraltar. The project is being sci
entitically discussed in the current num-
bers OF La Naturaleza of Madrid.
The Russian government proposes to
convene a commission of Jewish rabbis
in September next to take the whole
Jewish question into consideration and
assist in bringing it to settlement.
The five Australian banks thus far re-
ported to have closed their doors have a
total OF some $170,000,000 of liabilities.
lhls is an enormous sum for the small
population of that part of the world.
There have been discovered among the
treasures of the British Museum some
curious votive tablets set up in ancient
Greek medical temples by grateful pa
tients who had been cured of disease.
The admirers of Prince Bismarck, who
contributed three years ago more than
$Z00,OOO tor monument to the great
statesman, are dissatisfied with the com
mittee having the arrangements in
charge.
The telephone has we'll nigh super
seeded the telegraph between London and
Paris. The average time for sending and
delivery of telegram is half an hour,
while the telephone gives instant com
munication.
Herr Rozwadovski, member of the
Austrian Reichsrath, who owns land in
Russian Poland, where he occasionally
spends some time, has been expelled
from Poland with his family by the Rus
sian authorities.
MISS tlorrle Bryan, young English
woman, has forsaken Christianity and
married the Maharajah of Patiala in In
dia. She was received as a member of
the Sikh religious community just before
the marriage, which was celebrated &C.
cording to Sikh rites.
DIR. de Boissy of Havre recently COM
pleted his Tooth year, and was given
dinner by his medical brethren. In his
after-dinner speech he said that his fa-
ther had attained the age of 10S, and he
himself hoped to have the privilege of
laboring for humanity for some years to
come.
A statement recently published by IL .
authorities of Munich gives some start
ling information as to the increased con-
sumption in that city of dog flesh. So
great an appetite seems to have been de-
veioped for that food that the authori-
ties have thought it time to interfere for
the protection of dog owners.