The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-09-23
FOREIGN FLASHES.
GraSshOpperS Utilized for Max
ing Soup in Paris.
BREAD AND BUTTER DANCES" !"
1t Is Predicted That Great Britain,
France and Germany Will
Need Our Wheat.

Welsh mine owners have refused TO
take back repentant strikers.
Russian railway trains rarely 60 az
fast as twenty-five miles an hour.
The debts Of the late Duke Of SAKE
Coburg, Germany, are estimated at $780,
600.
By the exertions of General" f" Booth
Edinburgh is to open a shelter for
women.
Count Tolstoi has just finished an in
quiry into social matters, which il to be
published soon in English.
Cooks Of all nations are TO have fair
and feast in Paris next year, with prizes
for authors OF new Dishes"
Baron Edmond de Rothschild's colony
in Palestine shows such promise of sue
cess that he has purchased more land.
In Asiatic Turkey the roads are said
to be so bad that the freight on a ton OF
wheat for 100 miles would be over $45.
Grasshopper soup, of which Stanley
wrote as a luxury in Africa, has been
experimental with in Paris with success.
An experimental shipment of oaten
hay has been made from Geelong, Aus
tralia, and consigned to a London firm.
Local kilograms are now being trans
mitted through pneumatic tubes in most
of the principal cities of Great Britain.
London contains one-eighth of Great
Britain's population. 1t has larger
daily delivery OF letters than all Scot
land.
The tallest tree on earth is perhaps a
gum tree eucalyptus regnans), recently
discovered in Australia. 1t is Ais feet
high.
A meeting of the Latin Union is to be
called to decide the question of the ma
tionalization OF fractional silver cur
rency.
The King of Siam is about AZ years OF
age, and received his early education
from an English lady. He is great ad-
mirer of England.
The London Pail Mall Budget the
other day announced that the yacht
Navahoe was named after one of the
American States"
Herr Krupp, the great German gun
maker, is preparing for an exhibition at
Essen, Germany, Of the progress Of ar
tillery since 1864.
1t is said that President Carnot of
France is suffering from cancerous af-
fection of the liver, which will require
dangerous operation soon.
Some London music-hall shares, lately
cold fho+ h,CipacO iS r,Ool The
Tivoli sells at nearly 200, the Pavilion at
l25 and the Empire at $50.
Customs frauds in the importation of
cereals have been discovered in France,
whereby the government has been de-
frauded out of large sums in duties.
Drummers are to be attached to the
Paris police. When riots are appre-
hended the beating of the police drum
will be equivalent to reading the riot act.
Dueling in Russia has become so COM
mon that the government has been COM
PEELED to decree severe code of punish
ment. Killing an antagonist will cost
six years in prison.
1t is estimated that about 250,000 ca
nary birds are raised every year in Ger
many. The most important market is
the United States, which imports about
100000 birds per annum.
"Bread and butter dances are late
form of entertainment designed by the
ladies of Sydney, Australia. They are
given for a charity, and in order that it
may benefit as much as possible the sim
plest refreshments are served.
In Paris they first utilize rats to clean
the flesh from the bones of carcasses,
then kill the rats, use up the fur for
trimmings, the skin for gloves, their
thigh bones for toothpicks and their ten
dons and bones for gelatin wrappers.
In its efforts at retrenchment and re-
form the government of New South
Wales has already effected a reduction
in the expenditures for this year of ST.,
500, 900 as compared with last year. Of
| fetal salaries have been cut all around.
F.P. Loomis, formerly United States
Consul at St. Etienne, says that from an
investigation he made he finds that
about $4,000 Americans of the better
class visit Europe every year, and that
they spend about $1OO,000,OO0 annually
| abroad.
The Sultan of Turkey is grieving over
the sudden death of twelve of the most
beautiful women in the imperial harem
at Constantinople, the result of blood
poisoning following vaccination. One
hundred and sixty-seven wives survived
a similar operation.
The Prefecture of Police in France has
established service of identity in order
to identify released convicts. Since 1908
there have been 800 sentences recorded
against men named Louis Lefevre in that
country, by which innumerable innocent
Louis Lefevres have been brought into
trouble.
The London Times makes the predic-
ton that Great Britain will require at
least 2S,000,O0O quarters of wheat from
abroad this year. France, it adds, will
be compelled to import more than twice
as much as it usually does, and it notes
the fact that Germany has already begun
to draw on America for supplies.