The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-04-15
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Prince Roland BOnaparte Will
Visit the United States.
MANUSCRIPTS OF VICTOR HUGO
The King Of Siam to Make an Inter.
esting Display at the Worlds
Fair in Chicago.

Universal suffrage in Austria is favored
by the native Bohemian party.
Rumor says another American Cardi-
nal will be named at the coming consis-
tory.
The Senatorial elections in Spain have
resulted in a sweeping victory for the
Monarchists.
Russian and Austrian emigrants are
prohibited from passing through Prus-
sian territory.
The population Of Ireland in 1891, ac-
cording to revised returns recently is
sued was 4,S81 ,24S.
Chill and Argentina have settled their
boundary dispute by fixing on the sum-
nit OF the Andes as the boundary line.
Minister to Germany William Walter
Phelps is to have his portrait painted by
Herr Koppay, the noted German artist.
Prince Roland Bonaparte proposes
travelling through the United States this
year with the object Of study and re-
search.
Father Joseau, Catholic missionary
in COrea, was terribly maltreated BY a
mob recently, being beaten into insensi-
bility.
Nine. Navarro MARY Anderson), who
is living at Tunbridge Wells, England,
is reported to be writing her reminis-
Cences.
1t costs about $40 to have a ton of
goods transported by carrier from Ma
taddi to the Pool in Africa, distance of
230 miles.
1t is fact OF curious interest that ir-
religious France sent the Pope more
Peters pence"-$450, ,000-than any
other nation.
An estimate based on official figures
places the receipts OF Paris theaters last
year at 22,000,000 francs more than the
receipts OF 1891.
An elevator is being built in the House
need not climb eight flights OF stairs to
the ladies' gallery.
Prince Ugo Boncompagni, high Ro-
man noble and formerly Clerical men,
ber OF the Roman Municipal Council, is
| about to enter monastery.
The financial situation of Chill has
been greatly relieved. The Government
will take up the forced loans of Balma-
ceda, amounting to S9,000,000.
The inventory of Victor Hugo's manu-
scripts has occupied his literary execu-
tors eighteen months, and they have
400 900 papers and notes classified.
Last years profits of the Cunard
Steamship Company were exceptionally
small, because OF the low freight rates
and the suspension of steerage trade.
Monaco is reported as planning to
hold a universal exposition next year.
Monaco has territory of eight square
miles and standing army of 126 men.
The Russian Government has sus-
pended the coinage of silver rubles on
private account, for the reason that the
silver ruble is now cheaper than paper.
Challemel-Lacour, the newly elected
member of the French Academy, has
been chosen President of the French
Senate. He is a Senator from Bouches-
du-Rhone.
The promise made by Nine. Schlie-
mann after the death of her distin-
guished husband in 1890, that the exca-
vations at Troy would be continued is
about to be fulfilled.
The eruption of the San Martin vol
cano in the Tonalo district, State of
Chiapas, Mexico, has created great
alarm. The flames at one time shot up
1000 feet above the crater.
Railway extensions are to be built in
Upper and Lower Egypt to a cost of
Il, ,250,000. The existing line from CHR
geh to Keneh will be extended and a
narrow-gauge railway built to Luxor.
During the past year, it is calculated,
| that the vast sum of over 500, 600, 900
was spent in the British Isles in alcoholic
drinks, and even this is less by some ST.
50O,0O than the expenditure OF the year
previous.
In the province of Antwerp, Belgium,
| the unofficial referendum has resulted
in the approval of manhood suffrage by
1874 of the 1S,701 men who voted.
Forty-three per cent of the electors went
to.the polls.
A cable TO the New York Evening
Post says: Much damage has been done
to crops in almost every part of the
United Kingdom by frosts. In some
parts of Hungary cereals as well as
fruits are wholly destroyed.
The King OF Siam, at his own expense,
has decided to make an interesting dis
play in the Manufactures, Agricultural
and Forestry buildings at the Worlds
Fair, and will also erect royal pavilion
of elaborately carved woods.
Socialist delegates from Germany, the
Netherlands, Belgium, England, Switz-
erland, France and Italy at meeting in
Brussels have decided that the Interna.
tional Socialist Congress in Zurich shall
begin on August 6 and last for one week
Hamburg, which last year was the
stronghold and the chief abiding place
of cholera in Europe, is now in such 6
healthy state that the doctors have the
blues, and, as cable dispatch says, "it
seems as if the epidemic had cleared out
the other maladies.'