The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-10-07
FOREIGN FLASHES.
House Of Lords Denounced by
Walter Owen Church.
NERVOUS DISEASES IN FRANCE.
PhOtOgraphing the Depth of the Sea
IL AcCOmplished-0ld Manu-
scripts Discovered.

The new German taxes are to net $24,- :
100000.
The bastinado is no longer a legal pun
ishment in Egypt.
A weekly paper for the blind is pub
lished in England.
France proposes TO have grand inter
national exposition in 1900.
OF 5000 pilgrims who went 10 Mecca
in May over half died from cholera.
Egypt's cotton crop this year will be
5O,OOO,OOO pounds larger than in 1892.
Japan has fourteen railways projected,
and will build them as rapidly as posi-
BILE.
Zola's latest ambition is to become a
member OF the French Chamber Of Dep
uties.
An electric light has just been put up
in flour mill close 10 the Damascus
gate at Jerusalem.
The white muscat raisin is in great de-
mand in Switzerland and Austria for the
making Of vermouth.
Two new 6,000-ton steamers will be
built by the North German Lloyds Com
pany for the American service.
The distress in the mining districts in
England is great and increasing. In
Derbyshire $4,000 men are idle.
A fad for making collections Of kisses
of celebrated men is rapidly becoming
popular among the ladies of Germany.
The German Emperor has stringently
forbidden the officers OF his army to have
one eye, as denoted by wearing one eye
glass.
The Gar has ordered Yacht of 1000
tons, with engines OF 800-horse power.
1t is expected to eclipse everything of
the kind yet built.
The Queen of Denmark is stone deaf,
throat malady being responsible for the
affliction. The Princess Of Wales inher-
its the same trouble.
Hamburg has had a complete recovery
from the cholera visitation of year ago,
and the city is in more prosperous
state than ever before.
Japan has more miles OF railway in
proportion to its territory than any other
country in Asia. Fourteen new lines
are now being constructed.
Since the beginning of the century
France has fallen from the second to the
fourth place in point of population
among European countries.
Aluminium plates are used in Ger
many to engrave and etch upon, and it
is spoken Of as a probable substitute for
zinc and photographic stones.
Two postage stamps of Mauritius of
1847, of which only fourteen specimens
are known to exist, have just been pur-
chased by dealers in London for 1850.
The floods in Northern China have
laid waste the country for thirty-tive
miles. Crops were destroyed and homes
swept away. The section is thickly pop
ulated.
Peace prevails in Nicaragua. General
Santos Selaya has been formally elected
President of the Republic and General
Anastaro Ortiz Vice-President. All po-
litical prisoners have been released.
DR.. Charles Fere, well-known au-
thority on nervous and mental diseases,
says that these disorders are increasing
at terrible rate in France, and attrib-
utes the fact to the increase of beer
drinking, misunderstanding and bars.
Breech-loading rifles were invented in
1911, but did not come into general use
for many years. 1t is estimated that over
$4,000, 900 are now in actual service in
the European armies, while 3,00 900 are
reserved in the arsenals for emergencies.
The British Medical Association has
at last admitted women as members. The
principle was approved last year, and
this year at its sixty-first annual con-
gress, held at Newcastle, the bylaw ex-
Guiding women was formally expunged.
The famous Greek brigand Margonis,
who has just given himself up to the au-
thorities at Athens, had for thirteen
years been almost supreme in the dis
trict around Parnassus. He was farmer
and owner of houses as well as a robber.
A locomotive is being constructed in
England to run 100 miles an hour. 1t is
2,000-horse power, the driving wheels 12
feet in diameter. The three cylinders
dTS ~, 20 dllu 10 luCuSS Ill uldIu6Ger WIN
30-inch stroke. The boiler pressure is
200 pounds.
An interesting find is library of 500
volumes, including seventy manuscripts
of the tenth and eleventh, and some
with wonderful miniatures of the four
teenth centuries, which were recently
discovered in q Franciscan cloister near
Rieti, Italy.
A gold medal of the value of 1000
italian lire is offered by the Royal Acad-
emy of Science of the Institute of Bo-
logna to the author of the best memoir
describing new and efficacious system,
or new apparatus, for preventing or
extinguishing fires.
Photographing the depth of the sea
has been accomplished by French sci
enlist, NJ. Bouton. Being a practical
diver, NJ. Bouton managed to take pho
tographs of his surroundings when stand
ing on the very bed of the Mediterranean
at Banyuls-sur-Mer near the Spanish
border.