The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-07-29
FOREIGN FLASHES.
The Physical Exercise Craze
in st. Petersburg.
GERMAN ARMY BILL WILL PASS.
Bullets Of Garnets Encased in Lead
Fired at British Troops by
RebelliOus Hunzas.

Italy is adopting cooperative farming.
The unyaccinated cannot vote in Nor
way.
The Salvation Army has invaded
thirty-iiye countries.
The Pope is to beatty Columbus, and
America will then have its patron saint.
A 25 per cent cut in wages is an
nounced for 100000 coal miners in Eng
land
The Sultan Of Morocco has been sue
cessiul in his expedition to suppress re-
bellious tribes.
Senator Santa Maria has been ap-
pointed Minister OF Justice Of Italy TO
succeed Signor Bonacci.
The Russian government has issued
orders that smoking compartments for
ladies be provided on all trains.
Seven hundred live larks constituted
the queer present lately sent by the King
OF Italy to the German Emperor.
All the members Of the Italian Cham
bers implicated in the bank scandals at
Rome are to be proceeded against.
There is threatened dissolution OF the
French Cabinet, owing to differences re-
garding the treatment of the French RI
Oters.
A type of frearm has been invented
in England by which compressed gas is
utilized instead Of powder as propell-
ing force.
A meteorological station has been es-
tablished at Siberia, Palestine, a place
$50 feet below the level OF the Mediter-
ranean Sea.
Madame de Valsayre, foreign cham
piOn Of woman's rights, has started
crusade for the admission of feminine
writers to the French Academy.
The marriage OF Prince George and
the Princess May is the fifteenth mar
riage Of direct descendant OF Queen
Victoria which has occurred during her
reign.
During excavation in the river Dee at
Carrog, Llangollen, the remains were
discovered of an ancient church de-
stroyed by floods in the sixteenth
century.
John Geddes of New South Wales,
Australia, is negotiating with the Ger
man army authorities for the use on
trial of frozen beef and mutton from
Australia.
During the recent fighting on the
Kashmir frontier, when the British
troops defeated the rebellious Hunzas,
the natives used bullets of garnets en-
cased in lead.
Despite the rumor that the late
Squire Abingdon " George Abingdon
Baird has squandered all his fortune,
his English executors say his estate is
worth nearly $5,0O0,O0O.
French women have evinced a new
desire to be strong as we'll as beautiful
and handsomely dressed, and have taken
up the pursuit of outdoor exercise of
the most exacting character.
Reports come from Santos, Brazil,
that the yellow fever is decimating the
town. The death rate averaged SO
day, and hundreds of corpses were afoat
in the water at all stages of decay.
The German army bill will be passed
by large majority. Herr Won Kosciel-
ski and DR.. Won Jaadzewski, leaders of
the Poles, have pledged to the govern
ment the solid vote OF their party.
Impartial writer's say that the gold
contained in the medals, vessels, chains
and other objects preserved in the Vati-
can would make more gold coin than
the whole of the present European cir
culation.
1t is reported that the Ghezirah
Palace, situated on the banks of the
Nile, is to be converted into a hotel;
that line of steam ferries is to ply
across from Cairo, and that the Nile is
to be tunneled.
Paris has unique exhibition only
less attractive than the two salons
themselves. This is collection of
portraits and statuettes of the great
French writers and journalists OF the
last 100 years.
In Zanzibar, owing to the abolition of
slavery, there is great difficulty in
obtaining laborers. This, it is feared,
will be felt very much within the next
few weeks, when the gathering of the
Glove crop commences.
The Malta correspondent of the Lon
don Graphic reports that the Captains
of several of the vessels which took
part in the maneuvers off Tripoli will
be Court-martialed for not having obeyed
Admiral Tryon's fatal signal.
1t is said that the largest rough dia-
mond ever found in Africa has Just ar
rived in London. 1t is a bluish-white
stone, weighs 10 carats, and was found
in the Jagersfontain mine. The Kohl
moor weighs only 1929 carats.
The physical exercise craze has reached
st. Petersburg, where the ladies are be-
coming ardent athletes and expert
bicycle riders. One of their fads is to
carry Louis XIV canes, some six or
seven feet long and stout in proportion.
An interesting piece of information
brought out during the Brussels Con-
ference is the fact that there are at
present no less than $100,000,0O0 of
counterfeit silver money in circulation
in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy,
Snain and POrtuoa1