The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-04-29
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Austrian War Office Adopts the
Bullet-PrOOf Cloth.
PRoUDFooTs NOBLE REQUEST.
Two Enormous Breaches Occur In
the Banks Of the Yellow
River in China.


overplentiful in South Australia.
Belgian Socialists threaten a genera
strike if not granted universal suffrage
Surveys are being made for three new
railroads in the Transvaal, South Africa
The Chinese government contemplates
a considerable extension Of railroads this
spring.
Not for generations has England seen
such a sunny and altogether idyllic
spring as this.
The ship canal across the Isthmus OF
Corinth will probably be ready about
next September.
Queen Victoria's spring vacation on
the Continent will cost the British tax
payers $4,000.
Capital crimes, mainly in consequence
OF excessive drinking, seem to be on the
increase in Russia.
A law has been passed by the Reichs-
tag establishing standard time over the
whole of Germany.
France has submitted to the United
States and Great Britain suggestions to
improve shipping signals.
Influenza has appeared in a virulent
form throughout Southern Russia, and
the mortality is very great.
Twenty-Five ships Of war OF various
kinds are now in course of construction
Tor the French government.
County Herbert Bismarck has con-
sented to run for the Reichstag in the
interest Of the agrarian party.
In the Isle of Man there are no death
duties, no income tax and with the ex-
ceptlon OF small duty on beer no excise
During the last twenty years the area
OF land in England under the plow has
diminished by nearly 1900, 900 acres. or
over IA per cent.
Two enormous breaches in the banks
OF the Yellow river, China, are reported
to have occurred, a most unusual phe-
nomenon in winter.
Mohammedanism is largely on the in
crease in the British West African colony
OF Sierra Leone, one-tenth of the popu-
lation now being Of that faith.
-Four thousand working people have
been thrown out of employment in New
South Wales by the stoppage of several
collieries in the Rhondda Valley.
The price of private telephones in
London is very soon to be reduced from
E2O year to el0 year, subject to the
condition of five years contract.
The Austrian war office has decided to
adopt the bullet-proof cloth, one-third
of an inch thick, invented by Herr Ly-
nander, an engineer living in Paris.
The Bohemian Central Agricultural
Society is organizing an international
exhibition OF agriculture and food stuffs |
to be held in Prague from the 14th to the |
10Th of May next.
The overthrown King of Dahomev has
addressed an appeal to "all civilized ma
tions for sympathy with his cause.
which, he says, is that of right and ius-
tice, in his struggle with France.
During 1891 there were 4,651 deser-
tions from the British army. There
were lO,SO3 court-martials and 2OS, 100
minor punishments imposed. The gem
eral conduct of the soldiers is improving.
There is serious talk in France of
building a canal from the sea to the
Mediterranean, SO that the Mediterra
mean trade for other countries need not
be carried within range of the English
guns at Gibraltar.
Efforts are making to reconstruct and
reorganize the suspended Commercial
Bank of Australia. A new company
will be formed with a capital stock Of
e6,O00,O00 to carry on the business of the
collapsed institution.
Venezuela is to have q new I-cent
stamp similar in form and size to our
Columbian issue. 1t will bear a repre-
sentation of the landing made by the
subordinates of Columbus on the coast
ot Venezuela in the year 1893.
The French government has apologized
to Count Muenster, German Ambassa-
1or, for the detention of the letters
written by Herr Kurtz to the German
Embassy and Consulate, while he was
on suspicion in Rouen.
Cliff railways in England grow more
and more popular. Clifton has opened
! remarkably steep line, cut in tunnel
rom the gorge oil tie Avon to the sum-
nit of Clifton Rocks. The gradient is
one foot in two feet, and the tunnel ok
Is feet.
Telegraph lines in the Zambesi Terri
;ory have but brief existence accord
ng to present experience. Elephants
Knock them down, the carriers steal the
hick lines for mending purposes and
he Makalala ladies appropriate the fine
wire for necklaces and bangles.
According to the Frankfurter Zeitung
he Executive Committee of the ANTI
Slavery Company has decided to discon-
inue Major Won Wissman's enterprise
md to offer the Nyassa station to the
imperial government. Funds are insult
icient for the continuance of the new
An immense crowd gathered at the
locks at Christiania, Norway, and
heered as the Viking passed down the
larbor firing salutes. She will cruise
long the coast, in order that the people
nay have a chance to see her, and early
n May will sail from Bergen for the !
United States.