The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-09-16
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Trade Greatly DemOralized in
British India.
WOMAN MURDERS AN ATTORNEY
Frances Vineyards in a Healthy
State - Car Turns His At
tentlOn to Railways.

The very first gymnasium for girls in
Germany will be opened at Calsruhe this
fall.
A writing table which once belonged
TO Lord Byron was sold the other day in
London for 500.
Permission has been granted for tele-
phone wires in Manchester, England, 10
be placed underground.
The reduction in price Of the rupee
below shilling and 4 pence has greatly
demoralized trade in India.
Birmingham, England, has been Sue
cesslully operating a storage battery
street railway system for over a year.
The Emperor of Russia is giving earn
est attention to the making Of the rail-
way between Moscow, st. Petersburg
and Siberia.
A gun exploded on the French cruiser
Duguay Truin during target practice at
sydney, n. S. W., killing four men and
injuring many.
The first effect of closing Indian mints
to Tree silver coinage was to cost English
holders Of Indian securities $50, 900, 900
by their immediate fall.
The German Anti-Slavery Committee.
which started on its career with a capi-
tai OF 1000, 900 marks, has ended in total
and irremediable collapse.
On many of the railways in Germany
the practice OF starting locomotive fires
with gas instead OF wood has been
adopted, and proves economical.
Baron Albert Rothschild has been
given the Iron Crown by the Emperor OF
Austria for his part in carving out the
Austro-Hungarian currency reform.
A new loud-speaking telephone has
been invented in England. The receiv-
ing instrument is said to speak loud
enough to be heard all over the room.
The Turkestan Gazette says that the
Ameer OF BOkhara has broken with Mo-
hammedan traditions, and will throw
open his country to European civiliza-
ton.
An Englishman, whose will has lust
been probated, left $4,000 to various
charities and the remainder of his es-
tate-$375, 5,OOO-to Sir Henry Thompson,
the scientist.
The newest fashion among the ladies
at st. Petersburg is to arm themselves
with long canes when they go abroad.
Some OF these canes measure six or seven
feet in length.
The diadem Of the Russian Empress
contains 1886 large diamonds and a sim
gle ruby valued at 100000. The private
jewels of the Empress of Austria are
worth 81 ,500,0 900.
The London Times never prints pict-
ures or uses scare heads, but on the dav
OF the recent royal wedding it had
tiowery border quarter of an inch wide
around each page.
Frances vineyards have apparently
completely recovered from the phvlIox-
era, and this years grape crop is report
ed to be the finest that has been gath
cred in thirty-fve years.
The Queen of Italy is taking her usual
annual holiday among the Al ps. She is
attended only by two of her ladies in
waiting, and with them she proposes to
make an ascent of Monte Rosa.
The Italian government is likely to
order the suspension of the Catholic pill
grimage to Rome in the event of the
cholera in France, Hungary and other
countries continuing next month.
Miss Thornton, Queen Victoria's old
est servant, who has been state house
keeper at Buckingham Palace, has lust
resigned at the age of so years. She has
been forty years in her Majesty's service.
The occurrence of two cases of cholera
at Northafen, on the canal fed by the
Spree, leaves little doubt that the river
is infected. The German government
has ordered the closing of all river baths.
At Montpelier, France, during mass
an elderly lady entered the pew of Jean
Jouissant, a prominent lawyer, and shot
him four times, killing him. She claimed
he had refused to return sum of money
lntrusted to his care.
The Infanta Eulala's spun-glass dress,
OF which an American manufacturing
company made her present while she
was the nations guest, has aroused great
among the ladies of the Span
ism court, VINO very properly regard 1t
as something very remarkable in the
way of feminine attire.
London is to have tobacco show from
September II to October 7, a dahlia and
gladiola exhibition for three days in the
of September, three chrysan-
themum shows, one in October and the
others in the two succeeding months; a
cage bird show the last of October and
a bulldog show in November.
Right Honorable Henry Chaplin holds
the English government mainly respon-
sible for the failure OF the Brussels Mon
etary Conference, and charges that it
threw away an opportunity for
promoting a settlement of the silver
question affecting all parts of the world. |
The Russian Czarowitz has one good
reason why he can never marry the
Princess Victoria of Wales, with whose |
name the gossips have connected his.
1t is that they are first cousins, and the |
marriage of first cousins is strictly pro-
hibited by the canons of the Greek |
Church.