The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-02-18
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Raw Cotton Crown in Russia
Shipped to Germany.
A SWIFT ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE.
English Women Protest Against the Re-
introduction Of the CrinOline-
Two New Minerals.

The National Cat Club Of England has
issued its first register Of E.gh- bred cats.
There ia little probability OF the re-
lease OF Mrs. Maybrick from imprison-
ment In London.
The official figures OF the working of
the zone system" on the railways of
Hungary show most gratifying results.
England will not adopt the decimal
coinage for fear the humber classes OF
society may suffer during the transition.
| Manufacturers OF Manchester continue
10 run behindhand on their contracts,
owing to the scarcity Of yarn, resultant
from labor troubles.
The Russian government has declined
TO grant the request Of the Russian rail-
way companies that they be allowed to
buy material abroad.
In three weeks recently twenty tons OF
unwholesome meat were seized by the
authorities having charge OF the markets
in the city Of London.
The water supply of Portmadoc, North
Wales, was recently totally suspended
through the bursting OF large main
conveying the towns water.
There are in India 6,642 government
savings banks, holding balances aggre-
eating over 885R lakhs of rupees. The
number OF depositors increased 55 900
last year.
There are more than 90, 900 persons in
Paris who earn living by picking up
and making use of what other people
throw away-rags, bones, metal and
such refuse.
Two new minerals, OF scientific value
only, we're recently discovered at Ceylon.
They have been named respectively
Geikielite and Baddeleyite. Both were
found in pebble form.
The manufacture of aluminium by an
electrolytic process is to be gone into
quite extensively at FORCES, France. The
falls of the Praz river, giving 2,00O-horse
power, are to be utilized and a plant
erected soon.
Indications are cropping out tending
to confirm the rumor that the King OF
| Belgium will visit the Congo country in
April, accompanied by several officers of
his military staff, a number of civic Of
fcers and members of the press.
A new scheme for the determination
of rabbits is being tried in Australia.
Cartridges generating poisonous gas are
| put in the burrows, the holes are closed
and the rabbits are killed by the poison
in the smoke, not by sutfocation.
The British Museum is not very old.
but it has been an industrious as we'll as
an intelligent collector. 1t was started
in 1855, and has now twenty-five miles
of books and greater number of curl
osities than any other like institution.
More than eight thousand English
women have already signed the protest
against the reintroduction of the crino-
line, and the work Of organizing them
into clubs is still going vigorously on.
The extent of the depression in the
British shipping trade just now may be
gathered from the fact that altogether
479 vessels, representing a tonnage of
SOC, 900, are laid up at English and Scotch
ports.
Four Thousand nine hundred and fif-
teen new books and l, 1889 new editions,
total of 8,254, were published in Eng
land last year. This is an increase of
more than five hundred over the produc-
tioH In 1891.
At Liverpool l56 steamers, represent
ing about one hundred thousand tons,
are lying idle, and over one hundred and
fifty vessels are laid up on the Tyne. In
addition there are ninety-nine British
steamers lying idle at Continental ports.
Russian female convicts in Siberia
are in the future, if proposal made by
the Ministry of Justice to the Imperial
Council is ratified, to be exempted from
flogging and wearing leg irons. Restric-
tions in diet and solitary confinement
are to be substituted.
The tall tower of London will rise in
Wembley Park and surpass that of NJ.
Eiffel by 150 feet, being 1850 feet from
the four concrete foundations on which
it's legs will rest. 1t will be on rising
ground and overlook London on one side
and Harrow on the other.
Australia is entering into strong COM
petition with France in the production
of brandy. In 1892 the colony of Vic
toria exported to the United Kingdom
81, ,040 proof gallons. 1t is said Australia
can produce brandy that will stand COM
parison with the finest French cognac.
Several large cargoes of raw cotton
grown in Russian Central Asia were re-
Gently shipped at Odessa to German
ports. The Russians are sanguine that
there will be vigorous development of
the cotton growing industry there in the
near future. The quality of the cotton
so far, however, has been inferior.
Austria announces an electric locomo.
tive which is to travel 125 miles an hour.
The independence Beige follows with the
statement that the North Belgian Com
pany and the North France Company
are constructing line for locomotives,
operated by electricity, on which the
journey from Brussels to Paris, about
one hundred and ninety-two miles, will
be accomplished in eighty minutes,
speed of nearly one hundred and fifty
miles an hour.