The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-08-26
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Financial Returns of Victoria
Australia, Unsatisfactory.
THRIFTY PEASANTS OF RUSSIA
Capturing Fur Seals on Russian Land
without Special Permission
Forbidden by Ukase.

Bangkok, Siam, has a trolley street.
car line, which pays handsomely.
The Duke and Duchess of York re-
ceived over 1900 wedding presents.
A master chimney sweep is among the
new members Of the German Reichstag.
New custOdians OF Shakespeare house
in StratfOrd are both patient and oblig-
ing.
The Rhine wine production this year
will be unusually large if crops do not
fail.
The Franco-German frontier line is TO
be remarked TO avoid awkward "inci-
dents"
In Italy, France and Austria only from
TO 8 per cent OF the criminals are well
educated.
The slave trade is booming in Zanzibar
according to the Bishop Of that benight-
ed region.
In France it is proposed to arm the
postmen who have charge OF the delivery
Of postal orders.
Quite a colony of Americans has set
tied in COwles, Isle OF Wight, for the
yachting season.
DR.. Koch and his once-yaunted con-
sumption cure have fallen into sad dis
repute in Germany.
1t is cited as complimentary that near
ly all the monarChs OF Europe are at
tended by American dentists.
D,,rr;n v~.r,g.u 30 I,,n
tional fruit exposition and congress at
St. Petersburg in the fall Of 1894.
The finances of the Leeds corporation
water works for the past year show
clear net balance OF profit of e6,35l.
1t has been found necessary to open a
home in Sydney for servant girls out of
employment, owing to existing depres-
sion.
As result of the recent experience
with France in Siam the English govern
ment manifests strong disposition to
join the triple alliance.
Russian crop prospects have greatly
improved. A fairly large yield is now
expected, especially OF rye, the chief
breadstuf of the nation.
Princess Marie Bibesco swan the Hell
lespont recently from the European
shore to the Asiatic. recalling the ex-
ploits Of Leander and Byron.
In Germany quantities Of watermel
ons are grown, but the people do not
consider them fit for food. They use the
luscious fruit to feed the pigs.
The Alps this year are in splendid
condition for climbing, and ascents are
being made already, which are not usu-
ally undertaken until month later.
News comes from Paris that Nine.
Rhea, the actress, has married w. +.
Hart, her leading. man, who is 70 years
old and fully twenty years her junior.
1t is 223 years since blow was struck
in the House of Commons until the row
of week before last. That historic blow
cost its author an imprisonment in the
Tower
A good deal of high play has been GO
ing on Just lately in some of the London
clubs. The practice of paying with
paper" has been very much on the
increase.
The State railways of Cape Colony,
South Africa, yielded last year "a las Sd
per cent on a capital of &lS,5OO,OOO,
against Gas lbs 4d per cent on Gl6,5OO,-
600 in 1891.
1t is reported that Baron de Roths-
child and Jacques Laboudy, million
aire sugar refiner, will start shortly l.
cent sporting daily paper named the
Jockey Club.
According to the opinions expressed
by various Berlin journals the intended
Boer trek" into German Southwest
Africa will not be sanctioned by the i'm
perial government.
The tirailleurs of the Russian army
are to be equipped with snowshoes next
winter. The Prussian troops on the
Russian frontier have used snowshoes
with satisfaction for several winters.
Baron Won Bauer Austrian Minister
of War, said at the sitting of the Budget
Committee of the Austrian delegation
the other day that the present condition
OF society did not permit of the abolition
of dueling.
The financial returns of the Australian
colony of Victoria for the year ending
July 80 are expected to show deficit Of
about 81 ,06S, 900 in addition to debit
balance of G960,000 brought forward
from last year.
A modern postal system is soon to be
established in China. The imperial gov
ernment has approved a plan, drawn up
by Sir Robert Hart, under which the
native postal organization will entirely
disappear and will be replaced by an i'm
perial postofice, with branches through
out the country, under the management
of qualified foreigners.
An imperial ukase issued recently for
bids the killing or capturing of fur seals
on Russian land without special permis-
sion from the government. Persons vio-
lating this decree or engaged in unlawful
pelagic sealing will render themselves
liable to imprisonment from two to six
teen months and forfeiture of ships,
equipments and the sealskins already
taken. All cases of unlawful poaching
on seal life in Russian territory will be
, referred to district tribunal sitting at
vladivesteek.