The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-04-01
FOREIGN CABLECRAMS
Novel Measure of Protection Used
by the Bank Of France.
UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF VoLTAIRE
Sarah Bernhardt Ceases TO be a S.aI
Attraction at Rome and Vienna
The New York.

German troops in East Africa have
won an important victory over hostile
natives at Uniangryira.
A Geneva telegram states that an i'm
portant discovery OF 500 unpublished
letters OF Voltaire has been made there
According to the latest arrangements
DR.. Nansen will leave Christiania on his
Arctic expedition at the beginning oI
June.
Adelna Patti gets $4,000 for every
London concert, while she sings in the
provinces for $500 and in Milan for 81
900 a night.
The Pope is soon to issue letter to
the French Episcopacy urging the forma-
ton OF party OF Rep blican Catholics
in the Chamber OF Deputies.
The steamer New York has been
thrown open 10 the public at a shilling
head in the port OF Southampton, the
receipts going to local charities.
|. Newton Mofin is urging in London
the project of roofing over the principal
streets ot that city with glaze. The um-
brellamakers will cry all hail to the
scheme.
The swarms Of field mice which caused
such devastation last year in Thessaly
are beginning to reappear in that prov
lnce and in the neighboring district OF
Phthiotis.
The Turkish government has proposed
IN ha Srt thaf ha ~, IN I,
the Ottoman Empire to "a commercial
and industrial competition" in Con-
6 antinople.
Another exploring expedition into the
interior Of the Australian Continent is
soon to be equipped by Sir Thomas E-
der and to start under the leadership OF
David Lindsay.
An E0glish shiphuiIder says that the
cost Of an ocean steamer in Great Bri,
tain is now much greater than it was ten
wears ago. A trst'class chip now costs
about 5000 900.
Mrs. Besant g arrived n London.
where she is reporting that the result
Of her tour in t i country convince her
t at theosophy as great future be-.
re it in America"
An equestrian statue OF the late En-
peror Frederick of Germany is to b.
erected on the hill at Worth, whence he
directed the battle OF Worth in the
Franco German war.
From a return which has Just been
laid efore the House OF Commons it
appears that out OF 39j 900 electors who
voted in Irel nd at the general election
81, ,9l9 were ilIiterates.
Preece, the celebrated English cleo
trician, believes the success of the Lon
don and Paris telephone line foreshad.
ows te ephOnic communication between
England and America.
The King OF Saxony will celebrate the
fiftieth anniversary of his entrance into
the army next October. The people o.
Saxony are already making preparations
to honor the anniversary.
There is on exhibition in Berlin an ell.
ephant which is reputed to be the small
es in the world. The animal, it is aid,
is three years old, stands three feet in
height and weigh, bat 156 pounds.
The music hall seems to be about the
best paying OF public entertainment
ventures IN London, and the conversion
of theaters into music halls and the
opening of new balls goes on apace.
Sarah Bernhardt, so London papers
report, has ceased to be star attraction
at Rome and Vienna. According to g
reports she has been doing bad business
in both capitals, and prices have had to
be lowered.
A Moslem mob has possession of Ca-
sarea, Palestine. The rioters have robb d
hundreds and killed many, sacked
churches and burst into private houses
and shops. All places OF business are
close and trade is utterly stagnant.
The largest turret ship in the world,
the Hood of the English navy, success
fully passed the official trial OF her ma
chinery few days ago. She has dis.
placement OF IA, l50 tons. The total cost
of the Hood when fully equipped will
amount to $4,75O,00O.
The authorities of the Great East rn
railway in England and the traffic man.
aser of the Holland railways have b en-
in con erence with the Prussian Minister
of Public Works wi h the view OF ar
ranging tor a new and apid route be-
tween London and Berlin.
The City Commissioners of Sewers are
making application to the Thames Con-
setvsncy Board, in view of the possible
outbreak of cholera, for permission to
place cholera hospital ship on the
Thames, within the city boundary, for
the reception OF cases occurrinG on land.
Ex Queen Isabella of Spain has written
t. the Pope, petiiioning him to canonize
Christopher Columbus as saint of the
holy Catholic Church, her reasons be-
ing that he was the first man to raise
the cross of Christ in America. st. Go.
lumbus would indeed be new role for
the famous old navigator.
Peary will have rival in Arctic ex,
plorat'on this comm summer in Fred
erick Jackson, who takes British party
up to Franz Jos phi Land, and who
thinks he will there have land up to the
eighty-fourth parallel OF la itude, possi-
bly, farther. Thence he prop ses to rro-
ce 81 in dog sledges.