The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-08-12
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Compulsory Education in the
French Republic.
A FRUIT.CULTURE EXHIBITION.
The Position Of Crops Considered
Anything But Prosperous by
London Paper.

The population OF Rio de Janeiro is
100000.
Revolution is reported in Santa Cath
arna in Brazil.
Mrs. Langtry meditates another Amer
lean tour next winter.
Great Britain received lO,O57 900 let
ters from America last year.
Nine. Patti has made her last appear
ance in London until next May.
The protracted drought in Austria has
caused a failure in the oats crop.
Sarah Bernhardt has become lessee OF
the Renaissance Theater in Paris.
The hay crop in England and Wales is
not more than third Of the average.
China refuses to make reparation for
the killing Of Swedish missionaries by
mobs.
The hesh-eating baboon is fast becom-
ing an intOerable nuisance in South
Africa.
4 lively controversy has been going on
in Austria concerning the necessity OF
dueling.
There are more deaths annually from
hydrophobia in Sweden than in any
other country.
A ton of gold recently taken from the
South African mines was on exhibition
at Pretoria lately.
The extreme and prOtracted hot
weather In France promises one OF the
finest vintages on record.
The wheat crop OF France is estimated
at 2S0, O00,0 600 bushels and the imports
required for next year at 56,000,000.
Fruit growers will be interested to
learn that fruit-culture exhibition is to
be held at st. Petersburg next year.
The new British cruiser Endymion at
a arecent eight hours trial off Portsmouth,
England, attained a speed OF 209 knots
per hour.
Baden-Baden intends to become a
grand sporting center in hopes Of reviy-
ing its former attractions for visitors of
all nations.
1t is believed the House Of Lords will
reject the Irish home-rule bill after it
passes the Commons by an overwhelm-
ing majority.
Influenza is believed to be dying out
in London after being more or less prev
alent since the first outbreak over the
world several years ago.
Russian crop prospects have greatly
improved. A fairly large yield is now
expected especially OF rye, the chief
breadstuff of the nation.
The Duke of Westminster has spent
over Gl 900, 900 in rebuilding Eaton Hall,
which is now considered to rival Chats
worth as England's finest house.
Princess Eulalia has sent a fine Toledo
saber to General Horace Porter in recog-
milton of his kindness while Chairman
of the reception committee in New York.
1t is officially denied that the Grand
Duke of Saxe-Weimar recently sought
to bring about reconciliation between
the German Emperor and Prince Bis
marck.
Mr.. Gladstone gave the Princess May
and the Duke of York as wedding pres
ent the seven volumes of his somewhat
solidly written Gleanings of Past
Years"
The Italian torpedo gunboat Aretusa,
vessel of SAG tons displacement, re-
Gently built at Leghorn, attained max
imum speed of twenty-one knots in her
steam trial.
The Duke of Veragua is willing to re-
ceive American sympathy for his de-
pleted eXchequer, and he will accept all
the funds the people in this country will
raise for him.
The experiment OF providing canteens
in factories, at which workmen can get
good food at something less than cost
price, appears to have been failure in
South Germany.
In France compulsory education is rig
orously applied to all classes, and yet Z
per cent of the young men who wish to
join the army are rejected because unable
to read or write.
Several fashionable ladies have ap-
peared in London driving with femi-
nine handmaiden instead of footman
behind them, the handmaiden arrayed
in livery and buttons.
In the government of kazan at the
present time great competition is 60
ing on among chemists in the sale OF
charms, which are supposed to act as
preventive against cholera.
Emperor William has ordered no army
maneuvers to be held anywhere in Ger
many unless it is absolutely certain that
the district in which it is proposed to
hold them will not be damaged.
Mormonism has taken considerable
hold in New Zealand, mainly among the
Maoris, the latest statistics showing the
sect to have 3,176 members in New Zea-
land, of whom 232 are Europeans.
The Irish revolutionists claim that the
sinking of the Victoria was not due to
Admiral Tryon's mistake, but to the
members Of the revolutionary party who
aided in bringing about the disaster.
A law is to be promulgated in Russia
this summer prohibiting the transfer of
land in the possession of rural commu-
mites or individual peasants to persons