The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-10-14
Great Progress in the Study of
the Monkey Language.
THE ABOLITION OF KNOUTING.
Wasp Plague In Sussex, England
AssasslnatiOns In Italy-The
French Vintage.

Another native war in Southern Africf
now seems inevitable.
Succi, the faster, is insane, and is now
IN an asylum near Paris.
Harvesting operations in Roumania
show satisfactory result.
The revision OF the Belgian constitu.
ton has been accomplished at last.
A caravan Of 10000 camels and 4.OOO
slaves left Timbuctoo for Morocco re.
Gently.
The doctors to Chinese royalty were
recently fined a years salary each for
incompetence.
Train-robbing in Spain is guarded
against by stationing two soldiers in
every railway car.
Prince Ferdinand Of Bulgaria's latest
project is the establishment of a med
ical faculty in Sofia.
Paris has a new storage battery street.
car line that has been in successful op-
GRAFTON several months.
DR.. Cornelius Herr OF Panama canal
notoriety is recovering his health at
Bournemouth, England.
The average number OF assassinations
and attempts at assassination in Italy is
said to be fully 5000 year.
France is the only European country
which has to-day fewer able bodied men
than it had thirty years ago.
The Ubina volcano in the Peruvian
Cordillera has become active after being
in quescent state for years.
Kaiser William, DR.. Miguel says, has
taken for his motto, THE Emperor is
the first servant Of the people,"
The London section OF the National
Liberal Federation has declared for the
abolition Of the House Of Lords.
The wasp plague is still very bad in
sussex, England, and the destruction in
the orchards has been very great.
During the reign of Victoria the In
dian government has coined G2,OOO. 900
OF gold and G2O6, 1000 of silver.
The latest estimate of the Russian
wheat crop is 272 100000 bushels. Last
years crop was 256, 900, 900 bushels.
A peasant living on one of the Greek
isles recently dug up statue, for which
the British government has paid $32, 900.
The tariff war between Germany and
Russia will force the former country to
buy enormous quantities of grain in this
country.
Russia is said to be about to acquire
naval station in East Africa at which to
repair and coal the vessels of her Pacific
squadron.
The phylloxera has at last touched
every wine-growing district in France,
the Champagne vines being the last to
be harmed.
Christine Nilsson has her dining room
papered with hotel bills which she has
paid during her professional tours. The
sum total is enormous.
The St. Petersburg correspondent of
the London Central News saws that an
ukase will shortly be issued
abolishing the practice of knouting by
the police.
Inc recent army maneuvers of the
Austro- Hungarian troops were not salts
factory. Emperor William was not very
favorably impressed with the work of
the Generals.
In Switzerland all the telegraph lines
are controlled by the government. There
are All offices and II, 1856 telegraph op-
orators. The annual profit derived above
ali expenses is $3.50, 900.
Mr.. Burne-Jones, the English artist,
is engaged upon the interesting task of
painting portrait of Mr.. Gladstone's
Youngest granddaughter, Dorothy Drew.
This little blue-eyed maiden of 8 wears
Is said to resemble the grandfather start
lingly.
DIR. Buchwald of Leipsic discovered
among some forgotten manuscripts in
the University of Jena Martin Luther's
political essay against the theological
faculty of the University of Louvain,
Belgium, which manuscript was sup
posed to have been lost.
The tailors have met in London " to
prepare for the abolition OF the sweating
system and long hours and for the COM
ng battle of the tailors of the world"
The 25,OOO members of the organization |
ire threatened by the master tailors
with destruction of their union.
The present year of 1893 promises to
20 " SIcdG year LOT bn6 tfenCh vintage,
chateau Latte, which produced 32O hogs
heads last year, has this year yielded |
200, and the increase is general. There
S such demand for casks that certain
ordinary sizes, usually bringing francs,
low cost IL francs.
Many Of the houses in Holland have a
pecial door, which is never opened save
N two occasions, when there is a mar
iage or death in the family. The bride
md groom enter by this door; it is then
lailed or barred up until death occurs,
When it is opened and the body is re-
moved by this exit.
The Chinese government in reply to
he joint protest of foreign Ministers
gainst the alleged barbarous treatment
# foreigners in China, especially in HUI
ian and Hufehe, of which Chang Tune
8 Viceroy, promised that Chang Tune
hould be degraded in rank in the event
+ further outrages happening in his
'rovinee.