The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-11-11
FOREIGN FLASHES.
An Apparatus to Split Electric
Lights Invented.
AFRICAN MINE DIVIDENDS
Travel Expands the Mind Of Sarah
BeTnhardt - Ten Thousand
Captives SOld-Etc.

A new street railway is being laid in
Cairo, Egypt.
Over 81 100000 in st. Louis bonds has
been sold in London at par.
A serious outbreak Of pleuro-pneu-
monia has occurred on a farm near Lon
don.
An alarming subsistence OF land has
occurred at SaltwoOd, near Hythe, Eng
land.
The number thirteen cannot be found
as street number in Frankfort-on-the-
Main.
The stock OF gold in France is esti-
mated at 1896, 100000 and silver $780,
100000.
Cholera has again reared it's head in
Antwerp, but is nearly wiped out at
Hamburg.
Ten thousand Coreans are said to have
left their country for Russia, where they
propose to live.
There are eighty-fve women in Great
Britain engaged in the occupation OF
chimney sweeps.
Train-robbing in Spain is guarded
against by stationing two soldiers in
every railway car.
The Admiralty at London has con-
tracted for three torpedo destroyers to
exceed any now ahoat.
The dividends paid to the British own
ers Of the South African mines last year
amounted to over $6,00000O.
Ten thousands captives have been sold
into slavery by the Ameer of Afghanis-
tan to pay the expenses of war.
Tobacco, cigars, cigarettes and the
usual mixture are forbidden from enter
ing New Zealand by parcel post.
English and French diplomats are
scheming at Paris to make buffer"
State between Siam and Burmah.
The regulation forbidding ladies wear
ing bonnets to occupy orchestra stalls
at the Paris opera has gone into effect.
The French government proposes to
impose fines upon railway companies for
trains that are run behind schedule time.
Swedish shipbuilders have recently
received orders from British owners for
the construction of number of cargo
steamships.
The Shetlanders boast that last year
there was not single conviction for
drunkenness in the islands, which have
a population OF about $4,000.
Bernhardt announces an intention to
reform some Partisan theater customs,
among them the extra fee for reserved
seats. Travel has expanded her mind,
she says.
The volcano on Calbuco, Chill, has
again become active. The streets of Or
sorio are filled with ashes, and traffic is
almost stopped by them. Great alarm
exists among the residents.
There is dispute between the impe-
rial and colonial authorities in Matabe-
land. Sir Henry Loeb in command of
the imperial forces declines to receive
orders from Premier Rhodes.
Carlyle's home in Cheyne Row, Chel-
sea, is in fearfully dirty and neglected
condition, and it is proposed to buy it
by public subscription and set it apart
as place of commemoration.
Since the time of Clement there have
been 324 Marshals of France, sixty-seven
of whom were appointed during the
present century. Napoleon III ap-
pointed fifteen during the brilliant days
of the Second Empire.
A bundle of dynamite was found on
the train near Burgos, Spain, on which
General Campos and son were travelling.
1t is believed that another attempt 10
kill the General had been made.
The Peixoto government, it is report
ed, has issued decree for the imprison-
ment of all foreigners suspected Of SYM
pathizing with the rebellion, and the
foreigners at Rio have formally protest.
ed against it.
Prince Henry of Orleans, nephew of
the Count of Paris, is soon to be made a
Knight of the Legion of Honor by the
French government in acknowledgment
of his geographical and scientific re-
searches in the East.
Henry White, who has been First Sec
retary OF the American Legation in Lon
don over eight years, is about to be sue
ceeded by Mr.. Roosevelt of New York,
gentleman of large fortune in his own
right and who married an Astor.
An agent of the Suez Canal Company
has invented an apparatus to split the
electric lights that illuminate the canal
into two divergent streams, one sending
out rays one way, the other in the oppo-
site direction. This enables ships to
approach each other and meet with per-
feet safety. Formerly the lights blinded
pilots so that they could not see vessels
coming in the opposite direction.
Foreign Ambassadors to Turkey had
recently complained that the prisons
were overcrowded with Armenian pris-
oners, and the government decided to
remove the cause of complaint. Ac-
cordingly about 800 prisoners were taken
on board of Turkish man-of-war osten-
sibly for transportation to Africa. In
the night, however, the poor fellows
were murdered, their bodies placed in
sacks, which we're tied one to the other,
and thrown into the barber.