The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-09-02
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Final Estimate of the Hunga-
rian Wheat Crop.
GREAT ADVANCEMENT IN RUSSIA
An Estimate Of the Wheat Crop of
Great Observation-Disclosures
on the Adriatic.

Tobacco culture is prohibited in Egypt.
The Stramboli volcano Is in violent
eruption.
Great Britain received 10,057 900 let
ters from America last year.
Thepaternal French government trans-
ports live bees through the mails for
apiarsts.
1t is estimated that the new African
gold mines will double their products
this year.
In the last thirty years the imports OF
silver by India amounted TO about s1,-
l00000,000.
ltaly's government will forbid all pill
grimages to Rome in the event Of chol-
era continuing abroad.
The Austrian government has prohib-
tied the circulation in the country of the
Chicago Stats Zeitung.
Colombia has declared the manufact-
ure OF cigarettes and the sale Of salt to
be national monopolies.
Sunday dances are said TO have be-
come recognized institution with the
"smart set !" in London.
The International Medical Congress,
set for Rome September "a, has been
postponed to April, 1894.
Repeated shocks OF earthquake have
destroyed one-half the town of Matti-
nata on the Adriatic coast.
Rocktown and Cavallv, on the west
coast OF Africa. are now blockaded by
the Liberian government.
The Hungarian crop of wheat is finally
estimated at l20, 100000 bushels, against
l4l ,OOO, 900 bushels last year.
1t is estimated that 100000 persons
have been thrown out of work through
the British coal miners strike.
Tobacco, cigars, cigarettes and the
nasal mixture are forbidden from enter
ing New Zealand by parcel post.
Paris labor unions want to force a gen.
eral strike October because the govern
ment closed their labor exchange.
In England there is considerable talk
about grasshoppers as diet, due to the
statements OF Stanley and other African
explorers.
Diamonds to the value OF over $5,000,-
600 were sold in one lot recently by the
De Beers Company OF South Africa to a
syndicate.
High water continues in Galicia and
Northern Hungary, and great damages
have resulted. In many places the
peasantry are beggared.
The duty which Germany is said to
have levied upon Russian grain is more
than 80 per cent higher than on bread
stutfs from the United States.
England will need millions of bushels
OF American wheat-probably the bulk
OF 100000 quarters deficiency will be
drawn from the United States.
Stonecutters in Germany are collect
ing funds for their fellow-craftsmen at
Bordeaux, France, 1000 of whom are
on strike against a reduction OF wages.
1t is stated that study OF the census
shows that there are in England "a
blind clergymen, q doctors, 2 barristers
and IA lawyers engaged in active work.
India has boarded $135, 1000, 900 worth
of silver and half as much in gold,
mostly in the shape of idols and ona-
ments hidden out of sight, in thirty
years.
1t is said that William Waldorf Astor
has set out to have the best racing
stable in England. He is buying every
thoroughbred of reputation that is
offered to him.
The New Zealand Labor Department
prints monthly journal giving statistics
of the labor market throughout the
world. 1t is distributed among the
workmen free OF charge.
Joseph Hessel, the Austrian, who is
said to have invented the marine screw
propeller, died in abject poverty. But a
monument was erected to his memory
the other day in Vienna.
The Mark Lane Express in its weekly
review OF the British grain trade says !:
The British wheat crop is now estimated
at 100000 bushels. This leaves 1885,
100000 bushels to be imported.
The number of emigrants who during
the past half year sailed from the ports
of Great Britain reached the total of
179,0SS, as against total of 1854 in
the corresponding period Of 1892.
Buckingham Palace is about to be
closed for six months. The sanitation
of the place is imperfect. All the house
hold servants, including the head house
keeper, will be put on board wages,
The Maories of New Zealand are de-
manding home rule. The British have
"raised them from their savage state
and educated them" and now they want
to attend to their own affairs instead of
being governed by the white settlers.
The Pope has directed the Catholic
inhabitants at Naples not to fast on
Fridays as long as the cholera prevails,
as the physical weakness resulting from
fasting might increase the danger of
contagion. .<-..
Three women have been slaughtered
in the open air of London's suburbs by
unknown assassins recently. In each
case the victim was silently and swiftly
killed with q knife, and the murderer
vanished without leaving a trace Of him
sAlt.