The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-03-25
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
The Pope Hopes to See England a
Catholic Country Soon.
A NEW EIGHT -YEAR-0LD PRODIGY.
Drunkenness on the Increase In
lreland-TippO Tbs Son De-
feated In Africa.

Thousands Of cotton spinners in Eng
land are suffering for food and clothing.
Cairo in the land OF the Pharaohs is
soon to be illuminated by the electric
light.
Lord Salisbury will soon stump Eng
land in opposition to Gladstone's home
rule bill.
The Spanish government has issued
orders Tor the strictest sanitary precau-
tions at once.
IL is claimed that Ferdinand de Les.
seps still has handsome income from
his Suez canal stock.
The French government has approved
a proposition to lay a cable between New
Caledonia and Australia.
Turkey is levying a substantial duty on
all electric apparatus and machinery inn
ported into that country.
In many Of the English country houses
there are now rooms set aside especially
Tor the ladies to smoke in.
French newspapers will hereafter be
held responsible for financial advertise
ments published by them.
There has been serious rioting in the
town oil Syobosylo, Hungary, over the
imposition OF new market tolls.
Madame Christine Nilsson has given
500 toward founding a hospital in
France for the cure Of throat diseases.
In bidding the English pilgrims fare
well Pope Leo said he hoped to soon see
England once more Catholic country.
The French Chamber has imposed
tax on cycles. 1t is estimated that the
tax will bring in I,O00,00J francs year.
An international fire brigade congress
and exhibition is to be held in London
from the 9TH to the 18th OF next August.
At Y Venna $4,000 men, young and
mldd e-aged, have formed a bache ors'
club, and have vowed never to get mar.
RED.
The historic chateau at Grey, France.
has been sold to rich manufacturer TO
5jO,OOO. 1t was once the home of Vol
talre.
The second electric cable made in
France ie now being laid between Mar
sci Ies and Tunis, distance of about 10
miles.
Britain is among the lowest of civil
lied contries in regard to the tender agt
at which it allows child labor in fac
tories.
During the year 1892 the number o
foreigners naturalized in England was
", including IA Germans, IL Russians
and 2 Americans.
The London police now use electric
bul's-eye lamps. These lamps weigh
five pounds, and will give a continuous
light for seven hours.
Dispatches from Congo Free State re-
ceived at Brussels state that Tippo Tbs
son was defeated by the anti slavery
force and 500 captives liberated.
The Brazilian government has ordered
10000 small caliber rifles and So, ,0O00, 900
cartridges from the Lowe Small arms
Manufacturing Company of Berlin.
If enough bye elections for Parliament
take place, Gladstone will soon have 100
majority in the House of Commons in
stead OF between forty and fifty, as now.
Thirty miles OF underground electric
railway, similar to the City and South
London line, has been proposed for Ber-
lin at an estimated expense of $4,000
900.
Several mill owners in Haywood, Eng
land, have closed their factories so as to
assist in bringing about the desired re-
duction of wages. Thousands of looms
are idle.
Consul Mason at Frankfort has made
a report to the State Department show
ing that the United States is the chief
source of supply from which Germany
draws her grain.
Count Leo Tolstoi, who spent his time
and fortune year ago in alleviating the
sutferings of the starving Russians, now
asserts that drunkenness was one of the
great causes OF the famine.
The Bank of England authorities are.
it is said, about to take proceedings
against certain persons who for trading
purposes have been issuing announc :
ments on strips of paper resembling
bank notes.
1t is stated that Mr.. Gladstone has in
timated definitely his intentions to ap-
point a poet laureate in succession to
Lord Tennvson. The difficulty in max
ing the selection has, however, not vet
been overcome.
Pesth rejoices in the honor of publish
ing the first telephone newspaper.
Subscribers receive the news of the dav
in the form of verbal summary by tele-
phone sent daily between in the morn
ing and 9 in the evening.
Jeanne Blancard is the name of a new
eight, ear-old prodigy that has arisen in
France, where she is amazing the people
by the way in which she can play from
memory the most difficult works of the
masters and improvise in any school
if the teacher isn't present,
Land in Great Britain sold at consid-
erably higher prices last year than dur
ing the two years previous. The statis-
tics of sales show that in England SO. .254
acres were sold during 1892, realizing an
average price o G4S per acre, an increase
of e5 over 1891, which was in turn an
increase of GS over 1890.