The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-11-18
FOREIGN FLASHES.
James Gordon Bennett Injured
in a Coaching Accident.
THE BIG APPETITE OF LONDON
Chief Result Of the General Election
for the Lower House of the
Diet In Sweden.

Constantinople is to be lighted by
electricity.
The Socialist movement il making
rapid progress in Austria.
Italy is making an earnest effort TO ex-
tirpate brigandage in Sicily.
The German soldiers cooking utensils
are TO be made Of aluminium.
A new industry in France is the sell
Ing Of milk frozen solid in cans.
England received 100000 letters
from the United States last year.
The Turkish cavalry is generally ad-
mitted to be the finest in all Europe.
Belgian forces have captured Kirundu
an Arab stronghold near Stanley Falls.
The increased expense OF the German
armyis to be borne by tax on wine and
tob tcco.
The Sultan Of Morocco has forbidden
the export OF grain from his territories
after December 8, 1893.
Brazieres, the Paris writer, claims to
have discovered the identity OF the Man
with the Iron Mask"
Following the plaque OF wasps last
Summer, Europe is suffering from an un-
usual quantity OF moths.
Marshal MacMahon's memoirs are
likely to be suppressed by his family be-
cause too critical OF contemporary men.
There are at the present moment
eleven pretenders to the various thrones
OF Europe trying to make good their
claims.
The West Australian Parliament is
dealing with a measure of Chinese re-
striction on the legislation of the other
colonies.
Marquis di Rudini says Italv's mill
tary expenses should be reduced, as the
| taxpayers are now burdened to the limit
Of their strength.
According to the Roumanian papers
the rumor that Queen Elizabeth contem-
plates an early return to Bucharest has
no foundation in fact.
The chief result OF the general election
for the Lower House of the Swedish Diet
has been to strengthen the Moderate
Free Trade or Center party.
According to statistics Just issued in
England the condition OF farm laborers
in thirteen counties OF Ireland is now
better than at any previous time.
Social Democrats in Germany find
great difficulty, their annual report says,
in providing speakers, organizers and
reading matter to meet the demand.
Baron Rothschild has bought large
tract of land, the personal property Of
of the Sultan, near the Jordan. He in
tends to found there large Jewish col
ony.
France is going to try the plan of
printing postal cards in blocks, with
stubs, like q check book, so that the
writer can keep notes of his correspond
ence.
German financiers are disappointed
over the Italian Premier's exposition OF
ltaly's finances, and all chance of that
country obtaining loan in Berlin van
ishes.
An encounter between the police and
the natives on the Ord river, West Aus
tralia, resulted in one policeman being
speared and twenty-three natives being
shot dead.
Irish railways carry great many more
first-class passengers than any other
country in the United Kingdom, and
England heads the list in third-class
passengers.
London has big appetite. 1t devours
every year over 400,000 oxen, 100000
sheep, 100000 calves, zoe, 900 hogs, fowls
innumerable, and consumes 0,SO0,OOO
gallons OF milk.
The government OF West Australia
proposes to float loan of 954O,00O, to
be expended in railway construction and
in the development OF gold fields and
other mineral resources.
Maps for the use OF farmers, describ-
ing the chemical qualities of the land in
various parts of the country and naming
the best manures for each section, have
been proposed in France.
1t appears that the experiments for
some time past in France for obtaining
a satisfactory method of color printing
on leather have been so far successful as
to open up q prospect of new and at
tractive industry.
The contract for boring 8 tunnel
through the Simplon has just been signed.
1t has been undertaken on behalf of the
Jura Simplon Railway Company by NM.
Brand, Brandau 4 Co. of Hamburg and
Locher & Co. OF Zurich.
The monument which has been erected
upon the battle field of Soferino is one
of the largest, if not the largest, of its
kind in all Europe. 1t consists of a
tower seventy-four meters high, sur
mounted by an electric lamp.
The attempts made by a syndicate of
Franco-Vienese tailors to revive the
bright raiment of the country noblemen
of the last two centuries and of the dam
dies OF the Directory have fallen through.
Evening dress will remain as it is.
Newspaper life appears to be very ex-
citing in Russia. An editor in Kursh
recently discharged proof reader. Later
in the day the man returned, killed the
editor and then opened fire on the staff.
Two were killed, and the other escaped
by jumping out of the window.