The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-04-22
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Jinrikshas Gain a Footing in
South Africa.
THE RECEIPTS AT MONTE CARLO
Socialists in Convention at Ghent-
Political Leaders Organizing
for Election in Peru.

Irish societies are arranging for big
amnesty meeting in London in the near
future.
-Four hundred houses have been burned
in the suburbs Of Manila, Philippine
Islands.
Birmingham, England, is making a
strenuous effort to suppress Sunday
trading.
The Lord Mayor of London is paid the
same salary as the President Of the
United States.
Railway extensions are to be built in
Upper and Lower Egypt to cost Of
about Il 100000.
The English papers comment APPROX
ingly upon the increase OF Parsee philan
thropy in Bombay.
Electricity, it is said, has been success
fully introduced in England and France
for purifying sewage.
Great discomfort is said to exist among
the French troops at Dahomey, and de-
sertions are OF daily occurrence.
Famine RACES in Cauca Valley, Colom-
bia. 1t is very populous district, rich
and fertile, but the crops have failed.
Despite reported denials it is certain
that the war Office is planning to shortly
increase the peace force OF the Austrian
army.
The government Of Spain has rendered
to the United States as gift the repro
duced flagship OF Columbus, the Santa
Maria.
Although the election does not take
place for more than a year, the party
leaders Of Peru are already organizing
for the struggle.
In Italy one and one-third million
acres OF land are irrigated; in Spain two
and one-half million acres are cultivated
by the same means.
The largest private gift to the Pope on
the occasion OF the Papal jubilee came
from the Duke of Norfolk, who sent the
Holy Father $250,000.
The London Mark Lane Express says
Russia is now shipping to Great Britain
alone 100000 bushels of wheat weekly,
and India will be doing as much after
Easter.
The United States Minister at Con-
stantinople has protested to the sublime
Porte against the opening of letters sent
to him under the Consular seal from
Marsovan.
Next to the largest diamond in the
world is being cut and polished at Ant
werp. Uncut it weighed 474 carats, 274
of which it will lose in preparation for
the market.
Another insult to Scottish sentiment!
A Highlander in his native kilt has lately
suffered arrest in Rome for "outraging
public decorum" by appearing in such
Indecent" attire.
Socialist delegates from Germany, the
Netherlands, Belgium, England, Switzer-
land, France and Italy at recent meet
ing decided that the International So
cialist Congress in Zurich shall begin on
August 6 and last for one week.
japanese jinrikshas have gained con-
siderable footing in the towns of South
Africa. In Cape Town, Durham and
Pietermaritzburg they are well patron
lied, and are crowding out the cabs and
public buggies. Katfirs furnish the mo-
tive power.
The receipts of the Monte Carlo Casino
during the year which ended on March
81 were larger than in any other year of
its existence. They amounted to a.
100000 francs. Five-hundred franc
shares are now quoted at more than
$500 francs.
Partisan ladies are apparently behind
hand as compared with Americans, and
even with the ladies of several other
large Continental cities, with regard to
cycling. In the French Capital only
twenty-six ladies have applied for the
necessary license.
The Russian government is considering
the question of joining the Anu Daria
with the Caspia Sea. This new water
way would not only give great impetus
to Russian trade with Central Asia, but
would provide the means of irrigating
vast tracts of good land.
In buying the Pail Mall Gazette W.
w. Astor has not pleased all the Eng
lish people. Mr.. Labouchere has been
asking what would be thought of the
Duke of Westminster buying Wash
ington paper and taking q share in
American political journalism.
In the March number of the New Re-
view, London, under the title "The Com
ing Cholera" Ernest Hart, NJ. D., con-
tributes paper, in which he empha-
sizes and adduces facts in support of his
well-known theory that water polluted
by cholera filth is the one sole method of
diffusion of this dread disease.
Mr.. Carlisle's new private secretary is
Captain Samuel N. Gaines of Kentucky.
Captain Gaines was gallant Confeder-
ate soldier, was educated at the Univer-
sity of Virginia, and has since been con-
nacted with Kentucky journalism. He
is bright writer and very attractive
man socially.
Emin Pasha's fate still remains good
deal of mystery, but the great travel
er's little daughter, Ferda, who made
her way from Wadelai to Bagamoyo two
years ago, nearly starved, still remains
at the latter place. She has quite re-
covered from the privations of that ter
rible time, and is described as being a
Sprishtly, well-grown girl of u,