The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-08-19
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Influenza in London Believed
to be Dying Ont.
A POSITIVE CURE FOR LEPROsY
The Farnese Palace In Rome Bought
by the Geman Government
The King Of Assam.

Otto, the insane King Of Bavaria, Ii
said 10 be dying.
Italy officially announces eminently
satisfactory" health reports.
Milan is so satisfied with its municipal
lighting experiment that it is now build
ing street-railway system.
A pedestal and bust have been placed
over the grave Of the late Charles Brad
laugh at Brookwood, England
sympathy for the unemployed poor Of
London would be greater If 80 many OF
them were not seen intoxicated.
The Prussian Home Secretary has is
sued an order to the provincial depart
ments to expel Russian immigrants.
The Italian Catholic mission at Mien
Yang, ninety miles from Hankow, China,
has been destroyed by native rioters.
Revolutionary movements have begun
in the provinces Of Buenos Ayres and
Santa Fe, Argentine, led by the Radicals.
A Continental medical journal says that
of 545 morphinOmaniacs brought under
observation 289 were doctors of mcdi-
cine.
The German Emperor is said 10 "per-
sonally regret" the retirement of Hon.
w. w. Phelps, the former American
Minister.
Ex-Premier Depretis of Italy is re-
ported to have received 100000 from
Talongo, the imprisoned ex-manager OF
the Bank Of Rome.
From an observation tower on the
Brocken in the Harz Mountains eighty
nine cities and sos villages can be seen
in clear weather.
The Cardinal Manning memorial fund
in London has reached total of $50, ,000
The money will be given to the homeless
poor Of that city.
The Indian government has refused to
modify the terms granted to exchange
banks, who have appealed to England
against the decision.
1t is announced that during the Gar
owitz' visit to England Queen Victoria
will confer on him the Order of the Gar
ter at Windsor Castle.
There was something pathetic in the
King of Slams request to the French
invaders that they should stop shooting
and let diplomacy have chance.
The Siam fracas has spread more gen.
eral knowledge OF that Asiatic country,
its style of government and its resources
than any other event possibly could have
done.
Cholera has broken out in St. Louis,
Senegal, capital of the French possess
sions in Senegambia. The deaths have
already reached an average of fifty
daily.
The remarkable price of $500 was paid
in London recently for fossil egg Of the
epyornis, an extinct wingless bird that
inhabited Madagascar in prehistoric
times.
The new Belgian Constitution will pro-
vide that three-fourths of the Senate
shall be elected by direct universal suf-
frage aud the other fourth by Communal
Councils.
Austria is having hard time over the
resumption of gold payments. Gold is
at a premium at Vienna, as it is every
where in Europe when wanted in any
quantity.
1t has been calculated that the annual
income of the London Hebrews is nearly
G5, ,000,0 900, which means that they are
eight and one-quarter times richer than
the Gentiles.
Shippers were astonished to learn re-
Gently that from the comparatively un-
known port of Rosario, Argentine Re-
public, 100, l41 tons of wheat were ex-
ported last May.
The German War Minister has decided
that the handles of all hatchets, axes
and besieging material of the German
army must hereafter be made of Ameri-
can hickory wood.
An overhead electric railway for Ma
Piles is proposed by Sig. Avena, local
engineer. On account of the narrow
streets and steep grades surface transit
is not advantageous.
Several of the principal London banks
have informed their clerks that during
the hot weather no reproach will be cast
on them if they come to business in
light coats and straw hats.
DR.. Tomazoli, a noted Russian physi-
clan, is about to make public what he
claims to be positive cure for leprosy.
The chief ingredient in the remedy is
whey obtained from sheep.
Daniel Colladon, whose death at Ge-
neva occurred recently, was one of Switz-
erland's most famous men. He first
lighted Geneva with gas in 1S43 (he was
then Al years old), and afterward in
vented the fairy fountain"
Women bootblacks have been making
their appearance in increasing numbers
lately in Toulon and other French towns,
tidy and coquettish girls, who wear
gauntlet gloves in their efforts to out
shine their male competitors.
Influenza is believed to be dying out
in London after being more or less prev
alent since the first outbreak over the
world several years ago. For a consid-
cradle time the number of deaths from
the malady have been about twenty a
week. During the second week of June
only six such deaths occurred.