The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-09-09
FOREIGN FLASHES.
The Immense Sentence OF q
Dishonest City Official.
FRENCH AGRICULTURAL LOSSES.
South Africa Developing a Fruit
Industry - The Italian Silk
CrOp-A New Cable.

New Zealand has refused 10 Join the
Australasian Confederation.
The Italian silk crop this year is about
70 per cent above the average.
Great Britain has about 100000 abso-
lutely homeless wanderers"
Spain will order that the payment of
all her customs duties be made in gold.
A statue to Queen Christina, mother
OF the ex-Queen Isabella, il TO be erected
at Madrid.
Every regiment OF the British army in
India has been rearmed with the new
magazine rifles.
Last season the Carl Rosa Opera Com
pany made profit of about $4,000, the
first in several years.
Russia is feeling the pinch of the tariff
war with Germany. The prices for all
grains are rapidly falling.
The Queen OF Italy has founded a 90.
Ciety for the reform of street children by
teaching them some useful occupation.
A physician and sanitary corps will
scour every railway train between Ma
pies and Rome as precaution against
cholera.
Sibyl Sanderson, who as Phryne" in
Saint Saens' new opera of that name. is
variously praised for her physique and
her voice.
In England this summer six persons
have been sentenced TO terms of hard
labor as punishment for attempting to
commit suicide.
Don Jose Galindo, Mayor OF Valencia,
Spain, has been sentenced TO fourteen
years each on 2l7 indictments for falsify-
ing public documents, or 3,038 years in
all.
There was net decrease in the Brit.
ish revenue receipts during the first
quarter OF the present financial wear OF
G78l ,25S as compared with the same pc
riod last year.
Mrs. Langtry was one of the conspic-
uous figures at the Brighton racing meet
ing, where she appeared attired one dav
in yellow and the next in black and
white striped silk.
Paderewski has gone to his home in
Poland for rest and recreation. He will
remain in retirement until October,
when he is expected to make his reap
pearance IN Paris.
The statement is made in Paris that
French agriculture has lost as much
money this year because of the drought
as the Germans received by way OF war
indemnity after 1870"
South Africa is developing fruit in
dustry. Within couple Of years the
Cape Colony has begun to ship peaches
and other fruits to London, getting them
there in twenty-one days.
Reports from Lancashire announce
that SQnth-American orders for most
classes OF goods have increased in many
quarters, the Argentine trade especially
being much more satisfactory.
Quite a large steamer, built in Scot
land especially for the purpose, taken to
pieces and transported to Peru, has Just
been rebuilt and launched on Lake Titi-
caca, which is 1850 feet above sea level.
There is leaning tower at Caerphilly,
Glamorganshire, England, which stands
n feet in height and is no less than IL
feet out of the perpendicular. The we'll
known Tower of Pisa leans Is feet in $50
feet.
The border line between France and
Germany is to be remarked to avoid un-
pleasant incidents. Large boundary
posts are to be set up, and neutral tracts
are to be marked out in the forest re-
gions.
Dinizulu, the son and heir of Ceta-
wayo, the Zulu King, and Undabuke,
brother of the same monarch, are Napo-
Icons successors in exile at St. Helena.
They have been there since the British
conquered Zululand.
Aspecial committee recently appointed
by the Glasgow corporation to consider
the matter of municipal telephony has
unanimously decided to recommend the
Town Council to apply to the Postmas-
er-General for telephone license.
South Australia's revenue receipts for
the past twelve months were e2, 450 900,
a decrease of $3.50, 1000 as compared with
with the previous year. Victoria's re-
ceipts were G6,963,00 a decrease of
1885, 900 as compared with last year.
King Humbert recently had sold at
public auction in one of the court yards
OI tu6 QulIludl dll IIl6 Olu furniture,
porcelain, glass, ETC., that had gone out
of fashion since Victor Emmanuel's dav.
He made it a veritable clearing-out sale.
Should Christina, the Queen Regent
of Spain, fail to survive the dangerous
operation which now constitutes the
only chance of saving her life, the re-
gency will devolve on her sister.in-law,
the Princess Isabella, widow of the Count
Girgenti.
The new company that proposes to lay
a cable between Australia and California
will obtain subsidy from the German
government for three sections of the line
between the Fiji and Samoan Islands
and between the Samoan Islands and
Honolulu.
The announcement that Prince Max
OF Saxony, nephew of the King, has
quilted the army to become a priest is
true according to the German papers.
The young man was born in 1870, and
recently served as Lieutenant in reg
imant of UhlRne.