Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-01-04
FOREIGN FLASHES.

One-thlrd OF all the landed property
OF Russia is mortgaged.
Sir Edwin Arnold says that there are
about 10000 "poetesses in Great Brit
ain.
Thirty relatives of the Paris bomb
thrower will likely be expelled from
France.
Grating American on French vines
promises to save the French plants from
destruction.
A mine Of pumice stone has been de-
veloped on Teneriffe Mountain, 1000 feet
above the sea.
Russia's sending OF an agent to Abys-
slnia is construed as an act of direct
hostility to Italy.
The Hungarian Prime Minister has
succeeded in re- establishing a Royal
Court in Buda Pesth.
A single hours frost in the district
around Cognac, France, destroyed $l5,-
600, 600 worth OF vintage.
Five-sixths of all the girls who went
into domestic service in London last year
had never heard OF toothbrush.
Statistics show that Russia produces
and consumes a smaller quantity OF beer
than any other Of the great nations.
An electrical launch from the Chicago
Fair parades the canals in Venice, where
it has created favorable impression.
The Woman's Suffrage League has is
sued a manifesto protesting against any
woman working to support her husband.
The first general election in New Zea-
land in which women had the franchise
resulted in the defeat of the government.
Forty thousand francs have already
been subscribed in Paris for the Gounod
memorial, the Municipal Council giving
900.
The female typewriters in British gov
ernment offices are about to be made
permanent officials, with a right to a
pension.
Father Hyacinth is preaching in a
French Protestant chapel still with the
spirit and aim, he says, of a Catholic
reformer.
The King of Corea has purchased an
American ncandescent-light plant,
which will be used to light his palace
and grounds.
London and Berlin, tabulated as hav-
ing the lowest percentage of deaths from
typhoid in the total mortality, use only
filtered water.
Spanish merchants and producers are
not pleased with the commercial treaties
being negotiated with England, Ger
many and Italy.
The Paris illustrated papers are to be
rnC bro mod from, ,lliohipa, int, e
anarchists by an order issued by the
Project of Police.
The first aluminium vessel ever con-
structed, the yacht Vendenesse, built for
Comte Chabannes, has been launched at
st. Denis. France.
The Peruvian Congress has authorized
a loan, which will probably be taken at
home, of 10000 soles (about $4,000
in American gold).
The hereditary throat trouble is fast
reducing the Princess of Wales to the
stone-deaf condition of her mother, the
Queen of Denmark.
Peasants of Bitonto, near Rome, sat
urated a customs officer with coal oil
and set fire to him for breaking up a fete
they were observing.
Experiments are being made by the
French Department of Agriculture to
transform tree twigs and leaves into food
for horses and cattle.
Germany has decided that cinnamon
yellow is the best color for war ships.
The French stick to the gray tint, some
thing like wet sail cloth
Last year, according to the statis-
tics recently compiled, $4,000 men
and $4,000 women left Japan to find
homes for themselves abroad.
The barracks built for European SOL
iiers are generally far better than the
houses of the peasantry. Chelsea bar
racks IN England cost f245 per man.
\ large elephant had to be killed in
Stuttgart on account of his temper. A
single bullet from smallbore rifle, de-
Iivered in his forehead, dropped him
dead.
During the last year the property in
London insured by fire insurance COM
panies and by the underwriters at
Lloyds amounted to more than $780,
100000.
In order to promote the interest OF
yachting the Cercle des Beaux Arts has
put the use of its clubhouse at the use
II the Yacht Club of France for the
present.
The Watkins tower, now being built
1t Wembly Park, England, to overtop
The Eitlel tower, has reached height OF
seventy feet. Its total height will be
!, $50 feet.
A grave scandal has come to light at
indore, India. Treasure, which has long
been supposed to be guarded in the
khasgi treasury, amounting to 900. 900
'upees, is missing,
Two hundred Moorish Hebrews, ex-
Delled from Melilla recently by order OF
he Spanish General, have arrived Mt
Nemours i'll the Province OF Oran in
destitute condition.
The Minister OF Paris Police, NJ. Le-
,ine, thinks that vanity is very power
nj motive among anarchists, and with
he hope OF quieting their activity he
'egs the papers not to publish their por-
rats.
The returns issued 10y the London
Board of Trade show that during No
'ember the imports decreased cS, lOO, 900
md the exports decreased 5000, 900, as
ompared with the corresponding month
asst year,
The report is that the Emperor of
Russia, being convinced that England is
ecretly bound to the so-called triple al |
lance, has formed another quadruple al
lance between Russia, France, Denmark
md Greece.
\ royal decree has been issued in Bel
,ium appointing commission TO inquire |
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