Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1894-06-08
FOREIGN cABLEGRAMs.

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There is prospect that the Panama
scandal may be revived in France.
China is manning a chain Of forts all
along her seacoagt with Krupp guns.
Mrs. Langtry has purchased the Cob
ham Park stud farms in England for
$4,000.
Great Britain, France and Russia each
contribute 500, 900 year to the civil list
OF the King Of Greece.
The malady from which the King OF
Siam is now suffering is due to the abuse
Of alcoholic stimulants.
England's Admiralty has ordered a
new cruiser that will make at least
twenty-three knots an hour.
| The harbor of Glasgow will soon be
undermined by seven tunnels, running
at a safe distance under its bed.
The decision Of the Court OF Appeals
in Holland that kissing is not an ofense
has attracted some attention in Europe.
Russia's revenue fell off about $10,-
| 000, 900 in the last nine months OF 1893,
compared with the similar period in 1892.
Lobengula is on the banks Of the Fam
besi with 1000 young warriors. He pro-
poses to keep up the fight with the Brit
| ish.
| Labor agitators in England are enlist
| ing public sympathy in behalf OF the
| oSerworked barmaids, of whom there are
| 100000.
/ Emperor William of Germany was
much pleased with one of his Christmas
presents. II was bust of himself made
Of plaster OF paris.
Under law recently put in force in
France only physicians graduated in
France are allowed to use the title Doc
tor" in that country.
| The tax imposed on women for wearing
trousers by the French government
ranges from $40 to $l2, but all women
are not given this privilege.
The name most whispered now as the
strongest candidate for Pope to succeed
Pope Leo XIII. is Monsignor Dominica
Jacobini, the Papal Nuncio in Lisbon.
When the Paris Salon OF 1894 closes
next June the Palais de PIndustrie will
be devoted to an exhibition of books and
of all industries connected with paper.
| The bicycle has brought about the re-
opening OF many of the old-time country
hotels in France, which had closed long
lago because OF the introduction OF rail
roads.
1t is said that in making racing and
pleasure boats French constructors are
creeping rapidly up to their English RI
walls and are seriously striving to over
haul them.
new insurance company is being
organized at Berlin by body of respon.
| lsible men, mainly jewelers., to insure
4 the members against losses at tina hands
OF burglars.
Il remarkable archaeological discovery
is announced from Treves. In excavat.
ing the old Roman walls close to the Mo
selle complete Roman pottery estab-
ment was discovered.
In Italy oil is now made from grape
seed. When perfectly clean and vel
dried the seeds are ground like wheat
The finer the -four thus obtained the
, greater the yield of oil.
A letter received from Samarcand de-
scribes the ravages of the famine through
out Turkestan. The cause OF the famine
is the excessive cultivation Ut cotton tC
the exclusion of cereals.
English scientists are very much wor
: ried over the results of an investigation
which has shown beyond doubt that the
seas around the British coast are being
, rapidly exhausted of fish.
The rate of mortality OF London il
shown by recent report to have stead
lily decreased with the introduction and
perfection OF adequate means of dispos
! ing Of the sewage of the city.
According to decision just rendered
by the Supreme Court of the German
Empire boycotting is not forbidden b,
the law OF the land, although it is to b'
condemned on moral grounds.
Camels have been introduced upon {
, farm not far from Kieff, Russia. A
present eighteen camels are at worl
J blowing, and their keep is found to cos
| much less than that OF horses.
! Madrid is to emulate Chicago. A roya
edict has been promulgated, and on Apri
: ish capital an international exhibition
,, that will last until October 81.
Another Communist colony is to b
started in East Africa. Everything will
be managed by voluntary groups of self
governing men, who will own all the
can raise, but have no exclusive right +
! the land.
The cold weather causes the creates
misery in many quarters of Berlin, an,
/ additional shelters have been opened fo
the accommodation of the 1000 or NOR
: people who receive coffee and bread fire.
, Of charge.
The English rival to the Eitfel towe
| at Wembley Park will probably be com
T pleted by the end of this year. TIL
, tower has general resemblance to tina
: OF Eiffel, but is more pointed and sien
l der. The four legs which support it ar
e founded in concrete to q depth of sey
: enty-five feet, and stand 800 feet apart
The entire work is of steel.