Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1883-09-07

he foreign policy Of The home govern,
men, in regard IL the annexation {"
the Pac fic Islands. From their point
If view the question is not one OF am
bron or se,f-aggrand cement hn'
purely self protection. France Is pro-
posing to get rid IF her dangerous
classes hy Exporting them wh''lesai'
10 New Caledonia and the Loyalty Is
lands. In debate ON the subject ~
he G ,anl,cr Of Deputies, II was stat
ed that 60 900 could he sent I" New
Caledonia, aud 1000 are sent away
every year. and To provide wives i"r
the elnigrants, women "f the worst
character are sent from France, 50 that
the I-Iands in qn"~ti"" ate likely to
become a pandemnniu,n ct vice. The
Australians Slggest that al least New
| tininca, together with other Pacific
stands, should be annexed without
delay.
The Missouri Supreme Con lays
| down the conditions which must con
chr to protect the title Of n purchaser
npnn "a sale made by vendor with a
fraudulent intent. He must buy with
ont notice of the bad intent on the
part of he vendor; he must be pnr-
chaser for valuable consideration,
aud he must have paid the money be-
| fore he had notice of the fraud.
Tire question whether q monument
Inscribed with au,i-Christan sentl-
nents onght to he erected IN Chris
,ian cemetery is raised hy the Pitts
burg Post, which is Informed hy cor.
responded that the grave 1T d. Nj.
| Bennett is to tm thus marked IN Green
wood Bennett was an ontspoken III.
ti,lel, and it is proposed to carve some
If his characteristic savings on the
granite pile which admirers have CON
,ributpd to erect.
There is a man up in Vermont whose
brains, according to the medical jour
mails, have dried up, sotha, they rattle
ar und, Ike beans in a bladder, ev ry
time he shakes his head. Southeru
paper thinks this is splendid eff CT
a. hundreds of men are going about
uoabe to show that they had any
trains. If they had something to rat
tie they would be well fixed.
Exact returns of the nationality o
all the Union soldiers in the late wal
show that the native American num-
lered l,523 800, or TAB per cent. o
the whole or lhree-qna terS az nearly
~ may be; the Germans lI6 500 OF
S.76 per cent the Irish l44 200 ~
TIA per cent British Americans So
500 or 2 26 per cent; all other for.
eigners 66.9o0 or 81 per cent.
, About 10000 tons of railroad iron
will, within the next sixty or ninet,
days, he received at Galveston, from
: Europe. Some is already atloat. Tel
Thousand tons are narrow gauge rail
for the Kansas and Gulf Shore line
; The total duties amount to upward o
100000
A writer to a London newspape
says that, after spending month
: among the poor of the city, he ha
: C me to the conclusion that great nun
I bers of them have hatred and feroci
: ~ toward wealth and aristocracy tina
could not be surpassed by any Rus
sian Nihilst or French Communist.
n The idea that lightning is not s.
!. destructive as it used to be in the Uni
= ted States, because the network {
railroads aud telegraph wires lesser
c the number of accidents. is met by tn
Il record of the Summer. Fatal thunde
: bolts have never been more common
!, On the stage of the Buckngha al
e Theatre, at Louisville, KY. in the gre
u ence Of an enormous crowd, Judg
: Hake married John Seemans, a Rus
sian dwarf, forty two inches in heigl
: and thirt-lwo years old, to Maria V a
> of North Carolina, "a midget thrty-cl
inches tall and thirty-five years old.