Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-01-17
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

NO" h"tut8s OHDeft ID S1ld u
have walked and run from Paris to
Doiogle, l56 miles. in thirty-six con.
secutive hours, or at the average rate
OF four and one-third miles per hour.
According to the English surveyor
general of prisons, the number o.
criminals in England is only about
one-fifth as large as 1t was fifty years
ago, Had the number kept pace with
the Increase of population it would
have been double. This is remark o.
BILE showing
In The garden of Madame Reynen,
ut Roosteren, in Holland, is weeping
rose tree so large that thirty perform
ers were able to sit togeth-
er beneath its branches in Civ
ing concert this summer 1t is
sixty-iive feet in circumference, and
the number of roses upon it at the time
OF the performance was estimated at
ten thousand.
The Germans have given the name
OF Luderiizland to their newly-ac-
CURED possessions in Southwestern
Africa. Recent explorations confirm
the impressions as to the utter sterility
OF this part of Africa which have hith
erto prevailed; and it seems certain
that a large portion # the colony
probably three-quari of its entire
AREAS unfit for human habitation. -
NJ z. Ledger.
The popular idea which assumes
tha' many foreigners reside in japan.
and that large numbers are en-
pioyed in the government serv-
lee, is very erroneous. According to
the latest returns. the total number of
foreign residents Is 2,556, of which
only 592 are Am er:cans There are
but ia foreigners altogether in the
rnbiic service, of which number only
II are Americans. Boston transcript.
The results of the survey and last
census of India are that the area of
the peninsula of Fl ndoostan is 1872, :
ga square miles. and the population
253. S9l S21. Although immense tracts
of country are annually cultivated, ac-
cordirg 10 the most recent survey 49,
900 900 acres of land, suitable for Gull
tiyaiion. have not as yet been plowed
At the same time 12). 900. 900 of acres
are returne as waste lands,
The valleys of Upper Austria are
delightful to the tourist who Just
passes through them, but they are I'M
endurable TO any one brought up
amid wide horizons who has to stay
for any length of time in them.
Vienna is cursel with perhaps the
ost trying climate in Europe.
Double windows and houses thcklv
coated with paint and silicate varnish
do not protect from the dry and lev
winds that prevail for many months,
Or from the dust storms.
Sugar manufacturers in Austria
are in a very unse tied condition. ow-
ing partly to doubts as to what will be
the result of the conference On The
,ulj ct of sugar bounties which has
been proposed by England. As it is.
the statistics relating 10 the prices in the
sugar market during the last six years
are by no means satisfactory. as they
show falling off of at least twenty
Eve per cent. Although this is the
case, no reduction in price has been
-btained by consumers at hom III
fuStries.
A company in Birmingham. En-
gland, are completing a large central
plant for furnishing compressed a If
through mains to the owners of small
Engines. Trials already made are said
10 have shown that the cost to con-
'umers will be considerably less than
Inc cost of steam made on the prem
i>es. Besides doing away with the
l.rt and dust from the coal. and the
saving of room, the use of compressed
air is said to furnish excellent means
Of ventilation. An excellent feature
If the charter of this company is a
clause compelling item to divide all
profits over ten per cent with the con-
sumers Public Opinion
One of the most remarkable
mountain formations in the world il
;hs Temple Mountain. Oh Sassen bay.
in Spilzbergen. l. was visited last
summer b. D.. Klckenthal. a German
geographer, who accompanied whal-
ing expedition to the Arctic seas. He
described it at recent meeting of the
Berlin Geographical Society. "A wall
Of rock. about six miles long and
lhirty-three hundred feet high. rises
perpcndicularly on. of the water. It
is composed of a confused mass of lofty
pillars and columns. with arches and
windows between, which are grouped
together and form three d met series,
one above the other The whole,
shining with yellowish brown color
in the distance, gives the impression of
Il gigantic temple structure. " The
mountain is rooted with level plain