Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-01-29
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

kerosene oil is responsible for
nine-tenths OF the fires that take place
in China.
The Emperor OF Austria Is very |
fond of channels shooting, and in that
sport uses an old-fashioned muzzle-
loading gun.
The great game of Japan is go"
It is something like chess, and the
masters of it sometimes take twenty
four hours for game.
English girls are said to laugh at
the idea of wearing stays while playing
tennis They mean business when they
90 into court. and for the moment
forget to worry about what sort OF
figure they cut.
-'Walking Day" is the odd and ap-
propriate term of a holiday in War
rington, England, when children and
teachers march in procession, and large
numbers of the people take excursions
to various points of interest.
Old Emperor William as Jupiter,
Emperor Frederick as Mars, Empress
Augusta as Juno and Empress Victoria
as Minerva are four statues OF sand
stone which have been placed in inches
above the grand entrance to the Royal
| Schloss in Berlin.
The Austrian Consul at Yokohama
reports great difference in commercial
morality between the merchants OF
China and Japan The Japanese, he
says, are neither enterprising nor up
right, but the Cinnamon are solid and
trustworthy in every respect.
"A few years ago the Argentine
Republic did not raise wheat enough
for home consumption. Last year it
exported 100000 bushels. Immense
tracts of pasture are being converted
into farm land and the country is be-
coming a great grain-growing region.
English business men who have to
send large quantities of mail matter to
distant parts of the world find that
they can save great deal of money
by sending their mail in bulk to Bel
GUM and posting it there, the rates
being so much cheaper. 1t is said that
the saving to one firm alone by this
course amounts to $4,000 year, and
there is loud demand for reform in
the British rates.
An elevator for canal-boats, as
substitute for five or six locks, is in
successful operation at Argues, near
St. Omer, France. The boats are lift
ed to the height of nearly fifty feet by
hydraulic pressure, inclosed in reser-
voir made of wrought-iron plates, and
separated from the rest of the canal
by iron gates. When the required
height has been reached, the gates are
opened and the boat is drawn out into
the main channel.
"A British agent at Cettinje, Monte
negro, reports that there is only one
road fit for wagon in the lole coun-
try, and that there is practically no
lndu Try, Montenegrins scorniug any
pursuit but that Of arms. All the
tailors, painters, carpenters, masons
and other artisans are foreigners, and
all goods except those which are the
direct product of agriculture are i'm
ported, and are of the commonest de-
scription, except the green and white
cloth used for mems coats
The English law carefully regu-
lates the subject of the sailors grog.
Every ship must carry a quantity Of
lime or lemon juice as an antiscorbu-
tic, containing fifteen per cent. of pala-
table fruit sirups, that is, sound rum
OF specific gravity fixed by the stat
ute or sound brandy of quality SINH
larly fixed. The Board OF Trade tells
how the grog shall be mixed. One
ounce of the lime juice is to be mixed
with one ounee OF sugar and at least
half pint Of water and must be served
- " time for dinner.
What we are doing for the childre.
to-day, we are doing for the Nation to-
morrow. This is the teachers field OF
work, and it is a grand one. Let the
politician work upon the grown-up men
all he may; he can do little, after all
that is, in improving them mentally
ana morally. They have passed the
plastic stage. But there is hope in the
children. Those who would do good
TO humanity will be most successful
who take the children by the hand
me teacher is the true state-builder.-