Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-07-19

Labor Orsanizations-Up in Baiion-
The Fast steamship Line-Beg-
gary as Profession-Notes.

progress all over uerinduy.
Russia contemplates a new loan Tor
strategic railways and forts.
Fears in Russia OF bad crops have been
dissipated by favorable weather.
Queen Christina went up in an army
balloon 1000 feet at Madrid, last week.
The railroad to be built from Joppa to
Jerusalem will have American coaches.
Herr Hasenclever, formerly leading
socialist member OF the reichstag, Is dead.
The three missing steamers belonging
to the Wissmann expedition have arrived
at Zanzibar.
Garter won the Midland Breeders
stake at Fair Oaks, Birmingham, En-
gland, on the Sd.
The Shah was received by Queen Vic
toria at the state entrance at Windsor
castle. on the Sd.
It IL predicted that the number OF
Americans visiting Paris this summer
will exceed 100000.
There are eight ladies' Of title in En-
gland who carry on the business OF dress
and mantle-making.
Paris has no flies. The Parisians say
that il is on account Of the thorough
cleanliness of the city.
The American team did the BEST shoot
ing at the 200, 500 and 6O0-yards shoot
ing at London on the I'd.
Sir I.epel Griffin proposes to coloniZe
Cashmere with 3,00O,0 900 Englishmen as
a bulwark to the Indian Empire.
The Russian army is to be equipped
with new rifles OF small caliber. The
weapons will be manufactured in France.
The British bark Ecuado, Captain
Hughes, from Buenos Ayres, April 23d.
for Barbados, has been lost with all her
crew.
The French Chamber Of Deputies has
voted the Urgency Panama Canal Relief
bill, and later passed it by vote OF 1888
to So.
A London paper says 500 Cornwall
families are reported TO be wearing Grape
for relatives lost in the Conemaugh
Valley.
The new Duchess OF Portland ranks
eighteen in the list OF peeresses, and the
American Duchess OF Marlboro takes pre-
cedence.
Last year the number OF visitors to
Shakespeare birthplace was $500,
Americans constituting one-fourth OF the
number.
The National Amalgamated Sailors and
Firemen's Union OF Great Britain and
Ireland is now reported to have 10000
members.
A subscription bar is soon to be opened
at Berlin, where for $3.50, paid III adj
vance, a man can drink all he chooses as
often as he chooses.
Porto Perraio, Napoleon's landing
place at the Island OF Elba, is now used
by the fleet OF steamships which bring
iron ore to American.
Princess Louise Victoria Alexander
Dagvnar of Wales, eldest daughter Of the
Prince ana Princess OF Wales, has been
betrothed to Earl Fife.
| Russia has readopted the law which
| forbids heirs to the throne contracting
marriage with persons not members OF
the orthordox Greek Church.
London is so crowded with Americans
| that those who have not engaged their
rooms in hotels beforehand stand chance
OF having to sleep in Trafalgar Square.
The Gossips OF Europe tell great yarns
about the Shah of Persias grandeur. Ii
is said that the prescious stones inn
bedded in his throne are worth $50, 000,-
600.
Arab Pasha, the Egyptian patriot
complains that his incarceration at Cey-
lon is killing him. The climate is toe
damp and he is tortured with rheuma-
tsm.
| NJ Meyer, Paris finaucier, has been
sentenced to Imprisonment for one yeai
and to pay fine of 5000 francs for being
connected with the Society Mobiliere
frauds.
VI. Eihel, whose name has been ex.
| allied by his great tower, is 81 years old
His real name is said to be Bonickhau-
sen, and his reasons Tor changing it are
| unknown.
! The watchmakers of Prescott, England
who have long been famous, finding that
their trade is declining, have decided tC
build factory and work on the Ameri
can plan.
The height OF snobbishness il reached
at English bazars, where money is taken
Ms the price OF an introduction to this
and that beauty or titled lady presiding
over tables.
Beggary has been reduced to an art as
we'll as profession in Rome, In re-
cent case before the police an old mar
admitted that he had rs many as fifty lies
in daily use.
An American has set up school in
| Paris and advertises that he will teach
any Frenchman to speak the only sensi
bic language in the world in six weeks al
a cost OF only S25.'
The large steam hammers in use in
| England and on the Continent for max
ing the iorsings required for artillery anC
machinery are to be quite generally re
placed by hydraulic presses.
The new treaty between Japan anC
Mexico mas not been ratified. The treaty
between the United States and Japan
which was signed February 10th, will g,
into ioce February IL, 1890.
The second daughter OF Gen. Boulangei
is to marry the son of the sister-in-law o
the ex King OF Nagles. Her title is
long way off from royal, however, as sh,
will only I've plain little Countess.
A novel iuncsionary in Persia is tn,
Chief OF the Press. He edits four news
papers and has other duties. This not
able journalistic lum,nary is named Nah
| med Hassah- X han Ekbalus-Saltane.