Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-04-23
FOREIGN ITEMS.
THE PROPOSED BEAUTY SHOW IN
PARIS. FRANCE.
The Fall Hat EVIL in London-Canaoas
Future Misunderstanding BE-
tween Germany and Great
Britain.

in Dublin.
Guy Lassac the French chemist, is to
have a monument.
Bernhardt is making tour OF Algeria
with great success.
The strikes in the German provinces
are rapidly spreading.
Martel. head of the great distllery at
Cognac, France, is dead
The King OF Greece is an enthusiastic
and successful fisherman.
A vigilance committee for Bridge OF
| Weir. Scotland, has been formed.
The Prince of Whales has accepted an
invitation to dine with Mrs. Mackay.
The British House OF Commons has
voted col 900 900 to increase the navy.
Mr.. and Mrs Gladstone are preparing
for the celebration OF their golden we'd
ding.
A new theatre, to cost 100000, is to
be built on the Champ de Mars, St. Pe-
tersburg.
Charles Dickens favorite Kentish
home at Gad's Hill, and where he died,
| is for sale.
Cholera is raging in the Philippine Is
lands and yellow fever i'll Cuba and Klo
de Janeiro.
The Duke and Duchess OF Marlborough
have taken a house on Carlton terrace Tor
the season.
A Portuguese anti-savary society has
been formed, with King Luis rs Honor
airy President.
Deniston, Scotland, has the largest
bread factory. The little baker is disap-
pearing in Great Britain.
NJ. Beaurepaire, Advocate-General, has
been appointed Protector-General o
France, displacing Bouchez.
The British record of foot ball for 1885
shows the appalling number OF eigh
death and five serious injuries.
German ship-builders at Schwerin, Tet
low, Stettn ard other places, and Berl1
wood workers. threaten to strike agains
low wages.
There has been noticeable exodus o
Russia students from Zurich since tn,
discovery that bombs were being secretly
made there.
The Russian newspapers have beer
prohibited from publishing reports of thu
discovery of the illicit manufacturing o
bombs at Zurich.
There is powerful effort in India t
establish the principal seat of Govern
ment at Simla, but the Viceroy resolutel
opposes the movement,
Herbert Bismarck declares his inter
views with Salisbury have resulted in
complete understanding between Gei
many and Great Britain.
A public debate has been arranged il
London for May, between Henry Georg
and Samuel Smith, the Gladstonian mem
Der of Parliament from Elinshire.
A small leasehold property in Worces
tershre is announced for sale by auction
held for the risidue of term Of 200
years created in the year 1900.
1t is stated the Egyptian Government
will probably raise new loan for irregs
ton works. Further movements in thi
respect are being carried out year b
year.
The Chamber of Deputies last wee
adopted bill providing for the distribr
ton OF the sewerage OF Paris on the plai
of Acheres, near the forest of Saint Gel
main.
Countess Rodetzky, granddaughter
the famous Field Marshal Rodetzky, con
mitted suicide at Vienna Monday, shoe
ing herself to avoid critical surgical OF
Grafton.
Among Bismarck's visitors on his Sc,
enty-fourth birthday was Emperor Wi
liam, who presented a mastitf to him
replace the famous Roichshund. Thel
We're many distinguished visitors.
The st. Petersburg police are said t
have discovered in the suburbs OF s
Petersburg an important clew to the a
lodged conspiracy against the Gar. It
said the Gar is thoroughly alarmed.
The tall female hat now so agitatas TIL
minds OF the male frequenters OF the LoI
don pits that it is proposed that the p
should be divided like Quaker meetin!
houSe-the men sitting ON one side an
, the women on the other.
Ash Wednesday no longer interfere
with theatrical performances in I.ondor
Whereas all the theatres used to close O
that day, only two this year paid an
attention to it, and these merely al
nouhced that they would keep open.
The statement OF the Panama railroa
for the year ending December 3lst show
the gross earnings to be 5000 $50, an il
crease OF Sol ,G61 Operating expenses
including interest charges, $2,540,ll4,
decrease of $329, 636, and net earning
81 100, 344, an increase OF $780,
Paris is to have Il beauty show wher
the first prize will be $4,000, and the pull
lie will be invited to make bets upon tn
different contestants. Leghorn recent
had such a show, but the exhibits WEI
SO unsatisfactory that the audience brok
} up the affair by kissing them off the stag,
Goodwin Smith has a 2-column lettt
in the London Times declaring. with hi
accustomed vigor, that Canada will |
ruined unless she obtains commercial r,
eiprocity with the United States, and tn,
the annexation feeling is growing rapid
IN the Dominion solely because the rec
procity is denied.
From the time her child was born Mr.
Robert Horace Walpole, formerly Mi,
; Louise Corbin OF New York, has bee
: very Ill, and her friends fear that she ca
not recover. Since the scandal betwea
her husband and Miss Nieldman was e,
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