Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-01-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
A Rr;ef Mention of Matters Of Gen-ral
Interest.-Notes Gathered from
Home and Abroad.

Miss.
Bernhard gave ten performances
at Cairo, Egypt, recently.
Last year 1856 people died OF de-
lirium tremens in England.
The Paris police will search the
houses OF all known anarchists.
The Sultan is one of the most en-
thusiastic chess players in Europe.
In Russia last year 10000 dram
shsps were done away with by law.
Lord Coleridge has collected $35 ,Ooo
for the widow and daughters OF Mat
thew Arnold.
The British government states that
successor to SackVllle West Will
shortly be appointed.
Final preparations have been r1ade
for the official trial of the 15-inch
pneumatic dynamite gun.
Another valuable coal deposit has
lust been discovered in Dakota, three
miles north OF Centervlle.
The Italian railway system is I'M
dergoing radical reform to facilitate
the mobilization of troops.
The largest organ in the world is
now being built in Londoa for sgd
ney. 1t will cost about $75,OOO.
France appears to be somewhat dis
pleased over the debate in the U. 5.
Senate on the Panama cal project.
Eugene Wetherill, husband OF EN-
ma Abbott, the noted prima dome /,
died suddenly at Denver last week.
Mrs Sheria IN has accepted the de-
sign of Samuel II. Kittson, OF New
York, FOR the monument to General
Sheridan.
President Carnot of France received
nearly thousand Christmas presents
from his admiring fellow-citizens OF
the Republic.
Mrs. Parnell has decided to her son,
Charles Stewart Parnell, the Ironsides
homestead and other property at
Bordentown, N. ].
Though nearly a million Lebel
rifles have been turned out in France
the government workshops are still
turning out 5000 day more.
King Leopold, of Belgium, has in
structed the bishops OF his little realm
to have prayers offered constantly iol
the safety OF Stanley and Emin Pasha
A celebrated team of bull-fghters
from Seville, Spain, performed before
10000 excited people at The City o
Mexico recently. Four bulls were
killed.
Articles have been signed by Sulli
van and kllrain for fight near New
= Orleans for purse of $4,000 and thu
! diamond championship belt now hel(
by the latter.
: The most prominent brigand il
China, Ho Ia Lto-hu, has been cap
tured and killed. He was a giant
j., being feet 2 inches in height AM
!, broad in proportion.
t Five negro murderers were drowned
S in Broad river, S. c., a few days ago
while struggling for the possession O
0 money they had just taken from tn
. body of one whom they had murdered
: Empress Frederick is understood t.
s have made friends with her eldest son
the Emperor, but she failed to receiv
). the customary Christmas presen
0 from him. 1t is given out that sh
: requested him not to send it.
James l.. Wright, R. n. Keen, R. c
n McALley and joseph S. Kennedy, tn
four original members Of the Knight
o of Labor, have issued circulars to tn
knights which are expected to over
d throw the Powderly administration
T. the order.
VI The Car is said to have becom
reconciled to Prince Alexander of Bal
II tenberg, owing to the kindly effuts {
e mo herly Grand Duchess who take
interest in the Princess Victoria {
Ii Prussia, and wants to see the youn
e couple happy and married.
IL Deputy Sheriff Moore, of Dallas
q Texas, twice rescued burglar flor
= the hands of mob last week, an
5 each time the culpnt was hangin
IL from tree. The second time the re,
cue was made the deputy fired upo
Vt the lynchers and injured several.
g The city council of Cheyenne, w,
Z T., has closed the deal with the Unto
II Pacific and workshops will be immt
l. diately established. The citizens {
'e Cheyenne are overjoyed, a boom ha
Is set in, and land in the neighborhoo
a has increased in value wonderful
within the last few weeks.
= NJ. Lucien Gaulard, who had S
/ large a share in the introduction {
q the transformer system of electri
- lighting, died recently in a lunati
y asylum in France. His friends a
a tribute his mental failure to the leg;
ii troubles he had experienced in COZ
lie uection with his various patents.
., When viii Bright, son of job
- Bright, wanted to reprove his fuht
! for the latter's severity for common
~ ing on his sons adherence to hon
:, rule principles, the young men wrote
=. MY dear father. these are not IL
= kind OF letters that should be a,
= dressed by one statesman to another
rs 1t is expected that not more tina