Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-05-09
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Despite their raligieus differences,
the Pope and the Sing CT Sweden are
particularly warn II ends.
Thanksgiving is said to divide with
cCck-lighting tbs affeci onr Of those OF
sporting blood 4mong the natives Of
Ceylon.
-Nearsight-dness is oyerrunning the
French people as much as the Germans.
Among the senior boys in the different
French colleges more than forty-six per
cent are Lo4tsighted.
The Car of Russia has never worn
the uniform of Russian Field Marshal.
1t is one of the forty-four uniforms he
possesses, and by family tradition can
only be worn in the field after victory
Prince Albert of Monaco is said to
intend to devote the $4,000 per year
that he gets from the gamblers to the
completion of the cathedral and other
public improvements He is very
wealthy himself, and has an enormously
rich wife.
Says the Sci Kwai Medical Jour-
nal; Apropos of the suspected influence
of the climate of Japan in the causation
Of rheumatism and neuralgia in resident
foreigners, it is interesting to note that
horses imported into Japan from China
and other countries are soon more or
less disabled by rheumatism.
One of the curiosities of S.. Peters
burg is the ''Chamber of Mephisto," in
the mansion of Count Schinemetiew.
You enter the superbly furnished room
with the host and seat yourself comfort
ably, When presto! the floor sinks, and
you find yourselfin aintly-ornament-
ed cellar, surrounded by the choicest
Vintages Of Europe.
The performers in an Algiers thea
ter, which closed its doors while the in
1uenza ragged, sued their manager be-
cause he deducted the time thus lost
from their salaries, claiming that they
were willing to play right on. The man
ager claimed that the influenza was an
act of Providence, and that however
able the actors may have been to play
the pubic was incapacitated from attend
ing, an the closing of the theater was
thus necessary through no fault of his.
The court sustained this view of the
matter,
The latest fad in England is for the
collection of the Victoria crosses given
by the military authorities to soldiers
Tor especial acts of bravery. The fact
that such collections were being made
came cut through the Indignation of the
holder OF one, who received a letter
asking him what he would sell it for,
and saying that the wlSter had already
secured several The man, like good
hnglishman he was, sat right down and
wrote to the Times all about it.
The Russian mobiles are rushing to
bankruptcy in great numbers. The
credit bank for lending money to them
on mortgage of their lands, established
by the government two or three years
ago, has now no less than 1000 estates
which Will have to be sold at public auc-
ton at the end of this year for non-pay-
ment OF interest on loans. The cues
lon is, who will buy this enormous
amount Of property? If neither the |
bank nor the government buys it, there
viii be :, Geo noble landowners ruined /
oy an institution which was established +
by the government for their special
lelp.
The waters of Scotland were nro-
tuettve of a large revenue last wear.
he value of the cured fish is put down
oy the fishery board at 81, 1924. S72. while
me fresh fish sold for use brought e717.-
10" Shell fish produced a return of
l'f-9' making a gross total of G2,113,-
-'f' The value Of salmon is estimated
1t 1@@0,olS, making the grand total of
me sea and salmon fisheries of Scotland
.-'''o8' 10 In the sea fisheries total
'ured herrings are credited with Ell
,.7'slo and fresh haddock with e388, 184.
ne number Of lives lost was SO, against
loo IN 1887 and the loss sustained in
o o'a and fishing materials amounted To
e49, $50. N''''1 W