Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-10
THE OLD WORLD.

The population of Wilma is about S00,-
900, an increase of 100000 in ten years.
Brazil has enormously increased her
paper currency since the establishment
Of the Republic.
Iron bolts exposed to water in the
bridges over the Thames have in twenty
five years been eaten away one-half.
A London matrimonial agent boasts OF
having arranged 10000 marriages be-
tween members of all classes of society.
The height of German, Austrian and
English medical opinion supports the
belief in the healing virtue of the Koch
lymph.
The project of Baron Hirsch to estab-
fish colony OF 800 900 Russian Jews in
the Argentine Republic is being vigor-
ous y pushed.
1t is believed the French Tariff Com
mittee will recommend the abrogation
of the decree prohibiting the importa-
ton of American pork.
Nine. Albani, the great prima donna
assoIuta, will resume her position as
leading soprano singer the coming season
III lldlldl opera III lJoDuOn.
Countess Russell has applied for di-
vorce in England. One of the complaints
is that the young Earl amuses himself
ut times by discharging firearms at the
footboard OF the bed.
Owing to the severe weather, the ex-
pulsion Of the Hebrews from their homes
in the northern provinces of Russia has
Z cd 60, Al.
expelled are said to have persisted in the
snow.
Europe has to 90 back to 1880 to find
a winter to compare with the present
when the harbor Of Genoa has been
frozen over and Emperor William en-
ioyed the novelty of a sleigh ride on the
river Have.
The CHILEAN army is reported to be
! loyal to the government. \ decree has
been issued offering reward of two
/ years pay and amnesty to those unwill-
/ inglv led into the revolt who will submit
/ to the government.
The committee ON painting in the old
salon in Paris has decided to limit the
pictures in future exhibitions to the
number of l,S00 instead of $500, as it
formerly stood, and drawings to 400 in
stead OF 500, as was the usual number
hitherto.
Chancellor Won Caprivi has the assur-
ance OF the Center party in GERMANY
that, although continuing conservative
rs regards the abolition of duties, they
will support treaty with Austria re-
duCing the tariff on corn to 3 marks and
30 piennigs.
The well-known composer and musical
director, Mr.. Henschel who is in Lon
don, has received an offer of the direct
orship of the Philharmonic Society con-
certs in New York, which position is LETT
vacant by the resignation of Theodore
Thomas; but the offer was refused,
The authorities of the British Museum
have discovered among the collection of
papyrus rolls acquired recently in Euypt
the text OF Aristotle's treatise on the
Constitution of Athens, from which nu-
merous writer's of antiquity have quoted,
but which hitherto has been known in
detached fragments.
At dinner given by the German Min
'1tNA VI AA't'AAO1 lslti HNipi W ltlldll Is re-
ported as saying that Germany could not
accept the double standard currency.
Tn" question had been definitely settled
in favor OF gold standard by the trad
ing nations OF the world and they would
ere long agree upon the universal adop-
ton of gold.
The liquidator of the Panama canal at
Paris in an interview on the Panama ca
nal is quoted as SAYING: 81 am certain
II the French government felt ii would
not suffer humiliating rebuff from the
government of the United States, the
former government would be only toe
willing TO make propositions to the
United States which might lead to a mu-
tual qHd satisfactory understanding by
which the Panama canal will be com
pleted. "