Idaho semi-weekly world., 1891-12-08
Russian Peasants Prac-
tiee Cannibalism.
THE IRISH LINEN TRADE
,Jananese Fleet viii Not Cooperate
With China Against the
European Fleets.
I.a,v,. finances are improving.

Mr.. jackson, the new lrish oecre'"'y'
is a rich Leeds tanner.
Russia is preparing to monopoiize the
sale of spirits and tobacco.
The loss of vessels at Martinique dur
ing the storm was $5,C0O,OO0.
Jncen Bonaparte, who died the other
day. spoke eighty different languages.
The Japanese fleet will not cooperate
with China against the European fieets'
Bremen is the first city in Germany TO
operate all its car lines by the electric
motor. =,
The French Senate has passed bill
regulating the hours Of labor OF women
and children.
company controls the flower girls oil
RerIin who wear the national costume
and make money.
The imports of oil into India are ~
per cent. larger in quantity than they
were five years ago.
Emperor William will soon begin a
crusade against gambling in the civic
and military services.
During the past year at Monte Carlo
the total receipts from the gaming tables
amounted to "a, 300, 900.
A German syndicate is working the
petroleum springs recently discovered at
| tiillano near Bologna, Italy.
A bill will be introduced in the En-
plish Parliament to abolish actions for
breach of promise Of marriage.
Baron Hirsch is reported to be ar
ranging an International Jewish Con-
gress, to be held in London next year.
A vegetable cartridge shell, which is
entirely consumed in firing, is now
coming into general use in the French
army.
Gladstone has declined the tender OF
a banquet at Paris by Frenchmen who
favor the withdrawal OF British troops
from Egypt.
Dom Pedro is reported to have an
nounced that he is willing to return to
Brazil to assist in restoring order and re-
uniting the people.
The difficulty in fighting the famine in
Russia is increased by the IMPROVE
dence, ignorance, selfishness and fatal
ism of the peasants.
Women convicts at the recent wreck
OF the steamer Enterprise in the Bay OF
; Bengal formed human life line and
rescued six fellow voyagers.
1t is rumored at Valparaiso that the
, government of Chill will amnesty all
but some twenty Of those who promi-
nently supported Balmaceda.
Cycling is gradually making its way
! throughout the armies OF Europe. In
Russia each infantry regiment is to have
four orderlies mounted on cycles.
The Duke OF Portland gives all his
, profits ct racing to charities under 6
promise to his wife, and since his mar
riage has given $4,000, 900 in this way.
/ Notwithstanding the Russian famine
large quantities of English wheat con
tinue to be imported to England, the
amount rather exceeding that OF last
year.
A Brazilian Government decree jus
! issued orders lease of the State rail
ways for thirty-three years at a golt
rental, half OF which is payable in ad
t vance.
!. A newspaper correspondent named
. Eugene Wolff has been expelled from
! German East Africa 70 writing biase,
. reports discrediting the Governor OF tn,
! ! Colony.
' The number OF deaths at Altoona from
trlchinosls, caused by eating diseased
t pork, is now reported as thirty An in
( vestlgation as to the origin of the mea
E is in progress.
|
The famine in parts of Russia is so Sc
we're that peasants practice cannibalism
The death role from diseases conseuuen
upon the absence among the people o
the necessities of life is terrible.
The ships that were built to carry bee
It from the Argentine Republic to Europ
are now employed in conveying fish be
tween the same points, the beef busines
having apparently proven unremunera
tive.
+ The Russian government is said I,
# contemplate more rigorous superyisio,
!. OF the sources of news sent to foreig,
:, newspapers from Russia which is elaine,
= : to be IN many respects false and exag
, gerated.
Turkey has refused to allow Russia 4
4 disinter and remove 10 a noint naere
q Constantinople the remains of soldier
e KILLED IN the late Russo Turkish war an,
buried in Turkey.
+ The Transcaucasian railroad has he
a come so unsafe on account of the hand
e OF robbers which have OF late bee,
iorined In the mountains that the entir
line by an imperial ukase has bea,
= placed under military control.
# Prince Bismarck has finished tho g..
: volume OF his memoirs, which, however
scarcely brings him beyond the thresb
n oid OF his public career. He has de
cioed That no part of the work is To h
- - published during his life time. "
u The lrish linen trade is in a NOR
= iourlshing condition than for ssvero
d years past, and the $4,000 operatives j,
a the spinning mills and factories of III
II ster are rejoicing in an increase Of wa1o
d OF from , to.7ts cents, which will y,
into force at once. "'' q
1t The London Spectator has recentl,
/ SHOWN that in England the tendency q
h population to the cities is irresistiblo
is ehat the young men and women are de
e sertlng the agricultural regions and tho
Il farmers are unable TO get the lahorer
4 needed Tor cultivating the soil.
, ,, The st. Petersburg Norosti which h.
= already commented unfavorabIv rno, nc,
me speech Of Emperor Francis Iosppui @po
70 the hungarian delegations returns = I,
h the attack in a second article , wbar.; Ne
rs austria is dubbed "a wolf in ho.ei shon,
=, clothing, always speaking peace M,
% "rh'hs TO the teeth for war; "'"'
! Ihe entire European army of the r..
q y, Russia is to be furnished with ia th
t ssN NEW onn rliie by the summer OF 1894 Tn Tb