Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-03-24
THE OLD WORLD.


exhibition Of books.
London dispatches say the Prince of
Wales is losing his mental grip.
A six-mile tunnel underneath the
Northumberland Straits is talked of.
Hollands War Minister proposes to
raise the standing army to 365 900 men.
Milan will probably be requested to
resume the Servian throne soon to pre-
vent Il revolution.
Bismarcks memoirs are still far from
completion, and there is no certainty
that they will be published until after
the Princes death.
1t is stated that Prince Jerome Napo-
leon has made a will disinheriting his
son, Prince Victor, and Indicating Prince
Louis as the next Emperor.
A mysterious lady has joined General
Boulanger at Brussels. The Belgian
government will expel the General if he
engages in any political intrigues.
Mrs. Maybrck seeks to reopen her
case on the ground of the alleged mental
unsoundness of Justice Stephen, before
whom her case was tried at London.
The tomb of the high priests of the
Egyptian god Ammon has been discov
cred near Thebes, some OF the sarcoph-
agi dating back $500 years before the
Christian era.
The French Chamber of Deputies pro-
poses to suppress every kind of betting
on races. This action has excited an in
tense feeling, as it is feared it will be the
1aot IA nj pnpiptr in, Uraupa
Dispatches from Bissao, a Portuguese
settlement opposite the delta of Jaba
river in Senegamba, tell of serious re-
bellion. The Portuguese inhabitants
are said to be in an utterly helpless con-
dition.
The Berlin air is full of rumors OF the
probable retirement of Chancellor Won
Caprivi from the post of Prussian Prem
Ter as scapegoat, with Count Munster,
of the kaiser's failure to concilate
France.
The Sultan lives in constant dread of
assassination. He never leaves the
grounds of his palace except to 20 once
a week to a neighboring mosque. Once
a year he pays a visit to Stamboul, but
his route is never known in advance.
The Pail Mall Gazette published in par
allel columns sermon preached by Rev
| Charles Sturgeon in 1864 and an
address delivered week before last by
| Lord Mayor Savory OF London, which
were identical in almost every particular.
Sybil Sanderson is reported in a Lon
don dispatch to have brought silt against
several French and Belgian newspapers
| for their statements connecting her name
with the death OF Prince Boudouin. She
claims the stories are base fabrications.
A Manchester (England) dispatch says
| it is certain that Sir Titus Salt will soon
manufacture plush in the United States.
The English plush trade has been stag
nant since the Mckinley bill pas sed, and
there has been much distress among op-
orators.
The Russian government, ii is report
ed, has issued Il ukase ordering all sar-
dine boxes to be opened by the Custom
house on the frontier. The reason for
/ this order is that it appears shoals of
| Nihilistic tracts are imported into Rus
STA from France in sardine boxes.
The Royal Arthur, which was launched
at Portsmouth, England, is screw
cruiser of 200 tons, 1910 0-horse power,
and carries twelve guns. The ROYAL
Sovereign, launched at the same time. is
a screw battle ship of Is, $50 tons, TO-
| 00O-horse power, and carries fourteen
guns.
When the Hungarian government took
! the operation OF the railroads in hand il
reduced rates 50 per cent. BY the pur-
chase of Communication tickets a sixty
mile trip costs - cents, and more than
one can 90 on a book together. The in
crease in traffic amounts to 1000 per
cent
The Chinese government has engaged
a German official named Lieske to estab-
| fish an extensive brick manufaetory near
lIongkong. The object of the govern
ment in starting these works is to pre-
vent building of frame houses in crowded
| sections of cities, centuries of experience
with wooden buildings being very disas-
trous.
One hundred inspectors in Victoria.
| Australia, are commissioned at salary
Of 81 900 per year each to superintend
the destruction of rabbits Two thou
sand laborers earn from $3.50 to $3.50
| per day for destroying the rabbits. and
| private trappers earn good livings selling
rabbit meat TO poor people at cents per
pound.
| Great excitement has been caused at
| Moscow 10y the discovery that four pict-
ures by French artists, which have been
on exhibition, have been cut from their
frames and carried off. The police are
making careful search of the houses OF
all Germans throughout the Moscow GOV
eminent. II is believed the outrage was
caused 10y the Paris incident.
Queen Margaret has visited the foun-
| dry at Rome to see the statue of the
American Republic groups representing
the army and navy, designed for a sol
| diers' and sailors monument to be
erected at Portland Me, which has lust
been completed by Simmons, the Amer.
lean sculptor. She expressed herself as
! highly pleased with the work.
The German government in dispatcl
70 Won Munster, the German Ambassa-
dor at Paris, instructs HIM to refrain
from any initiatory action and merely
reply, if questioned by Ribot, that Ger
many has no reproach to make. but OF
the contrary is quite satisfied with the
manner in which the French govern
ment endeayored to maintain the right: