Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-05-26
Electric Launches Pop
ular on the Thames.
NAVAL OFFICERS IN TURMOIL
The Suppression of the Opium Trade
in India Will Provoke a Revolt
Among Warlike Tribes.


tracts in a year.
Havre guns fire nine times in three
quarters of a minute.
The Miners Convention at Paris rep
resented / 100000 mon.
The law business in Scottish courts
shows steady decrease.
King Humbert has 1000 blood horses
in his three stables near Pisa.
Gladstone says labor organization has
saved England from revolution.
A large number of the members of the
British Parliament are i'll of la grippe.
The Einel tower at Paris has been
opened to the public for its third season.
/ Telephone connection between Chris
/ tiana and Stockholm will soon be estab-
! lished.
The Pope has established the Bishop
ric of Zanzibar, and will shortly appoint
a Bishop.
The Austro- German treaty has been
signed for period of twelve years, be-
ginning in February, 1892.
Queen Victoria has commanded strict
enforcement of the new regulations linn
iting presentations at court.
French naval officers are in a turmoil
over the supposititious worthlessness OF
many of their torpedo boats.
A strong war feeling has been aroused
in Berlin by the proposed maneuvers OF
the French near the German frontier.
Five English Generals were retired
week before last through non-employ-
ment, and not one under the age clause.
The movement of the German and
Austrian governments to isolate France
commercially begins to alarm the French
Ministers.
To accommodate the forthcoming Els
teddfod large oval building capable of
holding $4,000 will be erected at Swan
sea, Wales.
1t is semi-officially announced in Cal
cutta that the suppression OF the opium
trade in India will provoke revolt
among the warlike races.
The interment of Baron Drais, who
died thirty years ago, and who, when |
living, claimed to be the inventor of the |
bicycle, took place at Carlsruhe the other
day.
Riotous and revolutionary meetings
have been held at Warsaw. They were
the occasion of doing honor to the dead
Russian political economist, Schegou- |
moro.
A vast opposition is being developed |
in London to the increase in the size and |
number of tall buildings on the sanitary
ground that they shut out air and sun
light.
The Spanish governments deficit of
1000 900 pesetas in the current budget |
Is only half that of last year. In two |
years it is expected it will have entirely |
disappeared.
So popular have electric launches be-
come on the Thames that London firm |
Will erect charging station, where boats
OF all sizes will be supplied with cleo
tr1clty at moderate fee.
Fourteen young Turks have been sent
to Germany by the Sultan to study agri-
culture. Upon their return they will
conduct model agricultural establish
ments for the instruction of Turkish
farmers.
The latest canal project is one to con-
meet the Black Sea with the Sea of Azov
The total length will be seventy. five
miles, the breadth about seventy-three
feet and the depth from thirteen to six
teen feet.
In Altorf, Switzerland, the Tell Monu-
ment Committee is making every effort
10 press forward its work. -Four prizes
Oh SOP, 500, 500 and 800 have been
offered Tor the four best plans for the
Joseph Chamberlain proposes a ma
tlonal insurance for the support of the
aged. lie suggests that the parish should
contribute certain sum for every child
born and put that to the credit of the
'lllld III national insurance fund.
The enormous consumption of coal in ;
me gas works OF London is indicated bv |
me TACT that the C1aslight and Coke Com 4
'any IS seeking tenders from coal owners
or Its supply for one year, and that the
supply Is set down at about |. $50 600
ons.
The Turkish Sultan's kitchen costs the
'mplre 100000 annually. The building
extends $50 feet on every side. The
fishes are sealed in the kitchen by no
esS person than Osman Pasha, the
zero OF Pieyna, and are unsealed in the
'ultan's presence. VIC
Electric cars are now bowling alone {
he classic highways of old Rome q I
mort line between the Place del Ponolo @
nd the Ponte Mollo, having Just been
ON Pleted and put in operation. There
re three ears, each carrying fifteen
horsepower motor.
y special committee of Bordeaux hrsi '
ess men has been formed for the mn '
ose OF devlsing ways and means for the
proposed ship railway across France 70 }
9hy!eey vessels from the Atlantic to tbe !,
lediterranean without their HAVING ~
o around Gibraltar. W S
The latest fad in London for hard -,
oblllty, or rather impecunions snc;a ~ u
;ules' is TO open florists stand ana k
1 !, flowers for the million. Mrs t
eisie, cousin of the Duke of Welling W
IN Is the pioneer in this movement =
n'ch promises to be great success. >,
Emperor William at banouet AZ Drs h
,aroili s . when speaking of com. Il
lerclaI treaty with Austria: CAS- to NV =,
oLle po,lcy, which is becoming estab u
Shea, | shall not deviate n bo;r,. h
readth from the course have adontnd W
aIoiie am master of this country and H.
obody else" 0o""'fy ana u
Alter the hight at Pozo Amonte Chill i,
le victorious troops became disordnri,' -,
~ sacked the town. Women and airis u
ere abused and some murderer 6n riis I'll
req with drink, rioting comno NJ
ling Vle men, ana soon the torch woe
f .; ana three blocks were DESTROYED
'acefs lost complete control of tha 80 ou'
An effort to have the Klutsford coon SCI Sc,
We Dill dropped in the British poniGr ~
cHt was unsuccessful. Salishur 100, ~ ~