Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-03-04
The Empress Of Austria
Buncoed.
MR.. GLADSToNE'S OPTIMISM.
Vienna Bankers and Manufacturers
Look After Their Employees
Moral Welfare.

has led to an increased demand Tor morse
flesh.
A new epidemic, seemingly OF poison
GUS origin, has followed influenza at
Vienna.
Committees are being formed in Rome
to encourage public amusements for the
people.
M. Vidal, the French explorer, has
been captured by brigands in Chinese
Turkistan.
In Switzerland the first sugar factory
is being erected at Romanshorn from
German model.
General Annenkof is at work on the
plan for canal between the Black Sea
and the Caspian.
1t is charged that for eight years the
Russian famine district has been in
chronic state OF distress.
The murderous King of Dahomey is
still engaged in supplying slaves to the
Germans and Belglans in Africa.
Emperor William still neglects to in
yite the Socialist membe to his recep-
ton OF the Chamber of Delegates.
Mount Nagashoe, volcano in New
Zealand, is in state OF violent eruption.
The eruption is accompanied by earth
quakes.
Bread in good state of preservation
has been unearthed in Pompeii recently
in the new rooms uncovered by the ex-
plorers.
! Trades unions are unknown in the
land of the Gar, and anything like a
strike for increase of wages il prohibited
strictly by law.
1t is reported that an English ship
| building firm has received an order for a
steamship to carry 5000 tons cargo, the
largest freight vessel yet constructed.
The growth OF Socialism in Germany
is causing much uneasiness to the gov
eminent, and energetic measures are
looked for on the part OF the Emperor.
The Empress of Austria was buncoed
by two Arabs in Alexandria, who soid
her worthless statuette of Isis as real
excavated Egyptian antiquity for $4,000.
Several large Vienna bankers and man
u cturers announce that they will pro-
hibit all their employees from going to
the races during the coming spring sea-
son.
Prince George is not to leave the Brit
ish navy at present. A command will
be given him, and as soon thereafter as
decency will permit he will be made an
Admiral.
The Coroner of London, W. E. Baxter,
reports that eighty persons are known
to have been drowned by walking over
the docks during the last fog, which
lasted over rive days.
Immense avalanches of snow have
fallen On the railways between Obertraun
and Aussee and between Windhofel and
Rosenau in Austria. 1t will take several
weeks to repair the damage.
The Russian government is going to
try giving a certain area of land in the
departments of Saratow and Samara to
be cultivated in common by all the in
habitants of each commune.
The Culinary Academy or Cooks In
stitute of Paris has petitioned the City
Council to increase it's prestige by nam
ing street Careme after Antoine Car
eme, the chef of Talleyrand.
The publication OF the official medical
reports concerning the health of the
British troops in India is likely to create
demand for some change in the exist
ing system. The mortality is uncom-
monty high.
Mr.. Gladstone's optimism regarding
the improvement of the farm laborers'
condition in England is based on among
other things the advance in wages from
$2.25 to 1915 week, not overstartling
amount.
In the absence of anything important
from Germany is this item: Kaiser Will
helms brother, Prince Henry, has culti-
waited beard. He is naval officer, and
is addicted to walking the deck bare
footed like an ordinary seaman.
The young American woman named
Nelson, who has been performing in a
Paris cafe chantant for some wears. is
at work on thirty days. fast in London
to prove the efficacy of potent elixir
made OF herbs from South America.
The Trades Council of Glasgow has
petltioned the Town Council of that CITY
to establish municipal workshops for the
purpose OF making all clothing needed
for the inmates OF public institutions and
uniforms for the police and other Off
Gals.
Iwenty-three French physicians, all
eminent in their own special line, have
determined to establish an international
clinic In Paris at 80 Rue d'Assas. where
gratuitous consultations will be given to
all applicants without any distinction of
race, creed or malady.
Not content with planning an under
ground railway, one of Berlin's civil en-
gneers plans underground streets. They
are to be covered with close grating of
steel, well supported, which admits air
light and rain, and over which the usuaj
street traffic is carried on.
A steamer is being built at GLASGOW
designed to beat the transatlantic record
With length of $50 feet and a beam of
only 10 feet, very fine lines are obtained
ana about 200 feet OF the ship are de,
voted to boilers and bunkers. The en-
glnes are pair of triples, with four evil
inders each, driving twin screws. and
rated at $4,000 horse power.
The Crown Princess of Sweden. who
mas been In Cairo since the beginning al
the present winter, has hopes OF restora.
ton to health. The Princess. a cons;n
81 the Emperor of Germany, is SUFFERING
from pulmonary disease caused nv the
raw climate of the North. She was or
dered to spend the winter in Epvnt as
the only possible way of prolongine life
It's semi officially announced that a
hrman OF the investiture al tho araaO,a
khedive of Egypt has been nrenarod
ana tnat II Is worded in the exact terms
.. tne hIman investing the late Khediye
le"nk fasha. This is regarded as
signal success for English diplomacy.
The King of Wurtemburg is greatly