Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-11-18
The Increase in the Crop Acreage
in Ireland This Year.
HAMBURG MEN WITHOUT WORk
King George Confers the Decoration Oh
the Order Of the Sayior-The
Wind Carriage.

Irish Sea.
Great Britain has decided not to retire
from Uganda, Africa.
Tennyson makes the list OF burials IN
Westminster Abbey l,l73.
The Ministry has been sustained by
the general elections in Portugal.
Belgium is making arrangements for
an international exhibition in 1895.
The Swiss Guards, part Of the Pope's
household, are to be dispensed with.
Russia has nearly $l0O, 900, 900 depos.
tied in the different European capitals.
The French government intends in
creasng the military forces in Tonquin.
The striking miners in Carmaux,
France, have decided to continue the
fight.
Queen Victoria will spend the winter
months in Italy, at Bientina, eleven miles
east of Pisa.
A West Africa King has just had an
umbrella made for him twenty-one feet
in diameter.
The trolley car is literally astonishing
the natives OF Singapore. They call 1t
the wind carriage.
APapal brief has been issued confirm
ing the election OF Father Martin as
General of the Jesuits.
Order has been restored in Santiago
del Estero, Argentine, the Federal troops
having overcome the rebels.
General Booth OF the British Salvation
Army has issued an appeal for $500, 900
to continue his Darkest England"
work.
The Republic OF Paraguay has offered
very generous premiums to immigrants
who design to follow agricultural indus
tries.
| 1t is stated that shirts of chain armor,
which cost about $500, are now worn by
more than one distinguished person in
Europe.
The outlook in regard to champagne
is not favorable, and foreign journals in
cline to the opinion that prices may be
advanced.
A house-to toulouse inquiry at Hamburg
has shown $780, 900 workingmen without
employment and 5000 small tradesmen
financially ruined.
King George has conferred the decora-
ton of the Order OF the Savior upon DR..
Waldstein of the American Archaeology
ical School at Athens.
Archbishop Croke's proposals for the
release OF the Parish Irish Parliamentary
fund have been accepted by the Irish
Parliamentary Committee.
Henry Ryder, formerly United States
Consul at Copenhagen, has been SEN
fenced to eighteen months at hard labor
for theft, fraud and perjury.
A London theatrical manager says the
present year has 30 far been one OF the
most commemorative known to the Eng
lish stage for many seasons.
A syndicate has been formed in Lon
don for the purpose of taking over the
whole 81, 1000 of Uruguayan stock
belonging to the Barring estate.
A statue is to be erected at e-Duc.
in France, to Earnest Michaux, who is
supposed to have invented the yeloci-
pede and thereby paved the way for the
bicycle.
Russia has demanded OF Belgium that
all passports issued by that country to
intending visitors to Russia state the re-
ligion OF the bearer. The demand il
aimed at the Jews.
There was quite large increase in
the crop acreage in Ireland this year.
Inc various crops were grown on 4,SS4.-
1o4 acres OF land, which is an increase
over 1891 OF &c, 40S acres.
There are 1880 vacant houses in
Frankfort-on-the- Main, and the news.
papers OF the city say the number of Wis.
itors in the city has not been go small in
any Corresponding season for years.
W. M. Conway. daring Enplisb
mountaineer, has succeeded in CLIMBING
70 the top OF one of the peaks of the
1lndu kush Range, on the border of
kashmir, to the height of $4,000 feet.
1t Is reported from London that Brit.
ism troops will soon be withdrawn from
Canada and Newfoundland, Mr., Glad
stone being in favor Of having the colonies
rely on themselves as much as possible
The plans for making Paris a seano,t
have been deposited at the Hotel DO
Vile. The proposed canal from Rouen
TO Paris is to be ITO miles lonv and
about twenty feet deep, and will COS,
me Municipal Council of Paris hos
voted credit of 1000. 600 franco ao
ENABLE an advance to be made in waoes
OF the city employees, such as street.
s"eepers, sewer men, ETC., whose waoas
are under francs per day. "e0'
Count Tolstoi has RECENTLY doro,;ta
MS memoirs, including large disru ~
manuscript, with the curator If Vi
sian museum, the condition beins na u
that they shall not be nnhI;shaa t '1au!7
ten years after the authors death. '''
The researches of Sir Reginald Pal.
grace, the learned Clerk of the Tahla Is
the House OF Commons, have f,rad ~
exact exact spot in Westminster Hall VII.
Charies L. sat during his trial. The un
sit'on OF the Kings chair is marked H. b.
prass tablet at the east end of tbs hoI}
GREAT expectations have been forn,os
oy ruby mines alleged to have been Dis
covered by the Ameer of Afoban;. US
aoout six miles from Paphman
Oapui. The specimens sent bv ~. p pear
lsn agent at Cabul to the Indian nou nii1-
neht, however, proved to be worth In
n experiments have recently been made
N Germany with a new hind 81 maue
b ban to be far superior to anv h; U
,istino aed inaue. II Is said that the re.
, ,,Ssaae quantities of this armor are 90
4 mat thin layer of it will nre u 90
bullets. '" e'iiaii caliber rifle
~ sna ha in France, which 10 70
,r om oerea as the residence of the Ene
paess Josephine after her divorce EN- har
Seen neglected since the downfall o. mas mas
T re- Empire and is now 70 hs VI so ne
!. n o,i name OF the chateau, bv the SUI wau
. sh omihous OF evil. 1t means liz way,