Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-12-23
The First Chair of Egyptology in
England Founded.
AMAzoNS WITH WINCHESTER RIFLES
The New German Emigration Blll-Ihe
Siberian Railroad Scheme Max.
Ing Slow Progress.

radical demands OF FaTilaihoht.
The London unemployed will not be
allowed to make torchlight parade.
Count Leo Tolstoi has settled his en-
tire property upon his wife and chill
dren.
The Argentine Minister Of Finance
declares that it will be Impossible 10 re-
sumo cash payments.
The total receipts OF the gambling
tables at Monte Carlo last year were
over %, 00O, 900 francs.
Nine. e. ,lka Gerster has made most
successful appearance In the Grand Du'
cal Theater at Weimar.
The section Of London society known
as 1.-THE Souls" has abandoned its prof
ect OF publishing a magazine.
The Amazon warriors Of the King Of
Dahomey at oguessa we're armed with
Winchesters and sharp sabers.
London's six principal railway lines
carry annually over zoo. 900 600 people
and the tramways about 100, 600 600.
Russia is again active in her efforts to
maintain the very highest degree Of ef-
ficiency in her military organization.
Major General Sir George Stewart
White has been appointed Commander
in-chief of the British forces in India.
In Sweden and in Denmark the Par
liaments have voted that the office oil
stenographer shall be filed by women.
The Council OF the Society OF Authors,
OF which Tennyson was President, has
elected George Meredith as his successor.
The London Times says that the great
Siberian railroad scheme is b IDLY man.
aged and is making very slow progress.
Christine Nilsson has given 81, 900 to-
ward founding hospital in France for
the treatment OF sufferers from throat
diseases.
The Berlin police are kept in readiness
in the barracks, owing to expected dis
turbances by the unemployed, who now
number $1,000.
Indignation meetings are being held
and petitions drawn up ] over Germany
to protest against the proposed increase
OF the beer tax.
The German health office reports that
there have been in Germany this year
1851 cases OF cholera, of which 8,575
have been fatal.
Hercultile the new French explosive,
is 30 powerful that half pound OF it in
recent contest displaced stone weigh
ing thirty tons.
In Germany aluminium cravats are
now on sale. They are advertised as
feather-light, silver-white work goods
that will wear forever.
Eiffel of tower fame will assist Prot.
Jansnen, the astronomer, in building his
observatory ON the top OF Mount Blanc
at an altitude of 4,s00 meters.
1t is claimed that there is lighthouse
to every fourteen miles in England, to
every thirty-four miles in Ireland and to
every thirty-nine miles in Scotland.
The new German emigration bill,
which is before the Reichstag, prohibits
the emigration OF men between II and
rs years of age who are liable to mill
tary service.
An outfl ow Of popu alton from Europe
to South American ports is now in prog
ress, and promises to assume enormous
proportions as soon as some existing diff
ficulties are settled.
The Gar OF Russia has the stamped.
Letting mania. His collection ia said to
be worth over 5000 600 and to contain
nearly every stamp OF the pact or pres
ent issues of all nations.
The Russian government has declined
The offer of French syndicate to finish
the construction OF the Siberian railway
No foreign capital will be employed in
furthering the enterprise.
The trial by court-martial of the per-
sons concerned in the cholera riots in
Saratof, Russia, in July last has ended.
Iwenty-three prisoners have been sem
fenced to be hanged and fifty.six to be
imprisoned in Siberia.
DIR. Collingridge reports TO the London
Fort Sanitary Committee that there is
an almost absolute certainty of an out
break OF cholera in the spring, when all
the precautions now adopted will be far
more severely strained than hitherto.
Forty-six Spanish Anarchists are on
trial by court-martial for completely in
an attack on the prison of Xeras. in
January last. At the trial they were
acquitted. In Spain a man may have
his lie twice placed in jeopardy for the
same otfense.
There is report from Jerusalem that
baron Edmond de Rothschild has com
pleted negotiations with the Turkish
government for the establishment of
Jewish colonies on the Rothschild lands
In Palestine, and also for permitting
Russian Jews to settle there.
The first chair OF Egyptology in Eng.
land has been founded by the will of the
late Miss Amelia B. Edwards, who died
IN the spring OF this year; and the Ed
wards professor at University College
London, is now Flinders Petrie. who has
jast been formally appointed.
a gentleman has left $4,000 to the
hdinourgh University to provide snuff
ana tobacco for poor persons in the in
urinary as are in distress for the want Of
either. He himself had been for twenty
years slave to the use of tobacco. and
knew the suffering incident to its de-.
privation. AVG ue-
Some OF the London papers build great
expectations on the new Canadian stso n,'
ship service, whose port of arrival o,a
departure would be Midfordhavan
The Leads Mercury says that thirtv.s
hours OF sea voyage can be savad l., ~
route between Halifax and EnajonI
compared with the New York route
A dispatch to the Reuter- Telao,or,
Company from Moscow eays the Tar
has Withdrawn his consent tn The "a
gsnatie marriage of his nephew tho
Grand Duke Nicholas NicoIa;evi,oh
with the daughter OF merchant namad
bourenines, because she insisted on .ba
right to he received at court and IN hsn
ing the title of Grand Duchess.
The correspondent OF the London
Chronicle at st. Petersburg sends - III.