Idaho semi-weekly world., 1892-08-19
Servia's Boy King in Daily Danger
of Assassination.
PROGRESS OF ELECTRICITY IN JAPAN
Bad Feeling at Rio Janeiro Between
Brazilans and Itallans-Beer
Consumption-Etc.

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The cholera is at Burmah. Business
is stopped, and people are fleeing.
The Khedive OF Egypt has sent e3O to
the British and Foreign Sailors Society.
Spain has reduced the tariff on dried
goldfish Sshillings on the hundred weight.
Flower farming for the manufacture
of perfume is being carried on in Aus
tralia.
The Gar is said to intend move on
Bulgaria } soon as Gladstone goes into
power.
Queensland is believed to owe the
largest national debt per capita-G62 e.
81 head.
The total cost of the new municipal
buildings OF Glasgow, Scotland, was over
50 50O, 000.
Carriages fitted up with electric Tampa
we're used by speakers during the recent
campaign in England.
| France will not permit the lottery
scheme to secure relief moneys for the
starving people of Russia.
DR.. Virchow at Berlin advises the peo-
| pie in America to use the utmost care if
they would keep out the cholera.
The Maori King Tawhiao has just ac-
cepted -ens'on from the government
of New Zealand. 1t is G225 year.
OF the / 900, 900 women in Italy about
2.00n, o 10 are employed in industrial Ia
Dor and over 5000, 900 in agriculture.
The recent British elections are said to
have cost $l2,5O0,00p, and every dollar
will have to be accounted for in sworn
sta ements.
A cyclone has caused much damage at
| Vaence in the Department of Drome.
France. The vines suffered to an enor-
nous extent.
In five years the consumption OF beer
n Germany has increased II per cent,
while the increase in population has
been only per cent.
The American bark Nehemiah Gibson
went on the coral reels of Conceicao, of
the coast of Brazil, and was piilaged by
the half breed Indians.
In the Pasteur Institute at Milan 2S$
cases OF hydrophobia have been treatec
within the last two years, and only foul
If the patients have died.
An enterprising English firm desire
to put boardings along the banks OF tb
Suez canal and lease these accommoda
tons for advertising purposes.
There is bad feeling at Rio Janeiro be
tween Brazilians and Italians, and fight
have occurred, in which several person
were killed and manv wounded.
Norway is moving steadily toward
Republic, and it would surprise no on
# the present agitation ended with
change in the form of government.
The total acreage OF Scotland is Is
D46, ,694. OF this comparatively sma
anded area one nobleman owns ,326, ,UO
acres and his wife l49, ,S79 acres more.
: The project for turning the Royal Er
glish Opera House into a superior sort
music hall is now definitely arranged
and company will shortly be formed.
y Electricity is making great progress
:, Japan. Toxic has an electrical societ
:, having over |, 900 members, and hippo
'' is forming an electr.c-light association
!. During recent trials of speed on II
j railway between Paris and Lille trai
10 OF twelve carriages covered distance
rt 1917 miles in an hour and fiity-six mil
utes.
IS The Noposti OF st. Petersburg sa,
< that Herr Krupp has arranged with II
4 Russian government to establish worl
q. for the manufacture of guns at Ekater
r. noslav.
The Hungarian wheat crop is est
:. mated at about 136,000,0 bushel
: which is little larger than last yea
:. but less than that of 1890, says the Ii
a. a. erpool Corn Trade Neps.
RI Servia's boy King has harder tin
s, OF it than young Alfonso OF Spain.
n dnit a zE
p which his cowardly father, King Mlla
r. has exposed him by abdicating.
a The German government has expnp
" ell $i00, 900 in building n factory at Spa
u tau for the preserving of all kinds
fy provisions for the army, and about s.
operators are to be regularly employt
o. there.
Il Advices received in London from IL
el told Coast say that the British have i
en sta led new King in Eastern Crab
70 abolished human sacrifices and other f
m tsh rites and expelled all the prizes
I'd and prestesses.
TX Eighty Chinese filibusters armed wit
Winchester fles recently crossed ii
I'd frontier into Upper Burmah, and begq
IN looting. A small force OF British Ghoo,
~ was sent against them, and after shal
nj engagement routed them complete
s. killing six of them.
1t, A series OF interesting experimen
III conducted in England at the Stamfo,
" bridge grounds with balloon and a
apparatus invented and improved |
b Ere Bruce for use in military signalir
'lr at night over intervening woods and hill
ey have been highly success ul.
on Five craters OF Mt. Etna are in sta
d. of activity. Each one is throwing ont
ze stream of lava several yards wide. Expi
.,S sions occur constantly, and the rumblir.
u. are continuous. The people living
W the neighborhood are warned to leav
'u and many have already done so.
The plague of mice, which has bee
IN causing such widespread disaster
!ss Scotland Of late, continues and increase
y. and a special committee of the Denar
is ment of Agriculture is now at work tal
. ing evidence in the matter with a vie
re 10 devising some eff ctive remedy.
to A girl of 81. who won the last pri,
Nd for beauty at Turin, has been fonn
he murdered at Trieste. The tody was al
IT. figured by two shot wounds and seva
be stabs, and the face was mutilated nroI
ably by stone, in order to prevent re-
A. ognition. The murder ia thought to !
ii. connected with love affair.
OF The underground railroad in Glasgoy
n. hegun three years ago, is now slmo
ng completed. The total length of the roa,
st which extends into the suburbs. is seve
Is and quarter miles, but not all of tn