Idaho semi-weekly world., 1892-06-10
Electric Omnibuses to be Tried in
London This Summer.
AMERICAN TOURISTS SUCCESSFUL
Better Facilities for Landing American
Passengers at Liyerpool--Gen-
eral Booth LamentS.

Peru has notified london capitalists
that she will pay her debt.
A thousand children are born in Lon
don warehouses; every year.
A waterway connecting the Rhine
with the Danube is contemplated.
The Italian deficit this year will be
500 900 900, and the same next year.
All London is apprehensive over the
report OF another visit from the Shah.
The Australian government financial
statement shows deficit of Gl, 5000
Mr.. Gladstone's article on the eight
hour bill has been suppressed in Russia.
The British forces are rapidly putting
down the uprisings OF native chiefs in
Africa.
Brazil's finances are in good shape,
says President Peixotto in his message
TO Congress. m ~
Better facilities for landing American
passengers at Liverpool are promised
this summer.
The new Labor Exchange at Paris,
built under government control, was
opened recently.
An Indian government loan at 8 per
cent. has been taken above the mini
mum "a in London.
The proposition to run" Stanley fol
Parliament in England does not rouse
popular enthusiasm.
Salvation Army Booth laments seem.
ing withdrawal OF sympathy for his work
by the English press. s
Some Americans have introduced the
trotting horse and buggy on the Bois in
Paris with apparent success.
Minister Jefferson, the United States
representative at Paris, will occupy the
same house used by Whitelaw Reid.
A company has been granted permits
sion to experiment with electric omni-
buses in London the ,ming summer.
The five American tourists illegally
arrested in Switzerland have obtained
judgment against the canton of Berne
In the event OF Liberal success in the
coming English elections, it is said thai
Gladstone will enter the House OF Lords
During the year 1891 4,2O7 vessels
passed through the Suez canal, and O
these only twenty-six carried the Amer
lean flag.
Punch and Judy shows still continue
to draw crowds in London, and seem tc
be regarded by the populace as the acme
of uproarous humor.
The enormous cotton warehouses al
NJ net Basel, Egypt, have been par
italy destroyed by FIRE. The damage
amounts to $500,000.
The Prince of Wales is wearing g
square top, flat-brim derby with mourn
ing band on it. word to our Anglo.
maniacs is sufficient.
Advices from Trinidad report the grit
raging in the leading towns OF the island
Port Spain alone has had 600 cases, o.
which 10 per cent. have proven fatal.
1t is stated that European papers are
sending out advertisements stating tha
3,OOO,0OO laborers are wanted in Chicago
to work on the Worlds Fair buildings
In view OF the heavy outlay that ha
been necessitated in consequence of the
failure of the Russian crops, the govern
ment has ordered general retrenchment
There is unusual building activity in
London this spring. New 'edifices'j are
going up on every side, and old ones are
undergoing an overhauling and renova
tion.
Some large blasts of rock have been
made to provide material for the new
harbor refuge at Brest, as much as 1OJ.
600 cubic yards being thrown out at one
time.
1t has been decided that a new tria
for Mrs. Maybrick is impossible undel
English law as no technical defect is al
legged and as no court of criminal appeals
exists.
DR.. William Bodey shows in Germany
drink statistics that one-fi teenth of the
cultivated land of that country is occu
pied in the production of wine, beer ano
spirits.
1t has been pointed out that DURING
the last twenty-five years five Prime
Ministers have dissolved Parliament. and
IN each case the opposition has come
into power.
The returns show that last wear Ara
o43 persons left the United Kingdom fo,
places out of Europe. The number Of
persons who arrived in England last
year was Isl, 1859.
A worlds labor exhibition is TO he
held in London, at which it is to he
hoped that methods for the abolition ot
sweating" will be adopted and the evils
oil strikes mitigated.
An enter prising British proprietor Of
a tea plantation in Ceylon has engaged
the distinguished ex- Napoleon of Egypt
to take nominal charge of his plantation
at a salary of el,OOO year.
Sergeant Smith of the artillery garri.
soned at Soest, Westphalia, shot himself
dead in the guard room while under ar.
rest Tor bullying privates and inciting
them to swear falsely at his trial.
The land speculation scheme which
was associated with the railroad project
seems to have come to grief. and The
land boom near Jaffa and Jerusalem
started year or so ago, has collapsed.
Seven taverns have been burned re-.
Gently in and around Soran. Branden.
burg, Germany. The fires were evidently
OF incendiary origin, and the police a..
uert that the authors of the crimes arc
Socialists. - .
The French chemists Frenzy and yer-
neull have for years been experimenting
on the production of rubies by chemical
synthesis. and announce that thew have
at last succeeded in making stones Of a
marketable re '''e' Vi "
Emperor Williams condition is said to
oe serious. His sufferings are NOT onIv
from bodily ailment, but also mental do.
rangement. A sojourn of six months in
N fat. =.
physicians. ''i'oeo oy
~ Count Herbert Bismarck has gone to
flume ~ to visit his fiancee, the Countess
lltyOS. The MARRIAGE w, III