Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-12-06
Large Legacy for the Benefit OF
British Workingmen.
GERMAN KAISER MAKES A PRESENT
The Centrists VIII Probably Deieat INC
New German Army Blll-The
Poet Laureateship.

Tennyson makes the llst OF puria'o AZ
Westminster Abbey 1,l7S.
The Philosophical Society is to send
propsgandists all over the world.
The Egyptian is taxed 80 cents on the
palm tree that grows in his garden.
Lord Rosebery's reported engagement
to the Prince of Wales daughter is de-
MED.
Edwin Arnold appears at present to be
the most likely candidate for the iaure-
ateship.
Glasgow is about to try the experiment
Of working as well as ownsnI It's Tram
way lines.
The pilgrimages to Rome on the &C.
casion OF Pope's Jubilee will begin at the
end OF January.
The report that the situation in Samoa
is unsatisfactory to the German Foreign
Office is confirmed.
The government OF Austria has re-
solved to take control Of the telephone
lines in the kingdom.
The London Financial News says that
$25 200, 900 will be left in America as
the harvest of the fair.
During the coming year France will
spend 81 900, 900 for arms and ammuni-
ton for the cavalry alone.
The Noureau Temps. the leading news
paper Of St. Petersburg, will probably
establish Paris edition.
A freight car thirty-six feet long has
been built OF steel in Manchester for the
Mexican Railway Company.
About 250,000 Jews have left Russia
within the past two years, and are pro-
hibited from returning there.
The Turkish government has issued
an edict prohibiting army officers below
the rank OF Major from having more than
one wife.
1t is stated that Sir William Harcourt
has promised to favorably consider the
proposed coinage OF silver by the colony
Of Victoria.
Emperor William and the King of
Saxony, it is said, have quarreled be-
cause the former insisted upon prosecut-
ing Bismarck.
Sir Charles Tupper's negotiations in
Paris for the conclusion OF commercial
treaty between France and Canada are
making favorable progress.
An elaborate plot to start revolution
in Chill has been unearthed at Valpa-
raise. 1t originated, it is stated, with
sympathizers with Balmaceda.
During the month of October the out
put Of the ship yards on the Clyde was
fourteen steamers, aggregating 1854
tons and two sailing vessels, 1880 tons.
Austria's new rifle fires 12O rounds a
minute, and is sighted at 1900 yards.
Though it pours GU hailstorm of bull
letq, it does not become too hot to handle.
Sw tzerland has 10l telephone OK
changes, 1855 stations, 3,225 miles OF
lines, and limits each subscriber to 500
conversations in the course of the year.
Prince Bismarck has suddenly changed
from pessimist to an optmist. He ex-
presses belief that war cannot possibly
break out for the next two or three
years.
The Centrists of Bavaria, Baden and
Wurtemburg are almost unanimous
against the new German army bill. This
is believed to p9rtend the defeat of the
measure.
The Postmaster General of Norway has
ordered that January /, 1898, the bicycle
shall be need by all country postmen for
the delivery of mails where the roads
will permit.
Or. Hansen, the Norwegian explorer,
will start for the North Pole next June.
going by way of Nova Zembla. He will
try to find the Arctic current, and NAV
be gone five years.
Some French capitalists are engaged
in an attempt to form new company.
with capital OF $4,000, 900, to take the
assets OF the old Panama Company and
continue the work.
The English Registrar in Bankruptcy
IS now inquiring how it is possible that
Mrs. Parnell could have disposed OF
ElO),O00 received under the will of her
late aunt only year ago.
The Reichs Anzieqer of Berlin nub.
fishes Ministerial circular nrohibit;no
the circulation in Germany for two years
OF tne A10aona,e, German Anarchist
paper published in London.
The German Kaiser has presentad
50,000 marks to the Society for the pro.
motion of Aerial Navigation for the con.
struction of colossal balloon. which
Will be tifty-six feet in diameter and a.
tall as four-storied house.
The late Thomas Nelson, the publisber
OF Edinburgh, left $4,000 in legacies
lor the erection and equipment Of five
Worklngmen,s clubs and reading-rooms
when Will be erected gradually. and
Will De SO fitted up as to attract working
men. A'ns
Inc money voted by the British naval
ueiense act is exhausted. The new
regime favor the building of ships Of N
lesser tonnage than heretofore. and nro.
pose That the tonnage Of the fntnra uor
snip snip Shall be reduced from IA 900 to 10 !.
GOO tons. W w
According to European papers there
- sun a possibility that Columbus will
oe numbered among the saints. In a
recent interview the Pope said that ba
nad received letters from priests and
plsnops all over the world asking that
the great discoverer be canonized'
The new Duke of Marlborough 10 rhu
sically contrast TO the oeneroI rn pnyt
Churchills. He is small and aG az VI
MIN q neat inquire. His features reese m
pie those OF the first Duke of MAI.
borough: He has a high forehead and
College. Az" az trinity
pr. sioen, a well-known Bavar;ar
wants 70 go to the Re.chstag. He has
l lss an appeal to his constituents
wnicn contains the following mission !.
during my whole life have not drnn,
drop OF beer" One German psner do.
cares care. this to be the most astonisbino
u ute on record coming from Bavas