Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-01-08
Alsatians Fleeing From
CONSUMPTION.
STEAMSHIPS POOLING ISSUES.
State Control Of Railways Not Popular
in Switzerland agricultural
Labor Scarce in England.

The profits OF tne Sue1 CahaA oN
81 SOC, 900 yearly.
The Cunard Line of steamships en-
ploys over IL 900 hands.
A French ship recently launched at
Havre can carry $500 tons.
Sixteen tons OF steel pens are export
ed from Birmingham weekly.
The Dutch in Africa are gradually
Welding to British speech and customs.
A London omnibus trayerses about
eighty miles a day, and earns $SO q
week.
The Berlin scietifc man gives as his
testimony that American pork is harm
less.
The population of Jerusalem has in
creased since 1880 from 25,O0O to o.
600.
An herb is said to have been discov-
cred in Yucatan which is a specific for
insanity.
The troops in the South of Russia are
ordered to send in their sword blades to
be sharpened.
The Anarchists of France boast of
about 40 1000, and the Socialists number
about ], 100000.
Hungary will celebrate her one-thou-
sandth anniversary by national exhi-
bition in 1895.
Walter Phelps, the American Minister.
has LETT Berlin for a months holiday,
which he will spend in Egypt.
A telegram from Cairo says that o.
man Digna, at the head OF the Mahdists,
will attempt to reconquer Tongar.
Directors Wuest and King of the Gen
eral Credit Bank OF Basic, Switzerland,
have been arrested at Ostend.
In twelve years the city OF Paris has
expended $4,000 on statues and $685.
600 on ornamental fountains.
1t is asserted at Rome upon good au-
thority that diplomatic relations will
shortly be re established with America.
Lord Mayor Evans of London, who
was recently inargurared, has laid down
800 dozen of wine in the Mansion House
cellar.
1t is stated that in 1890 the number of
persons killed in India by snakes was
q, Alp, while the number OF snakes
slaughtered was 5l0.659.
The German Government supports
Bulgaria in the Chadoune affair. Bull
garia is firm in the determination not to
recede from her position.
Torpedo ne,-cutting devices are now
esteemed so effective that the British
Admiralty has ordered much heavier
nets for its new war ships.
Not for years have the British ship.
yards been SO busy as now. The stress
is partly due to prospective competition
over Worlds Fair business.
An ocean pier at Puerto Columbia,
near Savanilla, will, when finished, be
1000 feet long, built entirely of iron and
steel, with a dou BILE line OF rails.
Succi, the Italian faster, is about to
begin another fast at the London
Aquarium, in an attempt to beat all the
records, and fast for tifty-two days.
Mr.. Hastings, M. P. for Worcester
shire, England, has been arrested,
charged with defrauding Malvern Col
lege OF $4,000 under his trusteeship.
The chief acting General of the Chi
nese Imperial Army has been thrown
from his horse and his neck was broken.
He was the finest commander in the
Chinese army and was greatly admired.
The Swiss Federal Council estimates
that yearly profit of $4,000 francs
will accrue from the projected match
monopoly. To buy up existing works a
sim of ()21 ono fro N os Mill -, :
Madrid is the most elevated city in
Europe. 1t is built on mountain plain
or plateau 2,2J0 feet above the level of
the sea. Being much exposed to ex.
tremes of heat and cold, it is very I'M
healthy.
An unusual number of young Alsa-
tlans are fiocking over the French from
tier In order 10 be out of the way of the
next German CONSUMPTION. Care is
taken to provide these patriots with en-
ployment. ''-' VIM
Inc chief continental transatlantic
companies, German. Dutch
and French, with the Red Star Com
pany, have signed an agreement poolino
.he trade OF conveying steerage and be.
S'NSAA NNSn PoosCIiStTSs
The English authorities are agitatino
The question of appointing women far.
tory inspectors who shall be we'll or.
lualnted with the modes of life and tba
occupations Of women workers in the
factory industries. " VIC
Agricultural labor was so scarce in
some OF the midland counties of Enn-
and near the end of last month thst
me crops were lying on the fields nv
gathered, notwithstanding that waoas
lad been advanced 20 per cent. ee'
The Bishop OF Liverpool has forbidden
he granting OF permission to lavmen 70
cad praye in church. It ia beIiaveJ
nat this prohibition is directed aga;nst
Mr. Gladstone, who read PRAYERS IS
Liverpool the other Sunday.
State control of railways does No,
eem TO De as popular in Switzerland as
II some OF the other European Statas
majority OF the electors, in vot;nn
lsaihst the acquisition of a railwars
President. A'oPuohc's
There seems to be no limit 70 a..
'opular fashion OF ladies' clnhs and
'ullds. A movement is now on foot IN
1oaooh among several fashionahIa
James, headed by the Duchess Of Taon
. purchase the big building onnos;,a
ne Bachelors Club, and run a clph ne
lies. - 'ioo Inc La
-. "A lawsuit "a. has been begun over the e.
a sos o. the late Meissonier, the painter
loving out OF the desire of his w;don
!, sell the pictures lett in bis s INV
u, iiis IS opposed by the other heirs u WIZ
'tsh TO preserve their fathers wo,. ",to
'rm private museum. WORK 10
81. Inc Empress Frederick is said 10 h.ro
cen a severe snffarar ~, ~ e"io W nave