Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-09-27
Japanese Profit by Their Learning
in German Schools.
DECLINE OF POPULATION IN ERIN
President Mendoza Becomes Dictator,
Robs the People and Church
and Then Resigns.

Egypt's cotton crop Is 10 per oo"''
higher than last year.
American vines are proving SUCCESSFUL
in resisting the phylloxera in Germany.
England has removed the restriction
AGAINST the importation OF American
sheep.
The German Reichstag and the Prus-
sian Landtag will meet the last OF NO
vember.
.Japap is soon to have two electric
railroads of twelve and seventeen miles
respectively.
Smokeless powder has become 90 much
in demand that the price OF camphor is
affected thereby.
Emperor William has sent 10000
marks to Hamburg for the relief OF
cholera sufferers.
Peru is to send confidential agent to
Santiago to treat in regard to pending
matters with Chill.
DR.. Gray, the Afghan Ameer's physi-
clan, reports that forty feet OF snow fell
at Cabul last winter.
The Watkin tower, at last decided to
be built at Wembley Park, will be 100
feet higher than the Eiffel tower.
Catholic congregations in Prussia are
increasing in much greater proportion
than the increase OF the population.
There are about 10000 houses in
London, which on cold days consume
40, 900 tons of coal, emitting 430 tons OF
ulphur.
In England the consumption OF tea is
rapidly Increasing and coffee diminish
ing. Cocoa has increased "a per cent.
in five years.
The Berlin Post announces that the
Empress Frederick will spend the first
part of the winter in England with
Queen Victoria.
Beginning in October, Russian will be
taught in two OF the Partisan colleges,
and perhaps be put on the same footing
as German and English.
The Hamburgische Correspondent states
that the new military bill contemplates
permanent increase in the budget OF
IS, 90, 900 marks annually.
The Campania, the new Cunarder, has
been launched in England. This vessel
ia 800 feet long, ninety-two feet less than
the Great Eastern.
1t is officially announced that the
government OF Belgium declines to allow
the International Monetary Conference
to be held at Berlin.
Belgium has not refused to allow the
Monetary Conference to be held in
Brussels, Notwithstanding the published
report to the contrary.
The rainy season has fully set in at
the Isthmus OF Tehuantepec, and work
on the railroad has been suspended.
For many miles the track was washed
away.
The Prince of Wales, HON burg cor
respondent relates, has been deserted by
the cloud of American heiresses and pro-
tesslonat beauties that formerly sur
rounded him.
| Three men in France competed to see
who could drink the most water. One
swallowed twelve quarts, the second
nine and the third seven. All three died
from the effects.
The last Irish census shows a decline
OF population since 1881 of 47O, 900. The
number OF foreigners has increased,
cleiiy owing to the large immigration
ot Russian Jews.
Berlin is bringing all the force OF mod
ern science as applied to medication and
sanitary regulations to bear against the
-pread OF cholera in that city, and with
successful results.
The French government has protested
in Berlin against German traders iur
nlshlng King Behansin in Dahomey with
improved guns and ammunition with
which to fight the French forces.
The German telegraph service has
adopted copper bronze wires, and is re-
placing all Its iron and steel wires bv
the new metal, which is used of small
diameter, and weighs about 1870 pounds
to the mile.
King Humbert has created the com.
manders OF the various foreign war
ships which went to Genoa for the mr..
pose OF taking part in the Columbus
celebration, Commanders OF the Order
OF st. Maurice and st. Lazarus.
The railway over the Andes between
the Argentine Republic and Chill has
peen so tar completed as to Justify the
Steamship companies in Europe SELLING
through tickets from SOUTHAMPTON and
Liverpool to Valparaiso by this route.
In New South Wales the government
expended over $4,000 900 from 1899 to
IoSo endeavoring to exterminate rabbits
BESIDE that greater sum has been aw.
pended IN private moneys. In one vear
them. p"'u upon
r, Inc seriousness of the situation in
nam onrg ls seen from the fact that it's
people nave to go back eighty wears for
q parallel to their present nlioht IN
1871 there were 1890 deaths fron,
been 1880. o'0 nave
"A understanding apparatus was
lasely before the British Association
whlcn was proved not only to do what
was required of it even with tho
smokiest descriptions of coal, bnt To he
proauc'ive oil considerable economy in
Dictator Mendoza has caused q ro;.
OF terror in Venezuela. He ossasa
wealthy estates to condition ~ oo
nscation, robbed churches. mt nr; oO
IN lail, closed the Bank Of Vapar,oo1ss
took all the money in the vsnlts Ia
Then resigned in favor OF Gn;lIarn,ee W ana
iegos Pulido, who is now formi, II,
Cabinet. forming
=; In, Inc Bank oil France will soon put into
g Ti new series of bank 80 s...o
Ihey VIII be similar to those in n.a ao.ts.
ISn'y difference being that the paner w .in
&c thinner, but at the same t;nna
stronger. The superior quality Of ' me
paper will render the PRINTING c u. .ne
ana make forgery even more di ,sartI
than it is at present. '''' u'ricult
Inc Japanese, who have bean