Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-11-22
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
The Number of Enrolled Voters IN
the Kingdom Of Italy.
CHOLERA IN A CHINESE PROVINCE
New Tax Upon Bicycles in France-Sno~
in the Black Forest Region in
Germany-Etc.

There ;s a serious revival Of cholera at
Baku.
England boasts OF an aluminium
launch.
Archduke Francis Of Austria is soon
to visit America.
Vienna has been declared free from
the cholera scourge.
Cattle disease has broken out in varl-
Gus districts Of Jutland.
Hamburg officially reports no case OIL
cholera there since October 70.
Cholera in Chinese province has car
ried off 10000 to 10000 people.
There is said to be an excess OF 49,
OOO, 900 of silver in the United Kingdom.
To every 900 men in the British army
only eighteen are over Six feet IN neigh'.
It is now announced that Parliament
will be formally prorogued on December
ID.
The French Cabinet has approved
decree pardoning ten convicted Carmaux
riotere.
A syndicate has been formed to estab-
in Stockholm.
The German army has swimming
school for troops, where every one must
Learn to swim.
France is to have a new subsidiary
coinage, which is to be OF some metal
beside copper.
An English company is being organ
g. . na NJ DIR nf
in South America.
Two daughters OF General Booth of
the Salvation Army have been expelled
from Switzerland.
According to the London Times, Brit
ish harvest was not nearly completed on
the first day OF October.
| Russia is said to have 10000, 900 in
gold, OF which IS, COO, 900 10 on deposit in
London, Paris and Berlin.
A metal tower resem bling the Eiffel
tower is to be erected at Lyons on the
heights of Gay de Fourviere.
1t is reported that 200 white men
Belgians and Germans-are leading the
Dahomeyans against the French.
The British government has given
1920 900 for the relief of the sufferers by
the recent fire at St. Johns, Newfound-
land.
Four feet of snow and consequent
blockade of railway traffic are reported
from the Black Forest region in Ger
many.
American competition in the grain
trade has caused many failures in Rus
sia, eight firms recently going into bank
ruptcy.
Three thousand tradesmen of Cologne
have recently petitioned the Emperor
of Germany to abolish the new Sunday
rest law.
A woman without arms has been mar
ried at Christ Church, New Zealand.
The ring was placed upon the fourth toe of
her left foot.
The Pope is already receiving presents
for his Jubilee, which is to take place
next year, the first gifts having arrived
from America.
DIR. Luther, Berlin physician, de-
scended from Martin Luther, represented
the Luther family at the conservation
services in Wittenberg.
Emma Nevada is to be one of the stars
OF Sir. Augustus Harris opera season in
London. She has not sung in the Eng
lish capital for four years.
The loss of traffic on account of the
cholera epidemic at Hamburg has caused
a deficit of 1000, 600 marks in the reve-
nues of the Altoona railway.
1t is proposed to connect the Oder and
Danube rivers by means of canal. thus
making complete waterway between
the Baltic and the Black Sea.
Penny savings banks are connected
with public schools Of Belgium, and no.
600 of the 100000 primary pupils have
deposited over 100000 francs.
The new tax upon bicycles in France
VIII be ". AS there are about two hun
dred aud twenty-five thousand cyclists
the revenue will be about $3.50, 900.
Miss Margaret Cozens, the British fe.
male suftragist, who recently advocated
dynamite as means OF securing the
franchise, is wealthy, educated and 80
The Empress of Russia's court dress
which is valued at e3, 900, has only been
worn on one occasion, viz, at the corona
ton OF the present Emperor. It is COW.
cred with magnificent embroidery in
real silver. -
The unfortunate claimant, alias "Sir
Roger Tichborne," makes his living bv
appearing at country music halls and by
exhibiting himself nightly for a fixed
sum at well-known public houses in the
suburbs of London. - WAC
The shipments of silver from London
this year have been nearly $l2. 500 OoO
greater than the same time in 1So1
The aggregate shipments to India Cb;na
and the straits were eS, 325, O98 this wear
against eS,S99,6 2l in 1891. 0"''
Spurgeon's Tabernacle in London ia
fitted with electric bells to ring in oil
parts OF the house. Strangers are tant
standing until five minutes before tbe
service, when all the bells are runy 81
multaneously and grand rush ia made
for seats. An"ue
Seven years ago Scotch woman ss
tablished in London "a Home ior H.
Dying" ten beds being prepared for S Suo
ing people. The applications for aa
MISSION became so numerous and press
,ns qua. steps nave been taken to en-
large the institution very greatly.
The subjects of Great Britain are tho
most tremendous patent medicine swaI-
lowers ON the globe. During the nast
year the revenue derived from the three
nail-penny stamp upon patent medicines
amounted TO Sl,20O,010. Licenses for
Ihe SAFE Of patent medicines have in.
creased l,SiO in England and III in
telephone girls in Belgium are poinv
70 have hard time OF it, The I inass
nave now been taken over by the Gov
| eminent, and operators orc s"N-