Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-07-08
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Swarms of Locusts Reach Algeria
and 1unis From Sahara.
RELIGIOUS EQUALITY in HUNGARY
Cotton Now Grown in Turkestan and thu
Russian Provinces Of Central
Asia-Frog Lymph.

1t is intended to lay submarine cable
in the Caspian Sea.
Succi, the faster, is insane and now in
an asylum near Paris.
French imports showed for the last
year gain over the exports.
Fewer suicides occur in Ireland than
| in any other country in Europe.
Tenders for the Canadian loan of $12,.
5O0, 900 have just closed in London.
England has begun through its press
to bitterly bewail markets lost in Amer
lea.
Lord Salisbury's protection speech is
said to be still causing discussions in the
British Cabinet.
Foreign physicians are now expert
menting with frog lymph as preventive
Of hydrophobia.
The year 1891 saw the first increase in
the export of Chinese tea that has oc-
Cured in ten years.
1t is estimated that there are less than
10000 paupers in the Japanese Empire,
with its population of 237 100000
Nathaniel Rothschild in retiring from
the turf announces that he will dispose
OF his stud-the biggest in Austria.
English nautical journals are not in
sympathy with the proposed Corbin line
of American Transatlantic steamships.
The associated railroads of Austria
have presented the Emperor with a
magnificent new special train OF twelve
cars.
DIR. Newman Hall, the eminent Lon
don clergyman, expects to retire from
his pastorate in July. He is now 76
years OF age.
Some French artists affect to be indif-
ferent to the bill now before Congress
asking for a reduction of the duty upon
works OF art.
The consumption of coffee in France
has increased within thirty years from
one half pound to three and one-half
pounds per head.
A resolution in favor of religious equal
ity has just been adopted in the Hun
garian Chamber after an agitation OF
twenty-five years.
Heligolanders are by no means recon-
ciled to their lot since annexation to
Germany, and are full of grievances and
troubles OF all kinds.
The King OF Siam is greatly interested
in electrical progress. Through his eff.
forts Bangkok il to have an electric road
Of American manufacture.
Swarms of locusts have reached Al
geria and Tunis on the Mediterranean
after having crossed the Great Sahara
Desert and the Atlas Mountains.
The overflow OF the Danube and its
tributaries covers 240 square miles, of
which one half is cultivated land and
the remainder forests and meadows.
1t is possible to become a Prince in
Italy by the payment of $4,000 in fees
and other costs. The title of Duke NAV
be had for 10000, and that of Baron for
$4,000.
London Truth says that Sir William
Gordon Cumming, the principal in the
famous baccarat scandal, will stand for
the House of Commons in the Eighth
borough.
Cotton ls now grown in Turkestan and
the Russian provinces of Central Asia,
the quantity produced being 81 $3.50, 900
pounds, or say $4,000 bales, in 1888 and
52,560,000 pounds in 1889.
London has forty-four theaters, with
capacity for seating 10000 spectators.
Its music halls and other places of en-
tertalnment number 475, with capacity
Of more than 100000.
Not single case of influenza is now
known to exist in Paris. The epidemic
is said to have cost 200 lives in 1892.
but in 1890 it was far more virulent. for
1000 people are then said to have per-
ished.
The Grand Trunk railway of Uruguay
to Montevideo has been completed, and
opens out a vast tract of fertile land
hitherto comparatively worthless, the
area OF which is only little less than
Belgium.
Mummies taken from the Egyptian
tombs, beaten into fine powder and
mixed with oil for paint is one of the
latest industries at Cairo. The color Of
= human-dust paint is rich brown of
lively tone.
A wire-netting fence 500 miles long ia
one OF the late Australian wonders. The
fence separates the colonies of New
South Wales and Queensland, and its
object is to keep the rabbits out of the
latter country.
According to the London A,mu and
Nary Gazette the average strength of the
British army in 1891 was 209. 500 Of
which number 104, 800 were in the Brit
lsh Isle, ~, 2SS in India and 81, 257 in the
colonies and Egypt.
An important discovery of yerv exten-
sive iron-ore deposits, which are even
to rival the enormous iron-ore
mountain at Gellivora in North Sweden.
mas quite recently been made in Finland |
BY M. stiernvall, the geologist.
The sailing ship Maria Rickmers re-.
emily launched at the Russell wards at |
Fort Glasgow, Scotland, is claimed to he |
me largest sailing ship in the world. II
q $40 feet long, with a breadth of beam
'f 4S feet, draws 20 feet of water and
1er net tonnage is 1892 feet. She is
quilt of steel.
i, A Dill has been introduced in the
trench Chamber of Deputies to give lie
pensions OF 200 francs year to the
Sloow and 500 francs to the daughter Of
very, the restaurateur, who was killed
~ the Anarchists in revenge for the ar
est of Ravachol. o g"
Verdrs Rigoletto" has lust been
produced Tor the first time at the Court
Iheater IN Hanover. Forty years ago II
vas announced for performance. but tbe
,tutude OF the public was 80 hostile that
lie manager had to ring down the chr
ain long before the end of the onera
vas reached. opoi"
Inc dronth in France hardly can have
aiieo to affect crops. In Nav the total
n'ail was only .27 inch up to the o5.h