Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-04-28
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Austrian War Office Adopts the
Bullet-Proof Cloth.
pROUDFOOT's NOBLE REQUEST
Two Enormous Breaches occur II
the Banks of the Yellow
River in China.

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overpfentiful in South Australia.
Belgian Socialists threaten a general
strike if not granted universal Suffrage
SURVEYS are being made for three new
railroads in the Transvaal, South AFRICA
The Chinese government contempates
a considerable extension OF railroads this
spring.
Not for generations has England seen
such sunny and altogether ldyihc
spring as this.
The ship canal across the Isthmus OF
Corinth will probably be ready about
next September.
Queen Victoria's spring vacation on
the Continent will cost the British tax
payers $4,000.
Capital crimes, mainly in consequence
of excessive drinking, seem to be on the
increase in Russia.
A law has been passed by the Rechs-
tag establishing a standard time over the
whole of Germany.
France has submitted to the United
States and Great Britain suggestions to
improve shipping signals.
Influenza has appeared in a virulent
form throughout Southern Russia, and
the mortality is very great.
Twenty-Five ships of war of various
kinds are now in course of construction
for the French government.
County Herbert Bismarck has con-
scented to run for the Reichstag in the
interest OF the agrarian party.
In the Isle of Man there are no death
duties, no income tax and with the ex-
ception OF small duty on beer no excise.
During the last twenty years the area
OF land in England under the pillow has
diminished by nearly 1900, 900 acres, or
over IA per cent.
Two enormous breaches in the banks
of the Yellow river, China, are reported
to have occurred, most unusual phe-
nomenon in winter.
Northumberland is largely on the in
crease in the British West African colony
of Sierra Leone, one-tenth of the popu-
lation now being OF that faith.
Four thousand working people have
been thrown out of employment in New
South Wales by the stoppage of several
collieries in the Rhondda Valley.
The price of private telephones in
| London is very soon to be reduced from
ego year to SO q year, subject to the
condition OF IL five years contract.
The Austrian war Office has decided to
adopt the bullet-proof cloth, one-third
of an inch thick, invented by Herr Ly-
nander, an engineer living in Paris.
The Bohemian Central Agricultural
Society is organizing an international
exhibition of agriculture and food stuffs
to be held in Prague from the 18th to the
10Th of May next.
The overthrow King of Dahomey has
addressed an appeal to all civilized ma
tons" for sympathy with his cause,
which, he says, is that of right and JUS
tice, in his struggle with France.
During 1891 there were 4,651 deser-
tons from the British army. There
were 10,S03 court-martials and 20S, 100
minor punishments imposed. The gen.
eral conduct OF the soldiers is improving.
There is serious talk in France OF
building canal from the sea to the
Mediterranean, SO that the Mediterra-
mean trade Tor other countries need not
be carried within range OF the English
guns at Gibraltar.
Efforts are making to reconstruct and
reorganize the suspended Commercial
Bank of Australia. A new company
will be formed with a capital stock OF
f6,O00,000 to carry on the business of the
collapsed institution.
Venezuela is to have new 1-cent
stamp similar in form and size to our
Columbian issue. 1t will bear repre-
sentation OF the landing made by the
subordinates of Columbus on the coast
OF Venezuela in the year 1893.
The French government has apologlzed
to Count Muenster, German Ambassa-
dor, for the detention of the letters
written by Herr Kurtz to the German
Embassy and Consulate, while he was
imprisoned on suspicion in Rouen.
Cliff railways in England grow more
and more popular. Clifton has opened
a remarkably steep line, cut in tunnel
from the gorge of the Avon to the sum-
NIT OF Clifton Rocks. The gradient is
one foot in two feet, and the tunnel 27x
Is feet.
Telegraph lines in the Zambesi Terri
tory have but a brief existence accord
ing to present experience. Elephants
knock them down, the carriers steal the
thick lines for mending purposes and
the Makalala ladies appropriate the fine
wire for necklaces and bangles.
In the manufacture of beer last year
IN the United Kingdom 55, $50, $40 BUSH
els of malt and corn and 2,096, 72O cwt.
OF sugar were used. The duties paid
amounted to 910,079,678. London is
the largest brewing center, having 139
breweries. Burton comes next.
A Scotchman named Proudfoot. who
died recently in Natal, bequeathed e2O,-
wv TO the laborers in Motfatt, Scotland,
thirty iahorers in the village have re-
solved to use the money in establishing a
public institution for the sick and aged
poor ana In maintaining pension fund.
According to the Frankfurter Zeitunp
the Executive Committee of the Anti
Slavery Company has decided to discon-
tlnue Major Won Wissman's enterprise
and to offer the Nyassa station to the
imperial government. Funds are insult
ticlent for the continuance of the new
enterprise.
An immense crowd gathered at the
docks at Christiania, Norway. and
eheered as the Viking passed down the
haroor firing salutes. She will cruise
along the coast, in order that the people
may have chance to see her, and early
IN May will sail from Bergen for the
United States.
Lord sackvilleWest is not expected
to be enthusiastically active in the re-
ceptlon that will be accorded Ambassador
Bayard upon his arrival at the Court al
~. James, 1t was Mr.. Bayard's mn