Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-31
Novel Measure of Protection Used
by the Bank Of France.
uNpuBLl SHED LETTERS OF voLTAlRE
Sarah Bernhardt Ceases to be Sar
Attraction at R me and VIENNA
The New York.


Geneya telegram states that an I'M.
nortant discovery OF 500 Unpublished
Letters of Voltaire has been made there.
According to the latest arrangements
DIR. hansen will leave Chrlstiania on ms
Arctic expedition at the beginning OF
June.
Adelina Patti gets $4,000 for every
Lon Ion concert, while she sings IN inc
provinces for $4,000 and in Milan Tor w
600 a night.
| The pope Ia soon to issue a letter to
the French Episcopacy urging the lorna
tion of party OF Rep blican Catholics
in the Chamber OF Deputies.
The steamer New York has been
thrown open TO the public at shilling
a head in the port of southampton, the
receipts going to local charities.
l. Newton Moffin is urging in London
the project of roofing over the principal
streets OF that city with glass. The UNI
brellamakers will cry all hall to the
scheme.
The swarms of field mice which caused
such devastation last year in Thessaly
are beginning to reappear in that prov.
ince and in the neighboring district OF
Phthiotis.
The Turkish government has proposed
to the Sultan that he invite the States OF
the Ottoman Empire to "a commercial
and industrial competition" in Con-
antinople.
Another exploring expedition into the
interior OF the Australian Continent is
soon to be equipped by Sir Thomas Ell
der and to start under the leadership OF
David Lindsay.
An English shiphuilder SAYS that the
cost of an ocean steamer in Great Bri-
tain is now much greater than it was ten
wears ago. A frst.clase ship now costs
about $1,000 900,
Mrs. Besant h arrived IN London,
where she is reporting that the result
of her tour in t. is country convince her
t at "theosophy as great future be-
FIRE it in America"
An equestrian statue OF the late En-
peror Frederick of Germany is to be
erected on the hill at Worth, whence he
directed the battle OF Worth in the
Franco German war.
, From a return which has just been
laid tefore the House OF Commons 1t
appears that out OF 39j 600 electors who
voted in Irel nd at the general election
S4,9l9 were illiterates.
3 Preece, the celebrated English cleo
trician, believes the success of the Lon
don and Paris telephone line foreehad-
: ows tie ephonic communication between
y England and America.
The King OF Ssxony will celebrate the
G. fl tieth anniversary OF his entrance into
u At nntohar Tho ,aopta nj
l Sayony are already making preparations
to honor the anniversary.
: There is on exhibition in Berlin an Ell.
q ephant which ia repule ed t. be the small
e es in the world The animal, it IS aid
is hree years old, stands three feet in
j.. height and weigh bit 1876 pounds.
! The music hall seems to be about the
. best paying of public entertainment
ventures in London, and the conversion
of theaters into music halls and tbs
!. opening OF new halls goes on apaee,
9 Sarah Bernhard, 80 London papers
report, has ceased to be star attraction
at Rome and Vienna. According to {
= reports she has been doing bad bushes;
> in both capitals, and prices have had to
be lowered.
= A Moslem mob has possession of Ce
q sa ca, Palestine. The rioters have robb q
: hundreds and killed many, sacked
: churches and burst into private houses
and shops. All places o. business are
close and trade is utterly stagnant.
The largest turret ship in the world
the Hood of the English navy, success
fully passed the official trial OF her ma.
Q chinery few days ago. She has dis
> placement OF IA, 100 tons. The total cost
: of the Hood when fully equipped viii
amount to $4,75o,00o.
e The authorities of the Great East m
r railway in Engla ID and the traffic man.
+, eer of the Holland railways have en-
in con erence with the Prussan Minister
: OF Public Works wi h the view OF ar
a ranging for new and apid route be.
: tween London and Berlin.
The City Commissioners of Sewers are
: making application to the Thames Con
: servancy Board, in view of the possible
4 outbreak of cholera, for permission tc
l place a cholera hospital sh p on the
8 Thames, within the city boundary, fol
the reception OF cases occurring on land
Ex-Queen Isabella OF Spain has written
to the Pope, petitioniDg him to canonize
Christopher Columbus as a saint of the
holy Catholic Church, her reasons be.
ing that he was the first man to raise
the cross of Christ in America. St. Co
umbus would indeed be a new role for
the famous old navigator.
An interesting discovery was lately
made at Glastonbury, Somersetshire
England, of the remains of an ancient
, lake vi lage, From sixty to seventy low
mounds, rising from one to two feet
above the surrounding soil and from
twenty to thirty feet across. were found
on the level moor, which stretches to
the British Channel. Many curious OBJ
lects were found.
. Peary will have a rival in Arctic ex
plorat on this comm summer in Fred.
erica jackson, who takes British partv
up to Franz Jos phi Land, and who
THINKS he will there have land up 10 tn.
e,ghty-fourth parallel OF la itude, posi-
bly, farther Thence he prop ses to rrc-
ceed in dog sledges.
: The American Female Baseball Climb
the mem beers oil which were so roughly
treated at Havana, Cub, rece tly. i as
Drought suit ag inst the spanish 20 err-
ment for damages l. is stated the On
bans not only a tackled tn women and
ore tn ir clothing. but they dragged
down the American flag which the elm
earri and destroyed it.
A novel measure of protection agains.
thlevss and other crooked customers has
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