Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-11-03
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Three Famous Prisons in Paris
to be Demolished.
CHOLERA RAGING IN PALERMO.
The Pope Consents to Act as God
father to the King Uf Spain
at His Confirmation.

:, An epidemic of influenza is raging a
/, Tropoli.
Is Uruguay is to increase the strength o
It her army.
: The population of Belgium Is place.
at 6, 1893, 365.
y 1t is estimated that there are 10000
y tramps in Germany.
! The French Transatlantic cable wa,
a worked at a loss OF f913 last year.
e There are on an average 100 cases O
Q cholera reported daily in Palermo.
e A paper containing matter exclusively
|. on astrology has made its appearance in
y London.
The German hop crop is short about
100000 pounds, according to the
! latest estimate.
, People in the south of England have
been enjoying the second crop Of straw
berries this year.
, A writer in the London News says that
, American tools are far better than those
, of European make.
The strikes of miners in England and
Belgium are nearing an end. Riots are
still frequent in France.
Russia is reported to be purchasing
LOG, 900, 900 bushels of rye and storing it
in preparation for war"
An English advertiser offers $500 to
any person killed in railway accident
wearing his particular brand OF suspend
ers.
The census OF India for 1891 shows the
population to be 287, 223, 430. Only 8 per
cent OF the entire number can read or
write.
The new Scotland Yard is the largest
police office in the world. 1t contains a
room in which 5000 men can be as
sembled.
Peixoto's forces have retaken the IRON
clad Sete Septembre, which accidentally
ran aground on the coast near Rio de
Janeiro.
Motions censuring the government in
the Hungarian Diet were dismissed, the
opposition members leaving the House
in body.
| The French government is about TO
establish postal service by camels in
the French territory OF Obock and the
Somali coast.
President Peixoto has issued decree
deprlvlng the revolving officers of the
brazilian navy of the protection of the |
national flag.
The exterior of the Rouen Cathedral
is to be restored. One hundred and
twenty thousand dollars are to be ex-
pended on the job.
New Zealand has entered the woman
suffrage column. Its new reform bill
puts women upon an exact political
equality with men.
The Lord Mayors of London durinp
the past twenty years have collected
over twenty millions of money for phi
lanthropic purposes.
According to the annual report of the
British Postoffice, 2,7S5, 27O, 600 letters
ana packages were handled during the
fiscal year just ended.
London is somewhat excited over tho
american adding machine, which has {
Just been taken over there. At present I
1t Is not considered seriously.
Runaway horses fell just in time to
avoid dragging Prince Radjicwill, aide-de- !
camp to Emperor William, into the Me
man river at Nieswics, Russia,
Arrangements have been concluded ,
between the Berlin banks and other
banks OF Italy providing for an advance
81 4o,OO0,OO0 marks on the securitv of E
Italian rentes. VI
LONDON has new but much needed r
organization, whose name indicates fuIIv
US purpose. 1t is called the National r
society for Checking the Abuses of
Public Advertising. o' Vi :,
1t appears from the official statistic,
70 600 sne production of gold in Russia in e
. ,oa 'nat the output of the mines has a
nent o IF tsnSn increased by the improve
mr.. Gladstone is one of the greatest .
opponents to divorce in the EngIisb. -
peaking world. He believes that MAJ O.
iage is contract for life, which oniv o
&p'res when life itself expires. NJ
An English municipal body trondo. y
4ocal Board, has passed resoin,; lrena 9 in
Kidding the erection of henbons .or &C
Mess the plans for the strnctnra oI Uses, in
'oard. "pp'oVeu py the nv
The exports OF rails and ra;l,,o, G,
olf "a A, N'oi many IN the first | vi
, on oi TN Lhls year amounted to 62.216 de
,ns, me corresponding exports in the di
33nortesponding period of 1899 were "a "a MI
:. iIoiessor Koch, the Berlin bacterio,.
sist', who recently secured a d;vnsno 81,
ON ms wife and married an ontu oue let
rs u l Iola MS friends that if thew want l.5
o sppG ; IN future they must receive ~.
~ i' "lie. ras
NJ Jannsen, in teegrapbin, fror, =, 2.S
Ianc snaa tta.ory on the top of Mont a a.
sonss speaks in glowing terms of the e..
mas hi o' .ne observatory, and also a ea
pes mat valuable observations m n.sO w..
made this autumn. may cot
In Great Britain last season a. ''S S
Ire iI twenty-six deaths on the t;o,5 i'ere 50
II, lung from football accidents In fire. re- AZ
ne broken legs, twelve broken 'nmly- II
eh.y- nve broken colar-bon and d, ms
'y-hVe other injuries. '''u seV- 40 i
l ne aged Duchess of CLEVELAND A. mo
'.hef OF Lord Rosebery. who H. ene $l.1
me one last OF the surviving ladies n oiie
; w. as bridesmaid to the Onean az @
halesty's marriage over {; ftu etn al GRO,
aIs ago Is Just about to set ont 'nIee fnrd
lrney to South Africa. ''' ou' on a NOR ros1
ne parish of St. Cbr;sto,h the
'ck; London, has not a sinolo ;ne or \
IL, out its electoral list mnst i dI ties
-isb MAG, MADE out and signed. This ninl
nj ~ ,ha over the open space is graz
vol II F .he Mansion House and thn thar
the RAM ~ ana includes a corner