Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-09-08
FOREIGN FLASHES.
The Immense Sentence OF a
Dishonest City official.
FRENCH AGRICULTURAL LOSSES
South Africa Developing a Fruit
Industry The Italian SIX
Crop-A New Cable.

New Zealand has refused to join thu
Australasan Confederation.
The Italian silk crop this year is abou
rs per cent above tho average.
Great Britain has about 100000 abso
lutely homeless wanderers.
Spain will order that the payment Q
all her customs duties be made in gold
A statue to Queen Christina, mothe
of the ex-Queen Isabella, is to be erected
at Madrid.
Every regiment OF the British army il
India has been rearmed with the new
magazine rifles.
Last season the Carl Rosa Opera Com
pany made profit OF about 10000, the
first in several years.
Russia is feeling the pinch OF the tariff
war with Germany. The prices for al
grains are rapidly falling.
The Queen OF Italy has founded 80
ciety for the reform OF street children by
teaching them some useful occupation
A physician and sanitary corps viii
scour every railway train between Ma
pies and Rome as a precaution against
cholera.
sibyl Sanderson, who as Phryne ir
Saint Saens' new opera of that name, IL
variously praised for her physique and
her voice.
In England this summer six persons
have been sentenced to terms of hare
labor as punishment for attempting te
commit suicide.
Don Jose Galndo, Mayor of Valencia
Spain, has been sentenced to fourteen
years each on 2l7 indictments for falsify.
ing public documents, or 3,O3S years in
all.
There was net decrease in the Brit.
ish revenue receipts during the first
quarter Of the present financial year oil
G7S1, 25S as compared with the same Pc
riod last year.
Mrs. Langtry was one of the conspic.
uous figures at the Brighton racing meet.
ing, where she appeared attired one day
in yellow and the next in black and
white striped silk.
Paderewski has gone to his home in
Poland for rest and recreation. He will
remain in retirement until October,
when he is expected to make his reap
pearance IN Paris.
The statement is made in Paris that
French agriculture has lost as much
money this year because of the drought
as the Germans received by way of war
indemnity after 1870"
South Africa is developing fruit in
dustry. Within couple of years the
Cape Colony has begun to ship peaches
and other fruits to London, getting them
there in twenty-one days.
Reports from Lancashire announce
that South American orders for most
classes of goods have increased in many
quarters, the Argentine trade especially
being much more satisfactory.
Quite large steamer, built in Scot
land especially for the purpose, taken to
pieces and transported to Peru, has lust
been rebuilt and launched on Lake Titi-
caca, which is $500 feet above sea level,
There is leaning tower at Caerphillv,
Glamorganshire, England, which stands
q feet in height and is no less than II
ieet out OF the perpendicular. The we'll
known Tower of Pisa leans Is feet in 1870
feet.
The border line between France and
Germany is to be remarked to avoid I'M
pleasant incidents. Large boundary
posts are to be set up, and neutral tracts
are to be marked out in the forest re-
gions.
Dlnlzulu, the son and heir of Ceta-
,wayo, the Zulu King. and Undabuke.
brother of the same monarch, are Napo.
leon's successors in exile at st. Helena.
They have been there since the British
conquered Zululand.
Aspeclal committee recently appointed
by the Glasgow corporation to consider
the matter of municipal telephony has
unanimously decided to recommend the
Town Council to apply to the Postmas-
ter-General for telephone license.
South Australia's revenue receipts for
the past twelve months were g2. $50 600
a decrease of $3.50 900 as compared with
with the previous year. Victoria's re-
celpts were G6,963,0 decrease of
@Ioo'ooo as compared with last year.
klng Humbert recently had sold Of
puoilc auction in one of the court wards
OF the Quirinal all the old furnitnre
porcelain, glass, etc., that had gone ont |
.. fashion since Victor EmmannePs d.y
lie made 1t veritable clearing-out sale
Should Christina, the Queen Regent
ol spain, iall to survive the dangerous
operation which now constitutes tbe
only chance of saving her life, the re-
senGy VIII devolve on her sister-in- law
ne frincess Isabella, widow of the CONT
- 'i'' So'i't
me new company that proposes to Law
cable between Australia and California
VIII obtain a subsidy from the Garnam
government for three sections of tba i;na
'ea cent the Fiji and Samoan Islands
honolulu. 'n'' ana
me announcement that Prince Nov
II oaXony, nephew of the Kino he
luitted the army to become a nr;a0t ;s
ri, according to the German nanars {
ne young man was born in 1870 orJ
ecently served MS Lieutenant in . ~ ana {
ment of Uhlans. III d reg
China has kindly consentaan - h,, /,
aoeysnce all retaliatory measures !
oy the enforcement in this
ountry OF the Geary act until the re ss
" meeting OF Congress, when if il sS Su-
osed the bill SO obnoxious to the be stP- t
ms will be repealed. W 'ne Meath c
influenza is believed to he dv;n. 80
lo ntn aiDa after being more or less prev.
'o,s since the first outbreak over Pr ny d
h,o several years ago. For cons;d ,,,e v
'n, tlme the number of deaths from NJ
,, nry nave been about twenty a wa elLe d
'urlhg the second week of limo W" osi.. 4
x such deaths occurred. JUNE only '
!, Madame Melba, the Australian since.
mn l. coming to America in the an,
I the q, o,a n Ia great success in Paris
mt nro nj .. +, u Is said. she was an in.
,e v pI,Gnig X at 10 she had mastered p