Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-04-21
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Jinrikshas Gain a Footing in
South Africa.
THE RECEIPTS AT MONTE CARLO
Socialists in Convention at Client
Political Leaders organizing
for Election in Peru.

Irish societies are arranging for big
I amnesty meeting in London i'll the near
future.
Four hundred houses have been burned
in the suburbs of Manila, Philippine
Islands.
Birmingham, England, is making a
strenuous effort to suppress Sunday
trading.
The Lord Mayor of London is paid the
same salary as the President of the
United States.
Railway extensions are to be built in
Upper and Lower Egypt to cost of
about Il ,250,000
j The English papers comment approx
inglv upon the increase OF Parsee phllan-
thropy in Bombay.
Electricity, it is said, has been success
fully introduced in England and France
for purifying sewage.
Great discomfort is said to exist among
the French troops at Dahomey, and de-
sertions are OF daily occurrence.
Famine RACES in Cauca Valley, Colom-
ba. 1t is q very populous district, rich
and fertile, but the crops have failed.
Despite reported denials it is certain
that the war Office is planning to shortly
increase the peace force of the Austrian
army.
The government of Spain has rendered
to the United States as gift the repro
duced flagship of Columbus, the Santa
Maria.
Although the election does not take
place for more than year, the party
leaders OF Peru are already organizing
for the struggle.
In Italy one and one-third million
acres of land are irrigated; in Spain two
and one-half million acres are cultivated
| by the same means.
The largest private gift to the Pope on
the occasion of the Papal jubilee came
from the Duke of Norfolk, who sent the
Holy Father $3.50, 900.
The London Mark Lane Express SAYS:
Russia is now shipping to Great Britain
alone 100000 bushels OF wheat weekly,
and India will be doing as much after
Easter.
The United States Minister at Con-
stantinople has protested to the sublime
Porte against the opening of letters sent
to him under the Consular seal from
Marsovan.
Next to the largest diamond in the
world is being cut and polished at Ant
werp. Uncut it weighed 474 carats, pa
OF which it will lose in preparation for
the market.
Another insult to Scottish sentiment
Highlander in his native kilt has lately
suffered arrest in Rome for "outraging
public decorum" by appearing in such
indecent" attire
Socialist delegates from Germany, the
Netherlands, Belgium, England, Switzer-
land, France and Italy at recent meet
ing decided that the International So
cialist Congress in Zurich shall begin on
August and last for one week.
Japanese jinrikshas have gained con-
siderable footing in the towns of South
Africa. In Cape Town, Durham and |
Pletermaritzburg they are well patron
lied, and are crowding out the cabs and |
public buggies. Katfirs furnish the mo-
tive power.
The receipts of the Monte Carlo Casino
during the year which ended on March
81 were larger than in any other year of
its existence. They amounted to "a
o0O, 600 francs. Five-hundred franc
shares are now quoted at more than
:, 800 francs.
Partisan ladies are apparently behind
hand as compared with Americans. and
even with the ladies of several other
large Continental cities, with regard to
,cycilng. In the French Capital only
twenty-six ladies have applied for the
necessary license.
The Russian government is considering
the question of joining the Anu Daria
with the Caspia Sea. This new water
way would not only give great impetus
% Russian trade with Central Asia. but
would provide the means of irrigating
'ast tracts of good land. {
In buying the Pail Mall Gazette w
": Astor has not pleased all the Eno-
lsh people. Mr.. Labouchere has been
skiing what would be thought of the |
luxe OF Westminster buying Wash :
ngton paper and taking a share in {
political journalism.
In the March number of the New Re- +
lew, London, under the title s'The Com.
ng Cholera" Ernest Hart, NJ. D.. CON
rioutes paper, in which he empha-
lzes and adduces facts in support of his .
ell known theory that water pollutad G
y cholera filth is the one sole method of :
OF this dread disease. o
Mr.. .Carlisle's new private secretary is 2
aptain Samuel N. Gaines of Kentucky
aptaln Gaines was gallant Confeder-
Ie soldier, was educated at the Univer-
ty OF Virginia, and has since been con st
acted with Kentucky journalism. He =.
a bright writer and very attractive y
AN socially.
Emln Pasha's fate still remains GOOD If
sal OF mystery, but the great travel a,
$ little daughter, Ferda, who made n,
sr way from Wadelai to Bagamovo two ri
'ars ago, nearly starved, still remains 14
the latter place. She has Quite RS
Vered IRON the privations of that ter
Die tune, and is described as beino a ne
rightly, well-grown girl OF IL. nc
IN Norway and Sweden there are mora lir
ma women than men, and the reverse ba
true IN France, Belgium, Germany and ca
United States. The proportion Of
ND women in Finland is eight times -
great as in Holland, and there are
arly twice as many blind women ~
N IN Finland; smoky huts is the
lse 10 the