Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-02-17
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Raw Cotton Grown in Russia
Shipped to Germany.
4 SWIFT ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE,
English Women Protest Against the Re-
introduction Of the Crlnoline--
Two New Minerals.

The National Cat Club Of England has
issued its first register Of high bred cats.
There is little probability Of the re-
lease OF Mrs. Maybrick from imprison-
ment In London.
| The official figures OF the working OF
the zone system " on the railways OF
Hungary show most gratifying results.
England will not adopt the decimal
coinage for fear the humber classes OF
society may suffer during the transition.
Manufacturers OF Manchester continue
to run behindhand on their contracts,
owing to the scarcity Of yarn, resultant
from labor troubles.
The Russian government has declined
to grant the request of the Russian rail-
way companies that they be allowed to
buy material abroad.
In three weeks recently twenty tons OF
unwholesome meat were seized by the
authorities having charge OF the markets
in the city OF London.
The water supply OF Portmadoc, North
Wales, was recently totally suspended
through the bursting of q large main
conveying the towns water.
There are in India 8,642 government
savings banks. holding balances sggre-
eating over 1881 lakhs of rupees. The
number OF depositors increased 81, 600
last year.
There are more than so, 900 persons in
Paris who earn living by picking up
and making use of what other people
throw away-rags, bones, metal and
such refuse.
Two new minerals, OF scientific value
only, were recently discovered at Ceylon.
Geikielite and Baddsleyite. Both were
found in pebble form.
More than eight Thousand English
women have already signed the protest
against the reintroduction of the crino-
line, and the work of organizing them
into clubs is still going vigorously on.
The extent of the depression in the
British shipping trade just now may be
gathered from the fact chat altogether
479 vessels, representing tonnage of
$3.50, 900, are laid up at English and Scotch
ports.
Four Thousand nine hundred and IF
teen new books and l 1889 new editions,
total of 1854, were published in Eng
land last year. This is an increase of
more than five hundred over the produc-
ton in 1891.
The manufacture of aluminium by an
electrolytic process is to be gone into
quite extensively at FORCES, France. The
falls of the Praz river, giving 1000 horse
power, are to be utilized and plant
erected soon.
Indications are cropping out tending
to confirm the rumor that the King OF
Belgium will visit the Congo country in
April, accompanied by several officers of
his military staff, number of civic Of
ficers and members of the press.
A new scheme for the determination
OF rabbits is being tried in Australia.
Cartridges generating poisonous gas are
put in the burrows, the holes are closed
and the rabbits are killed by the poison
in the smoke, not by suffocation.
The British Museum ia not very old.
but it has been an Industrious as we'll as
an Intelligent collector. 1t was started
In l7b5. and has now twenty-five miles
OF books and greater number of curl
osities than any other like institution.
At Liverpool l56 steamers, represent
ing about one hundred Thousand tons,
are lying idle, and over one hundred and
| fifty vessels are laid up on the Tyne. In
addition there are ninety-nine British
steamers lying idle at Continental ports.
Russian female convicts in Siberia
are In the future, if proposal made by
the Ministry of Justice to the Imperial
Council is ratified, to be exempted from
logging and wearing leg irons. Restric-
tons in diet and solitary confinement
are to be substituted.
The tall tower of London will rise in
Wembley Park and surpass that of M.
Eiffel by 100 feet, being IT, loo feet from
the four concrete foundations on which
Its legs will rest. 1t will be on rising
ground and overlook London on one side
and Harrow ON the other.
Mr.. Morley has offered the retiring
Lord Mayor of Dublin the dignity OF q
Privy Councilorship. This is the first
time that the honor has been offered to
Nationalist who has never identified
himself in the slightest degree with anv
OF the great English parties.
Australia is entering into strong COM
petition. with France in the production
OF brandy. In 1892 the colony of Vic
torla exported to the United Kingdom
5000 proof gallons. 1t is said Australia
can produce brandy that will stand com
parison with the finest French cognac.
Several large cargoes of raw cotton
grown in Russian Central Asia were re-
Gently shipped at Odessa to German
ports. The Russians are sanguine that
there will be vigorous development of
the cotton-growing industry thore in the
near future. The quality of the cotton
80 lar, however, has been inferior.
Orders have been given to the German
army oincers not to load the sentries' ri
mes with ball cartridges after the end of
the present year. This step ia taken in
view OF the much too frequent affrays
between civilians and sentries. in which
the latter usually used firearms with fa-
tai effect. -''- :"
Cecil Rhodes, Manager OF the British
south Africa Company, is contempiat-
Ing the advisability of extending a tele-
graph line from Cape Town to Alexan.
dria, via Uganda, Khartoum and the
towns along the Nile. A comnanv hos
been formed, it is stated, with a can;taI
oil $2,o00,0o0, to carry the project into al.
feet. 0' '"'o e'-
AS result OF the Panama trouhlas
the famous Drachenburg, the most hear.
tiiui castle along the banks of the Rhona
which has been admired by thousands
OF Americans, has been sold. Raron
Starter, who became immensely wealth.
IN WORK on the Suez canal, spent AZ 000-
wv on the castle. He lost his fortuna