The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1893-10-14
FOREIGN CABLES.
British Battle Ships Modified
a. Regards Armor.


THE VAST RUINS OF PolPEIL
Germanys Foreign Trade-Ths 81.
cycle Becoming Very Popular
Throughout France.
Parliament will meet again on Novem-
Der 2.
Queen victoria has added typewriter
TO her secretarial staff.
A new great seal for Ireland has Just
been ordered 1t cost Of E44O.
In England there is . feeble move
ment in progress against tipping.
The British Labor Congress has agreed
that the day Of strikes has passed.
The King Of Sweden used the tele-
phone for the first time few days ago.
Egypt's cotton crop this year will b
sc. 10000 pounds larger than in 1892.
Widespread suffering has resulted from
the strikes in the English coal mines.
1t il estimated that there are less than
IL. 600 paupers in the japanese Empire.
The French government charges WON.
en- tax Of SO each for wearing trousers.
The Pope has postponed indefinitely
his encyclical concerning social ques-
tons.
There are associations in Great Britain
which insure against elopement, matri-
mony and twins.
The Argentine government announces
that the revolution in the Republic ap-
| proaches its end.
ton throughout Europe have not given
much promise Of success.
Under extreme pressure Siam has
agreed to sign both the treaty With
France and the convention annexed.
Local kilograms are now being trans
mitted through pneumatic tubes in most
Of the principal cities Of Great Britain.
Worn sovereigns and half-sovereigns
TO the amount OF El6, 900, 900 were with
drawn from circulation last year in Eng
land.
The women OF Iceland, who have had
municipal outrage ever since 1882, have
now been made eligible to municipal Of
fees.
Prof. Koch. the great bacteriologist,
has got himself into trouble by divorcing
his wife and marrying . Berlin variety
actrees.
There is little doubt that the whole
Austrian Cabinet will resign il royal
sanction TO the civil marriage bill iS
withheld.
A million acres OF oats were grown
this year in Scotland. and only $50 600
acres were devoted to al the other grains
together.
Last month the officers Of the Fish
mongers' Company, London. seized and
DESTROYED 1879 tons Of fish as unfit for
human food.
The coercive measures against ths
| young Csechs, the Nationalists Of Bobc-
mia, continue to be enforced with m
creasins rigor.
A number OF smaller coal pits install
fordshire, Nottinghamshire and Derby
shire, England, have reopened at the old
rates Of wages.
The vintagee in France and Italy this
year are unusually good. In France the
output and quality of champagne will
be exceptional.
Germany's foreign trsde for the first
seven months Of the year shows . heavy
falling of in imports and . considerable
increase in exports.
So vast are the ruins Of Pompeii that
they cannot all be excavated at the ordi.
nary rate OF progress before the middle
OF the next century.
The Moslems plant . cypress tree on
every grave Immediately alter the inter
ment, which makes the Moslem Gene
terics resemble forests.
The three British battle ships now un.
der construction have been modified u
regards armor in view OF the informa.
ton gained by the loss Of the Victoria
A new street railway il being laid in
Cairo, Egypt. Passengers will hang t.
the came kind Of hand straps with which
cars are luxuriantly furnished in the
cities 81 America.
The fastest cruiser aAoat is the Yoshi
no, which has Just been constructed BY
Sir W. G. Armstrong, Mitchell 4 Co. fol
the japanese government. This vesse
attained . speed Of 2s.oSl knots.
A projected canal from Mareeilles t.
the Valley Of the Rhone is attracting thu
attention Of French engineers, and they
are at present engaged in seeking ar
) outlet on the Mediterranean coast.
The bicycle has become 20 popular il
France that the railroads are makinS
. special accommodations for carrying tn,
machines and storing them at stations
for the use Of travellers seeing the coun
try roads.
} Nine. Lambert do Rothechild 10 anon,
} the latest enthusiasts for bicycle-ridin,
in Bruseels. She goes regularly to ths
. Bots de 10 Cambro to practice. Bicycle
. riding has created quite furore in tn,
} city among the eentler sex.
An international exhibition will b,
held at Vienna from April 20 to June 10
1894. The exhibition will embrace eco
ncmical food supply, army sustenance
: life protection and means Of transport
and special sports exhibition.
, Hardly ten years ago the first step va
taken in Germany to bring the Who'll,
, body OF wage-earners under compulsor,
State insurance. To-day nearly Is, 900,
| COO laborers are actually insured agains
!, sickness, accident, invalidity and oil,
age.
Some one seems to have told the Sui
} tan that chlorate Of potash Is . danger
, Gus explosive. Consequently no druegis
} or pharmacist in ConsMntinorle is al
. lowed to possess or sell II. The Gran,
= Master OF Artillery alone 10 allowed Z,
have it in keeping.
, The authorities al Port Darwin, Aus
: tralia, have notified the steamship CON
= paniea that in f,,tnre the atr;rtsat int