Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-10-06
FOREIGN FLASHES.
House of Lords Denounced by
Walter Owen Church.
NERVOUS DISEASES IN FRANCE
Photographing the Depth Of the Sea
Is Accomplishments Manu-
scripts Discovered.

The new German taxes are to net $24
600, 900.
The bastinado is no longer legal pur
ishment in Egypt.
| A weekly paper for the blind is pull
lished in England.
France proposes to have grand inter
national exposition in 1900.
| OF 5000 pilgrims who went to Niece
in May over half died from cholera.
Egypt's cotton crop this year will b
90, 900, 900 pounds larger than in 1892.
Japan has fourteen railways projected
and will build them as rapidly as posi-
BILE.
Zola's latest ambition is to become
member OF the French Chamber of Dep
uties.
An electric light has just been put Vi
in flour mill close to the Damascu
gate at Jerusalem.
The white muscat raisn is in great de
mand in Switzerland and Austria for tn
making OF vermouth.
Two new 6,000-ton steamers will b
built by the North German Lloyds Com
pany for the American service.
The distress in the mining districts il
England is great and increasing. Ii
Derbyshire $4,000 men are idle.
A fad for making collections Of kisse
Of celebrated men is rapidly becomin,
popular among the ladies Of Germany
The German Emperor has stringently
ha IS l., , |.
one eye, as denoted by wearing one eye
glass.
The Gar has ordered Yacht of 4, OOt
tons, with engines of 800-horse power
1t is expected to eclipse everything o
the kind yet built.
The Queen OF Denmark is stone deaf
a throat malady being responsible for the
aftliction. The Princess of Wales inner.
its the same trouble.
Hamburg has had complete recover,
from the cholera visitation of year ago
and the city is in more prosperous
state than ever before.
Japan has more miles of railway in
proportion to its territory than any other
country in Asia. Fourteen new lines
are now being constructed.
Since the beginning of the century
France has fallen from the second to the
fourth place in point of population
among European countries.
Aluminium plates are used in Ger
manv to engrave and etch upon, and 1t
is spoken of as a probable substitute for
zinc and photographic stones.
Two postage stamps of Mauritius of
lS47, of which only fourteen specimens
are known to exist, have just been pur-
chased by dealers in London for s6S0.
The floods in Northern China have
laid waste the country for thirty five
miles. Crops were destroyed and homes
swept away. The section is thickly pop
nlated.
Peace prevails in Nicaragua. General
santos Selaya has been formally elected
PRESIDENT OF the Republic and General
anastairo Ortiz Vice President. All Do
itical prisoners have been released.
The imperial German government has
addressed a circular to the maritime
states OF the Empire requesting their
opinions as to the advisabilitv OF insti-
'utlng a State control of ship building.
H. Q. Arnold Forster, English mem
Der OF Parliament, raises a note Of alarn,
loout the condition of affairs at Gibral-
ar which he declares to be absolutely
Useless in its present condition as a naval
)ase.
According to an election return inst
made to the British Parliament there are
!, 220, 10 voters in the United kingdom,
mere were 1882 4S2 in England, 27O. 276
ales, I47,27l in Ireland and 6l9,O9l
n Scotland. o-''o'A
Electricity has made rapid progress in
on account of the abundance
I cheap power from waterfalls. The
elegraph and telephone lines Of that
ountry are owned and operated by the
overnment. A0
Walter Owen Church, g. membe- -
armament, declared at meeting of the
LIBERAL Federation at London that the
louise OF Lords was a grievous hindrance
good government and should be i'm
iediately abolished. " al,
Captain r. Mackenzie, R. f.. has cor
leted a detailed reconnaissance for
liiroad from kurrachee to Kharan Rel-
ochlstan, which eventually will he ev.
'nded to Seistan or some other no;nt nn
he Persian frontier. f''n' vi
DR.. Charles Fere, a well-known an
iorlty on nervous and mental diseases
Iys that these disorders are increas;no
terrible rate in France, and attribe
'es the TACT to the increase of beer
mixing misunderstanding and bars.
Breech-loading rifles were invented n
III, but did not come into eenerol na ~,
o nna ny years. 1t is estimated that over s
,Vn,ooo are now in actual service in l
e european armies, while 8 5000. 600 a 70 7
served IN the arsenals for emergencies
The British Medical Association hos ?
last admitted women as members TIE
ihclple was approved last wear and
IS year at its sixty-first annual COR
ess, held at Newcastle, the bv.law ~ o
'ding women was formally expunped g
me famous Greek brigand Marvon;s 2
10 mas Just given himself up to the om L
oritles at Athens, had for tb;rtaan
a.s peeh almost supreme in the dis. N
- around farnassus. He was A farna,
owner OF houses as well as a rohha. g.
locomotive is being constructed = p
~ glahd to run 100 miles an honr 7, IL ;.
:. V-norse power, the driving wheels 10 o.
lh az oiameter. The three cylindarS ~
. ~, 20 ana Is inches in diameter w;4h a. a.
pounds. pressure Is
IN interesting find is library If soo nj
the tenth ,iIh,ua ang seventy manuscripts d.
h wonda ,f ana eleventh, and some di
n y, h1o ann, miniatures of the four. m
rsd' ~ ! s which were recently
I'll, Italy. ''o'S'er near -
gold medal of the value of I ooo V
!, nan N IRE IRE is offered by the ROYAL AcsJ dc
Oh science OF the Institnfe 81 81 ~