Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-05-26
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Emigrants Leave England for
Mozambique, Africa.
THE FOREIGN TRADE OF JAPAN
Emperor william Finds Fault WITH
the Bishop of Metz - Herr
Rozwadovski-Etc.

Cholera reports are aSaiH eoi''"s iN
Europe.
Sir Charles Dixie wants the British
government to get out OF Egypt.
Emperor William forbids all German
clericals to NEEDLE in political affairs.
Steps are taking to effect com blna-
| ton OF all trades unions in Great Brit
ain.
The long drought in Austria has been
broken and the wheat crop placed be-
yond all danger.
Russia has communicated to the Pope
her intention to send u permanent MIN
lister to the Vatican.
Scotland's population in the middle OF
last year was 1868, 452-1 ,96l ,401 males
and 2, 102,05l females.
Heavy frosts have greatly injured the
vines in the wine districts of Austria,
Switzerland and France.
The question of ocean penny postage
has recently engaged the attention OF the
British House OF Commons.
Adelina Patti has commissioned the
Italian composer, Emile Pizzi, to write
q short opera for her American tour.
The late William B. Astor's personal
estate in Great Britain has been returned
with an official valuation of 81 $780, 900.
The British Consul at Bordeaux re-
ports that last years vintage, though
large in quantity, is OF very poor quality.
Russian cotton spinners boast that
they will soon be in position to dis
pense with American cotton altogether.
Japan's foreign trade for 1892 exceeded
that of 1891 by 20,000,000 yen. The
principal increase was in the values OF
= silk and tea.
1t has now been decided to light the
whole of the Southampton docks with
electricity, while the cranes will be
worked by hydraulic power.
Bismarck according to an interviewer
thinks that the anti-Semitic troubles
will be gradually settled by the inter-
marriage of Jews and Gentiles.
Thirty miles of underground electric
railway similar to the City and South
London. line has been proposed for Ber-
lin at an estimated expense of 100000
900.
Something strange lately affected the
fish in Hongkong waters. For many days
they were in a state of stupor, and al
lowed themselves to be caught by hand,
making no effort to escape.
The Jerusalem and Jaffa Railroad
, Company is said to have inaugurated a
real-estate movement in Jerusalem; to
have laid out additions and run up lands
from 81 an acre to $4,000
The Italian Chamber of Deputies has
commenced the debate on the naval es.
Inmates, which the commission on the
subject proposes to increase from 80, 700,-
600 lire to los, 10000 lire.
A Spanish engineer proposes to build
a bridge Of aluminium across the Straits
OF Gibraltar. The project is being sci
entitically discussed in the current num-
, bers OF La Naturaleza of Madrid.
: The Russian government proposes to
convene a commission of Jewish rabbis
in September next to take the whole
Jewish question into consideration and
assist in bringing it to a settlement.
The five Australian banks thus far re-
] ported to have closed their doors have 8
total of some $4,000, 900 of liabilities
This is an enormous sum for the small
population of that part of the world.
There have been discovered among the
treasures OF the British Museum some
| curious votive tablets set up in ancient
Greek medical temples by grateful pa.
tients who had been cured OF disease.
The admirers of Prince Bismarck, who
contributed three years ago more thar
S25O, 900 for a monument to the great
: statesman, are dissatisfied with the com.
mittee having the arrangements in
:, charge.
; The telephone has well nigh super
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Paris. The average time for sending and
, delivery of telegram is half an hour
while the telephone gives instant com
munication.
Herr Rozwadovski, member of the
Austrian Reichsrath, who owns land in
Russian Poland, where he occasionally
spends some time, has been expelled
from Poland with his family by the Rus.
sian authorities.
, Another expedition of white people
LETT England a few weeks ago for Mozam,
blque, Africa as an advance party of set
tiers who are to colonize about 300 square
miles OF territory between the rivers
Zambesi and Sabi.
After being quite large for three
months Australian shipments have de-
creased very much. The April ship
ments were only AS, 900 bushels, against
l,944, 900 bushels in March and 752. OOO
bushels in April, 1892.
Emperor William has sent a letter In
the Bishop of Metz in which he finds
fault with the attitude of that prelate in
introducing to the Pope a body of pill
grlms from Lorraine. The Bishops Ian
guage in doing SO was an insult to King
Humbert.
A rather curious report is now abroad
In Berlin that the Emperor is displeased
with Chancellor Won Caprivi on the
ground that the army bill was misman-
aged in the lobby, and that false hopes
OF passing the measure were cultivated
persistently.
The memorial to be erected in honor
OF Marshal Davout is to take the form
OF lighthouse on the coast of Britannv
his daughter having left $50, 900 for the
purpose; to this the French government
has added $4,000. The lighthouse will
be 1876 feet high. " -
Miss Florrie Bryan, a Young ENGLISH
woman, has forsaken Christianity and
married the Mahara jah of Patiala in In.
dla. She was received as a member oi
the Sikh religious community lust before
the marriage, which was celebrated oc-
cording to Sikh rites.
DIR. de Boissy of Havre recently cor.
pieted his Tooth year, and was given n