Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-07-07
FOREIGN FLASHES.
A Suit Begun 1852 Years Ago
Just Concluded.
OIL WELLS OF THE CASPIAN.
Mummified Bodies of Three Massa
cred Missionaries Brought
Back From Africa.

France is buying Irish horses for
cavaly use.
The manufacture of wine is becoming
a thriving industry in Palestine.
The total tonnage launched in Great
Britain in 1892 was $4,000, 900 last year.
The value of England's exports OF
metals and machinery fell off $35, DOC, 900
last year.
| Lord Lorne receives salary OF $1,000
year as Governor and Constable OF
Windsor Castle.
The Town Council OF Bruges, Bel
GUM, has resolved to give $4OO,UOO
toward ship canal.
Married couples in Norway are privi-
legged to ride on railroads at a fare and a
half for each couple.
The Emperor William will command
i'm person the Sixteenth Army Corps at
the autumn maneuvers.
Loud complaints are heard on all
sides OF the continued high price of
butchers meat in Paris.
Ten war vessels of the British navy
were condemned last month as unfit for
service and ordered sold.
Sharpshooters riding in steel-clad We
hicles will be feature of next autumn g
German army maneuvers.
The Hamburg Tank Steamship Com
pany will go out of the business because
of improbable freight rates.
Paris has new playhouse called the
Theater of the Poets. The success of
the new venture is not assured.
Quite number of express locomotives
are fred principally with oil on the
Great Eastern railway OF England.
London's most famous playhouse
Drury Lane--is to be torn down and
another structure placed on its site.
1t is stated from Batoum that famine,
for some time threatened, has suddenly
become acute in some districts of Ar
menia.
OF the American cities represented at
the Firemen's Congress at London
Kansas City made the most creditable
showing.
Police and artillery had to be used at
| Berne, Switzerland, to dispense rioters,
who had attacked gang of imported
| Italians.
| Argentine bond holders at London
are considering the agreement between
the Rothschild committee and the
Republic.
Russian Jews are reported to have
settled in South America in large num-
bers, and are among the most prosper
GUS colonists.
Salmon from California have been
successfully acclimatized on the lakes
of the Marine and Saone canal at
Nievre, France.
Prince Bismarck will go to Kissingen
with his family next month to drink
the waters. A palace has been placed
at his disposal.
In France the railways employ "a, OSO
women. Most of them, however,
merely receive small sum for opening
and closing gates.
Owing to the effect of the recent
drought in Germany on the farmers, a
suspension of the duties on corn and
maize is proposed.
One thousand and fifty-six lives were
saved by life-boat men on the coast of
Great Britain during the last year and
without the loss of one life-boat man.
A suit in the English Chancery Court
begun l52 years ago was concluded the
other day. The government duties and
legal fees covered nearly the entire sum
fought for.
The Swedish government has estab-f
i1shed on the coast nine stations for
medical observation. The object of
10 20 1,
from cholera.
The Constans party in France is
making strenuous efforts, in view of the
illness of President Garnet, to make
political capital out of the Panama
canal scandal.
Five acres of park land per week is
the record of the London County Coun-
Gil, as since its organization few wears
ago 1t has purchased and made accessible
no less than 994 acres in parks.
All the wells of Berlin have been ex-
amined, and out of some 800 one-fourth
were declared doubtful and one-fourth
unfit for use. Similar examinations are
being made all over the country.
1t is believed by the engineers and of.
ficials OF the enterprise that the Man
chester ship canal will be opened for
traffic along its entire length from Liver
pool to Manchester by next February or
March.
Lady Brooke of the baccarat scandal
fame has contributed an article to Mr..
Astor's Pail Mall Magazine. She writes
on What is Society,"" and has given
some very optimistic views on various
subjects.
During the year 1892 the mint of
Great Britain issued $75,0OO,OOO worth
OF coins. The quantity of gold coins
was exceptionally large, but the silver
coins required were less than at anv
time since 1888.
About $4,000 couples have been
divorced in France during the last five
years, and now law has Just been read
IN the Chamber of Deputies for the first
time designed to make a severance nj |
the matrimonial bonds much easier
still. 0''ioi
An Englishman who died recently be-
4ueathed $4,000 to the Royal National !
Llieboat Association on condition that
IL should furnish his executors with a
signed agreement to use the finds in |
building lifeboat to be named the Min
ME Moon. ~, AZ
Aluminium is to be used wherever
in the accouterments. arms
ana equipments of the German armv
by Its use the weight carried by infantry
VIII De tribe over fifty-seyen pounds