Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-09-15
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Trade Greatly Demoralized in
British India.
WOMAN MURDERS AN ATTORNEY
Frances Vineyards in q Healthy
State Car Turns His At
tentiOn to Railways.

The very first gymnasium for girls In
Germany will be opened at Calsruhe this
fall.
A writing table which once belonged
to Lord Byron was sold the other day in
London for $55.
Permission has been granted for tele'
phone wires in Manchester, England, to
be placed underground.
The reduction in price OF the rupee
below shilling and pence has greatly
demoralized trade in India.
Birmingham, England, has been sue
cessfully operating a storage battery
street railway system for over year.
The Emperor of Russia is giving earn
est attention to the making of the rail-
way between Moscow, st. Petersburg
and Siberia.
A gun exploded on the French cruiser
Duguay Truin during target practice at
Sydney, N. S. W., killing four men and
injuring many.
The first effect of closing Indian minis
to free silver coinage was to cost English
holders of Indian securities $3.50, 900, 900
by their immediate fall.
The German Anti-Slavery Committee,
which started on its career with a capi-
tai of 1900, 600 marks, has ended in total
and irremediable collapse.
On many of the railways in Germany
the practice of starting locomotive fires
with gas instead OF wood has been
adopted, and proves economical.
Baron Albert Rothschild has been
given the Iron Crown by the Emperor of
Austria for his part in carrying out the
Austro-Hungarian currency reform.
A new loud-speaking telephone has
been invented in England. The receiv-
ing instrument is said to speak loud
enough to be heard all over the room.
The Turkestan Gazette says that the
Ameer of Bokhara has broken with Mo-
hammedan traditions, and will throw
open his country to European civiliza-
ton.
An Englishman, whose will has lust
been probated, left $4,000 to various
charities and the remainder of his es-
tate-$375, 000-to Sir Henry Thompson,
the scientist.
The newest fashion among the ladies
at st. Petersburg is to arm themselves
with long canes when they go abroad.
Some of these canes measure six or seven
feet in length.
The diadem OF the Russian Empress
1856 large diamonds and a sim
gle ruby valued at $780, 900. The private
jewels of the Empress of Austria are
worth 81 100000.
The London Times never prints pict-
ures or uses scare heads, but on the dav
Of the recent royal wedding it had a
dowery border quarter of an inch wide
around each page.
Frances vineyards have apparently
recovered from the phyllox-
FRA, and this years grape crop is report
I'd to be the finest that has been gath
cred in thirty-fve years.
The Queen of Italy is taking her usual
annual holiday among the Alps. She is
attended only by two OF her ladies in
and with them she proposes to
make an ascent of Monte Rosa.
The Italian government is likely to
rider the suspension of the Catholic nil
'irimage to Rome in the event of the
'holera in France, Hungary and other
continuing next month.
Miss Thornton, Queen Victoria's old
st servant, who has been state house.
'eeeper at Buckingham Palace, has lust
at the age OF 80 years. She has
'een forty years in her Majesty's service.
The occurrence of two cases of cholera
u Northafen, on the canal fed nv the
'pree, leaves little doubt that the river
infected. The German government
las ordered the closing of all river baths.
At Montpelier, France, during mass
n elderly lady entered the pew Of Jean
a prominent lawyer, and shot
nm -FOUR times, killing him. She claimed
e had refused to return a sum of money
1trusted to his care.
An agricultural writer reckons the lose
MS year to the English farmer at 80 on
ere, which means that the farmers have
pward OF e70, 200, 900 less to snend than
ley would have had if the crops had
cen up to the average. '''''
Lady Dormer, the widow of the nonr
II General lately in command If fba
ritish forces at Madras, announces tbat
he Is bringing home with her BAGGAGE c
lie mead and tail of the ferocious Ind;s5n
gress that killed her husband. '' 'i
Naval people in England are begin i
lng 10 ask whether the ram NAV NOT he e
iiios! as dangerous to the shin which
'ars IL as to the ship rammed, II iS +
ost certainly less Trustworthy waonon
IAN most persons have been led to srr s
use. ieu W sup
\, IN london some thousands of woman
~ siris belong to what are called drinL h
aps, small sum being paid by each t,
enioer weekly in order that seward n
, yearly all may meet at some NH n
muse ana drink what has been con. r
" hen Miss Sybil Sanderson wos ,;
ia a. ;l, arls the other day she noticed >
,a u i shn IN her. As her song died tc
, ,1y, she listened to the echo Of tba &C
III voice, and was SO fascinated ' nv, 6.
. s I;ttlo that she decided to educats
NE !hianta Eulalia's spun-glass dress u
"hlch an American mannfao, ricss, W
nipahy made her a present viii - >.
r;o sie nations guest, has aroused erea. ~ q,
! i1 Ely among the ladies of the Snan n' -
s 0outt, who very properly regard d'i !,
y of feminine attire. A"oie IN the
london is to have tobacco sbo, ii
5telhoef /, to October Z, a dabI;a nolil pc
i,oia exhi6ltlon for three DAYS ;n ' th "a
shining OF September, three oh ~ rrs sne q
lers in ', ,6e one IN October and the ; ia
e bird ' sbo Two o. succeeding months: a n
nll-d .u s snow the last of October and y
'l Ent., honorable Henry Chaplin hold.
English government mani, hoids
&c ior the failure OF the Brussels les R
~ conference, and charges tba noH !, Gl