Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-11-10
FOREIGN FLASHES.
An Apparatus to Split Electric
Lights Invented.
SOUTH AFRICAN NINE DIVIDENDS
Travel Expands the Mind Of Sarah
Bernhardt - Ten Thousand
Captives Sold-Etc.

A new street railway is being laid j
Cairo, Egypt.
Over 81, OOO, 900 in St. Louis bonds ha
been sold in London at par.
A serious outbreak OF pleuro-pneu
monia has occurred on farm near Lor
don.
An alarming subsistence OF land ha
occurred at Saltwood, near Hythe, Eng
land.
The number thirteen cannot be foun
as a street number in Frankfort-on-the
Main.
The stock OF gold in France is esti
mated at $500, 100000 and silver 500.
900, 900.
Cholera has again reared its head Ii
Antwerp, but is nearly wiped out a
Hamburg.
Ten thousand Coreans are said to hav
left their country for Russia, where the,
propose to live.
There are eighty-five women in Grea
| Britain engaged in the occupation o
chimney sweeps.
Train-robbing in Spain is guarded
against by stationing two soldiers il
every railway car.
The Admiralty at London has con
tracted for three torpedo destroyers t.
exceed any now afloat.
The dividends paid to the British own
ers of the South African mines last veal
amounted to over $4,000, 900.
Ten thousands captives have been sole
into slavery by the Ameer of Afghanis.
tan to pay the expenses of war.
Tobacco, cigars, cigarettes and the
ing New Zealand by parcel post.
English and French diplomats are
scheming at Paris to make a "buffer''
State between Siam and Burmah.
The regulation forbidding ladies wear
ing bonnets to occupy orchestra stalls
at the Paris opera has gone into effect.
The French government proposes to
impose fines upon railway companies for
trains that are run behind schedule time.
Swedish shipbuilders have recently
received orders from British owners for
the construction OF number of cargo
steamships.
The Shetlanders boast that last wear
there was not a single conviction for
drunkenness in the islands, which have
a population OF about 5000.
Bernhardt announces an intention to
reform some Partisan theater customs
among them the extra fee for reserved
seats. Travel has expanded her mind.
she says.
The volcano on Calbuco, Chill. has
again become active. The streets of Or
sorio are filled with ashes, and traffic is
almost stopped by them. Great alarm
exists among the residents.
There is dispute between the impe-
rial and colonial authorities in Matabe-
land: Sir Henry Loeb in command of
the imperial forces declines to receive
orders from Premier Rhodes.
Carlyle's home in Cheyne Row. Chel.
sea, is in fearfully dirty and neglected.
condition, and it is proposed to buy it
oy pubic subscription and set it apart
IL place OF commemoration.
Since the time OF Clement there have
oeen 324 Marshals of France, sixty-seyen
d whom were appointed during the
present century. Napoleon IIf an
fifteen during the brilliant DAYS
'f the Second Empire.
A bundle of dynamite was found q,
ne train near Burgos Spain. on which
Jeneral Campos and son were travelling
|! is believed that another attemnt 70
XII the General had been mads.
The Peixoto government, it il renort.
n, mas issued a decree for the imprison- |
nent OF all foreigners suspected Of svm.
'atnlzing with the rebellion. and the
oreigners at Rio have formally protest.
fr r Henry of Orleans, nephew of
ne Count OF Paris, is soon to be mada -
might OF the Legion of Honor bv tho
rench government in acknowledoment
! MS geographical and scientific 70.
earches in the East io
henry White, who has been First sac-
etary OF the American Legation in ' - 9v
on over eight years, is about tn he sua
eeded by Mr.. Roosevelt of Nav yor,.
gentleman OF large fortune in his own
ght and who married an Aston. wv"
In no other country in the world 10 H.
'lephone in so great general use 90 'i in {
Neueh, ana IN no other is the service on
'tap ana al the same time so perfect
Is uhuer government control. and tha
ties are fixed by the government VIC {
i, Dr. cs Mltte, Russian Finance Minister !
Y ordered an inquiry into the resson 9
ny ny much more American than Russion q
'ur mas been sold recently in Finlamd
ie inquiry Is tantamount to prenara
lssia. iiour from I.
A lighthouse that is to be eractoa ,e
nmarch Point, Britannv wi; i1o.eu on l.
nd iIgn.nlng flash" light of 40 900 0onl = =.
naae power, casting beam which which, car p y
,s seen IN clear weather sixtv.tb , raa ..
e m away and in foggy weather twen+ve y =
Nv, M;ehty-six guards employed On ,ho ss
run and Stettin railroad baro n ehe W ~
,ested' charged with comnIic;tn oee ; HI
uus' It is understood that tho IN "
"a mas been defrauded ont o9 , rail- 80
ms OF money through the instr ~ large e
lty OF their guards. ''' ut'ieh- b
he granddaughter of Robert p,,
81 it b a grant of sIOO from M" th t's 81
a. a. ponnty found. She is the w;d tne m,
"a ia; " ingate, whose literary maois 81
,s T MS peihg rewarded with nens; l,
-9o year: Her memorial to + he eI Ei
q c, Oh the Treasury was prep are FIRST hs
Niuo' so
n agent of the Suez Cana, co. re.
,tric Iiab,s an a apparatus to split ths
, two diyerc .ma' illuminate the canal at
rays one ee waH st streams, one sending 49,,
directioon" way, IN Inc other in the oppos eve eve
roach zach o,L ms enables ships ~ ha'
'oaeii eacn other and meet wiz 10 thi
Is SO y f.9prmerly the lights blin ptr an'