Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-10-13
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Great Progress in the Study OF
the Monkey Language.
THE ABOLITION OF KNOUTING.
Wasp Plague in Sussex, England
Assassinations in Italy-The
French Vintage.

Another native war in Southern Afric
now seems inevitable.
s Succi, the faster, is insane, and is nov
in an asylum near Paris.
Harvesting operations in Roumani
show a satisfactory result.
. The revision OF the Belgian constitu
ton has been accomplished at last.
! A caravan OF 10000 camels and 400
slaves left Timbuctoo for Morocco re
Gently.
! The doctors to Chinese royalty wer
recently fined years salary each fol
incompetence.
Train-robbing in Spain is guarded
against by stationing two soldiers IL
every railway car.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria's lates
project is the establishment of med.
ical faculty in Sofia.
Paris has new storage battery street
car line that has been in successful OPP
GRAFTON several months.
DR.. Cornelius Herr OF Panama cana
notoriety is recovering his health al
Bournemouth, England.
The average number of assassination
and attempts at assassination in Italy II
said to be fully 5000 year.
France is the only European country
which has to-day fewer able bodied men
than it had thirty years ago.
The Ubina volcano in the Peruvian
Cordillera has become active after being
in quiescent state for years.
Kaiser William, DR.. MIGUEL saws, has
taken for his motto, 1.-The Emperor is
the first servant of the people,"
The London section OF the National
Liberal Federation has declared for the
abolition of the House of Lords.
The wasp plague is still very bad in
Sussex, England, and the destruction in
the orchards has been very great.
During the reign OF Victoria the In
dian government has coined $4,000, 900
OF gold and f206, 900, 900 of silver.
The latest estimate of the Russian
wheat crop is 272,000,OOO bushels. Last
years crop was 256, 900, 900 bushels.
A peasant living on one of the Greek
isles recently dug up statue. for which
the British government has paid $32, 900.
The tariff war between Germany and
Russia will force the former country to
buy enormous quantities OF grain in this
country.
Russia is said to be about to acquire a
naval station in East Africa at which to
repair and coal the vessels of her Pacific
squadron. '''e
The phylloxera has at last touched
every wine-growing district in France.
the Champagne vines being the last to
be harmed. W
Christine Nilsson has her dining room
with hotel bills which she has
paid during her professional tours. The
sum total is enormous.
The st. Petersburg correspondent of
the London Central News saws that an
imperial ukase will shortly be issued
a,pollshing the practice of knoutinp by |
The police. ~
The recent army maneuvers of tho
Austro-Hungarian troops were not satis- |
actory. Emperor William was not very
avorably impressed with the work Of
he Generals.
In Switzerland all the telegraph lines
'Ie controlaed by the government. There
ire l,4ll offices and 1856 telegraph on
'rators. The annual profit derived above
vi expenses is $3.50, 900.
The quantity OF fruit in South Lincoln.
'hlre, England, this season exceeds all
previous years. Owing to the markets.
'elng gutted, growers have a difiicnltv
n dlsposing of the crop.
There has been so great an increase
eecently in the growth and expectation
4 Jana oranges that that town now
lands next to Beyrout in Importance
mong the ports on the Syrian coast
Mr.. Gladstone has offended aoo;nst
tradition in appointing Sir Henrx Ms
ian Governor-General of India to sue
eed Lord Lansdowne. The rnle hoa
nat post. poor W
Inc Duke OF Edinburgh, although he I
Is expatriated himself and has become l
GERMAN prlnceling, does not pronosa (
,r reelnldnquhsh his right to the annuity Of
90 UoV which he draws from the Tmne. II
al treasury of Great Britain.
IN order to stay the cholera it il stotoa '
lat two Jewish women. mercbantS,
ives, are going from house to bonsa 10 )
ailicla with pair of scissors cutt;nn b
e women's hair. which MANY have az G.
weu 10 grow in unorthodox fashion
A letter from Prof. Garner. dated fron o
steel sue, cage, which he has named Fon. p
orilla, has been received in FnoIond NJ
'm fernandez Vaz, Africa. The nrn u N
'sor claims to have made great nroo roo :,
MS study OF the monkey language COG or
MI Mr. burne-Jones, the English artist in
upon the interesting task Of Ike
rn.lng portrait of Mr.. Gladstone,s
u u 9;s granddaughter, Dorothy Drew C,
.a;d ii.tle plue-eyed maiden of 8 wears ul
s sal, 10 resemble the grandfather star, de
st' di
VI. buchwald of Leipsic discovered mi
long some forgotten manuscr;nts =;
!; IN. University OF Jena Martin Luther,s
ii,cai essay against the theoIoa;ooI
,uity Oh the University of Tonva;n pc
gum which manuscript was snn ioI
sed to have been lost. 90 sup 40,
ne tallors have met in London go. sw
pare Tor the abolition of the sweet; 70 eg,
tem and long hours and for tho '" ae Gel
o %. tie oil the tailors of the worid !,
ao,ooo members of the orpan;,at;. bo
threatened by the master , .aiI pei
!, n a destruction OF their union '"'iors ora
ne present year of lS93 nro,,; .oC
great year. for the French ,,;,st 70 lai
a,eau Latte, which produced con so1nnhsage' PEI
No and "5' ,t year, has this year WELDED Ca ca,
uch n le nv Increase is general. There pe,
cost I.Sf fS,n usually bringing francs s5c
ciai d =. .he houses in Holland have .
t~o a o which is never opened sava
% " or d aa.t when there is a MAJ =
= or a death in the family. The mar mar. IRE