Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-10
Emperor William and the Duchess
Of Sparta Reconciled.
A VERY ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SCYTHE.
Woman Dies From Blood Poisoning Caused
by Rubbing a Sore on Her Face
With Her Kid Glove.

ported to be giving promising results.
The city of Lubbock, Germany, is pre-
pairing to celebrate this year its 76Oth
anniversary.
Brussels boasts of clock which ls
never wound up by human hands. Wlnd
power does it.
In Prussia the price OF medicine is
regulated by the State, and new price
list issued annually.
The German Emperor has had piano
forte constructed for him made entirely
OF bits OF stags' horns.
An association for preventing the inn
migration OF destitute aliens Is vigorous
ly at work in England.
In thirteen years, ending with 1889,
81 900, 900 rabbit skins were exported
from Victoria, Australia.
Mohammed Beniveda, Governor OF the
city of Morocco, is prosecuting the Jews
OF that place in most barbarous man
ner.
The natives of Singapore have lately
been astonished by the advent OF the
electric car, which they call wind car
rage.
The movement inaugurated against
the privileges enjoyed by the bureauc-
ricy is stirring the middle classes of
Prussia.
An Egyptian scythe, dug up on the
banks OF the Nile in 1890 and said to be
as old as Moses, is exhibited in a LON
don museum.
The Clericals are doing their best to
split the Liberal party in Hungary on
the compulsory civil marriage policy of
the government.
Germany will not use any white horses
| in the army in ure. In battle the
enemy can discern white horses at con-
siderable distance.
The Lord Mayor OF London has voiced
the big project OF keeping the river
Thames at constant high-ryater level
throughout all it's reaches.
A lady at Ashford, England, has just
received bequest OF El50,U0J from an
old gentleman, an entire stranger, for a
small act of kindness rendered to him
i've years ago.
Twelve hundred beds at penny
night each are offered to London's home
less poor in new Salvation Army shell
ter erected on the bank of the Thames
near Blackfriar bridge.
A bill has been introduced into the
New South Wales Legislature TO restrict
the admission of Syrian peddlers, on the
ground that these destitute aliens are
becoming public evil.
The Board of Guardians of Sheffield,
England, propose to classify it's paupers
hereafter by making distinctions between
the worthy but unfortunate poor and the
professional loafer or vagabond.
Wallace Bruce, United States Consul
at Ednburg, has been elected to succeed
the late John Greenleaf Whittier as
Life Corresponding Member of the Scot
fish Society Of Literature and Art, Glas-
glow.
The Italian papers are evidently try
ing to excite Swiss prejudice against
France in connection with the building
of a railroad by the French government
from France to Chamonix, at the foot of
Mont Blanc.
In breaking up the Volta, an old
wooden cruiser of the French navy, a
loaded shell was found in her timbers.
1t Is believed the shell was fred into
her at the bombardment of Foochow
nine years ago.
An Austrian woman recently died
from blood poisoning caused by rubbing
small sore on her face with her back
kid glove. Inflammation set in, her head
swelled enormously, and she died after
a very brief illness.
The Egyptian correspondents of the
London newspapers seem to be gener-
ally agreed that the English troubles in
Egypt are not by any means over vet,
nor will he settled SO long as Russian
diplomacy can keep them alive.
Tobacco and snuff has long been SUD-
pied to the paupers in the Lambeth
workhouse, and now the Board of Guar
dams has passed resolution "that the
old women in the workhouse who do not
take snuff be supplied with sweets"
According to the Berlin correspondent
OF the London Standard the problem of
smokeless combustion of coal seems ut
last to be solved by newly patented
process which is exciting an immense
sensation in Germany.
According to the report of the Ameri-
can Colonization Society the colony of
fourteen families sent to Liberia is doing
very well. One OF the colonists has his
own house completed, and has planted
over 5000 coffee scions.
A valuable collection of Wagner man.
uscrlpts, which were sin great DANCER
OF being sold to America, to the detri
ment OF German research" was RECENTLY
bought in Berlin by the German Wagner
Society for $1,000 marks.
The movement in England To tax hi.
cycles and trlcycles seems to be GAMING
considerably in some quarters. Several
Highway Boards and Boards of (irorS.
ans IN various parts OF the country will
unite in petition to Parliament to law
an annual tax OF the 5 shillings on such
machines.
1t is said that the Empress Fredoricb
Oh Germany has succe ded in bringing
aoout reconciliation between the EN-
peror William and the Duchess of Sparta
me conversion OF the Duchess of Sparta
rom the Lutheran faith to the Greek
Church annoyed the Emperor. and al
though she was his favofite sister he
has held hardly any communication with
her since.
The seircb for the treasures of Atabr.
aipa, the great Inca, said to be hiddan
IN the Llangsnate Mounta ns. now heina
prosecuted with great euergv 10 w.
than likely to be speedily brought m q
successful Issue. Some of the more i'm
portant OF the long lost traces ot H.
route indicated by Valyerde the cela1
orated jesuit historian and antionarian
have been discovered.
Inc monomaniac who in 1899 stonnad
Queen Victoria while che was riding m
morse back in Hyde Park and nronosoJ