Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-04-14
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Prince Roland BOnaparte VIII
Visit the United States.
MANUSCRIPTS OF VICTOR HUGO
The King of Siam to Make an Inter
esting Display at the Worlds
Fair in Chicago.

Universal suffrage III AuStTit 10 i"NoiSA
by the native Bohemian party.
Rumor SAYS another American Cardl-
nal will be named at the coming consls-
tory.
The Senatorial elections in Spain have
resulted in sweeping victory tor the
Monarchists.
Russian and Austrian emigrants are
nrohibited from passing through Prus-
sian territory.
The population of Ireland in 1891, ac-
cortling to revised returns recently IS
sued, was 1881 ,24S.
Chill and Argentina have settled their
boundary dispute by fixing on the sum
nit OF the Andes as the boundary line.
Minister to Germany William Walter
Phelps is to have his portrait painted. by
Herr Koppay, the noted German artist.
Prince Roland Bonaparte proposes
travelling through the United States this
wear with the object of study and re-
| search.
| Father Joseau, a Catholic missionary
in Corea, was terribly maltreated by a
mob recently, being beaten into insensi-
bility.
Nine. Navarro MARY Anderson), who
! is living at Tunbridge Wells, England,
, is reported to be writing her reminis-
cences.
1t costs about $40 to have a ton OF
goods transported by carrier from Ma
taddi to the Pool in Africa, distance Of
230 miles.
1t is fact of curious interest that ir-
| tba par,a
''Peters pence"-$450, 000-than any
other nation.
An estimate based on official figures
places the receipts of Paris theaters last
year at 22,0O00 900 francs more than the
receipts Of 1891.
An elevator is being built in the House
of Commons, London, so that women
need not climb eight flights OF stairs to
the ladies' gallery.
Prince Ugo Boncompagni, a high Ro-
man noble and formerly Clerical mem
Der of the Roman Municipal Council, is
about to enter a monastery.
The financial situation of Chill has
been greatly relieved. The Government
will take up the forced loans of Balma-
ceda, amounting to 100000.
The inventory of Victor Hugo's manu-
scripts has occupied his literary execu-
tors eighteen months, and they have
400, 900 papers and notes classified.
Last years profits of the Cunard
Steamship Company were exceptionally
SMALL because OF the low freight rates
and the suspension of steerage trade.
Monaco is reported as planning to
hold a universal exposition next year.
Monaco has a territory of eight square
miles and a standing army of l26 men.
The Russian Government has sus-
pended the coinage of silver rubles on
private account for the reason that the
silver ruble is now cheaper than paper.
Challemel-Lacour, the newly elected
member of the French Academy, has
been chosen President of the French
Senate. He is Senator from Bouches-
du-Rhone.
The promise made by Nine. Schlie-
mann after the death of her distin-
guished husband in 1890, that the exca-
vations at Troy would be continued is
about to be fulfilled.
The eruption of the San Martin vol
cano in the Tonalo district, State OF
Chiapas, Mexico, has created great
alarm. The flames at one time shot up
200 feet above the crater. .
Railway extensions are to be built in
Upper and Lower Egypt to cost OF
Fl, 100000. The existing line from CHR
geh to Keneh will be extended and a
narrow-gauge railway built to Luxor.
During the past year, it is calculated,
that the vast sum of over 100000, 900
was spent in the British Isles in alcoholic
drinks, and even this is less by some ST.
800, 900 than the expenditure OF the year
previous.
In the province of Antwerp, Belgium,
the unofficial referendum has resulted
IN the approval of manhood suffrage by
l5,754 OF the 1901 men who voted.
Forty-three per cent of the electors went
to the polls.
A cable to the New York Evening
Post says: Much damage has been done
to crops in almost every part of the
United Kingdom by frosts. In some
parts OF Hungary cereals as well as
fruits are wholly destroyed.
The King of Siam, at his own expense,
has decided to make an interesting dis
play In the Manufactures, Agricultural
and Forestry buildings at the Worlds
FAR, and will also erect royal pavilion
OF deliberately carved woods.
Socialist delegates from Germany, the
Netherlands, Belgium, England, Swift
erland, France and Italy at a meeting in
Brussels have decided that the Interna-
tional Socialist Congress in Zurich shall
begin on August and last for one week.
Hamburg, which last year was the
stronghold and the chief abiding place
of cholera in Europe, is now in such a
healthy state that the doctors have the
| blues, and, as a cable dispatch saws, ait
seems as if the epidemic had cleared out
the other maladies."
Twenty-siX members of the anti-Se
mite party in the German Reichstag are
back OF the bill prohibiting Jewish i'm
migration and the naturalization of for
elgn Jews. The bill is designed to catch
votes III the country districts where the
Judenhetze spreads like an epidemic.
Recent additions to the British NAVY
have rendered necessary large increase
in the number of men required. In
lS90-9l there were $500 men on tba
tieet list. In 1912 the number was
l,0oo, the present year "A, 100, and for
the coming financial year provision is
| asked for 76,700.
A Hungarian inventor claims to he
able to spin ordinary wood pulp, or cell
iulose, INTO yarn, from which ali sorts nj
textile tissues can be made in the ordi-
nary way, equaling in durability. an
| pearance and fastness of color tho ~