Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-09-22
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Grasshoppers Utilized for Max
ing Soup in Paris.
"BREAD AND BUTTER DANCES
II Is Predicted That Great Britalh'
France and Germany VIII
Need Our Wheat.

Welsh mine owners have refused to
take back repentant strikers.
Russian railway trains rarely go as
fast as twenty-five miles an hour.
The debts of the late Duke OF SAKE
Coburg, Germany, are estimated at Sioo'-
900.
Bv the exertions Of General Booth
Edinburgh is to open a shelter 1or
women.
Count Tolstoi has just finished an in
curry into social matters, which Is 10 DC
published soon in English.
Cooks Of all nations are to have iair
and feast in Paris next year, with prizes
for "authors of new Dishes"
Baron Edmond de Rothschild's colony
in Palestine shows such promise OF sue
cess that he has purchased more land.
In Asiatic Turkey the roads are said
to be SO bad that the freight on ton OF
wheat for 100 miles would be over $40.
Grasshopper soup, Of which Stanley
wrote as luxury in Africa, has been
experimental with in Paris with success.
An experimental shipment Of oaten
hay has been made from Geelong, Aus
tralia, and consigned to London firm.
Local kilograms are now being trans
mitted through pneumatic tubes in most
Of the principal cities Of Great Britain.
London contains one-eighth of Great
Britain's population. 1t has a larger
daily delivery OF letters than all Scot
land.
The tallest tree on earth is perhaps a
gum tree eucalyptus regnans), recently
discovered in Australia. 1t is 415 feet
high.
A meeting OF the Latin Union is to be
called to decide the question Of the ma
tionalization of fractional silver cur
rency.
The King OF Siam is about AZ years OF
age, and received his early education
from an English lady. He is great ad-
mirer Of England.
The London Pail Mall Budget the
other day announced that the yacht
Navahoe was manned after one OF the
American States"
Herr Krupp, the great German gun
maker, is preparing for an exhibition at
tillery since 1864.
1t is said that President Carnot of
France is suffering from cancerous af-
lection of the liver, which will require
dangerous operation soon.
Some london music-hall shares, lately
sold, show that business is good. The
Tivoli sells at nearly 200, the Pavilion at
125 and the Empire at $50.
Customs frauds in the importation of
cereals have been discovered in France,
whereby the government has been de-
frauded out of large sums in duties.
Drummers are to be attached to the
Paris police. When riots are appre-
hended the beating of the police drum
will be equivalent to reading the riot act.
Dueling in Russia has become so COM
mon that the government has been COM
PEELED to decree severe code of punish
ment. Killing an antagonist will cost
six years in prison.
1t is estimated that about 80. 900 ca
nary birds are raised every year in Ger
many. The most important market is
the United States, which imports about
100, 900 birds per annum.
Owing to a disagreement with their
customers as to the price of milk, the
COW owners Of Rappoltsweiler, an Alsa-
tan dairy village, are pouring their en-
tire product into the river.
There is one place in France in which
gravestones and funeral epitaphs are
unknown. This is the village of Boreias
in the Maritime Alps. The dead are not
buried, but are thrown into bonehouse.
The recent riots in Paris cost the gov
eminent something. Troops to the num-
Der OF 10000 were brought into the CITY
to strengthen the garrison, and their
maintenance there amounted to $l5, 900
a day. '''''
AS 337 persons, mostly old women.
were injured by bicycle collisions in
London last year, the city government
is considering law to have the bicvcle
riders duly numbered and licensed like
hackmen. ANY
A vase, which has taken four years to
complete, has just been sent to London
from Minton manufactory, It il val.
ued at 81 800, and is considered the
handsomest thing of the kind that has
ever been made.
The census of foreigners resident in
france shows total Of 1,13O,2lI. The
beiglans are most numerous, and next
to them stand the Italians. Since 1S51
the number OF American residents has
Increased from 5000 to $4,000.
Bread and butter dances Are q lato
form OF entertainment designed by the
ladies' of Sydney, Australia, They arc
given Tor charity, and in order that il
may benefit as much as possible the aim
pest refreshments are served.
| In Paris they first utilize rats IN cloor
the flesh from the bones of carca sses
then kill the rats, use un the f"r s,
trimmings, the skin for ulovas ~ III
thigh bones for toothpicks and thar ' ton
dons and bones for gelatin wrappers.
In Its efforts at retrenchment and 70.
form the government of New South
aies has already effected a rednct;on
IN tne expenditures for this wear Of A.
Soc,Voo as compared with last wear, al.
flclal salaries have been cut ali arorn VI
F. P; Loomis, formerly United states
G nns1 at st. Etienne, says that from an
ah". ga ION ne made he finds that
a "pou. So,0o Americans of the better
. lass VISIT Europe every year. and tbot
abroad. O'0V'oVo annually
tho an a.,S Sultan Of Turkey is grieving over
h lne suauen death of twelve of the most most
a oea9tliui women in the imperial baroro
az no; Sson;stahtlnmople, the result of blood.
poisoning following yacc;nat;on o'o G
s'u a;.ln and slxty-seven wives surv;y n
similar operation. survived
me Prefecture of Police in Franco
stapllsned service of identity in or ,,a
70 Identity released convicts. Sinno or roea
a aneie nave been 500 sentences recorded
dgalnSt men mad NNOlutu