Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-01-18
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
n1eissonier has lost his wife.


| John Wanamakcr's life is insured for
100000. & IN
Prince Bismarck is shaved every day by
| his valet. ...
| Gen. Schenck is living quietly in Washing
ton. He is 70.
James W. Morrissey is spending the sum
mer in Montreal
Fred Douglass, now nearly 80 years old, is
to go upon the stump this fall.
Count Anton Appoint pocketed SEQ, 600 by
winning the Austrian Derby.
Cardinal Manning rises at every morn
ing. He will be 50 ont 18th.
Sir John Lubbock spends nearly all his
time studying the habits of ants.
Buffalo Bill stepped on a banana peel the
other day and picked up a diamond pin.
John B. Stetson, of Philadelphia, carries
insurance policies aggregating s7o0,OO0.
Professor Huxley's second son is student
at ST. Bartholomew hospital, London.
Lucky" Baldwin owns 10000 acres of
land and has the wool clipped from 10000
sheep every year.
The bronze statue of Sir William Wallace,
recently unveiled at Aberdeen, is seventeen
feet high and weighs nearly Eve tons.
Ex-President Barnard, of Columbia col
lege, is now doctor of laws, of civil law, of
letters, of divinity and of philosophy
. Charles Wood has been the king of the
English jockeys since Archer's death. Last
year he had no fewer. than Isl winning
mounts. r.f
Blackburne, the famous chess player while
playing refreshes himself with coffee and to-
bacco, and after days work takes little
whisky +ft.,r-t
Cardinal Monaco, commonly regarded as
next in the succession to the triple crown, is
an Ultramontane and extraordinarily firm
in his convictions. D...' Sc. ta......-t
/. Before he discovered the cholera microbe
Robert Koch was known simply as DR.. Koch.
Now he is Herr Geheimer Medicinal Rath
Professor Doctor Robert Koch.
NJ. Molier, the wealthy Partisan, who
amuses himself and the fashionable world
with an amateur circus, has now rival in
Touraine whose establishment is said to be
as fine as Molier's
The Duke of Edinburgh, who was recently
poisoned by the bad water of Gibraltar, has
long had a passion for quack medicines. He
is something of hypochondriac, and is
always dosing himself with some patent
noStrum.
Mr.. Hosea Fl. Lincoln, for forty-two years
principal of tho Lyman school, East Bos-
ton, has just entered the ministry of the
Unitarian church. He is 81 years old, but
In splendid health, and reasonably hopes to
perform many years service in his new field.
Professor Arthur L. buckingham, associ-
ate in tho chair of art at Princeton college,
has been invited to accompany the exploring
expedition which is to be sent to Babylonia
by the University of Pennsylvania. In his
studies Professor rockingham has devoted
particular attention to Babylonian and
ancient art.
Mr.. T. NJ Wells has completed a clay
model of the bronze statue of James w.
Marshall, to be erected on the spot where
gold was first discovered in California. 1t is
of colossal size and represents Marshall clad
in miners dress, holding a nugget in his
right hand and with his left pointing to the
spot whence it was taken.
When Phil Armour, the great Chicago pork
packer, goes on a journey he greases his way
as no other millionaire in the country does.
He goes to New York by the Vanderbilt
roads on one of the vestibule trains, and gives
the engineer conductor and Wagner con-
ductor each So note. Then he gives the
brakemen, walters and barber each S. And
yet he does not travel whit more comfort
able than any one else.