Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-08-26
PERSONAL MENTION.

Rev. DIR. Storrs says that the principa
duty Of the college president these day
Is to get money for the college.
Bertha Won Hillern, the clever German
artistic, is said to have made a pot 0
money by speculations in Virginia rea
estate.
Lawyer Hummel OF New York saw
that money, matrimony and alimony
make nearly all the business for thu
courts Of Justice.
Erastus Brainerd OF this city, who i.
/ ~ Seattle, Wash, says there are more
Harvard graduates out there than there
are in Philadelphia. - Phiiadelphia
| Times.
Miss Helen Leah Reed, Harvard An
mex girl, who captured the Sargent prize
OF 800 for the best metricaI translation
OF an oda from Horace, spent the money
for French dress.
Prince Herbert Bismarck cherishes
carefully the wreck of watch which he
carried during the Franco-Prussian war,
and which stopped bullet that other
wise might have ended his life.
Lord Dunlo, whose full name is Will
lam Frederick lie Poer Trench, is de-
scribed as weakened. weak-faced,
beardless boy, with reddish hair and a
head that runs back to an angle.
The King OF Siam, with his Queen. is
visiting the Malay peninsula. He ar
rived lately at Singapore, with fotilla
OF seven vessels. 1t is Supposed that the
queens saratogas were aboard the latter.
The bust OF Sidney Lanier. given bv
Charles Lanier OF New York TO the CITY
OF Macon, Ga, will be unveiled on Octo-
Der 3. Judge Buckley OF the Georgia
supreme Court will make the dedicatory
address.
Miss Elizabeth Peabody, whose chart
ties and benevolence have made her SO
throughout New England.
is now 81 years old. She is in compare
lively good health, but is waiting quietly
for the end.
John Wilson, who has lust been elect
ed Liberal member of Parliament from
worked in the mines of IL
ilnols and Pennsylvania several wears
ago as a common laborer. Returning to
England, he became strong and sue
cessful champion of workingmen's in
terests.
The Moldavian Princess Cusa is an un-
worldly girl Her Young husband. who
died not long ago, left to her all his prop |
erty, worth about 100000. She is de- |
voting the whole of her yearly income
TO charities, and is nurse i'm chill |
dren's hospital at Jassy. She is a sister
1t the Roumanian Minister, TIL ,odore |
Rosetti.
Mrs, General Grant says she first met
.he General in 1874, and they were mar
ned IN ls4S. She has many of the let !
ers written by him during the davs of
her courtship, and while she regards
hese IN their entirety as too sacred for
he public eye, she will make extracts
rom them for her book OF "reminiscences
i her famous husband.
The Duchess of Leinster appeared At
he last state ball at Buckingham palace
earring diamond epaulets, q diamond
orselet, coils of lightly mounted dia-
londs among the laces of her wondrous
own, diamond tiara, diamond brace
sts' diamond necklace and more dia-
loha brooches and buckles than the
azzled beholder could count.
Senator Davis of Minnesota was one If
ne iirst telegraph operators. Recently
9 narrated with every evidence of pleas
re IN the recollection his experiences in
ne once at Waukesha and along the
ne Tor distance of twentv-four miles i
men was under his charge. He was
G SAID, one OF the first four men in the
'untry to read telegraphy by sound.