Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-02
PERSONAL MENTION.

The heirs OF John Ericsson have pre-
scented the inventors models to the Met
ropolitan Museum in New York.
James Russell Lowell is steadily but
slowly regaining his health, and is at
home at Elmwood, Cambridge, for the
winter.
Lord Tennyson expects to make a sea
voyage with his son, Hallam Tennyson,
this winter, and may visit the Mediter-
ranean.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has commits
stoned Edward Burgess to design for
him a forty-five-foot sloop yacht, with
which he hopes to capture the cham
pionship next year.
The Earl and Countess Of Aberdeen
have presented gold watches and lockets
to the engineer and fireman of the train
which was derailed while conveying
them through the Rockies.
Senator Edmunds has attached to his
handsome residence in Washington an
outside stairway, built on purpose for
his favorite dog, which is not allowed to
meander through the main hall.
Mrs. Elma Stuart, who survives after
having been patient by turns under
thirty-eight different doctors, has pub
lished book on =" How to Get Well and
Keep Well" Rare beef and hot water
is the flag she nails to the mas head
The young Viscount Belgrave, grand
son of the Duke of Westminster, if he
lives to inherit his patrimony, will be
the richest man in the world. BY the time
he attains his majority his income will
amount to between $4,000 and 100000 a
day.
The Villa Langenbeck at Weisbaden
has been secured by members of the i'm
perial Japanese household for the use of
the Mikado next summer. This, it is
declared, will be the first visit ever made
by "A Japanese Emperor outside his own
dominion.
John Hackley. who has given $780,
GOO library building to Muskegon, Mich.
worked his way to chat city twenty years
ago, poor boy, on lumber vessel. He
was determined to succeed if it was in
wood and it was. He made Il fortune
in lumber.
c. J. fIamIin. the millionaire horse
man of Buffalo, is ~ years of age, and
recently drove his trotting team, Belle
Hamlin and Justina, a mile in 213t4
1t was a wonderful performance, both on
the part OF the aged driver and owner
and his team.
His biographers now ascrihe the re
markable vitality of DIR. Wendell Holmes
to his regular habits. The rooms he oc-
eupies are equipped with barometers
thermometers and various other ometers
to prevent his mourning the slightest
risk of taking cold.
The Bradley Martins of New York
have set a fashion which will possibly
find imitators among other rich Aneri-
cans. Instead Of spending the winter
in New York or Florida they have secured
Il palace in Cairo, and will give some
sumptuous entertainments in true Ori-
entail splendor.
Mrs. Davis, wife of Baptist clergy
man and the only survivor, it is believed,
OF the Woman's Anti Slavery Board in
Boston during the trying times Of 1855
10, celebrated her Goth birthday in that
city the other day. Through her efforts
many slaves, for whom her house was IL
refuge, particularly female slaves, es-
capped into Canada,
The Duke OF Portland, owner of the
great racers of the English turf is build
ing group OF almshouses at his chief es-
tate, Wolback, and with a nicely lisCrim-
mated distribution of honors inscribes
the principal building; These houses
We're erected ny the sixth Duke OF Port
land, at the request of his wife, for the
benefit Of the poor and to commemorate
the victories OF his race horses.