Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-10-20
PERSONAL MENTION.
Man and His wife are Nominate" '"'
Judicial Positions In Nebraska

Jndfcfal Positions In Nebraska.
Mr.. Partridge. the sculptor, is making
a heroic bust Of james Russell Lowell
Mrs. Mackay is the possessor o.
string of fiawless diamonds two yards III
length.
George A. pillsbnry OF Minneapolis
has presented soldiers monument 70 !
Concord N. H., his native town.
The report that Bismarck had recently
a slight stroke Of paralysis is pronounced
untrue, and his health is said to be ialr'
Mark Twain is thinking Of descending
the River Rhine in boat with his cou-
rier and working up his adventures ior
his new book.
Moorfeld Story, who was at one time
Summers private secretary, has agreed
to write his biography for the Amer
lean Statesmen Series"
Secretary Foster is the best croquett
player in Washington, and is so lar ahead
Of all competitors that they don't try 70
pit themselves against him.
The man thought most likely to sue
coed the present Lord Mayor OF London
is Alderman David Evans, a manuiaet-
urer and Welshman, aged ~ years.
Francisco Cortisi, the great Italian
singing teacher, lives alone in NIUE
villa Just out OF Florence, where an Oh
housekeeper prepares his spaghetti ana
his wine for him.
James s. Sinclair, farmer Of North
Dakota, distant relative OF the Earl OF
Caithness, has received word from Eng
L. i,6 10, lad IN tho fit,a
and estate Of that Englishman.
The seat which Mr.. Edmunds has been
occupying in the Senate will not be taken
by Mr.. Proctor. Senator Dixon OF Rhode
Island gets it by the assignment OF old
Captain Bassett. Mr.. Dixon was the first
applicant
Mrs. Ingalls, is quite unlike her tall,
thin husband in figure. She is rather
short. with tendency TO stortness. Her
complexion is fair and rosy and her face
is animated by pair Of bright and ex-
pressive eyes.
The new Duke OF Cleveland comes into
rich income of 5000, 600, derived from
the estates in Shropshire and Durham,
vast properties of which he win have the
unincumbered rent rolls without having
to cell an acre OF their broad lands.
On account of the physical infrmities
OF Bishop Galleher of Louisiana his du-
| ties have for the most part been assumed
/ by his assistant, Rev. David Sessums,
who is to all intents and purposes the
/ Bishop of the diocese. As he is but 23
years old, Mr.. Sessums is probably the
youngest Bishop in the United States.
1t is on the cards that ex-King Milan
| of unsavory reputation will take unto
himself another wife, and that the happy
| lady will be the equally famous Ouida
to earn his board wage reading proofs,
bullying printers and challenging thin
skinned critics.
! Isabella of Spain, travelling incognito
az the Countess OF Toledo, was recently
carried up to Swiss glacier and back
a task of no little difficulty and burden.
1t was tremendously hot day, and the
arrival and departure were witnessed by
the whole village, who turned out to see
| the amiable sovereign.
Mr.. and Mrs II. G. Bitten bender oil
Lincoln, Neb., have both been nomi
mated by the Prohibitionists for Judicial
positions-the husband for District Judge
and the wife to the Supreme bench. Il
| is suggested that it was necessary to fix
/ the nominations in that order because the
/ woman was bound to have the last word
anyhow.
OF the various royal and princely heirs
in Europe who are unmarried the eldest
with one exception (the son of the Crane
Duke OF Luxembourg, is Prince Victor
/ Bonaparte, 80 years of age. Next come.
Archduke Charles Louis OF Austria, whC
is nearly %, and then the Duke of Clar
ence and Avondale, now 81. The Czaro
WITT is % years old.
II is declared on authentic British au
thority that there Is but one British otEi
Ger left who fought at Waterloo. and al
pretenders are warned to ring off and di,
as modest folks as they were born. Thi
one officer is Lieutenant William Hewitt
OF the Rifle Brigade, born in 1875. O
late he has been in failing health. Hi
lives at Southampton.
Sir A. Paget is the senior member O
the British diplomatic corps. and ha
held appointment under the foreign Sec
retaries acting for thirteen Cabinets. IL,
recently celebrated the tiitieth anniyer
49, " iiAo ds all dltdtDt
His present position at Vienna will b,
shortly vacated, the willy old dinlomat
having determined to retire from tn,
service.
! The last French survivor of the battl,
OF Trafalgar, Louis Cartigny, has Jus
completed his Tooth year. He was ;
cabin boy on the Redoubtable in 1903 g
the time the fatal shot was fired from
that vessel at Lord Nelson. Cartigny i
still hale and hearty, in full possession
of his faculties, and spends most of hi
time in the open air. Nothing delight
him more than to converse about his ex
periences.
Grace Greenwood writes to the Hom
Journal from Washington to say that sh,
Is not blind, as has been reported in tn
newspaper press. She saws she can SCI
to thread up her sewing machine an,
even to find her way across Fifth ayenn
at an hour when the millionaires are on
in force. She adds: 81 am not blind
neither to my neighbours sins nor to m,
own little human irailties. can still
read my title clear to more good for
tune than has ever come my way.n