Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-06-02
PERSONAL MENTION.
The Pope Reported to Have Lost a Large
sum Of Money Dabbling IN stocks

sum OF Money DabbIing in stocks.
Joseph Pulitzer has subscribed II ,OOU
to the New York Greeley statue fund
Members Of his old mess at Fort Mo
brara. Neb., have presented the new
Brigadier-General, August V. hautz;
with magnificent uniform sword and
belt.
A movement in its incipiency in Viz
ginia has for its object the removal rom
Baltimore to Richmond OF the body OF
the late Joseph f. Johnston. The Illus
trious Confederate was Nirglnlan porh'
Ignatius Donnelly announces that
within year he will publish book
which will cause his bitterest opponents
to DENY that they ever doubted Bacon's
authorship to the Shakespearean plays,
It is said that Rev. J. w. Prootsman
of the Methodist Church, South, was the
author of the first Thanksgiving procla-
nation ever issued in the st. Louis dal-
lies in November, 1859, during the adj
ministration of Governor Stewart.
A daughter OF Congressman Breckin-
ridge of Kentucky, having graduated
with honors at Wellesley several years
ago, has now taken up the study OF law
in her fathers office, having in the mean
time taught geometry and algebra IN
Washington school.
According to the Cdpitdn FrdcdSsd the
Pope lost recently 800 ,0J0 lire by spec
ulation in stocks. The report, however,
is to be taken with several grains OF salt.
1t is known that, when Leo discovered
last year that his treasurer had rsked
money in speculation, he ordered HIM
not to appear in his presence again.
Exhorter William f. Davis, who has
been forbidden to preach on Boston Com
mon, remarks that, while he will obey
the law, he must pronounce 1t an lnVa-
sion OF the Godgiven right. lie holds
to the idea once advanced by the boys OF
Boston to the British soldiers who would
not let them skate upon the same piece
Of property.
The late General Albert Pike of Wash
ington was perhaps better versed in the
mysteries of ancient Freemasonry than
any other person in the world. HIS
translations from the Nedas filled seven
teen volumes OF 1000 pages each, all
carefully written in beautiful hand.
General Pike used none but quill pens in
this writing, and carefully preserved
each one, the number probably reaching
10000.
Apropos of Phillips Brooks and his ell
ovation to the episcopate, it may be
worth while to recall the witticism per-
petrated at the great Bostonian's eX-
pense by Henry Flanders upon the occa-
sion some years ago when DR.. Brooks
was under consideration for bishopric.
"Who is Phillips Brooks?" asked an in
nocent Philadelphia. Oh, !" said Elan
ders, "he's an Episcopalan with lean
ings toward Christianity"
Harper's Weekly says; Hon. Charles
Francis Adams, Jr., who was for six
years President OF the Union Pacific rail
road. is naturally graduate OF Harvard
and a thorough Bostonian. He has a
delightful home on Commonwealth ave
nue., but lives at Quincy, his birthplace,
during the summer. Having served his
country with distinction during the war
he began the study of railroad law, and
met with much success in its practice in
later years"
Senator George has the true look OF
Mississippi roustabort in his Fourth of
July clothes. There is nothing Of the
dude about the big, hearty and careless
man, whose garments fit him as if he
had been measured with a two-foot rule
and the tailor had shaped them out with
a cross-cut saw. He is just the sort of
farmer-Hke old fellow whom you would
expect to meet at a Cross-road grocery
dickering about the price of molasses or
the weight of prize hog,
Countess Widenbruck, a wealthy Aus
trian lady, has sold one OF her estates in
karnthen, the old castle of Tanzenberg,
which was built in the fifteenth century
by the Archbishop OF Salzburg. This
prelate was a man OF quaint and curious
fancies, and after bordering long and
gravely as towhat should be unique feat
ure OF his castle he determined to make
it a kind of perpetual almanac by giving
it as many gates as the year has months,
as many rooms as the year has weeks
and as many windows as the year has
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