Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-09-25
PERSONAL MENTION.
Countess of Caithness IL the Exact An
tithesis of Mime. Blavatsky.


tfthesis of Mime. Blavatsky.
Austin Dobson thinks Of coming to
the United States in the autumn TO give
readings from his own works.
The King OF Italy takes great interest
in raising camels when he is not occu-
pied in trying to raise the wind at any
rate OF interest.
Judge ii. X. Douglass, who was Ma
jor on the staff of General Stonewail
jackson, will be one of the speakers at
the New Hampshire soldiers reunion at
The Weirs.
Oscar Wilde frankly entities his new
eat book study of Christianity from
the Outside" Some who consider them
selves in it could give only real view OF
the subject.
Mr.. Ruskin thinks the English people
ought to love the apple tree, :" not for its
fruit, but for its flower "a sentiment
with which the parents of the American
small boy will fully syinpathize.
The oldest jockey ON the turf and still
one Of the best of them is William Hay
ward, who rode Preakness in the famous
dead heat race for the Saratoga cup in
1875. He lives at Eatontown, NJ
It is always pleasure to know that a
King is of some practical use. King
Humbert Is cook of no mean order,
and can boil potato or broil steak in
way that would make dyspeptic feel
hungry.
Gray hairs continue to crowd about the
temple OF Will S. Hays, editor, poet and
song writer, but his ebony mustache is
resplendcnt with youth and vigor. He
writes better than Joe Howard OF New
York, and tells more truth.
George Haven Putnam, the New York
publisher, has received from the French
government the cross OF the Legion oil
Honor, conferred upon him for his serv-
ices in helping to secure the passage OF
the international copyright law.
The late Empress Augusta of Germany
was very rigid in her opposition 10 being
photographed. There is, however,
picture to be seen in the shops of Berlin
representing group of the royal family
with the Empress Augusta seated on the
left, holding book up so as to hide from
view her imperial features.
The Countess of Caithness, the new
high priestess Of theosophy, is the exact
antithesis of her predecessor, Nine. Bla
vatsky. Her figure is slender, her man
ners elegant and her tastes refined. She
dresses in great taste. Her only resem
blance to Blavatsky lies in her fondnesi
for diamonds, but that is a pardonablt
womanly weakness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes enters his $50
year with his characteristic good humo
and cheerfulness undated. The genia
autocrat," who thought it better t,
be 70 years young than 40 years old
has the same feeling as to his eighties
except that partial failure OF his eye
sight causes him some trouble.
Captain George Dewey of the nav,
has lived for the last five years with onl,
half liver. The other half was cut OF
by an Italian surgeon while Captain
Dewey was lying i'll from liver disease a
Malta in 1886. From the day the opera
was performed his health began to i'm
prove, and he has enjoyed life ever since
Ex-Judge John Erskine, who retire.
from the Federal bench about five year
ago, is ranked as one OF the greatest iu
rists in the South, and when he retired
the bar OF Georgia gave him great ova
ton. He was appointed by Andrey
johnson. He lives most of the tim
now with his daughter, Mrs. Ward o
New York, and spends few month
each year in Savannah.
Emmett Logan of the Cincinnati Time
is your genuine six-foot Kentuckian, i
kindly in his face and manner, is dead
y enemy of the hard boiled hat" an,
divides his time between two-edged par
agraphs and editing his double eade,
great-primer Warren-county corn patch
He affects store clothes, pomp and pie il
town, but is not naughty as to mush an,
molasses on the plantation.
There is curious painting in Englan,
OF Marie Antoinette, taken in Vienn
when she was happy maiden of fourteen
summers. 1t represents the young Arch
duchess merrily laughing, with her slen
der finger pointing in mocking way t.
her neck, around which is enc relied
red ribbon, resembling curiously lin
of blood. The innocent but prophets
gesture gives thrilling and tragic char
acter to the portrait.
Benjamin Folsom, Mrs. Cleveland
cousin, who was appointed United State
Consul at Sheffield under the last admin
lstration, has been ill for several months
iO cathc Iioiue ldsl spring 10 VlSlt MI
mother, who is dying of consumption il
California, and was himself attacked
with pneumonia. Having improved
somewhat, he returned to England, bu
suffered relapse, from which at last h,
Is now reported as slowly recovering.
The Presidents salary is paid to hin
In monthly installments of $4,l66 81
The warrant is brought to the Whit,
House by special messenger of tn,
Treasury Department, and after tn,
President has indorsed it as he would al
ordinary draft his private secretary de
posts it at the Columbia Bank. Wher
the President is out of town the draft i,
mailed to him. The same method i.
pursued in paying the Justices of the
Supreme Court,