Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-07-07
PERSONAL MENTION.
The infant King of Spain Is heS'''Ss
and Precocious Little Creature

and Precocious Little Creature.
Count D'Abraz. the French Consul at
Now Work has neat little salary OF
Sll 900 year.
President Eliot, of Harvard, has a
powerful bass voice that Is notlceaple III
congregational singing
Sim Reeves. the noted English tenor,
who has lust retired from the stage, was
nuite well known as a singer over nan
century ago.
Miss Hattie Blaine has gone to Eng
land. She has had letters from home
assuring her that her father Is In no
respect seriously i'll.
Senator Villas owns 1900 acres OF lahd
in Wood county, Wisconsin, 800 acres oil
which will be planted with cranberrles.
He NAV yet come to be known as the
Cranberry Statesman.
Charles Dudley Warner is described,
in what is perhaps meant to be a com
ELEMENTARY way, by a Western news
paper as "Our American ash-llght
photographer of social fads."
General Lew Wallace, of "Ben llur'
fame, saws that he is not candidate Tor
the republican gubernatorlal nomination
in Indiana, and that he would not nave
it were it offered to him on silver
salver.
Herbert Spencer is not SO greatly alb
sorbed in abstruse philosophy but that
he can take an interest in the humane
and concrete. He has joined the British
Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty to
Children.
The 81 900 which Miss Juch was to re-
ceive for singing at the indianapolis
Nav festival was attached on the suit OF
a Montana bank last week. When the
fair sonpstress received the news she OBJ
served, GLOW hOrridW
Professor Burt Green Wilder, OF Cor
nell university, wants to annlhllate all
intercollegiate sports. It's evident that
the athletic side Of college life was de-
veloped after the professor had his in
nings as an undergraduate.
The infant king Of Spain is restless
and precocious little creature. lie has
already, though only years old, out
grown his toys and yearns for live
horses instead of tin ones. He speaks
English quite correctly and is learning
French.
The assertion of that bright Irishman,
T. z. O'Connor, that hereditary royalty
| in England is now passing through the
seyerest ordeal it has been subjected to
| for generations, has some truth in it
vet it is well to remember that English
royalty is hard nut to crack.
Selectman Lounsbury, OF Seymour,
Conn, one of the officials in the United
States Pin Company, is going to build a
! sidewalk of pins. He has at the pin
company's shop some twenty barrels OF
old and imperfect pins, the accumula-
tions of years, and these he will now
utilize.
Ex-Speaker Thomas b. Reed is stay.
! ing at quiet boarding house in Paris
! At the request OF Minister Reed, NJ
! Floquet put his private gallery in the
Chamber of Deputies at the disposal o
the eX-speaker, who is seen there fire
quently, following debates with close
attention.
The foreign ministers to Pekin who
saw the emperor at the recent roya
audience, carried away an agreeable i'm
preston of the Oriental sovereign. He
was simply attired in silk and bore nc
Scepter or other emblem OF authority
Instead of a crown he wore plait
Chinese felt hat surmounted by a buttor
of crimson silk. He appeared mild anC
somewhat melancholy, and his pale face
wore an expression of great refnemen
and dignity.
The Russian Grand Duke Sergius il
said to be profoundly devout in man
ners. If he happens upon an image of re
puted sanctity he will PROSTATE himsel
before it. If there are relics Of some
old ecclesiastic or by-gone generations
he will not be happy till he kisses them
If there is a shrine where pilgrim
gather, there he must also worship
And the lady almost an English
princess, since the granddaughter OF tn,
queen to whom he is m rried has haC
to learn to accommodate herself to hi
tastes.