Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-12-25
PERSONAL MENTION.
Morris, the English Poet, Is spoke" "
as Successor to Tennyson N
the Laureateship.

the Gubf
Albert Bierstadt has sold his gfea,
paintine. "The Last OF the Buiialoes,
Tor $b0. 600.
Mr.. Blaine's grand children, the OoP.
pinper boys, are named respectively
Blaine and Carnegie.
General Wade Hampton, II Is reported,
shows no signs Of the physical preakihR
up recently reported Of him.
General Buffers sore year is yielding,
TO medical treatment, and II IS supposed
that he will be around again shortly.
Admiral Walker OF the White Squad
ron has taken for his Secretary Ensign
Niblack, son Of Judge Niblack OF Indiana
The death Of George Henry Hayden,
the Australian explorer who made the
first crossing from Melbourne to Gippa-
land, is reported.
The Clevelands and the baby with
big r have moved to their cottage "
the New Jersey resort, Lakewood, ana
are settled for the winter.
Sir Edward Arnold says that the late
Lord Lytton was the best after-dlnner
speaker he ever heard and superior TO
our own DR.. Depew at his best.
The late Governor Hovey OF Indiana
left enough manuscript verse to made
volume. II was mainly in ballad form,
and may sometime be printed.
Sir Edwin Arnold glories in thu fact
that he has written at least 5000 edi-
torial leaders, each Of which has been
over half column in length.
John Palmer, Commander-in-chief Of
the G. A. r., thinks the government
ought to buy Mount McGregor and put
a sanitarium there for consumptive SOL
diers.
Rev. r Rudolph Suffield, whose Sc
cession from the Church of Rome in
August, 1870, made a considerable pub
| lie stir, died the other day in Reading,
England.
Another portrait OF Columbus has
been discovered at chateau belonging
to the Due de Talleyrand. A photograph
of it has been sent to the French Geo
graphical Society.
A son OF Powers, the sculptor, has a
studio in Denver, where he is engaged
on work entitled "a Closing Era" 1t
represents a lonely Indian standing over
a PROSTATE and dying buffalo.
1t is on the cards that Lord Stanley
intends to resign the Governor-General-
ship OF Canada. If he does, it will be
the first case on record in which STAN
ley Of Preston resigned good thing.
A London cable dispatch says her
royal highness, Princess Helen Augusta
Victoria, has given her consent to be
President of the English Committee on
Women's Work for the Columbian Fair.
The latest ex Confederate to claim the
honor of being the youngest veteran is
William S. Raymond of Fairmont, W.
Va, who says he was courier on the
staff of General Imboden in 1862, when
he was but 10 years Of age.
The Garfield boys are fitting for lead
ers' places, as did their father. l. M.
Garfield has been elected Captain of the
foot ball team at Williams College for
next year. He ia strong and plucky
half-back. Williams graduated the ex-
President and his elder sons, James and
Harry,
William Morris, the English poet,
who has been spoken of as a probable
successor to Tennyson in the laureate
ship, is wallpaper maker in large bus
mess and dabbler in paintings and
pictures. He is the worst dressed man
in London, and has nc more respect for
fashion than he has for whitewash.
Mrs. Evans, the new "lady Mayoress, .
as her official designation goes, of Lon
don, was at one time chambermaid in
a country hotel in a small Kentish town,
where her future husband then Lon.
don Alderman, used to spend his winters.
Her married lie has been most happy.
and she is now woman of grace, Dig
nifty and intelligence.
A recent paragraph in Harper's
Weekly stated that General J. A. HaIder-
man of Kansas was 'the only American
whom the King OF Siam has ever deemed
worthy to wear the decoration of the
Sacred White Elephant" 1t seems,
however, that this was an error, the
same honor having been conferred upon
Colonel Thomas w. Knox, the famous
boy Traveller" OF English speaking
persons, Queen Victoria and Sir Edwin
Arnold have teen likewise distinguished
by. the favor of the Oriental King.