Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-12-22
PERSONAL MENTION.
The Kaiser viii Not Tolerate Gam
bling Among the Officers in
His Army.


It lie asserted that Ciauncey Depey
has had 1000 American infants name,
after him.
| Joseph Jefferson will play season .
only ten weeks next year, and "Rip,Var
Wrinkle will be the only play In which
he win be seen.
II was through the influence OF BishoI
4 Phillips Brooks that the Salvation Army
was allowed 70 parade the streets Of Bos
ton with music.
Another monument is projected In
New York. This one Is General Han
cocks, and It Is proposed to erect it In
Hancock square, Harlem.
| The wife OF General A. w. Greedy has
recently been 80 seriously i'll as TO occa-
sion her friends great anxiety, but her
condition iH now much improved.
Bismarck Is In Germany what they
call chain smoker that 10, he
smokes from morning till night without
break, lighting one cigar with the end
OF another.
American comedian Of Grip Van Win
kle " fame, has been In London on a
visit to his sister, who IL the wife OF d.
]. Farieon, the novelist,
Walt Whitman has OF late refused to
see the visitors who come in numbers to
call on him. He has been compelled to
take this precantlon in self de ense
against the idle curiosity which brings
them 10 his doors.
The Beau Brummel OF New York g
middle-aged millionaires is D. o Mills,
who follows the fashions in male attire
very closely, wears his clothes well, and
IL altogether model for metropolitan
Crtssus 10 pattern after.
The Duke OF Leinster's country house
IL said to have passed into the owner
ship OF an Irish farmer, who was former
ly his tenant, under the operation OF the
new Irish land laws. This is the build
ing after which the White House at
Washington was modelled.
Sir Edwin Arnold's resemblance to
Charles Dickens attracts general attep-
ton among New Workers. II Sir Edwin
IL 50 much better a speaker according 10
American ideas than most OF the other
lecturers Great Britain has sent or lent
us, 1t may be because he is 80 much bet
ter a journalist.
One thing the Kaiser will not tolerate
Ia gambling. He gays no man can either
win or lose money on quiet game and
be an officer OF his, and he speaks BY
the card, too. He has already had sew
eral officers dropped for the offense, and
the games are now quieter than ever
among the officers.
Governor Jones, the head OF the Chloe
taw nation, Is pacific savage in store
clothes, which look as il he had donned
them with the aid OF a pitchfork. He
wears stubby gray mustache, porten-
tous watch chain and a diamond hin
nesting In n sky-blue crayat. He talks
very little English.
DIR. Calling says his famous gun should
he regarded az phiianthropie inven-
ton, for it has saved no end OF lives by
soaring riotous people into submission.
So he calls the deadly gun 1.-The peace
maker" The Doctor is growing old, but
he is still one of the handsomest men
that visit Washington. He ia tall and
portly, with snow white hair and whisk-
ers and kindly eye, and in thought and
action he Is youthful and vigorous.
John Ruskin will soon complete his
I'D year, and for sixty-fve of those
years he has been poet, though for the
most part using prose as the vehicle of
expression for highly poetic thought. AT
the age Of he wrote in blank verse
singular essay on "Time." The next
year he wrote an invocation to the sun
to shine on his garden, which is an
amusing, almost pathetic. mixture OF
poetry and pathos. At the age OF 20 he
gained the Newdigate prize for English
poetry, and soon alter abandoned the
muse because, rs he said, he could not
express his ideas in verse.