Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-07-24
PERSONAL MENTION.
A woman who Served Through the ar
Applies for Pension,

AuulfeS for a PENSION
sardou the French playwright, writes
a hand so fine that it almost requires
magnifving glass to read it.
Lord Wolselev entered the British
army thirty-tive years ago at the modest
pay of 81 % day, and out OF that ne
was compelled to pay for his mess ana
uniform.
George Kennon has consented to be
come editor of the paper called fFes
Russia. provided $1,000 can be raised 10
remove the publication Office from Lon
don to New York.
Bacon was not willing TO trust the
present. He wrote in MS Will: Fof
my name and memory leave it to men :
charitable speeches, to foreign nations
and to the next ages.
The purchaser of the log cabin bullt
bv General Grant will move it only Il
short distance from its present site, the
old Grant farm near st. Louis, but Will
not let it go to Chicago, he says.
Mary f. Dewey of Goshen, Ind. served
through the civil war, disguised as d
man, in the Twenty-sixth Ohio Regi-
ment under the alias OF Charles Dewey.
She now applies for pension under her
real name.
Sarah Bernhardt bears her mother
name. Her first name was originally
Rosine, which she changed OF her own
accord She is a Catholic in religion,
and until she was IL she was educated
in a convent.
Sir Henry Wotton, who lived and
wrote in the seventeenth century, did
not have much OF an opinion OF dlplo-
mates. lie said: Gan Ambassador IS
an honest man sent to lie abroad for the
commonwealth"
Gordon Cumming will neither show
his hand nor his teeth. The expected
baccarat exposure has been suppressed.
The reasons are supposed to be kept Sc
cret, but this will not be reliably known
till Lady Brooke is heard from.
Ex-senator Evart's hat is always worn
on the back of his head, as if it wanted
to hide from observation the fact of its
being old enough to have heard the first
gun at sumter fired Mr.. Evarts ages
fast, and has a decided stoop, indicating
increasing weakness and lack OF vitality.
Edwin Arnold in the days when, even
though an active newspaper man heWas
brimful OF Hindoo philosophy and liter
aturc and thoughts regarding them, was
often known to say to people whom he
met on the street, My dear friend,
am glad to see you, but really you have
taken me out of the Himalaya Mount
aims"
Rev Melancthon W. Jacobs of Oxford
ID - IL
New Testament theology IN the Hartford
Theological Ser AIRY, preached for q
number of yeHa > the Central Presby-
terrain Church of Pittsburg. He is The
author of several works on Biblical sub
jects, and is said to be man OF great
learning.
DR.. W. II. Ege of Harrisburg has beer
elected President OF the Pennsylvania
German Society, an organization formed
for the purpose of preserving the records
of those hardy aud worthy Germans
who settled in the State in an early day
known to fame as Pennsylvania
Dutchmen." DR.. Egle is a historian o
national fame.
Prince Bismarck doesn't write letter,
if he can help it, but when it is impera
tive he has them written, and then add,
his signature, at the same time inclosing
his photograph His object in doing the
latter probably is to inform his CORE
spondent that the real Bismarck and the
Bismarck he may know from the cuts il
the papers are two different persons.
Emma Abbott's ashes are to be sur
mounted by an $50, O01 Gothic monu
ment Of Westerly granite, which is to be