Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-07-17
PERSONAL MENTION.
Lady Macdonald. widow of the CHhAdihh
Premier. Raised to the Feerage'

PREMIER
Henry Irving expects to visit America
this summer.
Prof. Lebaron Russell Briggs has as,
sumed the duties OF Dean OF Harvard
College. succeeding Clement |. Smith re-
signed Prof. Smith had been Dean
since 1882.
The Czarowitz has been a most indus
trious student, and is now one OF the pest
informed men of his age in Eastern Eu-
rope. He is especially well versed IN
the higher sciences.
FIG. Kelley has resigned from the
misunderstanding of Centerville, Mass,
after A service OF fifty-two years. The
surprising thing is the resignation-not
the length OF service.
The King of Ashantee is allowed 1888
wives. Many of them are the daughters
of the chiefs of tributary tribes over
which the King has jurisdiction, and are
sent to him as hostages.
P. T. Barnum left personal estate
which inventories ri 585 500, and 3 per
cent. of that sum, less the 81 900 limit,
amounts to 1884, 229.95, which the State
will get as its share of the sum total.
Jonathan Trumbull, the famous Revo-
lutionary hero Of Connecticut, is now
honored with a souvenir spoon bearing
his name and statuette of Brother ]"
Jonathan for its chief decoration.
Pierce N, Welch Of New Haven is tho
donor of the proposed new dormitory Mt
Yale. The building will cost $4,000.
Mr.. Welch is not Yale graduate,
though interested in the university.
Just now Oliver Wendell Holmes
seems to be a favorite topic with the
magazines. The current issues of both
Hdrpsr's and sGribHJr's contain articles
about him and also portraits Of him,
Archbishop Tasche, who for two dec
AIDES has been the head of the Roman
Catholic Church in the Canadian North
west and the foremost Canadian prelate,
is lying at the point Of death at Winni-
peg:
General Buffers Autobiography and
"reminiscences will be published in
French, English and German; but not
more than one language will be really
needed for the General to make himself
understood.
Hon. Stephen Coleridge, son OF the
English Chief Justice, is an artist of no
mean ability, and has a collections of
paintings of the Lake country on exhi-
hition Just now. Ruskin commended
some OF his landscapes.
King Milan recently won $50, 600 at
baccarat at one sitting. He scooped in
the Partisan gamblers of the Cercle de
la Royale in kingly manner, and would
have had no scruples about clearing out
Tranby-Croft company.
AS reward for his services in explor-
ing the Mackenzie and Yukon river dis
tricts in the far-away Northwest William
Ogilvie OF the Dominion survey has been
awarded the Murchiaon medal by the
British Royal Geogra phical Society.
John Burns, the British Socialist and
labor agitator, is man of wide reading
and great cultivation. He was educated
at one OF the famous English public
schools, and was an early and profound
student of Ruskin, Carlyle and Adam
Smith,
Munkacy's new picture, which he be-
gan two months ago in Paris, will repre-
sent Christ among his Disciples. 1t will
he completed in about two years, will be
exhibited all over Europe and the United
States, and will be added eventually 10
the Berlin national gallery.
The great statue of Pope Leo XIII
which Count Joseph Loubat is to pre-
sent to the Catholic university at Wash
ington, will be shipped to this country
within few weeks. 1t is reported to
be fine piece of work, and represents
caatlH 10 Il
wearing the triple crown.
Sir Prescott Gardner Hewitt, the emf
nent English surgeon who died recently.
had been president of the ROYAL College
OF Surgeons for the last fifteen wears. and
previously occupied the chair of human
anatomy and surgery in that school. At
the time OF his death he was one of the
Queens sergeant-surgeons and surgeon
in-ordinary to the Prince of Wales.
Lady Macdonald, widow of the late
premier OF Canada, Sir John Macdonald,
has been raised to the peerage as an
acknowledgement of her husbands long
and distinguished public services, The
news that the Queen had conferred the
peerage on her was received by Lady
Macdonald with great pleasure. 1t is
SAID she will be called Countess of
Earnscliffe.
Princess Elizabeth of Ratibor defies
prejudice and confesses her
purpose to mary Carl Miller. forest
keeper. Berlin society is shocked to its
foundations, while the father of the dar-
ing Princess is compelled to give his
consent to his daughters marriage to
her choice. The old Duke of Ratibor is