Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-08-14
PERSONAL MENTION.
Miss Maggie Mitchell Of Oregon Is one -
the Bellies .f Paris.

Prince and Princess Bismarck have
lsf, Er;edrirhsruhe for Schonhausen.
Secretary Foster grows so enthusiast'c
when he sees good baseball play that ne
throws up his hat like any boy
II is said that the Princess Clemen-
tine. the Youngest daughter oil the hihg
of the Beigians, will enter nunnery'
Mrs. DIR. j. s. Holloway of Springiieio,
O., has fallen heir to II ,00o,ooO ieit py
her uncle, Sir James Baxendale, an Eng
lish Knight.
Jaw Gould turns the scales at lO'
pounds, but he has often turned the
scales on Wall street men OF more thah
twice his weight.
President Lyon G. Tyler OF William
and Mary College is engaged upon po-
litical history OF Virginia, for which ne
has accumulated vast amount oil ma
terial.
NJ. Cabinet, the French portrait paint
err. SAYS that Miss Maggie Mitchell, the
daughter of the Oregon Senator, Is one
of the most beautiful women ever seen
in Paris.
Andrew Lang is tall, thin and dark,
and has laugh without music. lie has
also Mark Twain drawl is near AZ years
oil age and is one OF the hardest workers
in England.
Miss Virginia Knox OF Pittsburg, who
married the bogus Count di Montercole,,
is going 10 try her matrimonial luck
again--this time with John p. Mcken-
zie, Baltimore newspaper man.
General Greedy has been invited to at
tend meeting OF the international Po-
lar Conference in Munich September 4.
The other eleven nations represented in
the cooperative observations OF 1878
will be represented.
Lord Stanley, the Governor General of
Canada, is jolly good fellow and pop
ular and easy-going nobeman, enjoying
life to the utmost. He enters into Ca
madam sports and pastimes with great
vigor and heartiness.
Ex-senator ingalls, has solved the ques-
ton which everybody is asking by con-
senting to become one OF party which
is to make tour through Southern Eu-
rope and the Holy Land. The party is
to consist OF twenty-five persons.
The Worlds Fair Commissioners are
meeting with splendid welcome in Lon
don. Sir Cunlifie Owen, who has repre-
sented England at every worlds fair for
the last quarter OF century, tells them
his countrymen intend to make a great
show
James Gordon Benefits recent gift of
81, 900 to the omnibus or stage drivers
during their late strike has made him
extremely popular with the French
working classes and led them to regard
him as a benefactor to whom they can
appeal in an emergency.
Ed Stokes is not only one OF the best
looking and best-dressed men in the
New York contingent summering at Sar
atoga, but he is the best mounted. His
horse is a noble black Kentucky charger,
and he sis it as if he had been trained
to saddle in the bluegrass region.
Hubert Howe Bancroft, the historian
OF the Pacific Coast, commenced life as
clerk III book store. His attention
was drawn to historical literature by be-
ing asked by his employers to aid in the
preparation Of an almanac OF the Coast.
lie has collected one of the most valua-
BILE historical libraries in the world.
George A. Pillshury of MINNEAPOLIS
has endowed the Pillsbury Academy of
Minneapolis with $1,000 for five free
scholarships at the new University OF
Chicago, to be awarded to five students
OF the academy who have attained the
highest grade in scholarship. Charles
l.. Colby has endowed the Beaver Dam
Academy of Wisconsin with five similar
scholarships.
William Henry Smith, First Lord of
the Treasury, will soon be elevated to
the peerage. Mr. Smith is the leading
news agent in England, and the firm of
Nilllam II. Smith & Sons. controls every
book and news stand on all the princi-
pal railway lines in the country. An
appropriate title for his peerage would
be Lord Newsstands.
Count liolstein- Holsteinburp Chief
Court Marshal OF the King of Denmark.
whose recent marriage with a singer of
Il dancing hall created such sensation
III Copenhagen, has been placed under
guardianship. The sportive Count, who
was successful in the spirited contest
among the tennessee doree oil Denmark Tor
the Young woman's hand, enjoys the re-
spectacle age of 80 years.
It is believed that Alexander Dumas
will portray some gambling scenes from
Monte Carlo in his new comedy. as he
spent several weeks last winter at that
resort, closely observing the play, but
never stalking even a sou. Dumas has
persuaded M. Febvre of the Coincide
franeaise to withdraw his resignation
ana remain another year in order to Gre
ale the principal role for this comedy.