Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-12-15
PERSONAL MENTION.
Charles Emory Smith Has the HappY
Faculty of Being Charming
After-Dinner Speaker.

The King of Greece speaks dozen
| languages.
Ex-secretary Whitney lie fearless
equestrian.
Mrs. General Hancock is in Europe for
| the winter.
Private Secretary Halford has recov-
cred his health sufficiently to JUSTIFY
him in resuming his duties at the White
| House.
They seem to think down at Washing
ton that Baron Fava will come pacK
again as Italy's diplomatic representa-
tive ere long.
| The wife OF Frederick Douglass, the
ex-Minister to Hayti, recently delivered
an address before colored high school
in Washington.
DR.. Browns equard has apparently
abandoned his famous "ellNr OF lie,
and now thinks that he has cure for
coughs and sneezing.
Carter Harrison will discard the edi,,
torial Eve" in his Chicago paper and
use the first person pronoun. He regards
this as capital Idea.
Prof. Alcee Fortier OF New Orleans
says the Creoles are the Knickerbockers
OF Louisiana. He takes Author CaDle
to task for his characterizations OF Gre
ole life.
Nathaniel Holland, who is 80 years
old, voted at the recent election III Barre,
Mass. His vote was cast for James Mon
roe in 1915, and he has never missed an
election since that year.
Kaiser Wilhelm is eighteen times a
Duke. twice Grand Duke, ten times a
Count. fifteen times Seigneur and three
times a Margrave, besides being King OF
Prussia and Emperor OF Germany.
Daniel G. French, the New York
sculptor, has just arrived in Paris to fill
an order for the Chicago exhibition. 1t
will be colossal statue OF the Republic,
a female figure, sixty to eighty feet high.
Robert Plison, banker of Berlin,
Pa, is dwarf, and SO diminutive one
that the dime-museum managers have
offered him large sums to exhibit him
self to the curious public under their
auspices.
Bishop Merrill of the Methodist Church
has been taken to the Wesley Hospital
in Chicago for surgical treatment. For
a fortnight he has been disabled by an
ailment which is thought to be an alb
dominal abscess.
Charles Emory Smith, United States
Minister to Russia. is charming after.
dinner speaker. Under the influences OF
a fetching menu his almost habitual re-
serve disappears, and he becomes I'M
wontedly sociable.
Henri Rochefort, the French Anarch-
list, who was sent to penal colony, from
which he escaped, is now living in Lon
don. He is tall, slight and gray. Al
though he has been in England six years,
he does not speak English.
The canoe in which Poultney Bigelow
navigated the Danube from the Black
Forest to the Black Sea has been &C.
copied by Emperor William. They knew
each other years ago, when the Ameri-
can and the Kaiser were schoolmates.
A note written recently to a Chicago
author by Oliver Wendell Holmes shows
that the aged poets pen is still entirely
under his control literally as well as met
aphoricallv, for, though DIR. Holmes is
now 80, he writes as neat and unvarying
a hand as bank clerk o. so.
Al 'ert Moore has been painting beau
tiful pictures for a generation, but has
always failed of recognition by the Brit
ish Royal Academy. He is the subject
OF an appreciasive article by Harold
Frederic in the Christmas Scribnsr, il
lustrated with seven engravings from
the artists paintings.
Joseph Pennell, whom the cable re-
ports to have been expelled from Russia,
was probably mistaken for q spy. His
sketching as an artist once before led to
his ar, est under a like misrepresentation
Mr.. Pennell, who is both writer and
an artist, formerly lived in Germantown,
and his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Robins Pen
nell, is daughter of Edward Robins OF
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