The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-18
PERSONAL MENTION.
Lady Macdonald, Widow OF the Canadian
Premier, Raised to the Peerage.

Lady Macdonald, Widow OF the Canadian
fremier' Raised to the Peerage.
Henry Irving expects to visit America
this summer.
Prot. 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 most indus
trlous student, and is now one of the best
informed men of his age in Eastern Eu-
rope. He is especially well versed in
the higher sciences.
f. g. Kelley has resigned from the
postmastership 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 S.333
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 81 $50 500. and 5 per
cent. ot that sum, less the 81 900 limit.
amounts TO $64 ,229.95, which the State
VIII get as its share of the sum total.
Jonathan Trumbull, the famous Reyo-
lutionary hero of Connecticut. is now
honored with souvenir spoon bearing
his name and statuette of Brother 3
Jonathan for its chief decoration.
Pierce N. Welch of New Haven is the
donor OF the proposed new dormitory at
Yale. The building will cost S1SO. 600.
MIR Welch is not a Yale graduate
though interested in the university.
Just now Oliver Wendell Holmes
seems to be favorite topic with the
magazines. The current issues of both
Hdfper' and Scribner's contain articles
about him and also portraits of him.
Archbishop Tasche, who for two dec
ades 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 e colleetions OF
paintings Of the Lake country on exhi-
bition just now. Ruskin commended
some of his landscapes.
King Milan recently won $35, 900 at
Daccarat at one sitting. He scooped in
the Partisan gamblers Of the Cercle dc
Ia Royale in kingly manner, and would
have had no scruples about clearing ont
a Iranby-Croft company.
AS reward for his services in explor-
ing the Mackenzie and Yukon river dis
trlcts in the far-away Northwest William
Ogllvle OF the Dominion survey has been
awarded the Murchison medal by the
British Royal Geographical Society.
John Burns, the British Socialist and
labor agitator, is a man of wide reading
and great cultivation. lie was educated
at one OF the famous English public
schools, and was an early and profound
student OF Ruskin, Carlyle and Adam
Smith.
Princess Elizabeth of Ratibor defies
aristocratic prejudice and confesses her
purpose to mary Carl Miller. Forest
keeper. Berlin society is shocked to it's
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
head of the house of Ratbor and Corvy
and brother of Prince Hohenlohe. Staff
halter OF Alsace-Lorraine.