Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-07-14
PERSONAL MENTION.
rhe metropolitan Michael of serNia 90"
seuts to NIiian's Proposed Marriage

senta TO Mnan's Proposed Marriage.
Donald &. Mitchell was one OF the
class OF lS4l ut Yale, and takes part IN
the semi-centenniai observance TINS
year.
Kaiser William pitches the tunes IN
Fatherland. There is Socialist song m
Germany called "A Free Man Am l." A
soldier sang il in barracks. He viii be
locked up five years.
Nine. Adam, the French author ana
magazine writer, is nearly 90 years oiid'
but she has the spirit and energy OF
Girl. Her first book was published
thirty-two years ago.
Out in Keokuk, where Mark Twain
was born, the old inhabitants remem per
him fairly well but declare he never be-
traved any genius az humorist whlie
he lived among them.
Count Douglas, member OF the Ger
man Rcichstag, who has become great
fayorite with the Emperor, is descend
ant of the famous Scotch family. tie IS
now one Of the wealthiest land proprle-
tors OF Prussia.
Judge George Hoadly, now member
of the New York bar, is attending Su-
preme Court in Ohio. tie is happier IN
his practice and great deal more pros.
porous than when holding the office OF
Chief Magistrate OF ONO.
The Metropolitan Michael of Seryia
has given his consent to the proposed
marriage of ex-king Milan. 1t is said
that Milan sent 40. 200 francs to the tailor
Of his mistress after receiving the ,0OO,-
900 francs from the State.
A Young daughter of Joachim, the ia
nous violinist, recently made her debut
as an opera singer at Elberieldt, and
made such brilliant success that she
was Immediately engaged for the winter
season at the Leipsic opera house.
The Servian boy King Alexander is a
sturdy lad of IA, with keen eyes and an
intellectual face, but he is as self-willed
and stubborn as any royal child. lie
has been well educated, and speaks Ger
man, French and English in addition to
his native tongue.
DR.. Baugh read q congratulatory dis
patch from the students OF Midland Col
iege to the Evangelical Lutheran Gen
eral Synod at Lebanon, Pa, closing with
a classical quotation. When he had put
the latter phrase into English, he found
that it ram There are no flies on us -
One would think Stanley awed enough
black men in Africa to match just one
Pullman porter - just one. But he
couldn't do it. A porter remarked in
San Francisco the other day that when
he finished run with Stanley this stern
ruler of men yielded up to the potentate
of the Pullman just 500.
Rev. DR.. De Costa is left in suf1i-
GENTLY humiiating position by the dis
covery that his Boston correspondent,
upon whose statements he based his cir
cular letter to the Bishops and standing
committees against Phillips Brooks, is
no other than Miss A. A. Chevaillier, a
woman who had quarrel with the new
Bishop.
Bill Nye is enjoying himself in a conn
try village OF high altitude in North Car
DINA. He drives a spanking team of
horses, and when he has the spare time
he puts it in on the new play he is writ
ing fOr Stuart Robson. In letter to a
friend William says he can now imagine
how Shakespeare used to feel about the
time he was giving birth to new play
dtutIdi IdIitlcIlO, WIZ IIdS IttH tcll-
ing the people of Richmond some inter
esting "reminiscences of Stonewall Jack
son, says that the great Southern leader
never held a council of war. He was a
singularly devout man, with a tendency
toward fataism, and in the early days
Of the war he was personally unpopular
as well with his own staff as with the
general officers of the army.
Ellen Terry played for several years
under the management of Charles Reade
whom she characterizes in one sentence
as dear, l0yable, aggravating, childiike,
crafty, gentle, obstinate and entirely de-
Ightful and interesting" During the
progress of a play Mr. Reade would cit
and watch her, and between the acts
send her little notes pointing out " hat
he deemed the defects and merits of her
work.
John Russell Young, who knows Sir
William Cord n Cumming well, saws of
him: "a high-tempered impetuous,
brusque, outspoken, resolute man, with
capacity for instant anger, sensitive, ir-
ritable, ready with a word or blow, the
military temperament at times unduIv
developed; stern with men, infinite in
sympathy tor dogs and dumb domestic
animals, could imagine anything of Sir
William Gordon Cumming rather than
his cheating at carda.v
Henry Hertz, Professor of Physics in
the University of Bonn, whose remark
able discoveries in electricity have given
him place in Germany similar to that
held by Edison in this country. is a
Young man hardly over "a years old.
After studying civil engineering and
finding it distastetul, he completed two
years term of military service required
IN the fatherland, and then began study
ing electricity with Prof Helmholz at
Berlin, whose assistant he finally became.
Ills researches look behind the dynamo
and the carbon, and aim to discover
more economical methods Of developing
electric energy.
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.