The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-08
PERSONAL MENTION.
st. Louis Has the Only Female United
States Marshal.

states Marshal.
The poet Whittier will spend por-
ton of the summer in New Hampshire
at Wakefield.
The only woman who is United States
Marshal is Miss Olive Buchanan of St.
Louis. All the men like to be arrested
by her.
Mrs. General Custer, who is spending
a short time in London, is meeting with
very cordial reception in English liter
airy society.
Professor r. L. Perkins of Boston has
q copy of Horace that is more than 800
years old. 1t was printed in 1876, and
mas an index to every word.
James Baird, for many years Consular
agent of the United States at Manaos,
State OF Amazonas, Brazil, has arrived
in New York on sick leave.
President Diaz of Mexico, though go
years of age, is said not to look over 40.
He shows great tact in receiving visitors,
and is a gentleman of much refinement.
George Smith, king of the English
gypsies, is to edit paper in the Romany
tongue, to be the organ of the wander
ing race. He expects to get 10000 sub
scribers for it.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain will
visit the United States in the autumn.
Later they will go to the Bahamas, where
Mr.. Chamberlain intends to make ex-
tensive purchases.
Queen Victoria now rules a population
of 367 600 ,000-a greater number of peo-
pie than ever acknowledged the sover-
eighty of any other person in either an
cient or modern times.
Alexander Rankin, the Scotchman who
succeeded John Brown as Highland SER.
want to the Queen, has obtained almost
as marked influence in the royal house
hold as Brown possessed.
The Queen of Portugal, who is a splen-
did horsewoman, may often be met
whilst riding in the open country about
Lisbon at an hour when most of her
subjects are still asleep.
Sir Edward Arnold is coming to the
United States next October with his son
and daughter. He has been engaged to
deliver series of lectures on Japan in
the various cities of America.
Queen Victoria's daughter, Princess
Christian, employs woman as her ply
sician when her nerves trouble her. Her
attendant at such times is a well-known
specialist, DR.. Julia Maitland.
Henry Irving epigrammatically char
acterizes an English scheme for the re-
generation OF the theater as missions
which propose to save the players soul
by pointing the way to the work hours.
Mrs. P. T. Barnum before she sailed
for Europe sent the comfortable rolling
chair used by Mr.. Barnum during the
last few months of his life to the Bridge
port Hospital for use in that institution.
Bessie Bellwood, who lived long time
with Viscount Vaudeville, who married
Miss Yznao of New York, is about to sue
him. now that he has become Duke OF
Manchester, claiming that he owes her
money.
General Anson G. Cook, Secretary OF
the United States Senate, is a strongly
built man, about 80 years of age, and
has dark hair, mustache and eyes. He
is one of the most agreeable and popular
men in Washington.
Mrs. Logan has left the Generals Ii.
brary just as it was when he last occu.
pied it, untouched, except by the dust
brush, and unchanged. His arm chair
still retains its customary position, and
hardly paper has been moved from his
desk.
Oliver Wendell Holmes library in his
Boston home looks over the Charles
river, and furnishes superb view of the
distant spires and towers of Charleston
and Somervile. Just at sundown the
prospe is ideal.