Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-06-09
PERSONAL MENTION.
Ex-Governor Evans M Colorado Gives
Denver University 100000.

The Emperor OF China is not devoted
to the pleasures OF the table. but is very
fond of oysters.
Emile Zola has recently written an
imprisoned appeal against baby farm
ing as it Is carried ON in France.
Cavendish Bentinck, who died recent
ly in London, left a collection OF artistic
curiosities valued at over 5000, 900.
The University of Denver is in luck.
Ex-Governor of Colorado has enriched
its endowment fund by gift of $780,
600.
Lord Randolph Churchill takes but
two books with him on his expedition to
South Africa-Shakespe and Moliere.
He doesn't care for the Bible.
M. Ambrose Thomas, the veteran
composer of D." Hamlet" and Mignon, F"
is slowly recovering from a serious acct
dent, which nearly cost him his life.
Mrs. Mackays portrait by Meissonier
which was supposed to have been de-
stroyed, now forms part of the gallery at
Mrs. Mackay's new house in London.
James Russell Lowell declined to at
tend the celebration of Browning's birth
day in Boston last week. because he was
dii6lQ iit GOutl HOi Stdltti VIC CALlltliiNiib-
Senator Edmunds, though he has
rented his Washington house two years,
will spend great deal of time at the
Capital in looking after his law business
every winter.
The Czarowitz Of Russia during his
recent Indian tour required no less than
thirty tongas or carts for his luggage and
about 300 pairs OF ponies to draw the
same impediments.
Ex-senator Reagan OF Texas, whose
resignation from the United States Sen
ate follows closely upon that OF Edmunds
OF Vermont, was in Jefferson Davis
Cabinet at the close of the war, and fled
from Richmond with him, narrowly es
Gaping capture.
Sir Charles Upper has organized a
company in London with E2,000, 900 cap
ital for the purchase OF gas, water and
other works in this country and Canada.
Cities and towns that want to have their
water and gas supplied by an English
syndicate will now have an opportunity
quite English.
Hamid Bey, Director of the Imperial
Museum in Constantinople, has sent ex
ampes OF paintings by himself to the
Berlin art exhibition The fact is no.
table one, owing to the well-known dis
favor in which Islamism holds the art of
painting. Ilamid is the first Turkish
painter to become known to the Western
world.
| 1t is rumored that the versatile Kaiser
is about to pose as n "pietist." He is
on the point OF making a I" retreat" SO
it is said, of the historic castle OF Wart-
| burg, where Luther distinguished him
self hy hurting an ink pot at the devils
! head Here William III. will shut him
self up in strict retirement for Il day or
two hoping possibly to emulate Luther's
achievement.
| The members of the imperial family
of Austria have at last given up all hope
of the reappearance OF Captain Johann
| 0rth, the eX-Archduke. The insurance
societies in which his boat, the Santa
| Margherita, was insured have also de
cided that he has been lost. They have
ordered the payment o. 23G eco marks to
his heirs, as the ship was insured for
that amount
Charles Dudley Warmers wife is a fine
musician, and one of the pleasantest
rooms in their charming house at Hart
ford is the music room, with its grand
piano and many curios picked up in for
eign lands. Yet for all his pleasant sur
| roundlngS III Hartford 1t is sad Mr.. W ar
ner would prefer to live in Southern Cal
flor MIA. Climate enforces its claims on
sensitive natures.
D'0mon, the man who set out from
Paris to walk on stills to Moscow, didn't
90 all the way. The police on the Rus
sian frontier wouldn't let him proceed,
and after vainly trying to pass them ii
| commenced to D'Ornon him that he'd
l.
binary circus in Prussia.
Carl Schurz, who as President of the
Hamburg Packet Company
has made a study OF the most improved
methods of ocean travel, believes that
steamers win yet be built to make the
run across to Europe in three or four
days. He thinks that safety need not be
sacrificed to gain swiftness.