Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-07-31
PERSONAL MENTION.
General Early VIII BE orator at the In
yelling Of the Jack son Monument

yelling Of the Jackson Monument
Patti repents dyeing her hair sine
red hair has gone out OF fashion,
Tennvson has been greatly benefited
by his cruise in the English Channel.
Octave Thanet, the novelist is Alice
French in private life. She IS an Iowa
girl.
Emin Pasha is about to send scien
life expedition to the Mountains OF TINT
Moon.
The King OF Denmark tops Queen Vie
toria by one year as the senior sovereign
of Europe.
Mark Twain is in Paris. As he cannot
write French, the gay city is open to con
gratulations.
Despite Mrs. Stoves failing mental
powers her physician thinks she may
live many years.
The latest story is that Andrew Car.
negie desir, to run for Parliament IN
the next English election.
Uncle Jerry Rusk in his new role Of
weather prognosticator will henceiortli
be known as the Prophet jeremiah
1t was John Bright who said that Eng
| land would remain a monarchy until she
had Prince unworthy OF her throne
Henry George is hard at work on his
answer to the Pope's recent encyclicaI
dealing with the land question and SO
ciaism.
John Sherman is the only remaining
United States senator who sat in that
body during Hannibal Ilamlin's term in
its chair.
Judge X. a. Hill, Judge for the North
ern district Of Mississippi, will soon re
tire. He was appointed by President
Johnson, and is 81 years old
Goethe wrote Charlotte Won Stein ,0lO
letters in ten years. When man OF
letters goes in for the tender passion
how he does slulnder his ink
Colonel Tom Ochitree is credited with
matrimonial designs upon the daughter
OF Colonel North, the nitrate king, who
has 81, 500 900 in her own right.
The very good picture OF Mrs. O'Shea
printed in one of the weeklies gives an
impression of a cold, fair woman, with
a great deal OF blonde hair and nerve.
Rochefort is to have his sentence re-
mtted and to be free to return to Paris.
Constans thinks that he has been pun
ished enough for having brought BOu-
LANCER into public notice.
Whittier is quoted as saying the other
day that there were times when it seemed
to him thai he must take up his pen and
write, but that he felt that he had done
enough, and that his work was really
completed.
A. M. Henry owns the farm upon
which the first battle OF Bull Run was
fought, and owned it at the time of the
Eight He was away from home, but his
mother was killed in her bed by a shell
from Federal battery.
William Miller OF CRANKY, Mass, is ii
years OF age, has not been 100 rods from
his home in eleven years and has all his
life slept in the same bed. He has a
touch Of heart disease, and fears any
change will cause instant death.
Dom Pedro, who has gone to Nichv tc
take the waters, will probably return tc
England about the middle of next month
when he is tC reside for few weeks at
Bushy Park, which has been placed at
his disposal by the Due de Nemours.
James Campbell of Philadelphia, who
was member Of President Pierce Cab
met, is the oldest living Cabinet officer
IN the country. Although nearly so years
old, he may be seen on the streets daily
His interest in public affairs is undated
General Jubal A. Early has accepted
the invitation of the monument com
mlttee to be the orator on the occasion
OF the unwilling of the jackson monu.
ment at Lexington, Va, on July u. His
subject will be the military achievements
and character of Stonewall" Jackson
Mrs. John Drew, the aged actress. oc-
cupied box in Philadelphia play
house the other evening. She must have
had some interesting recollections if she
allowed her mind to wander back over
the great stretch Of time that has elapsed
since she herself first drew an audience
to a Quaker City theater
Athanasius, or Anastance, the brigand
who with half a dozen followers captured
train in Turkey recently. is an eX-res-
taurant waiter, described as about 81
years old and very handsome, dressed
with scrupulous care and most graceful
and gallant in his treatment OF the la
dies on the train. Not only dramatic.
but comic operate.
lie Baron Russell Briggs, the new Dean
OF Harvard University. is known TO the
outside public as a writer of farces and
comediettas, which have been published
In the magazines. He is man of abont
80, and his appointment to the impor-
tant office of Dean is an additional indi.
cation OF the uniyersity's new policy of
putting Young men into positions Of re-
sponsibility.
\ distinguished Hindoo travelling in
TINS country is Romanji Dinshawii Petit
who IS one of the wealthiest as we'll AS
one OF the most famous men OF India.
lie Is Parsee, millionaire several
times over and known in Asia for his
great works Of philanthropy. The esti-
nation IN which he is held at home is
shown by the fact that he has been
knlghted by the Queen for his charities
Queen Yictoria's family circle now
numbers fifty living descendants. includ-
my sons and daughters, grandsons and
great grandsons and
great granddaughters. Besides these sba
has tour sons-in-law, four daughters-in-
Jaw, tVe gran sons-i in law and one grand
daughter- m-iaw. There have died one
son, one daughter, five grandsons one
granddaughter, one great grandson and
one sOn-ln-law.