Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-09-22
PERSONAL MENTION.
A Chinese Comprador Appointed United
states Deputy Marshal for Annoy

A Chinese Copprador Appointed United
states Deputy Marshal for Annoy.
Miss Mary Anderson will shortly pub
lisl her memoirs.
Ex-senator Ingalls, is said to receive
$500 for each of his lectures.
lola writes novel every nine months.
Miss Braddon has published fifty since
1862.
The Edison of France is named Alder.
He thinks that he has solved the prob
lem OF aerial navigation.
Senator Harris OF Tennessee is said to
be the oldest living Congressman. He
was first elected in 1849 at the age of 81.
Jules Verne has son, Michel, who is
developing a talent for writing stories
very much in his fathers highly imagi-
native style.
Senator Vest has been wearing this
summer plain suit OF homespun hemp
linen, gift to him from Senator Black
burn OF Kentucky.
Colonel Inman's history of the old
Santa Fe trail is to be published in 1892,
and is to be a graphic tale OF the pioneer
times in the great desert.
Maurice Bernhardt, the athletic son OF
the divine" Sarah, and his bride are
in New York. They will spend their
honeymoon in this country.
A portrait OF Queen Victoria presented
by her Majesty to Mrs. Phelps is the
chief feature in the drawing room Of ex-
Minister Phelps house in Burlington.
Chief-Justice Lucas of the Virginia
Supreme Court is but four feet high, but
he is so dignifed that no facetious law
yer has ever dared to dub him a brief
1t has been settled that Grand Duke
George Alexandrovitch of Russia, whose
health is still very precarious, shall re-
turn to Algeria at the end OF autumn.
The chair occupied by Garibaldi in the
Italian legislative chamber is hung with
a laurel wreath. Since the patriot
death no one has been allowed to use it.
The wife OF Lieutenant III. ID. Borup Of
the United States Legation in Paris is
one of the very few ladies who can claim
to have made the ascent of Mount Blanc.
Terence V. Powderly, General Master
Workman of the Knights of Labor, has
accepted the Republican nomination as
delegate to the Pennsylvania Constitu-
tional Convention.
Sir Charles Dixie is broad Shout
dered, square-built man, with clear gray
eyes and full grizZled beard. His man
ner is serious and dignified and direct
almost to abruptness.
Miss Frances Willard announces that
she has already received $4,000 for the
worlds union fund. The money is to be
used in various departments of women's
work at the Columbian Exposition.
General Joe Shelby is thoroughly re.
constructed ex-Confederate. No soldier
fought more bravely than he. He knows
he was wrong, and does not believe in
keeping up the memories of the war.
General Miles has put himself to I'M
necessary trouble in denying that he was
cruel to Jefferson Davis when he had
that gentleman shut up in Fortress Mon
roe. The General is not built on the
petty tyrant plan.
The choice of Charles Eliot Norton as
the literary executor of Mr.. Lowell is a
singularly happy one. The duties will
be performed by one who has all the re-
az isites OF an accomplished critic and
c. nscentious editor.
recent visitor to the former home OF
John Howard Payne says that it is low
with big roof, and is all of gray shingles,
with garden in which grow hollyhocks.
There is an old well, too, and the house
stands with the end toward the road.
S. A. Douglas, Prosecuting Attorney
Tor the city of Chicago and son of the
famous Democrat of that name, never
visits Springfield, ILL.,, without going to
the tomb of his fathers old political op-
ponent and friend, Abraham Lincoln.
A Chinese comprador named Chin
Gong has been appointed United States
Deputy Marshal for Annoy. The Marshal
is DIR. Edward Bedloe, said to be de-
scendant of the family after whom Bed
loe's Island WAS named in New York
harbor.
The Bishop of Derry, DR.. William
Alexander, an eloquent preacher and the
author OF work on the Psalms, has ac-
cepted an invitation from Columbia
College to deliver course of lect-
ures next year on the evidences of Chris
tianity.
At the arsenal in Zurich is shown the
DOW with which William Tell shot the
apple from his sons head, though some
writers, who assume to give the facts.
~ .ii"e thOiC 10 llSlOTlCdl ground
for a belief in the existence of such a
person as Tell.
Miss Theo Alice Ruggles. Boston's
woman sculptor, is only 20 years old.
When she was only II, two of her works
We're accepted by the Paris salon. She
has just submitted model for the statue
OF Shakespeare, which the city of Provi-
dence is to erect.
General Buffers wife, of whom he
writes so tenderly in his memoirs, was
an exquisite elocutionist, surpassed in
the opinion of many by Fanny Kemble
alone. She knew several of the Shake
speare plays by heart, and believed that
they were the work of Bacon.
Bishop Huntington has gone to farm
ing on the old homestead near Hadley
Mass. He is now 73 and as ardent as
ever, not only in outdoor work, but also
IN his studies of social questions. in
which he is by some said to be the spir-
itual leader OF the Episcopal Church.