Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-05-19
PERSONAL MENTION.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland Said To he LII"
eraI Purchaser of Rare BOOKS


The Archbishop of Erlau in Hungary
has yearly revenue which amounts u
$275,Q00.
The most beautiful unmarried royal
girl in all Europe is the Princess AK OIL
Hesse-Darmstadt.
Major Mckinley has received bar OF
American tin smelted at the San Jaclnto
mine in California.
Anna Dickinson's declared purpose is
to lecture through the country on the IN
EQUITIES of State insane asylums.
Jean Paul Laurens was elected to the
vacancy in the French Academy OF Fine
Arts caused by the death of MISSIONER.
lola requires nine months to write
novel. He handles a pen as laporer
might spade, and is a slow and painful
toiler.
Fred Remington, the artist OF the
Sioux campaign, is going to Mexico Tor a
season of rest and to get the frostblte out
of his pencil.
The wife of Senator Stanford receives
large begging mail, among which the
other day was letter from Texan gem
tleman who wanted $50 to get new set
of teeth.
Mr.. Nebeker, the new Treasurer of the
| United States, is short, stout man,
with a round and rather ford face
marked by a black mustache. He is
about 40 years old.
Lolita has been on the stage since 1856,
when she appeared before San Fran
cisco audience at the American theater.
Her fortune is estimated at between ST.
00O,00 and 100000.
The questionable honor of having his
bust displayed over the entrance to
"The Jolly Bacillus Cafe +" in Berlin has
been paid to DR.. Koch. This is having
greatness thrust upon him.
w. Burke Cochran, the great orator of
TammaAy Hall, now abroad, is a large
and commanding manner. Hewas once
clerk in A. I. Stewards store.
George Francis Train is as agile and
muscular as he was twenty years ago.
and the recent Italian complications
show that he can go through his mental
acrobatics with as much eclat as ever.
President Balmaceda of Chill is stern
and arbitrary man, with cold gray eyes,
thin lips and an angular chin. He pos
sesses more education and ability than
are usually found in a South American
dictator.
William H. Crane is said to have laid
away $500, 900. Neil Burgess is credited
with $l50,000, and Francis Wilson's
check would be good for $75, 900 over and
above his liabilities if he were foolish
enough to draw it.
Grant Allen, the English novelist and
essayist, is thin and intellectual-look-
ing man of As. His eyes are light blue
and his hair gray. He was born in Can
ada, but has passed the greater part of
his life in England.
Emperor William is said to be fond of
playing Caliph Haroun al Raschid by go
ing about disguised at night to certain
liquor shops and music halls where his
soldiers and sailors are to be found in
order to pick up criticisms on his army
and navy.
Prince Dolgorouki, the perennial ad-
mirer of Mrs. j. G. Aver and her mill
ions, is now at Monte Carlo, dividing his
time between the widow and the board
OF green cloth, upon which. it is said,
the croupiers are raking in big piles of
his napoleons.
Charles Stewart Parnell has brother,
John H., living in West Point, Ga. 1t
is surmised that his brother will be
wanted by the warike leader to stand
for election to Parliament from one of
the Irish constituencies before the next
general election.
Stanley took with him $4,000 as his
compensation for the 100 lectures deliv-
cred by him under the direction of Major
Pond between November II and April 4.
The receipts for the lectures, Major Pond
said, averaged $3.50, so that an aggre-
gate OF $3O5,S00 was taken in.
Archbishop Corrigan of New York is
IN receipt of voice message from Car
dinal Manning of London, which was
recorded by the monograph, the cvlin-
ders OF which were forwarded by steamer
and reproduced on the the instrument in
the Archblshop's library. reply mes
sage will be sent by the same means.
j. Rogers Maxwell, the designer of the
sloop Shamrock is big, strong and gem
tlemanly young fellow, as full of snap
and hire as dynamite cartridge, and he |
has plenty of money to foot his Yachting
bills without pinching any of his other
sporting pleasures. He recently sold 49,
900 600 OF Long Island railroad stock in
one deal.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland is said to be a
liberal purchaser of rare books. She has
a passion for unique bindings, and knows !
a genuine article from an imitation. She !
has a very finely bound and complete Sc
lection OF Spanish authors, and a BARGE
Iona edition 1868 of Cervantes is in
eluded among it. 1t is the only one of
this edition in the United States.
Sir Provo Wallis, English Admiral has
completed the Tooth year of his age and
the eighty-seventh in the British naval
service Americans feel a special inter
est IN him, because in 1873 he was a Sec
md Lieutenant on board the shannon
which captured the Chesapeake off Ros,
on .harbor; and, his two superior officers
having been killed in that action. il de-
VOWED on Wallis to take his prize to
Halifax. P'iNo "
CRIME AND CRIMINALS