Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-07-22
PURELY PERSONAL.
General Booth Delegates Another Son to
Assist in the Work of the Saliva
ton Army in America.

Justin Mccarthy once INDUCED in
writing poetry. He reformed, however,
before entering into politics.
Emin Pasha has had more obituary
notices written about him than any
other traveller. And he loves to read
them.
Nine. Emma Nevada, the singer, is
making successful tour OF Spain, and is
being received everywhere with almost
regal honors.
Marshall P. Wilder Gays that one Of
the strangest things OF his entertain
ment business in England is the custom
prevailing among managers Of paying
him in advance.
Prince Ferdinand OF Bulgaria is deeply
interested in ornithology, and devotes
much time to the pursuit Of that science.
He Is q member OF the Ornithological
Society of Vienna.
The eye cures OF the oculist Grand
Duke Theodore have attracted crowds Of
sufferers to Moran this year. Several
hundred patients seek the Grand Dukes
assistance every day, and he is aided in
his charitable labors by his vile and
children.
Governor Russell rides in on his horse
every morning from his home in Cam
bridge to the State House in Boston, a
distance OF about three miles, and takes
his seat at his desk, booted and spurred,
for the transaction of the mornings Of
fetal business.
Paderewski is spending few days in
Paris, having left London over week
,vrko 30 -, kh<,
British capital before October. Mean
time he will after short stay in the
French capital 60 to some of the Euro
pean watering places.
Horatio Greenough's widow has be-
queathed to the Boston museum all thu
examples of her husbands sculptures
that remained in her possession, which
were numerous. They had been loaned
to the museum more than once. Among
them are busts of John Adams and John
Quincy Adams.
Ballington Booth, Commander OF the
Salvation Army in the United States, is
to have reinforcements, and from the
membership of his own family. His
brother, Commander Herbert I'll. Booth,
has been delegated by their father to
come to this country before long to as
sist in the work of the organization.
Henry George believes that writers'
paralysis or cramp comes from the use
of steel pens. "Who ever heard of it
in the days OF the quill penf he asks.
Mr.. George himself, like Mr.. Howells
and other up.to-date literary men, uses
a typewriter to compose with.
Bourke Cochran, who made the most
eloquent speech OF the Chicago conven-
ton, is an Irishman. He is short and
stout, and has massive head. He is
one Of the leading lawyers of New York,
but, having married a rich wife, is now
devoting himself to politics. He is serv-
ing his second term in Congress.
You may pronounce Mr.. Stevenson's
given name as Ad-lay, Ad-lye or Ad-lay-
eye, as you please, for it is a case where
everything goes. The two last. mentioned
pronunciations have the sanction of the
and the first of native Hi
noisans, who consistently pronounce the
syllable "ai" in Adlai as they do in
Cairo.
Ex-King Milan lives in some style in
a fine house on the fashionable avenue
du Bots de Bologne in Paris. He is
known in his exile as the Count de Ia.
kova, and though there is not much left
Of the glitter of royalty about him, he
still has around him a circle of friends
who show no signs of dropping away
while the fallen monarch's money lasts.
A young Memphis bride, Mrs. P. B.
Coate, recently accomplished the feat of
climbing to the very top of Mount Vesu-
vius and looking down into the crater.
She is the second American woman to
attempt this hazardous undertaking sue
cesslully. Mrs. Coate was born Blanche
Steele, and was married only few weeks
ago after her graduation from St. Mary's
school in Memphis. She is but 20 years
Did, and is said to be very pretty