Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-04-08
PERSONAL MENTION.
King Humbert of Italy to Visit Eng.
acknowledgements the Recipient
of Silver Wreath.

Ignatius Donnelly has ciphered out a
new theory about the grip. He thinks
it is caused by star dust through which
the earth passes.
President Harrison gets up his State
papers in legal and red-tape style, just
as II he was preparing briefs. They are
neat, compact and concise.
General Gourka, Governor General OF
Russian Poland, is a hale and vigorous
soldier of "a years, and he is not going
TO resign his place as has been reported.
The Car knows his value too well.
Rev. J. @. Schwerin, Congregational
ist minister, who died last week at Eau
Claire Wis.,, was noted hunter, and
was for many years generally considered
the best rifle shot in the Northwest.
The birthday anniversary of the EN-
peror OF Russia, who is AZ years of age,
is also the wedding anniversary of the
Prince OF Wales, who has now been the
husband OF the charming Princess Alex
andria for twenty nine years.
King Humbert's approaching visit to
England is said to be due to the graft
tude he feels when he recalls that Queen
Victoria was the fret OF the European
sovereigns to recognize the young king.
dom OF Italy thirty or more years ago.
The only survivor OF the brave band
Of Texan patriots who signed the DecIa-
ration of Texas Independence at Wash
ington on the Brazos river March 2, 1886,
is w. q. Crawford, who now at the age
,f 80 is living in restitution at Alvaredo.
Simon Newcomb, senior professor OF
mathematics in the United States Naval
Academy and professor of mathematics
and astronomy at Johns Hopkins Uni
yersity, has just received his diploma OF
election as an honorary member of the
Loyal Institute OF London.
Paderewski has been presented by his
Boston admirers with beautiful wreath
If laurel in silver. They were consider
ate enough not to insist that he should
wear it ss the Roman conquerors wore
theirs. They did not want to disarrange
his hair.
0berlin College has been enriched by
The will OF the late Julia Dickinson, a
Wealthy Michigan lady, with bequest
# $4,000, one-half of which will be
ised as an endowment iucd for a chair
# lady principal and the remainder for
he department OF physical culture for
women.
Prince Bismarck may flatter himself
hat he has thousands of admirers in
his country, but the fact that America
$ the only nation on earth that has not
contributed to his monument fund would
Indicate that German Americans are not
sery urgent in showing their respect for
lim.
The Empress of Germany is in the
nablt OF writing for few minutes daily
n her diary. Nobody ever sees the con-
enta of her diary-not even the EN-
oeror. At the close of the year a new
liary is opened, and the old one. which
las locked CLASH, is consigned to the
ron safe containing her Majesty's do
aestlc jewelry.
Nj. @. Creole, the owner of the Last
Chance and Monarch mines at the new
amp in Colorado that bears his name,
. native OF Illinois, who settled in
Colorado in 1870. He is man slightly
,boye medium height, lean and of
andy complexion, and is 90 years of age,
although he looks much younger. After
prospecting for twenty years all over the
state he now finds himself millionaire.
Some OF the wisest scholars delight in
he collection of pamphlets. Indeed
here are pamphlets which attracted lit
lie notice at the time OF their publica-
ion century ago that are now worth a
hundred times the price then asked for
them. DIR. Edward Everett Hale is one
4 the pamphlet collectors. He keeps
lis in series OF baskets suspended by
ope and pulley from the beams in the
ceiling OF his study.