Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-07-19
PURELY Personal.
Mrs. Langtry Makes a Winning at the
Ascot Raees-The Mad King of
Bavaria Vegetative.

Benjamin Harrison. Whitelaw Reid
and William Mckinley are graduates OF
little Miami University Of Ohio.
George M. Dallas, one Of the new
Judges OF the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals, has received from
Princeton College the degree OF Doctor
Of Laws.
Alexander Henry, inventor OF the Gel
ebrated Martin Henry rifle, used exclu-
sively in the British army, is Scotch
man by birth, and last month celebrated
his 74th birthday.
President Tuttle OF Wabash College
has retired from service after holding Of
flee thirty years. He has been on duty
all OF that time except two months, a
record not easily paralleled.
The late Senator Barbour of Virginia
lett the bulk OF his property, valued at
$4,000, to his sister-ln-law, Miss Ellen
Dalngerfield, who has been appointed
administrators OF the estate.
Mrs. Langtry won 20,00O at the Ascot
ras es. For years she has looked upon
the gold cup az an almost certain source
OF income, her choice OF horses in the
race being generally forunat
Marie Corelli is only the pen name Of
the writer whose works have won the
approval OF Queen Victoria. She is
daughter OF the late DR.. Charles Mackay,
and her name is Marion Mackay.
Pierre Millet, the brother of Jean
FRANCHISE Millet, is living in Boston. He
is sculptor OF great ability, but, like
his brother, is retiring and modest to an
unusual degree, and shrinks from noto'
riety.
Minister T. Jefferson Coolidge lives at
Coolidge Neck, Manchester, Mass, when
he Is at home in summer. Cornelius
Vanderbilt succeeds him there this sea
son, having taken a lease of Coolidge
Neck.
The Cologne Gazette says that the con-
dition of the mad King of Bavaria is now
merely vegetative; that he is unable to
distinguish persons in his familiar en-
tOurage, and that his attendants have the
greatest difficulty in getting him to take
food.
Minister Coolidge, as he appeared to
the eyes of the Paris correspondent of
the London News, sis white-haired, hale,
OF a strai ght carriage and direct man
ner. He strikes one as man of intel
lectual as well as business tastes and
pursuits"
When the little ten-year- old Crown
Prince OF Germany marched at the head
of his regiment during the recent mill
tary review at Potsdam no one applauded
him more heartily than the little Queen
of Holland, who stood at one of the pal
ace windows.
King Oscar of Sweden is a man of tall
and spare figure, with white hair and
beard. He enjoys excellent health.
When the King visited President Carnot
at the Elysee he wore the medal granted
him by the French government for
throwing himself before two horses that
were running away with carriage filled
with ladies.
The death of General K. S. Protitch,
one of the Regents of Servia, has al
ready been mentioned. When King
Milan abdicated in March, 1885, he read
his declaration before his Council OF
Ministers. knelt before his son and took
the oath of allegiance. This example was
followed by the three Regents, whom he
appointed. General Protitch had twice
been Minister OF War, and was great
favorite in the army. His age was So.