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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-04-12

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After reaching maturity aud gaining
considerable knowledge Of vocal and in
strumental music he entered the orchestra
of Drury Lane as seventh violoncello, a
position from which he rose, year after
year, until he reached the principal desk,
to which he was appointed by Henry r.
Bishop. Crouch's voice had developed
with his physical growth and he studied
with William Halves, soon becoming a
chorister in the Abbey and st. Pau's I'M
der Thomas Atwood and finally astndent
in the Royal Academy of Music This ex-
perience eliminated in the honors of the
Philharmonic and Ancient concerts, the
Kings band, the Italian OPERA and in play
ing nightly in the presence of royalty.
At the time he composed kathleen Ma
vourneen" QS35) he was a recluse in his
chambers in Great ritchfeld street. A
lamentable marriage had terminated in
disgrace and separation. After placing
his daughters in foreign schools, he lived
hermit existence, except when engaged
at the music festivals or in occurring
throughout the United Kingdom, with
occasional visits to Ireland.
In 1S49 he came to America and in Port
land, Me-, first produced Rossini's "Stabat
Mater" In Philadelphia he gave Joseph
and His Brethren and Locke's music in
"Macbeth." In Washington he conducted
the choir of St. Matthew's church, am. in
1860 he was IN assistant in the musical
services of st. Pauls church, Richmond.
While at tie most successful point of his
varied career the civil war burst upon the
country, and influenced by his surround
ngs he joined the Richmond Howitzers
and served during the entire conflict as a
Confederate.
After Appomattox he trudged toward
Buckingham Court Houhe, resting at the
mansion of Tom Perkins, with whom he
found employment as farm laborer aud
gardener, gradually Developing into n
music teacher of the Misses Perkins and
other ladies in the vicinity. Later he re-
turned to Richmond wrote for Southern
Opinion, taught music, married the daugh-
ter of a poor farmer near Staunton, and in
1871 removed to Baltimore. In the early
spring OF 1888 Crouch was visited by a
stranger, James Roche, a paymaster's clerk
in the United States navy, who manifested
an enthusiastic interest," and stated his de-
sire to have legal measures taken by which
he could become the self adopted son of a
man whose plaintive music had thrilled a
world
To use Crouch's own language, ''the
legal forms were compiled with, and in that
relation he stands to ma to day. Father
and son are in constant correspondence
and the man of many trials now confines
himself to literary pursuits, composing
music and contemplating the muses., his
mind and creative faculties as fertile in
this, the last quarter of the Nineteenth
century, as they were in the first
-,
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Why Delianof Was Dcposed.

10 what extent panslavisln makes bold
TO beard the autocrat Of all the Russias il
SHOWN by book upon '"The Diplomates
OF Russia During the Nineteenth Cen
Jury, written by the former secretary of
LEGATION, Tatishtshef. The author under-
takes to prove, though only between the
INES, that the imperial house of Holsten-
Gottorp, which is the reigniny house of
Russia, is, to this day, clinging to its obso-
!ete German traditions, and unable to
identity itself with the grand historic coal
OF the Slavo-Rnssian empire. And the
then minister of education, Delianof
recommended the boot the libraries of
upper and middle schools as most com
mendAble reading for the better educated
youth OF the land No wonder indeed
that DelJanof was forced TO go.-Chicago
News ''NosV
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-04-12

In the Ukraine, Russia, the maiden is the
one that does all the counting When she
falls IN love with n man she goes to his house
and tells him he state of her feelings If he
reciprocates all is well, and formal marriage
is duly arranged, II, however, he is unwill-
Ing, she remains there, hoping to coax him
into better mind. The poor fellow cannot
treat her with the least discourtesy or turn
her out, for her friends would be sure to
ayenge the insult, His best chance, there
fore, II no is really determined that he won't,
is to leave his home and stay away ms long
us she is in it, This is certainly a peculiar
way of turning man out of house and home
On the lsthmus of purien either sex can do
the counting, with the natural result that al.
most everybody gets married There is not
quite the same chance where the girl has to
bide the notions of hesitating or bashful
swain, Exchange.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-04-12

Miss Curry Duke is the beautiful dnugh-
ter Of General Basil w. Duke, OF Confed.
crate fame, and niece Of the noted General
John Morgan. She IL the incarnation OF
music--a latter day edition OF st. Cecilia
whose soul is all a-tune with divine mar
monies The violin is her instrument, ana
the rare old Stradivarius that she loves
seems instinct with rhythmical emotions
In the embrace OF this slender chtld OF
genius. Miss Duke has been a favored
pupil of the great Joachim, In Berlin, Tor
several years.
She Is exquisitely pretty, with an appeal
ing childishness of expression. great lus.
trous brown eyes and skin like polished
ivory. She has been stepped in admiration
and adulation from her very babyhood,
and yet is unspoiled, ''unspotted from the
world" and almost sublimated by the
magic influence of her art
Favored two fold by the gods in rs high
a degree as those who have gone before is
Mrs. Alfred Cutting, the regaIly beautiful
wife of wealthy Cincinnatian, and
woman Of marvellous social power. I'm
PEELED by the force Of histrionic ability,
which she felt to be latent in her, she
has followed the lead OF her great ambi-
ton and devoted herself to the stage
throwing conventionality to the winds
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Modern coniurers and ,ragicians.

The public are very easily deceived in
the matter Of legerdemain, and mainly be.
cause they expect to be. The motion o.
the hand, of course, is about four times
quicker than the eye, but in many cases
it would be impossible to deceive were 1t
not that the spectator, looking for the re.
suit, fails entirely TO watch the hands OF
the prestidigitator. OF course, we use a
great many mechanical contriyanees, ana
have confederates even among The atal-
ence, but as rule the tricks which please
and rnystify most ere simple examples u
sleight of hand. The modern conjurers q
Europe now far surpass the so caiNa
magicians of the east. Many, il not I'osI,
of the stories told of japanese and CHINESE
mysteries are mythical In the coufse u
extended travels throughout eastern asa
| have never met a conjurcr whose trcAs
l could not duplicate, and in many casss
perform feats not even dreamed OF IN LAX.
country France furnishes the create.
number of mechanical contryanees y,
the performance Of fcats in mage 'la
Paris is undoubtedly the best school ~.
the training Of embryo masielails'
fessor Hermann in Globe-Democrah
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Lost His Dinner,

Mr. w A smith, III his ''Benderloch, I"
relaten tho following encountet between
largr earth WORM and cry hungry frog;
Tho frog mad repeated aai desperate
efforts to swallow The worm ly great
gnlps, the worm taking advantage u tho
periodically relaxed hold TO Withdraw its
already eugulied end ns far ms possible.
After u heightened struggle the half
suffocated frog had managed TO gorge
about one half this wrigging ana 81 fug.
Cling creature when the latter feaehed
tho stem OF u rosebush despite the siren
nous endeavor of the frog To, prevent IT,
NO sooner had the worm reached this
than, using ii as u poiut Of support, it
carefully and gradually wound itself
around II until IL succeeded In withdraw
ing rs Who'll length from the Giving
tomb" and coiling itself in safety round
the stem.
Froggy sat still for some seconds, dis
turbed in its mind and its interior, and
then hoped disconsolately away,
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hitting the nun. Eve a, nnu,,on.

Three years ago prominent citizen Of this
city, aud the owner of block OF buildings
on Main street, lost "A crowbar, aud up to this
morning never had any trace of il. He ncci.
dentally stepped into business place, aud
overhearing Il conversation about IA crowbar,
1t reminded him of his lost treasure, and for
fun he said to the proprietor; "uncle -,
wish you would send home my crowbar,
Isn't three years long enoughp Upon my
word and honor" said the proprietor, Il
have put out that crowbar no less than
twenty times to bring home, and have for,
gotten it each time. Here, John, you go up
to my house and bring Mr. Fs crowbar
home, and don't let the grass grow under
your feet,n No cne has sufficient vivid i'm
agitation TO picture to himself the surprise
of the owner Of the bar. He thinks il was
the biggest hit no ever made in his life.-
Danbury News
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-04-12

good many superstitious ideas are prev
alent In different localities with reference to
the robin. In some parts Of Scotland the
song of this interesting little bird is held to
augur no good for the sick person who hears
1t, and TO those superstitiously inclined much
anxiety is sometimes caused when its notes
are heard near house where any one hap
pens TO bejll. There is n legend connected
with the robin which have somewhere seen
IL Is said that far, far away there is a land of
woe, darkness, spirits OF evil and fire
Day by day does this little bird bear IN his
bill drop of water to qucnch the fame So
near tho burning stream does he fly that his
feathers are scorched, and hence he is named
bronphuddu (burnt breast). There is also a
legend which attributes his red breast to his
having tried to pluck II spike from the crown
OF thorns with which our Lords head was
encircled. Scottish American
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-04-12

In person Crouch is about ) feet inches
tall. stout and heavily built, weighing pos
sibly 100 pounds. He has coal black ewes.
With the sole exception of being slightly
deaf he bears no impress of old age. Until
a few years ago his hair and thick, long
mlstache were jet black. A physical
popularity is an ear with immense lower
lobe clinging close to the side of his head
lie lives at 220 ParlIin street, in section
that mas the nearest approach to tene-
ment house system in Baltimore. Four
times has he entered the connubal state
Cora Pearl, the notorious beauty of Paris
was daughter by his second marriage
and he has been the father of thirty-three
children. OF fully third OF these he has
no knowledge. By his last wife, who is
thirty-six years his junior, he has three
girls and two hoys, the eldest of which,
Joseph, is simple minded lad of nineteen.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-04-12

The Bank OF England doors are now so
finely balanced that clerk, by pressing a
knob under his desk, can close the outer
doors instantly, and they cannot he opened
again except by special process. This is
done 10 prevent the daring and ingenious
unemployed of the metropolis from rob
bing the bank, The bullion department
OF this and other banks are nightly sub
merged several feet in water by the action
of the machinery. In some banks the bnl-
lion department Is connected with the
managers sleeping room, and an entrance
cannot be effected without shooting bolt
In the dormitory, winch in turn sets IN
motion an alarm. II visitor during the
day should happen to knock oil one from
pile of half soyereigns the whole pile
would disappear, pool of water taking
Its place.-New York Sun
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-04-12

She was formerly Miss Catherine Cogswil,
of Minneapolis, a reigning belleand beauty,
and her public career is Il matter of no
small interest to those who have watched
the various phases of her life.
Endowed with graces mental and phys
ical, and with romantic career thrown
into the bargain, is lovely daughter OF
General John S. Mosby, the guerrilla
chieftain' of the war.
Miss Victoria Stuart Mosby is beautiful,
erratic gifted, charming. She has a fear
less picturesqueness in dress-an almost
masculine taste for ont of door sports. She
is an artist of ability and an author of no
small reputation Her contributions adorn
the pages of many leading publications.
She is brilliant and original CONVEX
sationist. Her features are as clear cut
as cameo, and her hair is like gold
brown aureole.
Miss Mosby has been before the public
of late rs the heroine of II sensational af-
fair, the hero being her lover, who was
accused of being one and the same with
Shoebox Miller, an eN-convct. Miss Mos
by is firmly convinced of the innocence of
her fiance, whom she met first mt the house
of Polish nobleman in Washington. She
has written some excellent stories on hyp-
notism.
One of the south's sweetest poets, and
one of its most far famed beauties, is Mrs
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a short time ago yuung lfttshurger who
happened to he In New York encountered
TIE captain OF Cunareler with whom he was
wei acquainted THE captain possesses liter
ally world wide fame, and brever or better
seainan does not breathe He had been often
invited to visit this city hefore-for he has
not only friends OF travel. but at least one
sch"olnate here--and the young pittsburger
begged him TO accompany him ON his return
bone But the old sea dog thanked him
kindly, but added Nothing could induce
me TO trust myself To railway train over
the Allegheny mountains No siri it's too
much Of risk for. uie to trust my bones on
such journey. Pittsburg Dispatch
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-04-12

A writer who believes in the department
of agriculture and in the value of i'm
proved methods of farming says
IA fine example of what science has
done for agriculture is found in the mat
ter of resting the soil by rotation of crops
1t took the world long time to find ont
that n change of crop, when properly
made, rests the soil as well as following; a
long time to learn that an increase of
live stock on farm, under certain condi-
tions, increases its fertility; a long time to
learn that artificial drainage warns and
lightens cold and heavy soils, advancing
the harvest by weeks and bringing the
subsoil to the support of the impoverished
surface, by which, as some one has said
we find new farm under the old. or as
Emerson graphically put it, BY drainage
we have gone to the subsoil, and we have
Concord under Concord, Middlesex un-
der MiddleseX and basement story of
Massachusetts more valuable than the
superstructure.' These things were not
learned by accident, but were demonstrat,
ed by the application of scientific princi-
ples -
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With her children. The laws of compensa
tion influence her every operation, and her
favors are melted out with ii nicely Of bal
ance in the appointments as general
rule, that would do credit even to the blind.
folded goddess herself
The commonesb and, alasl the most pa
thetic exempliication of this fact is the
apparent irreconcilabilty in the case of a
single individual OF beauty of person and
breadth OF brain power
II one is fair to look upon, the gods have
been gracious enough forsooth--let pro-
portionate wit be withheld and bestowed
upon some less well favored creature. In
tellectually endowed beyond his neighbor--
then grace of feature must needs be the
portion OF a fellow being of an inferior ca.
pacity. So nature ordains in most in
stances, and so the dctum must be &C
cepted. Great intellectual vigor and classic
regularity of feature are for the most part
Incompatible. Thought plows burrows
and lines and destroys grace and tender.
ness of contour. Mental force and activity
In any great degree Is wont to claim optical
recognition in more or less hysiognomic
distortion. "A face strictly in drawing and
adherng IN outline to the standard of the
Greeks is seldom face of purpose or
power. Brains for the most part hive
penalty to pay in an abstinence from
beauty.
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and essays combine to show her versatil-
ity.
Miss Enid Yandell. Of Louisville, is
one OF the noblest exemplars of the lavish
ness of natures favors when an exception
is needed to prove the rule of general equal
ity She is a fair girl of Just twenty two,
gracious and sweet in her manners aud
one of the bellies of the state She was the
queen of one OF the recent magnificent Sat
elites balls In Louisville
Miss Yandell has II genius for sculpture
that is giving her name and fame that
few women attain to. AT the age of three
her taste for the plastic art was developed
to such an extent that she modelled an
original sketch of Eve and the serpent
She accomplished four years course in
modelling in two years, and is making
rapid strides toward escelleuce Many
years of her young life have been devoted
To her studies abroad under the best mas
ters Louis Rebisso was her Instructor
for some time.
A gratifying distinction was conferred
upon Miss Yandell when she was selected
from many competitors To do the sculp-
tural work upon the roof garden of the
woman's building at the Wurld's fair. The
young artist is now busy upon foot
caryatid for the support of an upper railing
upon the ediiice. The architect of this
building Is also a young woman, Miss Hay
den, of Boston, All her pretty stationery
bears in tiny silver letters the legend, Enid
fandell, Sculptor" She has executed
many historic and classical groups
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-04-12

Nine. de Stael's phenomenal brillianc,
was inadequate to dissipate the shadow on
her life cast by her morbid yearning for
beauty and the love that is its accompani-
meDt. George Eliot, too, the master mind
OF the age among women, felt her life
robbed of half its meaning through lack
Of physical charm.
There are occasions, however, when
Dame Nature contradicts herself and is as
capricious MS the rest of her sex. Then her
masterpieces are accomplished. 1t was
doubtless in one of her whimsical moods
that she planned such woman as Amelie
Rives Chanler, who has been lowered with
considerably more than her share of coveted
attributes-beauty, talent money, position
and magnetism-whoh has been more talked
about and written about aud pictorially
delneated than any other half dozen young
American women. AT the home of her
girhood, Castle Hill, she is now the center
of brilliant company of social and liter
AIRY lights. A strong thing from her pen,
now only in manuscript, is adrama Henry
III, which will shortly appear,
Another notable young woman is Eliza
beth Bisland now Mrs. Wetmore Her
graphic and clever sketches of her flying
trip around the world, her verses, stories
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-04-12

Rosa Vertner Jeffrey, of Kentucky, whose
social and literary career has been thing
of marked brilliancy for years. Feted and
admired all her life, surrounded by luxury
and refinement, always the center of a Gull
tivated coterie, Mrs. Jeffrey has led an ex-
lstence almost idylic. She is marvelously
beautiful, with clearly chiseled features,
eyes like stars, complexion marbelille in
tint and texture and abundant hair that
falls about her wide brow in a wealth OF
natural curls now silvered. She has pub
lished book of tender rhythmcal poems
Mrs. Jeffrey is one of the most notable
representatives of genius and beauty conf
bned in all the southland Such women
as these, the douby lowered, are natures
luxuries-her holiday editions
DAISY FITZuUGH.
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He Got the Meal.

The tramp entered the DIAGONAL couns ,ls
He had on a long frock coat, fastened c''s s..
around his waist by a thorn, and IRON -.
flowing lap above oozed out the en'ls y.
much soiled handkerchief His closely NH w.
trousers, through numerous portals o. W.,
protrutled his interesting self, seeh'el " s5
without any dividing line into the saw rna
boot which respectively incased hls iees L.
deacons had time to note these le' ,,.,
ties before the stranger broke tne s''s tor
"Gentlemeu," he began, "your pa'u'.' IA
disturbing you, but am very s'N 'hs
paused after this announcement TO- huss III.
effect 81 went to the doctor, he 'oon ~ IA
tinued, land he gave me the piils-ssssh' ,, m
pills. and he held up to view s'i'',' 's @Ha
which he had in the palm of his manu- mi
said take the pills, three after eaen assi,t
would like very much to have sol's YOU
ance." "Well, why in thunder ao .tarns
take your pills, then, and not come o01 nSconr
herea' interposed a deacon, VINO WI ramp,
ing tired ''Gentlernep," replied Tue " ',ilIs.
with much JUNCTION, Il cannot taRe Jug Gan.
l have no meal" He got meal -''"H
cisco Argonaut.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-04-12

Railway engineers in Connecticut, ac-
cordinS to a New London paper, have ex.
perlenced much difficulty of late in run.
nlng their trains on time, lowing to the
tall OF leaves upon the tracks. The Housa.
tonic road has suffered most through the
long stretches of woodland which the road
passes 1t has been impossible for the sec.
tion hands on the different divisions to
Keep the tracks free from them. The re-
sun is that when the wheels of the locomo.
tive pass over them the sap from the leaves
makes the rails slippery, and the obstrnc-
elon Is as bad rs hail, snow or ice. IL is
even worse, as the leaves refuse to melt or
uDn "''''i uiiSi
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The Bible and Newspapers,

clergyman of South Norwalk, Conn.
recently preached a sermon in which he
compared the newspaper with the Bible.
Inc following passage is peculiarly strik-
ing; The Bibles criminal news does not
diHer much from that which we may read
tomorrow, 1t contains no display head
ihes, yet 1t records i'll the same realistic
way a murder, such ms that of Abel, or a
SUICIDE IKE that of Samson, or Anime
iecii, or saul, or Saufs armor bearer or
Ahi'hophel. Narratives OF thefts and rob
berries are scattered through lis pages, ac-
counts OF family quarrels and separations
Tor cause. h-Chicago Herald.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-04-12

A crossed woman is nearly as dangerous as
q crossed electric wire
Many man has cast shadow on bis life
by standing in his own light
The convicted criminal is never allowed to
hurry himself He must take his time
The collapse of real estate boom only
means that the wind has been taken out Of
the sales.
A new merchant starting business in a new
house has formed new sign board 1t reads
"Esculent Repository" The esculent reposi-
tory is nothing but grocery store. Toronto
Globe
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-04-12

me lingering idea that the Arab horse.
nut for his inches, would be better thon
ms English brother, grows mora purclv
romantic every year. A contest occurred
recently in Cairo between an Arab of
recognized superiority and an Eprlisb
mare, the latter carrying fourteen pounds
more weight, both of exactly the same
height, and the Oriental champion. nj.
though he had been first in the betting
was beaten out of sight. Thus do tLe
oaseless fancics of the Imagination fade
away.--New York Sun. '''u'
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-04-12

1t is curious TO note that according to
Thomas Dilworthy's ''Guide to the Eng
llsh Tongue" which was accepted as a
standard in pronunciation by polite Eng
lish society OF a century ago, the vowel
sounds in file are foil, bile and boil were
pronounced alike, as also were those in
tour and tower, are and air, dew and do
Chicago Herald.