Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-04-15
PERSONAL MENTION.
tricity - English Baronets are
Said to be Long-Lived.

Turgenief's brain is the largest one
ever weighed by scientists.
Carl Schurz is engaged in writing his
"reminiscences of Public Men and
Events"
George Alfred Townsend has gone to
Spain to get material for biography of
Columbus.
General Edward s. Bragg is small, Wig
orous, alert, able and bitter He has a
sharp tongue and an honest purpose.
I. Jefferson Coolidge, a wealthy mer-
chant of Boston, is prominently men,
toned in connection with the mission to
| France.
General Bullock, representative in
Congress from Florida, was Captain of
volunteers in the Indian war OF 1859
in Southern Florida.
Mrs. Edison, the wife of the man who
has applied the electric light to domestic
purposes, prefers candles to any other
form of household illumination.
Lucy Hooper says that Americans who
go to Paris forget all about the Salon and
the Institute and remember the Casino
de Paris and the Moulin Rouge.
Colonel Goodwin Austen SAYS the
Chogo glacier in the Himalayas is one of
the most beautiful in the world, 1t is
an almost impossible sea of ice waves
on edge.
The Hapsburgs are by far the richest
| among the reigning families of Europe.
The private fortune OF the Emperor of
Austria may be reckoned at about $lO,-
000, 900.
The houses occupied by three Con-
necticut Governors, Richard D. Hubbard,
Phineas Lounsbury and Morgan G.
Bulkelev, stand in a row on one street
in Hartford
One of the largest salaries received by
any man in this country is drawn by G.
A. Griscom, the chief of the Interna-
tional Navigation Company, who receives
$50, 900 year.
Ex-AttorneyGeneral Garland, who
has resided in Washington these three
years since he ceased to be part of Mr..
Cleveland's administration, is going back
now to Little Rock, Ark, to live.
English Baronets a'e long-lived. SIR
James Bacon is "a; Rev. John Warren
HAYES is %, and at a like age Admiral
Sir Lewis Tobias Jones is the senior of
the navy list and the oldest Knight of
the Bath.
The trial of Henri Rochefort for libel
ing the French Public Prosecutor re-
suited in verdict of guilty without ex-
tenuating circumstances. Rocheiort was
sentenced to one years imprisonment
and Delpierre, the publisher of L'Iatrnn-
siceont, to two months i'm prisonment.
while each was fined $500 francs.
Alphonse Daudet, the French Dickens
has just celebrated his silver wedding in
Paris. Both husband and wife write
the latter also copies all the great novel
lists manuscripts in order that the orig
lna copy may be kept sacred from the
printers.
Senator Stanford's wife has been such
a friend of the poor and oppressed that
a colored Baptist society in Washington
has changed its name from the Mount
Bethel to the Jane l.. Stanford BAPTIST
Church in her honor. In asking her
permission to do so the committee saws:
No pecuniary consideration actuates
our action"
The most remarkable railway robber
OF modern times, the gentleman bandit
OF romance, Athanasius, the Greek, who
has been living and practicing his 81 pro.
tesslon Tor years in the cold glare of
the last decade of the nineteenth GEN.
fury, has reformed and become gentle
man farmer in the famous Vale Of Lar
lssa. He raises orchids when he can.
and talks over mis- wine about the DAYS
when he raised purses.
John Stuart Mill has had to do with
causing new play to be suppressed ON
the Austrian stage. An ill-treated wife
lives with brutal husband for the sake
OF her child. The child dies, and the
wife, happening to read John Stuart
Mill on the subjugation of woman, con
eluded that she would be justified in
throwing off the matrimonial yoke, and
she leaves her husband and goes home.
Fart OF the dialogue has offended some
women in Vienna, and the Emperor
suppressed it.