The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-11-12
PURELY PERSONAL.
The Confidential Secretary and Adviser
of the Russian Emperor a Ger
man and Lutheran.

Guy de Maupassant, the famous
French story writer, is out of the lunacy
hospital.
Moody and sankey are said to have
received N,2O,0OO in royalties from
their gospel hymns.
Prof.. James Hall, the New York State
Geologist, who is still an active and ar
dent devotee OF science, is 50 years oil
age.
J. J. Coleman, head OF the great mus
tard firm, is to be raised to the peerage.
At present ne is mustered in the House
OF Commons.
Miss Louise Imogen Quincy has been
voted 800 by the Aldermen OF Boston
Tor poem in commemoration OF General
William T. Sherman.
Collecting old china is Miss Braddon's
hobby, and in her house at Richmond
near London she has a series OF we'll
stocked china cabinets.
The Empress OF Japan 10 an adept
performer on the koto, a kind of large
either. 1t is an instrument which IL
much played and very popular in Japan.
archbishop Vaughan OF London was
soldier in the Crimean war, and coold
handle the sword as q brave officer be-
fore he took to the canons OF the church.
| General'Richter, confidential secretary
and adviser OF the Russian Emperor is
German by birth and a very deyout
Lutheran. He has been seriously ill
lately.
Mr.. Gladstone says that the four au-
thors who have had the greatest infiu.
ence in the formation OF his mind are
Dante, Aristotle, Bishop Butler and ST.
Augustine.
Miss Frances willard, the prohibition
lecturer, strongly advocates Jean Inyelov
for poet laureate Of England, although
she evinces no hope that such will be
the clneen's-or Mr.. Gladstone's-choice.
Mrs. Harrison's portrait, TO be painted
by an artist not yet selected, has been
provided for by the Daughters OF the |
American Revolution in Washington.
and will be sent to adorn the gallery in |
the White House.
Tennyson is credited with once having
advised man to read verse from the |
Bible and verse from Shakespeare
daily. for" said he, lone will teach
You how 10 speak to God and the other
how TO address your fellows"
Marshal MacMahon, sx-President OF
france, is now "a years Of age Although
By his physicians to spend the
colder months somewhere on the Medi-
,erranean, and although it has been re-
ported that he had already gone to Men.
one, he was still lingering in his chat
EAU in the department OF the Loire Q
ew days ago.
An Indiana bandmaster named John
Sunns, wel'-known in Jefferson vile, il
direct descendant Of Pedro Nunez, the
Portugese gee grapher and friend OF Co {
um bus. He once possessed a consider
'ble fortune, and his career has been c
me OF remarkable vicissitude, ranging
rom service in the Crimea and In the q
'epoy rebellion TO screen manufacturing I
It Peekskill.
New proof OF the abiding popularity @
y Rabelais is given by the recent Assem-.
'ly OF the seventh con ress of Ratela;..
ans at Tours in France. The conyress h
ssted Tor two days, and many papers on q
saoelais and his works were read. Then /
here was regular Gargan,uan banquet 4
I Chinon, the satirist's birth place, and s
lists were made TO all the places he had Il
in youth.
Mr.. Ingalls, notoriety as a politician ii
as obscured from public view his At. ID
as poet. In his youth he c,
rote verses, and many OF his poems. s
oms OF them still in MANUSCRIPT and 81
Imprinted, are preserved by friends in n
.ansas. Such OF his verses az saw the a
ght OF publication were printed in local Of
ewspapers anonymously or with an nm 6,
'cognizsble nom de plume attached. In