Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-07-01
PURELY PERSONAL.
The Last Male Heir of Pulaski, the DIS
tinguished Pole of Revolutionary
Fame-king Malietoa.

Princess Louise will bring a party OF
prominent English ladies to WISH the
Worlds Fair next year.
Prof. Henry Shaler Williams, now OF
Cornell University, has been appointed
to fill the chair Of geology at Yale.
Lord Tennyson is said to have made
more money from the sale OF his verses
than any other poet who has ever lived.
Mrs. P. T. Barnum, widow OF the
Snowman, is annoyed by Bridgeport
crank, who thinks that she wants 10
marry him.
Prof. McMasters is at work on the
fourth volume OF his History OF me
American People" which will probably
be published in 1894.
George Fred Williams, the distin'
guished Massachusetts Congressman, is
the son OF German. Most people think
he is full b!ooded Yankee.
Mrs. Huggine, wife Of the English as
tronomer, is a most able assistant to her
husband in his astronomical lators, and
keeps record of his observations.
William Lloyd Garrison preached the
other day in one OF the largest churches
in Boston, and denounced the Chinese
exclusion act in no uncertain terms.
Mr.. Gladstone Ia strengthening him
self for prospective return to the Prime
Ministry by trying to prove in the Nine
tenth Century that Dante studied at
Oxford.
James Richard Cooke, graduated from
the Boston University school OF medi-
cine recently, is the first person totally
blind from infancy to receive degree as
a physician.
The last male heir OF Pulaski, the dis
tinguished Pole who aided the patriots
OF the Revolution, lives in Savannah,
Ca, where he earns scanty living ped
ding small wares.
Nine. Marchesi, who has long been
famous as a teacher of voc al music, never
takes pupils OF the sterner sex. She
says: "Teach men? Why, all the ten
ors would be marrying off my sopranos,
and | should not have a contralto left
after admitting baritonesp
Mr.. Blaine's cousin, j. w. Blaine, who
owns valuable copper mines in Canada
and is otherwise well to do, has 80 strong
a resemblance physically and facially to
the distinguished ex-Secretary OF State
that he is frequently mistaken for him.
j. w. Blaine is a Democrat.
The Wanamakers have four homes
the residence in Washington, one in
Philadelphia, cottage at Cape May
Point called the Lilemyn cottage from
the names OF the two daughters) and
Lindenhurst, a very fine residence and
estate. about fifteen miles from Phila-
delphia.
William H. Lackey, who died in Roam
oke, Va, recently, bore the colors of the
Fifty-second Virginia Infantry in thirty
six battles, and participated in thirteen
other engagements, without receiving a
scratch, though his flag was shot from
his hands several times and his clothing
pierced by bullets.
King Milietoa of Samoa is not paid
his salary ($25 week. with regularity
enough to keep him in easy financial
condition; so he has been having his
wives do washing for we'll to-do white
residents of Apia. If things do not i'm.
prove, the King will wash his hands Of
the whole royal business.
1t is recalled in Boston that Edwin
Booth was in that city the day after Lin
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down Washington street in the morning
without having read the papers or heard
the news. In a short time, however, he
was recognized, and an angry crowd fol-
lowed him, throwing missiles and be-
having 80 threateningly that he was
forced to seek refuge in drug store,
where he was concealed for time and
then let out through side door.
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From the collection OF works of art
which he has decided to sell Alexander
Dumas will reserve water color repre-
senting "Knight of the Middle Ages u
as a souvenir of famous billiard match
he once had with MISSIONER at Poissy.
The artist loved billiards, but was always
beaten by M. Dumas, who won on the
occasion referred to dozen pictures.
But, sympathizing with his vanquished
foe, the author allowed himself to be
beaten i'll another game, and eventually
only won the picture which he intends
to keep.
Jacob Gould Schurman, the new Pres
ldent OF Cornell, was clerk in village
store on Prince Edward Island when a
boy OF Ii. He studied hard at home,
and gained some scholarships in local
colleges, which enabled him to 60 to
London. In the university there he had
some famous teachers-James Marineau
in ethics, Jevons in logic and political
economy, Robertson in philosophy and
Henry Morley in English literature. He
studied afterward at Edin burgh, Heidel-
berg and Gottingen. He is few years
under 40 and remarkable as being an
other youthful college president.