Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-11-18
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. W
Moody and Sankey are said to have
received " 100000 in royalties from
their gospel hymns.
Prof. James Hall, the New York State
dent devotee Of science, is so years of
age.
j. ]. Coleman, head OF the great mus
tard firm, is to be raised to the peerage.
AT present he is mustered in the House
OF Commons.
Miss Louise Imogen Quincy has been
voted sl00 by the Aldermen OF Boston
Tor poem in commemoration OF General
William 7. 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, q kind OF large
either. 1t is an instrument which is
much played and very popular in Japan.
Archbishop Vaughan OF London was
soldier in the Crimean war, and could
handle the sword as a brave officer be-
fore he took to the canons of the church.
General Richter, confidential secretary
and adviser OF the Russian Emperor. is
a German by birth and a very deyout
Lutheran. He has been seriously i'll
lately.
MIR. 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 Ingelow
for poet laureate Of England, although
she evinces no hope that such will be
the Queen's-or Mr.. Gladstones-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 a man to read verse from the
Bible and verse from Shakespeare
daily. for" said he, lone will teach
you how to 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- |
and although 1t has been re-
ported that he had already gone to Mem |
tone, he was still lingering In his chat
eau in the department Of the Loire .
few days ago.
An Indiana bandmaster named John |
Nunns, well-known in Jefiersonville, ia |
direct descendant OF Pedro Nunex. the |
Portuguese gecgrapher and friend OF Co |
Iumbus. He once possessed consider
able fortune, and his career has been
one OF remarkable vicissitude. ranging
rom service in the Crimea and In the
Sepoy rebellion to screen manufacturing
ut Peekskill.
New proof OF the abiding popularity
d Rabelais is given by the recent assem-
bly, OF the seventh conp ress of Rabelais-
ANS at Tours in France. The congress
asted Tor two days, and many papers on
Rabeiais and his works were read. Then
here WAS regular Gsrgantuan banquet
1t Chinon, the satirist's birthplace. and
visits were made to all the places he had
Irequented in youth.
Mr.. Ingalls, notoriety as politician
mas obscured from public view his at
Iainments as poet. In his youth he
wrote verses, and many of his poems.
some OF them still in MANUSCRIPT and
imprinted, are preserved by friends in
Kansas. Such of his verses as saw the
light OF publication were printed in local
newspapers anonymously or with an nm
recognizable nom de plume attached.