Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-03-04
PERSONAL MENTION.
The Noble Old Roman Suffering From
Rheumatism-Wondeful Power
of Pasteur's Eye.

Judge Thurman suffers so from rheu-
matism that he can hardly get aoou;
The Old Roman says his legs are praclii,
cally OF no account except to acne aii
the time.
Rev. T.. j. Hardy, author OF - How 10
he Happy Though Married." IL now
serving as an army chaplain in Plymouth,
england. His wife is first cousin Oh
Oscar Wilde.
Mrs. Catherine Standish, a lineal de-
scendant of Lord Standish, an Irish peer
raised to the peerage in 1910 by the then
English King, died recently at Birming
ham. Conn, in abject poverty.
Rudyard Kipling will be in this coun-
try in the spring, and reporters are now
going into training to get at him., Con
sidering that he will be well guarded py
his wife, his mother-in- law and his wlie,s
sister, 1t looks as if the boys had hard
assignment to face.
In recent article on Cromwell the
London Spectator says: "There is no
other name in the long and splendid
history OF our race, unless 1T be that OF
Lincoln, which can claim more respect
for wisdom, for true patriotism, Tor dutl-
fulness in its highest sense"
Rev. Robert Laird Collier once said
that when he first saw Spurgeon preach
he was grievously disappointed. The
matter OF the sermon seemed to him
dull and at times hippant, and the man
ner OF its delivery dreary when not I'M
pleasantly aggressive. The great preach
er's prayer especially seemed Extensively
familiar.
Prince Victor Emmanuel, heir to the
Italian crown, is one OF the handsomest
and most accomplished men of his sta
ton in life. Although nearly 80 years
OF age and widely travelled, he is yet I'M
married. He is liberal in his political
views, yersed in several languages, ami
able and intellectual, and generally and
Justly beloved.
Mrs. Stowe has been credited with
having done much to bring the blood
hound into disrepute in her Uncle
Toms Cabin" but a reader who recently
| perused that remarkable book to dis
cover lust what the author really did
write about those maligned plantation
dogs says that there is but one reference
to bloodhounds in the entire story.
Pasteur has an eye Of wonderful power.
A visitor to his menagerie in Paris,
where he has gathered various kinds OF
animals for experimental uses, saw the
chemist quell with glance fierce
Spanish mastif, which for his ferocity
had been muzzled and chained.
Ex-Governor Thomas II. Crittenden OF
Missouri was recently in Washington,
where his handsome face and white hair
attracted much complimentary notice.
The Ex-Governor has done some famous
deeds in his day, but none that brought
him more celebrity than did the kiss he
once gave Patti.
The Princess Isabella will be pleased
to know that the Brazilian government
has suspended the effort to confiscate
the property owned by her and other
members OF the late imperial family-a
confscation which was admittedly too
cheese. pairing in its scope to add to the
dignity of great Republic.
Spurgeon, like Grant, loved good
cigar, and he smoked almost as many as
the General did. The great preacher
was man OF curious ply sique. He was
short and fat, or OF "portly habit" as
| btiC bOtbclo say LII az
tire he looked more like country squire
than a famous metropolitan minister.
Commodore Montgomery of Confeder-
ate naval fame, and later popular cap
tain OF river steamers, says that the
most interesting cargo his boat ever car
ried was that which comprised the re-
mains of the men who fell at the mas
sacre of the Little Big Horn. There
were twenty-seven collins, the dead in
each wrapped in an army blanket, and
most conspicuous among them all was
the body OF Custer.
Carl Schurz was recently made an
honorary member of new German So
ciety, the Rhinelander, of Chicago, and
he accepted the compliment and ex-
pressed approval of the intention of the
organization to assist in welcoming Wis
itors to the Worlds Fair from the Fa-
therland. But at still later meeting
when the Socialist element was ort in
full force, the club reconsdered the res
olution and withdrew the honor.