The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-11-05
PURELY PERSONAL.
The Clay Model of the Statue of General
George B. Mcclellan Scrutinized
by the Vice-Presiient.

The Duke of Edinburgh is COMPOSING
music to libretto by Carmen sylvia.
| Ex-senator Plat once led the yillas
choir, and was considered q fair SINCE
by the church members.
Mr.. Cleveland's Buzzard's Bay resi-
dence, Gray Gables, is for sale. 1t i
stated that Mr.. Cleveland will agai,
make his summer home at Marion.
One OF the best portrait painters o
Boston is a woman, Mrs. Phoebe Picker
ing Jenks, who devotes herself excIu
avely to the portraits OF women an,
children.
Mrs. Martha A. Hogan, Mrs. Mary A
Fassett and Mrs. Sarah A. Fassett. trip
lets, were present at celebration a
Waltham, Mass, the other day. They
are SO years old.
Mary A. Dickens, daughter of Charlie,
Dickens, Jr., who was for a time on Nh.
stage, is now in literature, and contrib
utee TO the journal that her father edit,
and which her illustrious grandfather
once carried on.
The clay model of the statue OF Gen.
ersl George B. Mcclellan, which is to be
erected in Philadelphia, has been scru.
tinized by Vice-President Morton and
Major Mcclellan, brother of Little
Mac, and they regard the likeness ex.
cellent.
Boatswain John c. Thorn pson, U. s,
~. who has been attached to the Brook.
Ign navy yard for the last fifteen years
has been placed on the retired list.
boatswain Thompson is a veteran of the
Mexican war, and has seen fifteen wears
OF active service.
The Pope is new in his SD year. and
in Paris Field Marshal Canrobert is a.
and Marshal Mcmahon, who il still
straight as q dart and retaining a mag.
nihcent seat in his saddle, is So. Kos
suth, the Hungarian patriot, has inst
celebrated his Goth birthday. Prince
Camille Rohan has recently died at the
age OF 90, and the same can be sad nj
the late Earl OF Essex.
Prof. E. n. Horsford OF CAMBRIDGE
the great believer in Ericsson az the trns
discoverer OF America, has received from
the King of Denmark the decoration of
knight of the Royal Order of Dame
prog. This is . very ancient order of
was founded in the mid
die ages-reserved for a score or two per-
sons OF distinction.
Edward Blake, the eminent Canadian
Liberal who was recently elected mem
Der OF Parliament, has been invited To
talk on home rule in Boston at an eaylv
late. Alanson w. Beard, William =
Barrett, Rev. Stopford Brooke, Nayor
and other prominent Boston-
ans, in addition TO leading Irish Amer.
cans, signed the request.
The late N Popop -,ox. . ....
Der OF personal letters from civiIity
'ather than inclination and often with
yreat trouble. He was averse to non
md ink conversations. He hardly ever
iropped an epistle into a letter boz
Without wishing he had no. penned II
md he often fell asleep when engaged
n private correspondence.
Rev. DIR. Parkhurst of Trinity N. F..
Charlestown, Mass, delivered |
" ADDRESS the other Sunday night, in |
vhich he assailed the character Of the
llscoverer OF America DIR. Parkhurst
Ienounced Colum bus as liar and seeker
tier gold, and said that, although Co
ombus protested IN he profoundly reli-
ious, he was at heart very bad man,
The Sultan Of Turkey has conferred
pom Mrs. Elliot I, daughter Of Sir Glare
ord, the British Ambassador at Con-
the Order Of 81 efkakat, sec-
nd class. This decoration has been
rea ed by Sultan Abdul Hsmid, and IL
estowed on ladies Of distinction.
Some three or four months ago Baron
iirsch distributed all his earnings on
he turf for the previous year, amount
~ TO 1900, among deserving English
harities. He has since accumulated
'esh profits from the races won by his
orse', and he intimstes that a further
I'm OF 100000 will be available for ,
naritable purposes at the beginning Of
S0j.