Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-07-18
PURELY PERSONAL.

William G. Todd, who recently gave
$4,000 to the Boston public library tc
support a newspaper reading room, is 7(
years old and graduate of Dartmouth
in the class of 1914.
I Mrs. Annie Moore, who has the repu.
tation of being the only woman Presi.
dent of national bank Mount Pleas
ant, Tex.), is described as darkroom
plexioned woman, with peculiarly brill
liant eyes and soft voice and gentle man
ners.
Robert Buchanan appears to be turn
| ing pessimist. He says of literature that
1T is one OF the least ennoblng of the
professions, and that he has mot met
one individual who has not deterior-
ated morally by the pursuit OF literary
fame"
Ex-Governor N. S. Berry of Bristol,
N. H., who. if he lives, will be 97 years
old on September next, is well and act
i've. His intellect continues strong and
clear. He reads and writes daily, and
keeps fully posted upon all of the impor-
tant occurrences of the day.
James Whtcomb Riley says that COM
position is a severe matter with him.
iIO ihahVS 81 histhy ialst SLdTLs, COTTeC-
| tions and erasures that he is ashamed to
let any one see his work until it is re-
copied. He modestly says that he isn't
at all proud of it even then.
The chief OF the interpreters at the
Worlds Fair, Charles A. Barry, is mas
ter of sixteen languages. He is Presi-
dent of the Columbia International AS
ISOLATION OF Interpreters, the MEM
bers of which are employed by exhibitors
TO talk to visitors in their own language.
Miss Winnie Davis, daughter of JEFF
ierson Davis, is in Chicago to see the
Worlds Fair as the guest OF Mrs. Sloco-
vich of New York. 1t is noted as a CO.
incidence that Mrs. Philip II. Sheridan
is visiting Chicago at the same time, and
that her hotel is only two blocks away
from Miss Davis. 1t is the intention of
their friends that the two women shall
soon meet.
General Averill, whose cavalry divi-
sion was famous during the war; is now
inspector of the national soldiers homes.
He was wounded three times during the
rebellion, but remained at the front I'M
til the end. His famous raid on Long
street was one OF the master strokes OF
viz Noi anu iNtViNCb duC lttOSIlltiOfl.
When Booth was playing Richard )"
in Chicago in 1879 mentally unbal-
anced spectator named Gray shot at the
actor twice from the gallery. One of the
bullets Mr.. Booth secured, and had it
set in gold cartridge, upon which he
had engraved the words: "From Mark
Gray to Edwin Booth, April %, 1879"
This grim reminder he always preserved.
General Longstreet lives in what is de-
scribed rs white-pine bandbox OF a
house" near the ruins of his fine old
mansion in Central Georgia, which was
burned few years ago. The house
he now occupies faces the Blue Mount
aims, and commands view of unsur-
passed beauty. The Confederate veteran
is now " years old and man of patri-
archal aspect.
The Duke of York and the Princess
May are going to set an example to
young couples starting in life. The royal
pair will keep house in little cottage at
Sandringham, which contains besides
three bedrooms only two small sitting
rooms and study or office for the use of
the Duke. 1t is simply fitted up with
light and inexpensive furniture, and is
altogether very modest dwelling.
Jesse NJ. Sparks of Tennessee has been
appointed Consul at Piedras Negras,
Mexico, and thereby hangs tale. Dur
ing President Cleveland's first admins
tration Major Sparks sent to the execu-
tive mansion three opossums, fat and
toothsome, from the Tennessee mount
aims. The President never forgot the
gift, and when Major Sparks was in
Washington last spring Mr. Cleveland
asked il the Tennesseean wouldn't like
to be Consul. The reply was in the
affirmative, and the appointment fol-
lowed. The opossums did the business.