Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-08-01
PURELY PERSONAL.

queen Victoria is, it is said, especial
skilled in making omelets, while tn
r rrlncess OF Wales excels in making tie
and buttered toast.
Mrs. Ormiston Chant, the well-knovr
preacher, says she has officiated il
churches OF all denominations excen
the Church OF England and the Romal
Catholic Church.
, Miss Roalfe Cox of the English Foil
Lore society has made the interesting
discovery that the story of Cinderell,
mas been told in 345 different WAYS. an,
that it appears in the Oldest literatnr
OF Egypt and India.
Senator Stewart is visiting Mexico +,
look after the working OF his silver min,
at Iacatacas. Before returning to Wash
ihgton In the late autumn his family will
make an extended Western trip, includ.
ing stay at the Worlds Fair.
Queen Christina of Spain believes that
children could be much better and easier
managed II each mother were allowed
70 punish not her own, but her neigh
oors children. If instead of punish y
the word correct were substituted. the
notion would not be half bad.
kotaro Sakura, paymaster of the Ian.
ahese navy, who is now in Chicago. is
on his way to England, where he will
take charge OF new war vessel built nv
British firm for the Mikado. Mr.. Sa
Nura VIII at once convey the vessel to
ioklo, where it will be placed in COM
mission.
When Queen Victoria left Florence
she reloiced the heart of at least ono
woman. Lady Colnaghi, the wife of the
British Consul, was presented bv her
with bracelet bearing in blue enamel
her initial and the motto "Honi soft oui
NAL pense." '''' qu'
George Vanderbilt has bought 90 O0O
acres more of land in the "Pinle
Beds district of North Carolina near
Ashvllle and near the residence of BiIl
Nye. Mr.. Vanderbilt will establish on
ms new purchase the most complete and |
extensive game preserves in the United |
states II Mr.. Nye can be kept off the |
premises. The Vanderbilts now own
oo,ooo acres IN North Carolina.
Henry II. Faxon of Quincy. Mass
the implacable foe OF LIQUOR seliing ba,
s,omplled with the Bay State law AMI
lleu with the Secretary of State his ac-
cunt OF legislative expenses. TIE
mount is 5000; there are two iten,s
my ana one reads: "For distribnting
literature calculated to influence tho st,,
nd, impracticable and cowardlv Ieo;s-
AZURE to repeal or radically amend the
'osurd drunk law of 1891, $3.50" WY
Uncle Henry Martin, for forty ,ro
ears the college janitor OF the Univer. t
ity OF virginia, claims to be a Iineal do
cendant of Jefferson, the founder of H. G
University. Though he cannot read ana i
irlte' he explains to visitors the greet t
'cture, The School of Athens y IN ~
uolic hall, naming without a mista ,i'e p
ne ureek sages therein depicted from
iato TO Diogenes. He knows all ahort
ne library, it is said, and its fine nor' !,
rats and statues. Por' y
}. d. Garrison and w. ]. O,Coprou % r,
ne international railway survey hava p
ist returned to Washington after az, nine c,
resting expedition into Central a III d
ou'h America on the work of the snri
~; they have been gone since Anil n
'ol, and have traversed the co mptil, y
ON Ecuador north through Colo,nh;ay \! X
le lsthmus of Panama and Costa PA, u
san Jose, with an alternate rom,a t "a OF
arthaeena, Colombia. They renort ,h W ~ u.
Die expense. a. feasoh- nc
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