Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-09-29
PURELY PERSONAL.

Mark Twain's daughter. Miss Glars
Clemens, has written play. 1t is allie
gorical in character.
John Addingtou Symonds, the English
essayist and writer on art, died rich. He
left an estate valued at f75, 2S6, most OF
which, however, came to him by bequest
Bret Harte cannot work except in Sc
ciusion, and when he is busy on a story
he will hide himself away in some sub
urban retreat known only to his closest
friends.
Prof. Heinrich Kiehert, the eminent
geographer and author of the best exist
ing ancient atlas, has just celebrated his
10th birthday at Berlin. He is in excel
lent health.
Sir Arthur Sullivan, the song writer.
Is short-necked, thick-set, beetle
proved man, with curly black hair, mus
tache and side whiskers, and is some
what stilted as to manner.
Bishop John p. Newman of the Meth
odist Church, who has been visiting the
missions in South America, has been alb
sent about four months, and his tour has
covered about 1900 miles.
Prof. Charles Carroll Everett of the
Harvard divinity school will represent
the university ut the ceremonies attend
ing the opening of Manchester's new col
lege, Oxford. 1t takes place in October.
The full-sized model for the equestrian
statue OF the late Emperor William of
Germany is just completed. He is shown
mounted on charger led by an angel of
peace. The casting in bronze will take
| over q year.
| Associate Justice Charles Z. Fenner of
the supreme Court of Louisiana has ten
dered his resignation, being DESTROYS of
resuming the practice of law, which is
at once more remuuerative and in some
ways more congenial to his tastes.
Ex-Congressman John Cessna of Penn
sylvania has been present at every com
mencement of Franklin and Marshall
college since he was graduated there in
lS42, and he has missed attending but
two sessions of the Supreme Court of
PENNSYLVANIA in forty-ive years. He is
now y years old.
Jenny Lind's private car was one Of
the first to be used in this country, and
in the days when she was singing here
1t attracted a great deal of attention. II
was only an ordinary car, which she
hired, and from which she had the seats
removed, lifting it up with her own lux
urlous nousehoiu furniture.
DIR. Diefenbach is Bayarian painter
who refuses to wear modern clothes, and |
prowls about the streets OF Munich in A
sort OF toga. He is coming to this conn |
try with the hopes of converting num- |
Der of Americans to his ideas, and ex- |
poets to establish a sort of colony. of
which he shall be the head.
Lady Tryon, widow OF the late Adj.
mirai, has refused the government pen
SION OF $1,000, which Admirals' widows
always receive. She is aware of the re-
sponslbility of her husband Tor the Vie
toria disaster, and is unwilling to be a
beneficiary of the governments bounty
under such circumstances. The Admiral
was Lieutenant when she married him.
The dean of the London Lyceum Com
pany and the oldest actor on the stage is
Henry I'll. Howe, white-haired. hale
man OF 50 years. All close readers of
theatrical melange know something OF
nun. Though an old man. he has i'm re-
cent years taken the part of a gay gal
ant In many Shakespearean and other
plays He has been on the stage for
sixty years, and was a protege Of the
sreat Macresdy and Charles Kean. and
las been with Henry Irving for ten