Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-11-15
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS

huDIARD hIpLING keeps a rifle and a
decanter OF whisky in his sanctum.
RUSSELL B. HARRISON has been pro-
posed Tor membership in the New York
Press Club.
Gen. SHERMAN is said to know how to
snake hands better than any American
in public life
NO crowned monarch in Europe is
more difficult to get at for an interview
than Arthur Balfour, the chief secretary
for Ireland.
SENATOR LELAND STANFORD is under
stood to have spent a quarter of a mill
ION dollars on art during his recent Eu-
ropean trip.
ROSWELL ?. FLOWER boasts that he rep
resents in Congress district that is
rlcner than any state except New York
and Pennsylvania.
MISS ARNOLD has written to her friends
IN England, announcing that her father,
Sir Edwin Arnold, will shortly pay a
visit to Australia.
IT is feared in Washington that Gen.
Belknap's estate will prove to amount
to but very little. He was not thrifty,
and he was very generous.
MISS MILDRED FULLER, TIE daughter Of
the chief justice of the United States su-
Wallace, OF Tacoma, about January l.
SIR JOHN PULEsroN's younger daugh-
ter, Alice, who was born in the United
States while her father was partner of
Jay Cooke, will soon marry Francis CAT
ford Brnton.
WILLIAM L. SCOTT, of Erie, who has
been seriously i'll, is better, and his
daughter and other relatives think that
he will soon be entirely well. He has
concluded to sell all his race horses.
AS a farmer Mary Anderson is a fail
ure. Her expensive farm in Colorado
has been taken possession of by coyotes
and jack-rabbits. Her half brother was
her understudy in the role of farmer,
and she left him in charge; but he was
a failure, too.
JOHN HAcKLEY, who has given $780,
600 library building to Muskegon, Mich,
worked his way to that city twenty
years ago, poor boy, on a lumber YES
sci. He was determined to succeed, if
it was in the wood, and it was. He
made fortune in lumber.
THE latest of the society writer's is
Mrs. Ruth Dana Draper, who has a
pretty little story in one Of the Novem-
Der monthlies, Mrs. Draper is
daughter of Charles A. Dana and the
exceptionally clever and brilliant.
FRAULEIN MARIE EssIPoFF has re-
ceived as a wedding present from her
father, a wealthy Viennese merchant, a
| book which is said to be the costliest
volume in existence. The binding is Of
the richest fooled morocco, and each Of
the 100 leaves is bond of l 900 gulden.
Mrs. AUGUSTA +. STETsoN, of New
York, was formally ordained on Tues
day evening as pastor of the Church of
Christ or Christian Scientists. She is q
Boston lady, who has been preaching in
New York for the last three years. She
is the second woman who has been
thus honored, the other being Mrs.
Mary B. G. Eddy, the founder Of the
sect.
Mr.. M. G. MULHALL, the well-known
statistician, says that q good statlstlclan
should know three or four modern Ian
guages, possess an easylncome and good
digestion, be able to study eight hours
daily without sense of fatigue, have no
political tendencies, pursue his labors
regardless of all around him, and never
leave off any subject till he has worked
out the result.
THE health of young Mrs. Blaine is
mending very rapidly. She now goes
about with no other aid than that of a
cane. and she does not have to lean very
heavily even on this for support. Her
face has filled out so that her prettlness
much of which consisted of the plump
outlines and dimples-has returned,
and there is a decided improvement in
the cheerfulness of one Of the most
widely discussed invalids of the year.