Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-01-10
GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE

MIR. CLEVELAND has lost seyenty-fye
pounds In weight, but he could well
spare 1t and is more robust than ever.
JAY GOULD is having his portrait
painted by a French artist. It is said
that hels remarkably quiet subject.
AUNT PATTY RICHARDSON. of Bethel
w. III years of age, is called the last
survivor OF revolutionary widows of SOL
diers.
nj RS. BLAINE is the tallest of the ladies
OF the Cabinet and Mrs. Noble the
shortest, the latter being only 5 feet in
height. -
BJoRNsrERNE BJoRNsoN, the Norwegian
author, has gone to Berlin to preach
disarmament to-the young Emperor OF
Germany.
JOSEPH H. CHoATE, Robert G. Inger-
soil and Ben Butler are reported to make
from $4,000 to $l25, OO0a year each from
their law practice.
CHARLES NoRDHoFF, the veteran news
paper man and guidebook genius, who
spent quite portion of last winter in
Boston, IS now at San Diego, Cal.
MRS. MARSHALL O. ROBERTS, who lives
now IN Spencer House, London, is said
to receive as many offers of marriage as
any widow in the British metropolis.
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN has put the fin
lshlng touches to his grand opera,
"lvanhoe, and it will be produced at
DOyly Carte's new theater.
NAPOLEON BoNAPARrE dictated and
afterwards signed his love letters to
Josephlne-a somewhat formal method
OF loye-making, surely.
SENATOR NJ. S. Quay is spending the
holidays at his home in Beaver, Pa,
but declines to talk politics or discuss
matters now before Congress.
LEO Kill, who is an able financier,
has already accumulated considerable
amount of money, which is invested in
foreign stock and deposited in foreign
a reserve fund for the interests of the
church.
VICTOR EMANUEL, the heir-apparent
tious title while travelling in Russia and
Germany not long ago. The title hap
pened to belong by heredity to an i'm
pecunious Italian, who has now sued
the Prince for compensation for its use.
IT is related of Queen Elizabeth that
it was her delight to tantallZe her cOur-
tiers during the Christmas season by
donning ali unusually stiff and wide
ruff and standing under the mistletoe.
1t was upon one of these occasions
that, Bacon having remarked that it was
pretty ruff on the Queen, Shakes
peare replied that it was ''also pretty
rough On the court
The notable Russian Nihilist, who is
known throughout Europe under the
pseudonym Of Stepniak, is a Slav in the
prime of life, and formerly was distin-
guished in the higher ranks of the Rus
sian Empire under the title of nobility,
which he inherited. His movements
are constantly watched by the agents Of
the Russian police, and he lives in dan
ger all the time.
|. STRAUSS recently suffered a severe
loss. The third act OF his new opera,
"Ritten Pazman," disappeared in a
most unaccountable way. The opera
was complete, and about to be given
over to the artists, and the composer,
before he had left his country house Tor
town, thought he had locked it safely IN
a cabinet, but it can be found nowhere.
Sometime ago the composer gave heap
Of old manuscript to his valet to be
burnt, and he now fears the third act
was in that heap.
THoUGH Mr.. Surgeons sermons do
not profess to be profound, and though
tNeir freshness is III the illustration and
tie ''setting" rather than In the thought,
they are as compact and coherent as
the most systematic mind could desire.
The direct preparation only takes a few
Unconstitutional it must be remembered
that in another sense all the preacher
life has been a preparation--and moth
ing is committed to paper beyond the
'beads," which fill half sheet Of note
mar