Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-18
PERTINENT PERSONALITIES.

Miss ELEANOR BALDWIN, who gradual
ed from the Harvard Annex In the class
of'92, has been appointed to teach liter
ature and composition in the new En-
glish High School in Worcester. Miss
Ba dwin is the daughter of John S.
Baldwin, of the Worcester Spy.
Mrs. H. J. LANGDoN, of Lassen Coun-
ty, CAL, owns stage line out there.
''She is as good Judge of stock as any
man in the stage business. She knows
also the opportune moment when to
grease wagon, Oil harness, and gener-
ally to keep in touch with the stage
business, SO as to make it successful"
RICHARD STRAUSS, the young German
composer and conductor, is GONZALES
cent at Reichenhall, in Upper Bavaria,
near Salzburg. He is at work there on
his opera Guntram, OF which the first
act is said to be finished.
How many persons know that Henry
lrv1ng's real name Is John Henry
Brodribb? Mrs l.. B. Walford, in the
London letter to The Critic, writes that
she came across the name on an old
in London. 1t is maintained that a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet
but it is difficult to believe that John
Henry Brodribb could ever have been
as great an actor as Henry Irving.
PREF. Moses Corr TYLER recently gave
a lecture course on the literature bear
ing on the American revolution, discus
sing every form of literary work at that
time. Prof. Tyler called the pamphlet
"the ancestor of the American news
paper, which, like all good ancestors,
died, leaving the work to the more
robust youngster."
QUEEN VICTORIA has Intimated her in
tention Of giving commission to her
favorite painter, Angel, of Vienna, for
a portrait of King Charles, of Roumania.
Angel is also under orders to paint a
portrait of Lord Salisbury for the Queen.
HENRY G. Bowen has bought another
tract of land in Woodstock, making his
estate, Roseland park, famous for it's
Fourth of July exercises, square,
three-quarters. Of mile on each side.
Mr.. Bowen will build stone mansion
at Woodstock and heavy wall around
his premises.
The Queen has knighted the Lord
Mayor of London, comforting upon him
the order of St. Michael and st. George.
CHAIRMAN CARTER wears light colored
goatee and in many personal features
is q respectable reproduction of the ira
ditional Uncle Sam.
JOHN S. SARGENT's "Carmencita, in
the Champ de Mars Salon, Paris, has
been purchased by the minister of
public instruction and the fine arts.
DR.. NEWMAN HALL, the British divine,
preached his last sermon from the text
"God so loved the world" This, he
told his congregation, was the first text
he ever learned, the text he first
preached from and should now be the
last text of their pastor.
MARY B. 0. DWIGHT, widow of Prof.
Theodore w. Dwight, formerly of Col
umbia Law School, who died on June 20,
has petitioned the surrogate to appoint
administrators for the personal property
of her husband, who left no will. She
values the property at 100000 and de-
sires her son-in-law, DR.. Edward L..
Partridge, and Dwight H. Olmstead ap-
pointed adm Illustrators.
CHARLES LANIER, the son Of the poet
Sidney Lanier. was at work in railroad
Office when Mr.. Stead, who had seen
some of his writing, asked him to pre-
pare an article for the Review of Re-
views. Young Lanier, in this task Of
times on wealthy New Yorker, who,
vited the young man to leave railroad
ing for more congenial work, which he
did.
THE class of '53 at Yale included An
drew D. White, Wayne McVeagh, Ran
dali Gibson, Edmund c. Stedman,
Isaac H. Bromley, Charlton T. Lewis,
George w. Smalley and Judge Shiras.
ROBERT H. FoLGER, of Massillon, O.,
is claimed to be the oldest practicing
attorney in the United States. He was
born in Chester county, Pa, 1912, and
began the practice of law thirty years
thereafter.
Miss GRACE LEwEs, eldest daughter Of
the late George Lewes, of England, the
husband of the famous novelist, George
Eliot, is on visit to Daniel H. Har-
kins, also of England, but now occupy
ing a typical country home at White
Plains near Ophir Farm, the residence
of Whitelaw Reid.
NJ. BURDEAU. the new French minister
of marine, first went to the Chamber
of Deputies from Lyons, in 1885, and
he speedily made his mark there. Sub
sequently he was one of M. Jules
Simon's colleagues at the Labor Con-
ference at Berlin, where he was highly
esteemed by all, the Emperor included,
for his fairness.