The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-03-18

The bronze statue of Horace
Greeley, that the printers of the
United States are to erect in New
York, will be unveiled May 30, Mem
orial Day, and the grafton will be
pronounced by Congressman Amos J.
Cummings. The statue and pedestal
cost $4,000. Itrepresents Mr.. Greeley
sitting in an easy pose rejecting over
something he has Just read in a news
paper.
DR.. j. H. Hill, of Buffalo, who died
last Saturday, at the age of 20, had
been in practice 43 years. In 1852,
when cholera and smallpox were rag
ing he was Health Physician for the
city and treated 1000 cases of the for
mer disease. OF the latter he lost
only one out of 80. He was the first
practitioner in Buffalo to operate for
cataract. He was connected in an Off
cial capacity with many local, State,
and other charities, and for years was
President of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association in Buffalo.
The new volume of poems by the late
Earl of LYtton is called "Marrah."
The volume will include the poem up
on which he was engaged at the time
of his death.
Alvin G. Clark, the Cambridge lens
maker, recently saw an announce
ment of his death in the newspapers,
and at first was annoyed thereby. But
his wife received so many expressions
Of sympathy and such tributes to Mr..
Clark's virtues that on the whole he
was glad the mistake had been made.
The rumor attracted much attention
in scientific circles.
Miss Julia E. Buckley, directing the
public schools OF Plainfleld, N. J.,
who is to become dean of the Wo-
mans College of Chicago University,
has charge of over 5000 children and
is a remarkable executive. She is a
Mount Holyoke Seminary graduate,
is about 40, has travelled widely, and
written much on educational matters.
General Isaac J. Wistar, childless
Philadelphia of large wealth,
has given the University of
Pennsylvania $4,000 for biological
and anatomical museum and provided
for $4,000 a year to keep it up.
Rudyard Kipling has offended
good many men in this country and
has delighted good many of the wo-
men, to whom celebrity is better
even than much flirting, not to speak
Of food and wine. Kipling has receiv-
ed a good many rebuffs from men, but
the women hold as charming, gentle,
and cen greet him who wrote with
out Benefit of Clergy" with the
Main Guard, ''The Man That Was, :"
etc. With these allies Kipling will
beat the men, and he will probably
attain to better manners as he grows
in years and experience.
Mr.. Humphrey Ward has written a
letter declaring that there is no truth
in the published story that his wife
received 100000 for david Grieve.o
For the proposed consolidated mu-
nicipality under consideration by New
York and her urban neighbors, David
Dudley Field suggests the name of
Manhattan.
Gov. Russell, of Massachusetts, was
greatly devoted to athletic sports a
few years ago. and by this indulgence
managed at various times to break
his nose, one finger, and both arms.
I On two other occasions, while yacht
ing, he has been in such peril as to
think it was 'ail up with him."
| The Prince of Wales will not per-
nit any of his race horses to run on
the turt this year, in consequence of
the death of his eldest son.
Bishop Hartmann, lately elevated
to the bishopric in Philadelphia, has
reached Cleveland and assumed con-
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