Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-11-03
ABOUT PEOPLE

Poems.
HALL GAME is said to be at vort :.
novel despicting the European law W
society at the present time. "
DR.. C. P. CARVER, of St, Anon,.
Fla, lives in the oldest honses G ;s
United States. 1t was built by Fr n
man in 1860. 'epca
THE claims of Senior Azov IN bo
lineal descendanto of Columbus a,o
by Spaniards and Italians in this oa ~
try to be authentic. '00
MORLEY ROBERTS, an English o..
writer, is working as a laborer on SUI
London docks in order to get 'loa
color" for novel.
Archbishop JOSEPH. of Austria
abandoned his attempt TO reclaim Il
gypsles. His wild wards have lett tbs
settled towns and their plows and ts Az
to the woods again.
THE title Of Baron Tennyson is W..
hereditary, and now belongs to Il
eldest son, Hallan Tennyson, who III
been his fathers private secretss
ever since he left college.
WHILE the late DR.. Thomas Chase
Providence, was a tutor at HaryaM
from 1850 to 1858, two of his pupils v Oaa
DR.. Charles w. Eliot, now president
that university, and Bishop PbiIEn
Brooks.
AT Pueblo, Mexico, anil uudertoh.
billed the town with immense poster
saying he would reduce his funen
charges if the cholera became epidem.
in that town. This melted a Scare ons
he was arrested.
IT has been generally overlooked }c |
the critics in reviewing the works
Renan that before Darwin's book an
peared the French thinker wrote "a
markable work on the dawn of scieps
which forecast evolution and almost 4
the scientific advances of the presen
day.
JOHN A. BAsHEAR, the telescope and
spectroscope maker of Allegheny, who's
instruments are known all over This
country, and whose handiwork is foupi
in some of the leading observatories N
an exceptionally modest man, and will
not allow any one to call him pro
lessor"
THOMAS E. HoDGKINs, who has given
500, 900 to the Royal Institute of Great
Britain, to be applied to scientific re-
search, is retired New FORK merchant
living in Setauket, L. /. Last year he'll
made cash gift Of 100000 to tie
Smithsonian Institute of Washington
He came originally from England.
New proof of the abiding populart
of Rabelais is given by the recent as
sembly of the seventh congress Of Rs
belaisians at Tours, in France. The
congress lasted for two days and many
papers on Rabelais and his works wee
read. Then there was truly Gargant
uan banquet at Chinon, the satirist's
birthplace, and visits were made to sI
the places he had freQuented in youth
THEY are telling in Providence how
John J.. Sullivan was recently mistaken
for city missionary there, owing TO Ell
lmpulsive benefaction. Having heard
while stopping in that city that one Of
his admirers had spent his last dollar,
and even pawned his wife's jeWelrEn
order to lay wagers on the Boston
pugilist's success in the bout at New
Orleans, only to lose it all, MIR. Sui.
van hunted up the suffering family, and
relieved their necessities Just in time
heai off the holder of q mortgage who
was about to levy on the househOi
chattels.
Didn'G Use the Ticket.
Harry knight came to Chicago from
Denver some months ago, leaving hi;
family behind. He fell sick and wa
taken to st. Luke's Hospital. The phys
leans there diagnosed the case and
found an intestinal inflammation 50
severe that it was thought necessary 70
open the abdominal cavity and removt
the diseased part in order too save bis
life. So the hos2ita. authorities wrote
to Miss knight, the sister in Denvei
and told her the chances for recover
were small. Something like one chan@
in a thousand was all the hope the poor
fellow had OF ever breathing air OUTSIDE
the walls of the ward again. whether
the disease ran out it's course or the eur
geon's knife made it's desperate attemp9l
to save his life. The chance, slight ASH
was, the medical men determined 70
take. Death was sure without it.
So Miss Knight prepared herself io
her sad journey. She bought round
trip ticket to Chicago for herself, as wal
seemly. AS long as she was in tle
ticket Office she determined to get Tla
of that inconvenience once for all, 60
she paid for transportation tor "one
cofined human body"
The operation OF laboratory w,
performed upon Harry hnlsn
while his sister was on her way. ~
disappointed everybody. Doctolsl
nurses, orderlies. and others all stoOu
around and watched him take that o oIs
chance out of the thousand, threw, ". .hs
500 other fatal possibilities out OF W, wv
window, make the very most OF lie } ~: lsn
to him and slowly but surely pull el 1hs
self together out of the valley OF VIZ
shadow of death. =.
Miss knight came to weep; :. sl II
stayed to laugh. The CUSTOMARY sun III Il
solemn black was frightened with s, vi
of cherry ribbon, as the gaping Wo dnc.
closed "by first intention" as the auv
tors say; the temperature pecan
normal and the pallid cheek tooK S, o snd
color bright as the ribbon ITSELF 'D'
with never tint of hectic fiush' a. nod
And that ticket for lone Gol'Iby Ii.
human body" Harry Knlgn. s;s h
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