Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-01-19
PERSONALITIES.

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his yacht. This was his one great ex-
travagance.
| M. De GIERs, the Russian foreign
minister. will resume his post at the
end of January.
THE heaviest man in Congress Is John
W. Rife, of Pennsylvania. special
chair is provided for him.
| DUMAS has presented to Eleonora
Duse the play "Francillon," from
| which it is said, she has already realized
$1,000.
| GEN. TRoCHU's estimate of Bismarck is
that he might have been great man,
| but he has become only great Prus-
sian. :,
EDWARD ScuLL, of Pennsylvania, is the
! oldest representative in Congress-. The
| Youngest is Joseph w. Bailey, of Texas,
| who was born in 1868.
PETER MULLEN is said to be the cod
| liver oil magnate of the Lottoden
Islands, off Norway. He employs 10000
people in fisheries, factories, bottllng,
packing, etc.
Mr.. EDWARDS, the American consul
general in Berlin, will send to the
| Worlds Fair q portrait of Columbus
| which is now in possession of noble
SiIesian family. It is the work of a Ger
| man artist.
The friends and admirers of Walt
Whitman hope to purchase the humble
| cottage in Camden where he lived and
died and dedicate it as memorial of
| him, on or before the anniversary OF
his funeral next March.
JOHN AUTRAM, of Wilmington, O.
voted three times for Gen. Jackson,
| three times for Cleveland for President
and eighteen times for President. He
is 80 years old and is yet one of the best
horsemen in his region.
CAPT. w. BRAINBRIDGE HoFF, United
States Navy, who is in Europe on spe-
cial mission for the naval exhibit of the
Chicago Exhibition has left Paris for
to the French Fish Commission. I
AS memorial to her mother Mrs. A.
M. Mankly is to build and maintain a
home for destitute women in the city
of Washington. She is also to give the
Children's Aid Society 1000 to erect
home in memory of her husband.
BISHOP HURST says the ninety-two
acres bought in Washington for site
for the proposed Methodist University,
have increased in value until they are
worth halt million. He reports also
that subscriptions to the $4,000, 900
fund continue to come in.
MILE. WABN1Tz, Germany's Louise
Michel, is in Berlin Jail for speaking
disrespectfully of the Emperor. The
government would liberate her if she
would make an apology or retraction,
but she has the courage of her convic-
tons and refuses to do so.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON says that the
first Pilgrim to set foot on Plymouth
Rock was woman. It was true that she
was carried ashore seated on the joined
hands of men who waded through the
water from the boat, but she was the
first one who landed on the rock.
MIR. PREECE, the new engineer in
chief and electrician to the British Post
Office Department, has what is said to
be the finest collection of Persian
antiquities in England. They we're
picked up and sent to him by brother,
who is an officer of the European
Telegraph Company.
ADMIRAL Fedor Ivanovitch Novossit-
sky, whose death at st. Petersburg has !
been announced, was one of the most
topol. At the age of17 he distinguished
himselfina fight with two Turkish ships
ofthe line, he commanding the Russian
brig Mercury. His subsequent career
was series of victories.
THE English traveller, Mr.. Rockhill,
has again passed into Thibet from China,
disguised as Dana. He has a good
mastery of the languages of the country
into which he has penetrated once
more, and it is believed that he will fare
better this time than on the former oc-
easion, when q diet of samba and but
cred tea for three weeks red uced him
almost to skeleton.
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN, the composer
rnoonf1xy ocLnl WI ho Oh
to compose best and under what cir
cumstances. He replied that there was
no place in which he had so many in
splratlons as in railway carriage.
There is something in the rapidity of the
motion, in the changing of the iron and
the whirring of the wheels which seems
to excite his Imagination and supplies
material for host of harmonies.
THE Khan of Khiva. who is now Wis.,
iting the crowned heads of Europe.
probably with the idea that the time
has now come when "us kings must
stand in together" is an interesting
character. He is So years old, speaks
several languages. including the Per-
sian, Arabic and Russian, and his dress
Is that of an European, although his
connections are those of an orthodox
Mussulmar.
HENRY SHAW, who is regarded by st.
Louis as its greatest benefactor, was an
Englishman by birth. who made his
fortune in the hardware business and
retired at the age of 40. Passionately
fond of flowers, he established botani-
cal garden just outside the corporate
limits OF st. Louis, and there he lived
IN the summer time, returning to the
city in the winter. He constantly i'm
proved and added to the terrieory of
MS t1oEerland until "Shaw's Garden'
became one of the most famous resorts
Tor visitors in the Southwest.
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