Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-05-04
People and Events.

The New York health den,r.m..
- 70 nave pc able steam disinfec.
i've machine. This cholera garm
Killer Is bought in Germany for soeo
chine. n
ihac curious and costly example Of
ecclesiastical Horticulture, the Golden
hose, Will this year be conferred unon
.he Aooess-Archduchess Margaret of
austria, niece of the Emperor. The
hoocSs who is to be honored with
tnls crown of virtue is only %.
Two half-million-dollar dormiteries
promised in one one year makes the
talk of the hour at Yale, and moro
ana moreit is felt that the old college
is truly broadening to a great univer.
slty. The latest b~enefactor, DIR
Andrew j. White, is a New York
man, who once practiced in Connec.
ticut. Yale graduated him in med,.
cine IN lS46. One of the popular
members OF the present sophomore
class is his son.
Professor Hans Virchow, son Of the
FAMOUS bacteriOlogist OF Berlin. has
been at New Haven a few DAYS as the
guest OF DR.. William II. Carmalt
professor Nirchow is here under the
auspices of the German Government.
and Is making a tour of the leading
educational institutions Of the u
Try. lie is now in Boston, and will
later go to Chicago to assist in the in
stallation of the German exhibit.
Another new daily paper is 0 to
be launched in New York. II is To he
venture OF some Importance, as Rich
ard Croker and the Dwyer brothers
are Its hackers. The paper is to be
devoted to pOlitics-Tammany, of
course-spOrts, of which racing will
take the lead, and theatrical news.
A well-known political writer, who is
on intimate terms with Mr.. Croker,
Will have charge of the Tammany,
political and turf departments. This
novel journalistic combinations said
to be amply backed by Croker and the
Dryers.
The report that the Broad Church
party, in conference at Boston, unan-
imously agreed upon DR.. William n.
McNickar, Of Philadelphia, as a can
didate for the succession to Phillips
Brooks b%ishopric, is received in
Philadelphia with mingled regret and
pleasure. In the eighteen years of
his service in the Holy Trinity pulpit
where Phillips Brooks was one of his
predecessors, he has been distin-
guished by the power Of his oratory,
by practical Judgment, by a whole
some participation in many good
works for the betterment Of the
whole community, and by his sympa-
thy with the growing impulses which
are broadening the aims and purposes
Of the Episcopal church throughout
the country.
"The most splendid men now here,
from a military pointo of view, are the
Germans" says a Hampton Roads cor
respondent. The officers of the Ka-
iserin Augusta and the Seeadler (Sea
Eagle are half a dozen times more
dandifled than the majority of the
Britons. They r the most erect,
handsomest, best dressed and In all
ways the showiest naval men now in
the Roads. They and the English
and our Americans are all brainy,
well-informed, polished men, and it
will not be fair to put any n set
above the other, but certainly the
German officers bear of the palm for
dress and bearing. They are nearly
all blondes, and are tall and broad
chested. They wear frock coats of
blue cloth, with brass buttons, and
all have belts and epaulets of silver.
They also wear long swords, and their
queer caps, with tiny f1at-leather
peaks. are the only parts of their
dress that the Americans will not re-
gard as pretty"