Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-02-07
GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE.

proprietor of the London Times, shows
a personal estate of f293,573 all of
which is left to his children, the greatest
portion going to his eldest son.
Every shop in High street and Castle
street, Windsor has an account with the
Queen. Her majesty is most lavish with
her orders, but at the same time most
particular about their execution.
The physicians of Sir Mackenzie
Bowel, Canadian premier, have come to
the conclusion that his cough is not
caused by any organic disease, and that
with proper rest the patient should re-
cover within ten days.
&C. W. Woodhouse of Burlington, VT,
has received from the estate of his late
land, the original letter written by Ethan
Allen announcing the capture Of Fort
Ticonderoga.
Miss Mary Hampton, who plays the
leading role in Sowing the Wind is a
cousin of Gen. Wade Hampton of South
Carolina.
Francois Jules Edmund Got, an
eminent French comedian, the oldest mem
Der of the Comedian Franchise, was mar
ried on Saturday to Mile. Trevelle.
The "Figaro'' states that among the
singers in the rendering of Bach's mass,
which is now being rehearsed at the
Paris Conservatoire, will figure Mrs. Kin
en-, nee Eustis.
DIR. William Glen of Johns Hopkins
university who has just been elected
president of McGill university, Montreal,
is a Canadian by birth, and began his
medical studies at McGill.
Sir Oswald Walter Briefly, the ma
rine who died recently in London, ac-
companied the Duke of Edinburgh on his
trip around the world and the Prince of
Wales on his journey up the Nile.
Among the patients of Father Kneipp
of Woerishofen, Germany, is his high
ness, the Rajah of Boroda, India. He
goes barefoot about the place at certain
hours, by command of the priest.
Rev. John Henry Barrows, d. D.,
the eminent Presbyterian divine of Chi
cago, who was chairman of the Worlds
Parliament of Religions, held in connec-
ton with the Columbian exposition, has
accepted an invitation from President
Schurman to preach the baccalaureate
sermon at Cornell next June.
Bishop Charles E. Mcdonnell of the
diocese of Brooklyn sailed Saturday on
the French line steamer La Champagne,
for Rome. via Havre. Archbishop Cor
rigan of New York drove to the dock
and wished Bishop Mcdonnell bon vow
age. He had spent the night at the
archbishop's house on Madison avenue.
Sir Alexander Mackenzie, president
of the Royal Academy of Music, VINO re-
ceived knighthood on New Years day,
is the sixteenth musician whom the
Queen has knighted. The first was Sir
Henry Bishop, in 1912: then came Sir
Michael Costa. in 1868; Sir Sterndale
Bennett and Sir Julius Benedict were
knighted in 1911; Sir Arthur Sullivan,
Sir George Grove and Sir G. A. Macfar-
rem in 1883.
Sir Arthur Sullivan's London library
has two private telephones, one connect
ed with the Stock exchange and one
with the Savoy.
Among her most favorite treasures
and "reminiscences of the past the Queen
keeps a brooch which belonged original
ly to Robert Bruce of Scotland.
Mrs. Arthur Stannard John Strange
Winter) is very superstitious and always
carries two scraps of gray fur inside the
neck of her dress as a taliSman.
Sir James jenkins, X. G. B.. M. D.,
upon whom a good-seryice pension has
been bestowed, entered the British navy
in 1871. He served in charge Of the
Naval brigade before Sebastopol in 1854
is an honorary surgeon to Queen Vic
toria and inspector-gen OF hospitals
and fleet.
Baron Hirsch, the Jewish multi-mill-
ionaire and sportsman, lives in a most
frugal manner amid the profusion of
costly daintieS which he offers to his
guests. He drinks only mineral waters,
eats plainly and retires to bed at 10
O'Clock, leaving his guests to follow his
example whenever they like.
Although his parents were American,
Marion Crawford was born in Italy,
and has passed the greater portion of his
life in Europe He has declared, how
ever. that there is a richer field for the
novelist in the United States than in
Europe, on the ground that more original
characters are to be met in the New
World.
Aaron l.. Dennison, who was called
'the father of American matchmaking"
died in England on Friday last, aged
so years. On a trip to America, which
he made a few years ago, Mr.. Dennison
received an ovation at every factory he
visited, and watchmakers throughout
the country regarded him as a sort of
patron saint.
The Rev. DR.. T. II. Sawyer, Dean
Emeritus of the divinity department of
Tufts college, is 81 years OF age. Dur
ing the war he was the editor of pa
per called 1.-THE Christian Ambassador"
He is one of the three oldest Universal
list ministers now living, the order being,
the Rev. Dr. Lucius r. Page, the histori-
an of Cambridge; DR.. Sawyer, and the
Rev. Elmer Hewitt.