Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-02-14
NOTABLES OF THE DAY.

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Mass, has declined the presidency of the
st. Lawrence university which was re-
Gently offered to him.
-VirchoW believes that variations in the
bony structures of the man were more
constant and distinguishable in uncivilized
than in civilized races.
The Rev. DR.. Mckenzie of Cam
bridge, Mass, has declined the Bartlett
professorship in the Andover seminary to
which he was recently elected.
Giovanni Bellini was one of the few
great artists who executed his best
works in extreme old age. His paint
ings show Improvement up to the age of
90.
-Vecchio's pictures exhibit one female
face which recurs from time to time
so frequently as to attract attention and
excite curiosity. 1t is the portrait of his
daughter
George Morgan Ward, of the middle
class of the Andover Theological seminary,
has beer called to the professorship of his
tory and political economy in Atlanta uni
yersity, Georgia. He vii lalso be ap-
pointed dean, in case of his acceptance.
1t is announced that Mile. Lucie
Faure, daughter of the President, has
been betrothed to NJ. Paul Deschanel.
| member of the Chamber of Deputies for
Eure- Et-Lois.
-Tihamar ii. Fennyery, friend and
compatriot of Kossuth, and who was
assisted by the latter to escape to this
country when he was eXiled, is living in
Springfield, Mass.
wish of the Earl of Aberdeen, governor
general of Canada, his name has been
placed upon the list of the vice-preSidents
of the Anti Gambling league.
The most showily-dressed woman in
Europe is the Empress of Portugal. She
| buys costumes, bonnets and hats whole
| sale. Her pale complexion and auburn
hair permit of any kind of headgear.
Senator Ransom of North Carolina
retires from Office in March after twenty
| two years of service in the Senate at the
| age of 20 poor, and with no profitable en-
| ployment he can fall back upon at that
| time of life.
ages gambling the German Emperor has
| he is indirectly the largest owner in the
| be is Indirectly the largest Woner in the
whole of Germany, as the Granditz stud
| belongs to the crown, and the horses
| trained there have won more than those
The Rev. DR.. Henry Lunn of Eng
! land is in this country to promote the
churches. As the subdivisions Of the
great sects find themselves unable to
| come together. DR. Lunn will probably
the great sects themselves to come to-
gether.
| Miss Wrede devoted herself to prison
| work in FINLAND twelve years ago. From
| that time she has with transformations
| heroism visited at least once every year
| all the prisons and every prisoner in each
prison in Finland She enters the prison
| in the early morning and leaves it late
| in the day. and every day in the year finds
her steadily pursuing the same ministry.
Albert Chevalier has hitherto reso-
lutely refused all offers to render his
! songs in a private house. When Lord
Rothschild offered him so guneas to
sing a couple of ditties in his drawing
room he declined, and even when Princess
Louise sent a special messenger to EN-
| deavor to secure his services for party
at fensington palace he felt bound to ex-
cuse himself.
| Chinese papers say that the Emperor
ras ordered six two-edged swords for
| Prince Kung. Ii Hung Chang. Ii Hung
| Tsao, Weng Tung Ho, Kang Vi and Gen.
Won Hanneken. With these they have
| the right, without asking imperial permits
| sion. to cut off the heads of all persons
| from the second rank down who propose
| peace with Japan. This does not look as
| if the Chinese wish to give up the fight.
| 1t is said that the late Hans Won
Bulow left directions that post NOR
| tenn examination of his brain should be
made to ascertain the cause of the ex-
crucating headache from which he was
lifelong sufferer. The autopsy re-
vealed the fact that the end of the nerves
had become imbedded in a scar of an in
| jury to the brain that he had received in
| II;