Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-01
SINGLED FROM THE THRoNG.

queen Victoria has created an or
der of knighthood, called Royal Vic
torian.
According TO Hamilton w. Mabie.
the Scarlet Letter and Pembroke are
the best American novels.
The most prolific writer in Russia is
said to be Nine. Irma Fedossova, peas
ant of the province of Petrossawodsk,
who has given to the world more than
10000 poems.
A rumor is current to the effect that
Lord Cromer is to come to London early
this month for the purpose of discussing
with the government the various aspects
of the Soudan expedition.
Those who think the Barnum white
elephant story of a few years ago a fake
may find record in the New York Gus
tom house, where Hon. p. T. swore that
the animal was worth 100000.
Queen Victoria is going to confer the
Order of the Garter on the Grown
Prince of Denmark, and the Grand
Cross of the Bath on his brother, Prince
Charles, who is to marry Princess Maud
of Wales.
During her last visit to London Loie
week. In Paris she is paid still more.
Tired of hotel life, Loie has bought her
self house with a delightful garden,
right in the heart of Paris.
Queen Victoria's walking-stick once
belonged to Charles H., and is made a
branch Of the historic oak tree in which
he hid. On the gold top the Queen has
fastened a little Indian idol, which was
part of the loot of Seringapatam.
The Countess Hartenau, widow of
Prince Alexander of Bulgaria, has writ
ten to the German papers declaring that
the story of her engagement is without
foundation. The countess has been liv-
ing recently in Frankfort-on-theM Main.
Manuel Coocoo, an Indian, said to
have been born at San Luis Rey in
1881, was witness in a trial at Santa
Cruz, Cal.,. last week He has lived
in Santa Cruz more than sixty years.
and there is said to be every proof of his
great age.
DR. f. J. Furnivall who is an emf
nent authority on the English language
and literature of the Elizabethan era,
says that Shakespeare's name was pro-
nounced ''Shahkspair," the having the
sound of in father" and the eare
sounding as 'air." N
w Murray Crane of Dalton, Mass.
who has consented to be the Republican
governor next fall, is one of the most
popular young men in the state. He is
wealthy manufacturer of paper, being
in partnerships Mr.. Zenas.
Ernest T. Hargrove, the newly-eIect-
ed president of the Philosophical society,
belongs to an old English family. One
Of his ancestors was Gen. Hargrove,
once governor of Gibraltar. and his
mother was a descendant of Sir Martin
Frobisher, the famous navigator.
Letters of Beethoven and Goethe,
which were sold at auction in Frankfort
a few days ago, among the effects of the
Brentano family, brought unusually high
prices. Twelve letters of the composer
were sold to the officers of the Bee
thoyen-Haus. in Bonn. for 5000 marks.
Miss Lydia Bradley of Peoria, H.,
who has already given that city a hos
pital, home for aged women, a church
and a park of 145 acres, has declared
her intention of Immediately erecting a
polytechnic institute, which, with it's en-
dOWmentS and appurtenanceS, will repre-
sent cost of 81 100000.
John NJ. Francis, the veteran editor
Of the Troy Times, has been in Wash
ington recently and has been warmly
welcomed by his many friends there.
He and his family have spent the winter
in North Carolina. For the last thirty
years Mr.. Francis has visited the capital
for few weeks at least each year.
On his recent visit to the East, Faith
err Esbasch, superior of the French SEM
mary in Rome, asserts that he made
a most interesting discovery. 1t IS the
ruins of a house inhabited by the Virgin
Mary and st. John after the Ascension
of Jesus at place about three miles out
side of Ephesus.
Mr.. Quilliam, lawyer of Liverpool,
Eng, follower of N1ahomet, and the
Sheik- ul-Islam (chief of the religion) of
the British isles, has issued a proclama-
ton in his journal, the Crescent. and
has had it translated into Arabian, Per
sian and Hindoostan, calling upon all the
faithful to decline to take part in the
Soudan expedition.
To impress the Western world with
his wealth and power is III Hung
Changes ambition, during the tour which
he has already commenced. He is rray-
cling in a style that will testify to the
grandeur of Oriental luxury. Although
himself a man of abstemious habits and
simple tastes, he has learned long since
the value of magnifcence for impressing
the crowd.