Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-27
SINGLED FROM THE THRoNG.


1t is rumored that M. James Tissot
the English nainter, when he has quite
completed his plan of illustrating the
gospel by water colorS, Will enter Trap
piSt monastery.
"A set of large drawings by Thacke
ray, made for the album of his friend,
Mrs. Robert Bell, and described by her
in Harper's Magazine five years ago,
will be sold in London shortly.
Ladies in London and the South are
now decorating their bicycles with flow
ers The idea really comes from Italy,
where the front part of the little victorias
on the Pincian or in the Cascine are
crammed with gay blooms.
Nine. Bernhardt, after playing a
fortnight's engagement in London, viii
go to Belle Isle for six weeks of rest.
Then, after a round of performances at
watering places, she will return to Paris
for the opening of the season.
The German Empress possesses a
unique tea service. The tea tray has
been beaten out of an old Prussia half
penny, the teapot is made out of a Ger
man farthing, and the tiny cups are
made from coins of different German
principalities.
Both the Prince and the Princess of
Wales have had their hands pictured by
the Roentgen rays; the princess seemed
Wales will have to go to Homburg again
to reduce the hereditary faint
1t is computed by a statistician of
the curious that Queen Victoria's hand,
which is said to be handsome one, has
signed more important papers and been
kissed by more important men than the
hand of any other Queen that ever lived.
DIR. w. Walsham How. bishop Of
Wakefield, Eng, announced recently
L. <ofT To-.
dy's novels in order to mark his disap-
proval of it, and now numerous good
church people in his diocese, are reading
the novel in question to see how bad
it is.
II. NJ. Murphy of Co. r, Sixth Ala
bama, who attended the Confederate re-
union at Richmond, wore the coat that
he wore all through the war. He says
that Gen. John B. Gordon used it as a
burg.
Queen Victoria insists on all her
small grandSons wearing Highland dress
when they are with her; and even the
little daughters of the Duke of Con-
naught wear plaid kits, Scotch caps and
short jackets when they are under their
royal grandmamma's eye.
Mrs. Chamberlain's favorite flower is
the carnation. To crafty his wife's
taste in this respect the colonial secre-
tary has recently extended the glass
houses at Highbury, his Birmingham
residence which, in time, may be almost
as famous for its carnations as it is now
for its orchids.
The clause in the legislative, execu-
tive and judicial appropriation law, al
lowing an increase in the salary of
Judge A. w. Church, the librarian of
the United States Senate, while the
office is held by the present incumbent,
went into effect on the LIST instant, and
henceforward Librarian Church will re-
ceive $4,000 per annum instead of $225O
previously paid to him.
Henry Ward Beecher, in his famous
speech at Manchester England, in which
he talked for an hour against howl
ing mob of rebel sympathizers before he
gained attention, was interrupted by a
man in the audience, who shouted:
"Why didn't you whip the Confederates
in sixty days, as you said you would?,
Because" replied Beecher, 1--WE found
we had Americans to fight instead OF
EngliShmen"