Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06

EAGLE RIVER REVIEW
EAGLE RIVER, WIS.
O. E. BOWEN, Publisher.
James A. Garland of New York, has
purchased a big farmhouse on prudence
island, in Narragansett bay, where ne
will establish a hospital for crippled
children.
Kate Douglass Wiggin, the authoress,
has lust concluded visit to the Vice
Regal Lodge, Dublin, as the guest of
their excelIencies, the Earl and Countess
Of Aberdeen.
DIR. Joseph B. Bryant who has been
elected president of the American Med
zeal association, is an eminent surgeon,
and was recently president Of the New
York State Medical society.
ouack doctor in Paris who used
pigar ashes as a "cure-alf' with great
success, combined pleasure with bust
ness, and thus avoided the labor of
kneading dough for bread pills.
The Toledo icemen who have received
prison sentences for conspiring to make
undue profits from consumers will have
an opportunity to cool down to q tenn
perate view of business strategy.
Photographers say there is no man in
public life more difficult to photograph
satisfactorily than Elihu Root, the secre-
tary of state. There is in his eye fas
cinating light penetrating CLEAN which
few of his pictures bring out.
The average age of the nine justices of
the supreme court of the United States
is a fraction over 6612 years, two being
10, one 20, one 80, one 60, one 50, one
63, one 81 and the junior 81. Justice
Brown retires at 70. If Taft succeeds
him at 10, the average age will be some
what reduced, but it will be made up in
avordupOis.
Gov. Guilds class of Harvard, 1881,
is to present President Eliot with a
100000 fund to spend for the college
as he sees fit. Prominent members of
the class are Senator Penrose Of Penn
sylvania; Prof Rolfe of the University
Of Pennsylvania and Henry Norman,
NJ. 2.
During a recent race of New York
yachts the old cup-defender Vigiant
made a display of speed that excited
warm admiration. She is a centerboard
craft that is in no sense a racing ma
chine and the fact that she is still
racing while the more recent cup
defenders are high and dry on the docks
because of their uselessness for cruising
is a significant commentary on the folly
of building racing machines.
At the final examination for honOrs
at the school of English literature a
West Virginian Rhodesian scholar, c. +.
Tucker Brooks of st. Johns college, Ok
ford, obtained first class. He was the
only competitor to obtain this high dis
tinction. J. A. Brown, a New Hamp-
shire Rhodesian scholar of New College,
Oxford, won a certificate of merit for
research in physics and obtained a de-
gree.
The Western University of Pennsyl-
yania of Pittsburg has conferred the hon
ora r.u 6ouran If Ipctor of Scionco on MIL
liam T. Hornaday in recognition of his
work in developing the New York Zoo
logical park. On account of a recent
surgical operation DR.. Hornaday was
unable to receive the degree in person
on Monday and he was represented at
the college exercises by DR.. w. J. Hol-
land Of the Carnegie museum.
A silk United States flag, highly val
ued by Rear Admiral Nicoll Ludlow, u.
S. n, and kept in his country home at
Oakdale, l.. l., was found by the care
taker Of the property to have been made
into a nest for Il family of gray squirrels
that has taken possession of one of the
rooms of the historic Ludlow mansion.
The flag was badly tattered and prac-
tically destroyed. 1t was valued at near
iy $3.50 and was one of the admirals
chief treasures.
The graduate school of Harvard is to
have the use Of the Francis Par1man fell
!Owship. the income of which is to be
applied to the aid of meritorius students
pursuing advanced studies, whether at
the university or elsewhere. The fellow
ship is supported by a fund of $4,000
beQueathed by Miss Eliza W. S. Park
man. in memory of her brother, Francis
Parkman. The university has received