Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-05-04

The only negro officer OF the army VINO
is a West Pointer is Charles Young, at
present on duty as military attache at
Port au Prince, Haiti. Capt. Young
entered the military academy in 1884,
and was graduated in 1889.
NJ. Fallieres, the new French presi-
dent, gets up between and s and does
his hardest work directly after his morn
ing walk. He devours all manner of
books-historical philosophical and lit
erary, and his favorite authors are Toll
stoy and Vigny.
Mrs. Margaret Yale of Nowatta, I. T.,
was admitted to the bar before Judge
Gill of the federal court. She is the first
woman admitted to the bar in Indian
territory. She is Il graduate of the law
department of Michigan university and
Il postgraduate of the University of Chi
cagO.
King Edward VII. is the uncle of the
Emperor of Germany, will soon be the
uncle of the Queen of Spain, is already
the uncle of the Crown Prince of ROu-
mania. the Czarina, the Crown Prin-
cess of Greece, and the Crown Princess
Of Sweden, and is the father OF the
Queen of Norway.
Lord Avebury otherwise Sir John
Lubbock. was the first person in Eng
land to have his photograph taken. NJ.
Daguerre, the inventor of the art, came
to London to patent his discovery and
Ny-pJ 1I.IrtI,
father. The son was playing i'll the gar
den and was successfully photographed
Prof c. Il. Lanman of Harvard uni
verSity has been elected an honorary
member Of the Societe Asiatique of Pa
ris The society was founded i'll ISL,
and since that time only twenty
men have been put on its honorary list.
Prof. Lannan has also been made
member of the Royal Society of Sciences
of Gottingen.
Successful novelists are great travellers
in these latter days. Justus Miles For
man is about starting on an extended
trip to the antipodes. His itinerary III
cIudes Australia, New Zealand and the
South Sea islands, and is undertaken,
he says, not to gain new literary mate
rial. but solely because he wants to
play Il little.
The Due D'Orleans has Il splendid
collection of sporting trophies, number
ing some 1000 stuffed wild animals, birds
and reptiles, together with costumes,
arms. and curiosities gathered from all
Il ~ u
heads and horns from Central and South
Africa. representing the spolS OF many
a hunting expedition.
With the closing in Lancaster, IA, OF
the hotel of John A. Shank, who allowed
his privilege to lapse, there passed OUT
of existence a license first granted III
1876 and renewed annually since then
1t was in this hotel that the Lancaster
Lodge of Masons was instituted, III 1850
and there Gen. Lafayette was enter
tanned when he visited Lancaster.
Miss Laura NJ Cornelius, Il full-blood-
cd Indian of the Oneida tribe, who has
been a student ut Leland Stanford uni
yersity. will study law at Columbia her
ing serviceable in work for her own peo-
pie. Miss Cornelius makes this state
ment on belief: Il believe i'll God, IN
minding my own business, and i'll hust-
ling for what one wants
Philander {. Knox, senator from
PENNSYLVANIA. is an inveterate reader
levoting all his time from legislative or
legal duties to reading. He purchases
all the best books and all the rare edl-
tons of old works which come his way.
He reads i'll his carriage going to the
capitol. on trains and every place where
he must spend some moments waiting
Few old sailors can equal the record
of Capt Alexander Simpson. who lately
completed his seventy-tirSt voyage from
England to Australia and back, Il voyage
which he has been making regularly for
over forty years. Altogether he has
covered over 100000 miles without a
mishap. distance equal to four voy-
ages to the moon and return. For
eighteen years he has been studying ocean
currents by throwing overheard bottles,
many of which have been returned to
him.
From the list of professors eligible for
appointments to lecture at the University
of Berlin under the exchange system in
augurated last year, as submitted by the
Harvard corporation, the German gov
ernment has selected Prof. L. w. Rich
ards. sc. of the chemistry department.
His term will be during the second half
year. and his work will be in physical
and theoretical chemistry, practically
the same as he has been teaching at
Harvard since 1889. The German pro-