Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-04-27

EAGLE RIVER REVIEW
EAGLE RIVER, WIS.
0. E. BOWEN, Publisher.
The superstitious will have to give
King Alfonso credit for having courage
enough to tout The Friday hoodoo. lie
is TO be married On the LIST of June.
The two university students who
walked to Milwaukee from Madison in
thirty-six hours have revealed to legis-
Iators way by which the loss of the
free pass can he mitigated.
Sir Edward Clarke, the brilliant mem
her of Parliament started as a jewelers.
assistant in his fathers store. Now his
income as lawyer is 100000 year
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refused judgeship.
4 La Crosse man who has been con-
victed of putting boracic acid into sau-
sage and chopped meats will appeal to
the supreme court. He evidently be-
lievcs that he is bigger than the Legis-
lature which enacted the law against the
doctoring of foods.
Texas is big enough to provide room
for many rompng tornadoes, but when
a reporter states that at least seven OF
the ''twisters" could be seen at one time
in the vicinity of Great Bend, Barton
county, he must have known that he
was giving the world a breeze of another
variety.
Adelbert college of the Western Re
serve university has received u gift Of
S15OOOO from the grandchildren of JO-
seph Perkins, for many years a trustee
of the college. Half the sum is to
found Il department of sociology and the
other half toward the building of Il
chemical laboratory.
Very few school teachers i'll the cOun-
try can equal the record of Charles j.
Capen. who celebrated his eighty-third
birthday recently. For siXty-one years
he has been a school teacher, and dur
ing the tifty-three years of his connection
with the Boston Latin school he has
never lost Il day from illness and has
never been tardy.
Samuel L. Clemens Mark Twain) has
purchased Il summer home i'll Redding,
Conn Deeds have been passed convey
ing to Mr.. Clemens the Noah BOuton
farm of eighty-five acres on the west
side of the town, close to the homes of
several we'll known literary men who
spend their summers there.
The new armored cruiser Washington
steamed at the rate of 22212 knots an
hour on he. trial trip This is fast going
that will enable her to catch Il majority
of her enemies in the event of war; and
if things get too hot with odds against
her. enable her to get away with "a
. hole hide
President ROosevelts remarks to the
National Fairgrounds Council concern
ing the poor children who have to use
the streets because they have no yards
wherein to play not only recommends the
establishment of Fairgrounds for the
poor. but adInOnishes chautfeurs to have
care for frolicsome children as they
speed through the streets of cities.
The Shipwreck Humane society of
Liverpool has presented gold medals to
Capts. Clark of the BOstOnon and So
hann of the Mannheim, silver medals to
the subordinate officers of the steamers
and money awards tOtaling $500 TO the
boats crews of the vessel who assisted
in the rescue of the steamer British King.
which foundered off Sable island. March
II.
The Countess of Aberdeen recently
gave the Irish Woman's Temperance
union Il novel gift in the way of an add
dress having Il cover designed and
worked at the Royal Irish School of Art
NCedlework. 1t has Il white velum COW
er lined with st. Patrick's blue poplin.
The coronet and initials of the countess
appear in the center, and at each corner
is a four-leaved shamrock.
Probably the last family link with Mil
let. the painter of The Angelus," has
passed away in the person of his brother,
Jean Baptiste Millet. Like his more ia
NOUS elder brother, he was an artist.
The great painter himself introduced
him to the sculptor. Violet de Due I'M
der whom he did much ecclesiastical
sculpture. The figures on the tomb are
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