Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-11-17
Personal.
-LueFetia Mott is IT.
Emile Olivier is 1ikelyto become blind.


sDake Ernest. Of SAKE Col5arg-eotba,
intends to visit the United States next
Spring,
A party Of engineers. have started to
survey the Memphis and El Paso Railroad
route.
j. Adams Smith, U. S. II, is Ieoturing
on the Kearsafge, the victor over the Ala
bama
-Tbere isa man at Ossipee, n. H., who
claims to be one hundred and sixty years
Of age.
Mike BTe0oole has been arrested at
Cincinnati and bound in the SUM Of $4,000
not to engage in q prize fight in Ohio.
Senator Chandler, Of diehigan, is in
Rome, where he has been sitting Tor his
bust to the sculptor Randolph Rogers.
Queen Victoria hes presented q mag
nifieent bracelet 10 tho pfifaa deilna Nils
son, the bloade nightingale Of Sweden.
DR.. Beust, of New Allany, Ind, who
was surgeon in the Ues8 arny, is reported
to be a brother of the Aesaian Prime Min
lister.
Miss Eta Soule, a Young lady of Is,
has been eloqqently clampioDing woman's
ri8hts in Q public debate with Miss Cecilia
Asher, In Cincinnati.
"A year ago, Clement 8Tarch. of Green
land II. I'll , was worth So 600, Geo. He put
it into copper and silver mining stocks, and
lost it alt
DIR. J. G. Holland expects to spend
this winter in Munich With his family,
where he viii write o new book.
John Russell and his wife Of West
Concord, n. H., have been married 70
years, and have AZ grandchildren, 81 great
grandchildren and one great great grand
child. Nix. Russell is % and does not use
spectaeles.
Fourteen or fifteen years ago Miss Car
cline Piummer, of Salem, (who founded IN
Harvard College o 'sprofessorship Of the
Heart, of which Bishop Huntington vas
the first incumUent), gave $40 600 10 cs-
tabiish in Salem the "Plu1nm8f Farm
School of Reform for boys" The fund has
been managed by ten trustees, end has ac-
cunulated enough TO Justify them in build
ing an establishment, which they are about
to do, on Winter Island, near Salem, at .
| cost of 5000, appropriated by the city
"A Boston paper describes Josh Billings
as follows: Mr.. Shaw is strong in a per-
S0peye, which If his provIdentiat work in
| life is that OF q comic lecturer, is q marvel
lOus endowment of means for ends. He is
very tall, but has q queer stoop in his back
and very round shoulders. His head and
features are large and are both striking and
queer in the impression which they produce.
His eyes are OF great size and are sunk in
his head something after the pattern of Mr..
Webster's, but speetacIes prevent them
from being solemn or even serious. His
complexion is quite dark, and his hair,
which is long and nearly jet black, is Brush
ed straight back from his forehead"
Foreign.
-Kingslake. the Ceimean writer, has
lost hisseat in Parliament by bribery, and
is likely to come to grief in 8. criminal pro-
secution.
/ Out of every hundred women In Great
! Britain above twenty years Of age, it has
been ascertarae3 that 81 are wives, lS wid-
owg, and SO spinsters.
The revenue Of Prussia amounts to
forty per cent. of It's national debt; that Of
/ Russia twenty-seven, while those Of France,
England and Austria range from ten to six.
teen.
It costs England only 81 $50, 600 an
nua1ly for her clean bank of England cur
rency on. q gold basis. It costs the United
States S13, ,O00, 900 for dirty and non,re-
deemable currency,
"A fisherman Of Montereau, in France,
lately caught a fish within whic was found
| breastpin ornamented with 80 precious
/ stones, diamonds, emeralds, rubies and
sapphires, the whole valued by jewellers at
! $780, 600.