Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-02

country On professional tour this winter.
A SISTER of John Bright is in German
town, Pennsylvania, the guest OF Lucretia
Mott
Two young ladies have been admitted an
students to the California University.
LrNsA PAYNE, of Gainesville. Ga, is re-
ported to have fallen heir to 100000.
ADEL1NA PATTI has been singing of late
ct the Philharmonic concerts in Liverpool.
LAST Thursday the Wonans Medical
College Of Philadelphia opened its twenty
first annual session.
THE Democrats in Kansas have nomin-
ated woman for the Office Of Superintend-
ent of Public instruction.
AUXILIARY societies to the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society are being
formed In various parts of the country.
PARTY of respectable Chicago ladies
have formed q society for reclaiming dis
sipated young men.
AN East Tennessee woman waved q red
flag until the train stopped, and then
asked the conductor if her sister was
aboard.
THE Duke of Argylls only sister has
lately married the Right Honorable Sir
John McNeill, who is said to be seventy
five years old.
CLAY MCDANIEL and Mrs. Massengale
won the gold medal for the best skating at
the Nashville roller skating rink, q few
days since.
The wife of Senator Ruby, of Texas, is
light quadroon, formerly of Troy, N. Y.
Her father was fugitive slave, who lived
for time in Canada.
MILE. SILLY is popular actress after
whom a bonnet has been named-iust as If
the ladies have not had enough of silly
bonnets.
The nav fashion among ladies of holding
the hands is likened to the forepaws of
dog when standing on his hind legs. 1t is
called 'the kangaroo style. ~
A YOUNG girl at Schenectady, n. Y, has
been committed to the Troy jail in default
of $40 fine for having promenadod through
the streets with colored man. H
A LITTLE girl at Newport seeing the will
low ph8tons for the first time, exclaimed:
''Why, mamma, everybody rides out in the
clothes baskets
SOME of those fancy little sashes worn
by some of our ladies around their waists,
cost about $50, and yet 'ethe Door ye have
with you always"
Miss ISABELLA MCCULLOUGH denies the
story of her marriage to Brignih and the
birth of twins. They are the fabrication
of some malicious scoundrel.
VERY pretty ladies' watches are now made
of glass, both sides, SO that the works can
be seen, with small rim of silver, and fas-
10 ha ha1 NV c51u ohoi,
The latest wrinkle IN jewelry are hand
some gold clasps, with monogram on them
in blue or black enamel, and are used for
clasps for black velvet for the wrists, or for
garters.
MISS LIZZIE BoYNToN is to be married to
one of those ''horrid men" she continually
talks about in her women's rights Speeches,
and is SO afraid it will get into the papers
YOUNG girl of thirteen, of Independ-
ence, Iowa, 80 successfully used her teeth
on the finger of q would-be candidate for
penitentiary life term that he was glad
to escape.
A WIDOW lady, Mrs. Elan, living near
Prairie Lea, Texas, with her son, lad
fourteen years old, cultivated five acres of
cotton and fourteen Of corn, and made
fine crop of both.
ladies chignons of glass. The idea was
doubtless suggested by the fact that those
now worn are apt to cause panes in the
head.
A MOTHER out West recently addressed
her daughter thus: ''My daughter. you are
now fifteen years of age, engaged to be
married, and without q freckie on your
face. l have done my duty"
RECENTLY in Berlin, $40 couples appear
ed during one Sunday to be married in
church, without previous publication of the
bans, in consequence of the rapid mobili-
zation of the army.
IT is announced, upoh u. lthority of q
Berlin newspaper, Il as sne cAignon has
gone quite out OF fashlL nsln l-.at city, no.
body wearing this unsightly addendam ex-
cept the demi-nonde.
s.WHEN men break their hearts, " remark
ed cynical female writer, sit is the same
as when a lobster breaks one of his claws
another sprouts out Immediately and grows
in its place.
"WoMENs RIGHTS" have broken out in
new place. Horses were stolen near New
ton, Iowa, on the I'd of September. and one
of the thieves, viz: Mary Early, of Missouri,
has been captured.
Mrs. WALKER, wife OF Hartford clergy
man, has been awarded prize of $500 for
the best Sunday School book in manu-
script, by Henry Hoyt, of Boston. The
story is entitled ':Both Sides of the Street"
A YOUNG lady in Norfolk, Va, who was
to have been led to the hymeneal altar last
Thursday, had the wedding day postponed
fortnight because her beautiful face was
slightly disfgured by mu, quito bites.
that even discarded hoop-skirts can be
made useful. By suspending them, and
using the proper weights, he finds that
they make admirable turkey and chicken
coops.
| A NEGRO girl, employed as servant by
Professor Woodfn, at Penield, Georgia,
was shot and killed on Monday night by
her gay Lothario, David McWhorter. He
escaped to the woods, although the shoot
ing is supposed to have been accidental.
Two oetogenerians, who had been be-
trothed in early life, were recently united
in Wedlock at Galesburg. ILL.,. In The IL
terval between the separation and reunion
each had been twice married and twice left
alone by the death of their companions.
THERE is an old negro in Mobile, 81
years of age, who is now living with his
seventeeth wife, and is the father of Al
children, the youngest being five months
old. He was born in New L ondon, Conn,
was stolen and brought to that place when
a child, and has lived there seventy years.
His name is Stephen Short.
GREELEY ON THE WOMAN QUESTION.
The Hon. Horace Greeley delivered lec-
ture in Wheeling. W. Va, few daysago,
on the ''Woman Question. The Register
says: ''Horaces position is, in our view,