Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-10-26
Personal Notes.

DANIEL BOONE, colored, has been killet
in st. Louis.
WHEN Nilsson leaves this country it will
be for ST. Petersburg
JEAN INGELow, the poetess, is recovering
from q severe illness.
DIR. HAWKINS, blind chemist from
Philadelphia, invented soda water in 1912
SIR JOHN MACDONALD, Premier of Can.
ada, has recovered from his recent illness.
Rev. 81. o. SHELDON is President of the
Missouri State Labor Union.
| KING VICToR EMMANUEL. has set the 18Th
OF October as the day upon which he will
visit Rome.
SIR WILLIAM FERGUSON has been elected
President of the Royal College of Surgeons,
London.
A NEPHEW of Gen. Ulrich, the gallant
defender OF Strasbourg, is police officer
in Chicago.
A SON of Governor Holden has fled
from his fathers rule without leaving his
address.
WENDELL PHILLIPS is soon to take the
stump in Massachusetts to urge his own
election.
DANIEL BooNE's monument has already
disappeared in the shape of chips in the
pockets of relic-hunters.
SUPERINTENDENT FIRTH, of the Boston
and Albany Railroad. was arrested as a.
Prussian spy while in France recently.
BRIGHAM YOUNG is said to be founding a
new colony in Arizona, in which none but
the saints will be admitted.
NATIVES of Alsatia residing in this coun-
try propose to present sword to General
Ulrlch, the defender of Strasbourg
RoRERT TooMBs still lives, and is to de-
liver the address on the opening day of
the approaching Columbus (Ga. fair
Mr. E. Il. Davenport will support Nine.
Janauschek, in her tour through the coun-
try. in English drama.
IT is mentioned as most curious fact
that Baron Won Moltke in his long life of
war, has never commanded regiment in
the field.
A CoBwEB- MARRIAGE is thus noticed by
one of our cotemporaries: Married-John
Cobb to Miss Kate Webb. Look out for the
little spiders
Mr.. r. W. RAYMOND, editor of the
American Journal of Mining, has been
appointed to chair in Lafayette College,
Pa.
JAMES f. JoURDAN, of Salem, Oregon, has
two tails. They are to be exhibited at the
State Fair.
AN Illinoisian offers $4,000 for a wife.
The cheapness of the offer is accounted for
Ly the statement that he is old and tolera-
bly, well broken up.
UNITED STATES Assessor EvARTs, OF
Montana was lost from an exploring party
headed by Gen. Washburne, and has not
been heard from since.
PROFESSOR WATSON, Of the observatory
of Ann Arbor, Mich, has received the as
Economical prize OF the Brench Academic
des Sciences as q reward for having dis
covered nine new planets in a year.
MISS KENDALL, of Indiana, has demon
strated her indisputable right to the ballot
by walking eighteen miles in less than five
hours, and winning wager of $50.
Miss EMMA JONES, young and beautiful
inmate of the Cincinnati Orphan Asylum,
has recently fallen heiress to legacy of
$50, 600 by the death OF an uncle.
The Archbishop of Bogota has removed
an image of John the Baptist from his
Cathedral because the sculptor had dressed
John in a stove-pipe hat
Col. BUNYApowsKI has arrived in London
on his way to Birmingham, whittier he
goes to receive the rifles which have been
manufactured there for the Russian Gov
ernment.
EVERY revolution of the wheel of time
crushes to death the hopes of good men
and the schemes of bad ones.
Mr. JOHN FEHRENBATcH, of Indianapolis
was elected President of the Internationa
Union of Mschinists and Blacksmiths OF
North America, at the Delegate Conven.
ton in Cleveland, on Friday.
The Shah of Persia is about to pay a
visit to the Sultan of Turkey, and the latter
IS preparing to give his royal brother a
| right royal reception. The visit will have
something Of religious aspect, the Shah
going to pay his respects to certain shrines
held in reverence by the followers OF the
Prophet.
| M. RoUCHET, an eminent naturalist,
thinks that swallows are improving thei1
| style of architecture, building their nests
with more regard to sanitary principles, SO
| as to@contain more room and admit more
| light and air. This would certainly show
curious amount of esthetic culture.
| NORTH ADAMS was amazed faw days
ago by the apparition of q Chinese dandy,
in black broadcloth suit, fine sewed boots,
starched bosom shirt, with collar and neck.
tie complete, and felt hat of the period
lounging gracefully about the street and
making purchases fastidiously at the fur
nishing stores for the further adornment Of
his person.
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