Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-11-20
Personal.

Personal.
MATILDA HERON advertises for etra-
matte pupils.
VIcToR EMMANUEL is buying horses
in England.
PROFESSOR STOWE is again restored 10
health
Mr.. ERouDE pronounces his name to
rhyme with '' ''mood. !"
MAST is engaged in illustrating
" Pickwick y for, ,Harper's Household
Dickens, work for which he is pecu-
liarly well fitted
A CHICAGO police sergeant, who join
ed the force twelve years ago poor
man, has accumulated $4,000 and re-
signed, to give another poor but honest
man an opportunity,
Henry O. Love, r. N, who laid claim
to having suggested the use of pad
dies, instead of wheels, for steam-ves-
sells.
OssIPEE, n. H., is not much of a place
for bears, yet Dewitt G. Carter has
succeeded in capturing four of them
this season, two weighing over 400 lbs
each.
HENRIETTA ROBINSON, the notorious
Z" veiled mtIrderess," now confined in
Sing Sing Prison, is to be transferred
to the State Asylum in Auburn, New
York. She is reported hopelesslv in
sane.
The son of Mr.. Russell Sturges, who
was lately announced to be about mar
rying one of General Schenck's daugh-
ters, married, a few days ago, the
daughter of the Speaker of the House
of Commons.
WILLIAM NJ. MEREDITH, of PhiladeI-
phia, and George W. Woodward, of
Luzecne county, elected to the Pennsyl
vania constitutional convention, were,
members of the convention that amend
ed the constitution in 1898.
= RAlpa KELLER, tho journalist and
writer, has taken his KNAPP
sack on lis back and started across the
los into Italy ON foot. He will write
sketches for Harper Brothers publica-
tiOns.
Col. AvAH CRoCKER, the nominee for
reelection to Congress IN the Tentls
Massachusetts district, is one of the
heaviest paper manufacturers in the
country. Starting in life without cap
itaI, he has amassed fortune which is
estimated at $2,000,000
DIR DIo LEWIS gives the following
cure for dyspepsia: sfHave right
good talk, with a funny anecdote or
two, and half dozen hearty laughs.
with each meal. This eating alone at
restaurant and shoveling in the pro-
yender in solemn silence will give dys-
pepsia to an ostrich"
$ The Jackson, Tenn, Wing tells the
following COW and bull story, which is
1ttBt as good as a cock and bull story;
ssThefe is on exhibition at the fair
COW with two bags, one on her backs
and five legs, and bull that gives milk
equal to any COW"
WILLIAM I'll. SEWARD was of Irish
lineage The first Stewards who came
to this country settled in Connecticut,
multiplied there, and dispersed through
out the Union, many of them going to
Virginia, where there are now many of
the family name.
HERR DRfEsEAoH, the lion tanner, was
tanned by rural landlords daughter
near Wooster, Ohio, and having quit
the show business about seven years
ago, now lives there, content with hez
and two children, as q peaceful farmer.
A DAUGHTER of the brother of Mr..
Lane, who was recently murdered at
Dorchester, was made widow by
murder of still more heartless nature
Mr.. Adams, who was murdered by Colt,
many years ago, in New York, being
her husband.
Apropos Of the American lady dem
tiSt at Berlin, who has been supposed
to be her sex's pioneer in that line of
business, the British Journal of Dental
Science asserts that, as long ago ag
1859, there were no less than seventeen
female practitioners of dentistry sr
England and Wales.
A vIGNETTE of the late Thaddeus
Stevens, the "Great Commoner of
Pennsylvania, has just been completed
at the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing at the Treasury Department, and
viii be used upon either the national
currency or revenue stamps. The like
ness is perfect, and the work is pro-
nornced as one of the finest pieces OF
engraving ever executed.
TIE death is announced OF Charles
Hallowell Carew, noted BRUSH
sportsman. He formerly possessed an
immense fortune, and his life was IN
sured for 100000. He was once LORD
of the Manor of Walton, and the DERBY
was run over part OF his estate. Inc
last horse who ran IN his name was
sDe]ipht. y The animal, the owner and
The iockev--Kenyon by name-are all
| dead now.
N,ec RIsr,EY. the adopted daughter
oe The late Secretary Seward, was the
;ntirnate friend of Mr.. Stewards only
donobter. Fannie. who died from the
elects of the shock she received in the
str11oole with the assassin Payne when
1ro fTst. attacked her father. The faith
or of Miss Risley, was, during the Ad-
noinistration of Lincoln and johnson,
Solicitor to the Treasury, aad after his
| daughters death Mr.. Seward adopted
her friend as a tribute to the memory
of his child.
PROFESSOR TYNDAL has perfected
new respirator for firemen, in which the
solid particles of the densest smoke are
arrested by films of cotton, wool wetted
with glycerine, and the Imost pungent
gas by layers of charcoal. BY this SIM.
pie means, iiremen can remain within
burning buildings for upward of an
hour at a time with safety and CON-
fort, so far as their respiration is cons
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