Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-11-27
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< FANNY FERN, in her school-days, tore
: the leaves out of her 6 'Euclid'' to curl
: her hair with.
CoNATTY, whose afidayits so effectu-
ally silenced Doolittle, died at Harlem,
N. Y, last week.
SToRRs says Beecher has 'wasted
voice enough to make two thunder
storms " by talking SO very loud.
A CoLoRED woman named Peggy
Decker, aged 107 years, died in New
burg, N. Y, Monday.
TIMOTHY I'ITooMB HOLLAND has a new
book in press entitled "Happy Days at
Hampton.
ONLY one voter born of American pa
rents in San Francisco deposited a
ballot III the last Presidential election.
Mr.. SEwARD's book describing his
journey round the world will be pub
lished by subscription only.
Rev. G. S. HALE, formerly of Ash
field, Mass, has been appointed Pro
fessor of English Literature in Antioch
College, Ohio.
professor PERRING facetiously re-
marked, when asked to write SsPig-
eon-pie quickstep." "Tll be cooked if
[ do
Miss SALbIE SHANNON, Grand Duke
Alexis's favorite belle during his Amer
lean tour, was married a few days since
in ST. Louis.
THE marriage of Signora Tamberlik
with Dr. Galezowski, the oculist who
saved her sight, has taken place.
Mr.. d. r. LOCKE, of Toledo (Petro.
leum V. Nasby), has started forty
eight-page magazine, called Locke's
Dollar Monthly, of which he is editor,
and Messrs. Jones & Locke the publish
CrS.
ERLANGER, manager of the Denver
Savings Bank, skipped out one night
last week, and deep grief has settled
like pail on the community.
CHAs. FENNo HOFFMAN, the once IA
vate lunatic asylum where he has long
been confined.
STRAUSS, the Austrian composer, has
signed contract with a book firm at
Prague for the publication of his
"reminiscences of America
THREE stars of the operatic stage,
the tenor Lott, Mrs. Clara Brinkerhoff,
and Madame Adelia Cell, are teaching
music in New York.
FRANK MOORE, just returned from
Paris, will lecture this winter on the
"Comic Side of Diplomacy in Eu-
rope"
IT may not be known that " Mario"
is merely the stage name of the famous
singer who bears it. His real name
is Giuseppe, Marquis of CANDIDA
The salary of General Mcclellan as
Engineer-in.Chi of the department of
docks in New York has been reduced
from $40, 900 to $4,000 year, at his
own request.
Four splendid drawing room cars, to
run between New York and Springfield,
have been named after four Governors
of Connecticut: Buckingham, Hawley,
English and Jewell. They cost so, 600
each.
The remains of Gen. c. O. Loomis,
of the famous Coldwater Battery, which
are now buried in the National Gene
terry at Washington, are TO be brought
home and inferred at Coldwater, Mich,
on next Memorial Day.
MARSHAL LEBGUF, Napoleon's Min
lister of War, who said in July, 1870,
that the French army was prepared for
Germany to the 'last button of the
last gaiter, is, according to LIE Fran
cais, in a state of mind bordering on
insanity.
The oldest organist in America is
Mr.. P. Taylor, of Brooklyn. This
venerable musician was born in Eng
land, in 1778. He played an organ in
church when only Ia years. He came
to this country in his youth, and so
years ago was appointed organist at
St. Paul's Chapel, New York.
A YOUNG gentleman writes from Al
bia to his wife in Troy as follows
"Dear Wife-Dollie has got it-l
mean the hippozoo, am slowly
hauling the buggy in. Home to-mor-
row CHARLIE
HENRY WARD BEECHER. says: II
Darwin is right in thinking that men
ascended from monads by gradual eyo-
luton. then it is very certain that some
men came up by the way of the mus
onto. the 1eas and the biting fly, and
that their ancestral traits still linger In
the blood.
Mrs. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE is ed
iting library of famous fiction, winch az
is to embrace in a single volume 1.-The
Pilgrims Progress" ''Robinson Cru,
soe.' "Gulliver's Travels, ~" Nathek,
and five other masterpieces OF English
imaginative literature.
The Marquis OF Westminster is the
proprietor of probably the most expen-
sive ceiling in the world. 1t cost the
enormous sum of e22, 900, and consists
of the best Spanish mahogany two 1eet
in thickness, foot deep OF whlcn is
elaborately carved around with the let
ters W. G.. The cornice to the ceiling
is of polished ebony of the finest de
scription, and is three feet wide. Upon
this are magnificent paintings, copies
from the great masters.