Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-19
Personal.

GUIzoT celebrates his golden we'd
ding this month.
THE Rev. DR.. Pusey, the celebrated
English clergyman, is rs years old.
PAUL MoRPHY is alluded to, in
rural paper, as &C the inventor Of Nor
phine. .s'
PRINCE ARTHUR of England, goes to a
Rome, to participate in the sports OF
the Carnival.
Gov. JEWELL, of Connecticut, sings
in the choir of Congregational s9i
Church, in Hartford. ,.s, a..t r.. -,a.
DR. HOOKER, of London, has been
elected member Of the Academy of a''
Belgium sf4s.
MRS. TYLER, widow of President Ty-
ler, has established her residence in
Georgetown, Md.
The widow and the daughter of --
Lieut. Derby" John Phoenix ARE
now residing in Washington
| TRENTANovA, Roman sculptor, resi-
dent IN London, has made q marble
bust of the tenor, Capoul.
PRoF. MURRAY, of Rutgers College,
| has been commissioned Minister of
Public instruction for Japan.
SIMON TURNER colored, of Toledo,
in Perrysburg, Ohio, and gave 1t TO his
negro brethren. 'N
MENTION is made Of q lady, now in q
Washington, whose hair is 62 inches
long. Her name is Miss Mary Ralston,
and she is a native of Iowa. dan -.s
THE married ladies of western city
have formed "Come husband 2
Club" It is about four feet long, and
has brush at the end of it. a ..:..
The Coolest Mason y in Kansas died
recently at Marysyille He was 1o6 I
years old, named Henry Hastings, and a3 T
had been Mason since 1900. -, $50
6 We find that he came to his death
from calling Bill Jackson liar,'' was 500
the verdict of a coroner's jury in Mis- SOS d
souri, l...t-..
WHITTIER, being asked for an auto
graph, at once complied by penning t g
90 The name is but shadow which we find 81
Too often larger than the man behind"
The English navy is about to discard
the open-necked shirts which, from
time immemorial, have given British r.
sailors the bronchitis and pneumonia,
and adopt different style of throttle.
Mr.. CHARLES READE claims 81, 600
damages from the London Advertiser
for criticastergating anonymuncuiously
his too-well-written literary produce
tions @ @ a.--a
BOXER, the poet-U. S. Minister to
Constantinople-has been made an
honorary member of the Greek Sylla-
gos, a literary society of Constanti- go
nople.
LAUNT THOMPSON will make two
statues of the Rev. Abram Pierson,
first President of Yale-one for Yale
grounds, the other for Morgan School,
III Clinton. gao
The Hon. G. J. w. Agar Ellis is
dead, age 40. He was the youngest
son of the late Lord Dover, and was
British Secretary of Legation at,
Athens in 1862 s,~-..rs
WE read that "Cora Pearls effects
are to be sold at auction, in Paris. -
The effects of such pestilent nuisance -
are not to be got rid of by an auction
sale.
AN article by Mr.. Watterson, of the
Louisville Courier-J ournal on the life
and works of Bulwer Lytton, has at.
tracted a great deal of admiration and -
sympathy.
The British National Life-Boat As
sociation has passed a vote of thanks ~
to Mr. W. G. Bennett, for his ballad, 81
g How We Saved Them which has
been set to music by Mr.. j. L. Hatton q
Mr.. A. D. BUTLER, superintendent off,
the gardens in Regents Park, has been
honored with the silver medal of the
Geological Society of England, in re-
cognition of valuable services. ssea
DEAD: B. D. Emerson, of Massa-
chusetts, compiler of school-books,
who leaves $lOO, 900 to Dartmouth COL V
lege and $150,000 to his heirs; and
Indian Tom, the last of the Creek
Tribe, in Georgia. W ~
TWENTY THOUSAND engravings, after 4
Turner, will be sold in London, in
March. These, it is said, have been
lying UNDECIDED for 20 years, in a house eax
IN Queen Ann street, which the great 4,
artist used as studio.
GOVERNOR SEwARD's new book,
6 Travels Around the World, /" is meet
ing with almost unparalleled success
50,O 600 copies will no meet the present
demand. Orders are pouring in from
all parts of the world s
PHILIP HILL, negro, just deceased,
near Peterboro, n. c., had attained,
it is said, the great age of 1OS years. 9n
His death, says the Raleigh News, was :
caused by oyerwork in trying to extin-
gulsh fire in his house
In the English turf season. lust
closed, NJ Lefevre won $11o, 170; Mr..
Sayille, $86, 645; Lord Falmouth, S49,-
$40; Mr. Morsly, $39, 400; and Baron
Rothschild. $23, ,405. This by skillful
betting on fast horses
| ONCE WEEK accompanies comic
portrait of Mark Twain with this COM
pliment: "Mark Twain is altogether
the best living exponent of American
humor, and he may be sure of receiving
hearty welcome whenever he revisits
the old country
! PEOPLE live to great age-in the
newspapers. Here, now, is Mrs. Cas- q
slider 4eates, age 100 years, 3 months.
who was present at Washington'ss in
auguration as President of the United
States She has just died at Cincin
natl.
SINER and Kaas were convicted of
maintaining a gambling house in Phil.
adelphla, and sentenced to paw fine
Of $500 each, and to serve two wears
and SIX months Imprisonment in the
Eastern Penitentiary. Marks and
! O'Brlen received the same sentence for
a similar offense.
Mrs. LUoRETIA GREGG. of Sanduskv
Ohio, has in her possession a Bible
which is 253 years old, it having been
printed Gn HollanD in 1920. II is
about two feet IN length, one in width,
ana ten inches III thickness. The COW
ers are OF solid leather one, half inch
Shlck, and unlted'by large brass clasps.s
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