Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-07-15
Personal,


Personal.
OHIO papers are suggesting that in their
opinion Chief Justice Waite would
make an excellent President.
Ex-U. S. SENATOR Ross, of Kansas,
has retired from journalism on account
of failing health.
GEN. JOHN G. BRECKENRIDGE and
family have left Kentucky for New
York, and Will remain in the latter State,
all summer
JOHN H. BALLow, a colored man.
has been admitted to the bar of Rhode
Island, being the first colored LAWYER
in that State.
SUMMERS death cost Massachusetts
$4,000, and the expenditures were
made on such an account that men
feel delicate about questioning them.
The condition of John Harper, of the
firm of Harper Brothers, has greatly
improved, and his physicians now en-
terrain hopes of his recovery.
GRACE GREENWOOD soon goes to her
Colorado cottage, and takes her friend
Mrs. Ames, the sculptress, with her.
SENATOR SCHURz, who has been suf-
fering from malarial fever and exhaus-
ton caused by overwork for more than
a month, has in great measure recovered
his health, and, after a few weeks of
rest at Narragansett Pier, r. l., will
go to ST. Louis.
Two young princes of Austria entered
into a violent quarrel, when one said
to the other, " You are the greatest
ass in Vienna" Just then the Emper-
or, their father, entered, and said
Indignantly: "Come, come, young gen.
tlemen, you forget that I am present"
DIR. SAMUEL KNEELAND, Secretary of
the Boston Institute of Technology.
has sailed for Iceland to attend the
millennial celebration. He intends
also to visit Mt. Hecla, the Geysers, and
wild scenery of the volcanoes and fiofds
of Iceland and Norway, and to go far
north enough to see the midnight sun.
The Prince of Wales recently dined
with the Benchors of the middle temple
in their magnificent hall in London.
In the course of his speech, the Prince
said it was good thing for the profess
sion and the public that he had never
been called to the bar, for he would
not have been a brilliant ornament
to it.
CANNON KINGSLEY, of Westminster
Abbey, "pulpit orator, author and
poet has been quite i'll at Manitou,
but is now much improved. So far
his visit to Colorado has not been a
pleasant one, owing to this illness, which
has stuck to him since his arrival
a week ago last night.-De,aver NeWs.
Mrs. MARY CLEMER AMEs makes the
following little confession: "When I
was seventeen wrote rhyme called
No Longer Young I've lost it, but
these lines were in it:
| To catch a shadow in the glass,
face no longer young, alas
70 hear II. mirth Of girls and boys
The refrain of our former joys
IT is now positively asserted that
Queen Victoria, is to undertake a
journey to st. Petersburg next autumn,
and that she will stop on her way at
Berlin at the confirmation of her eldest
grand child, the eldest son of the
Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia.
The young gentleman in Question is
nearly fifteen years of age, and like all
Princes of tender years, he is said to
be fine promising boy, but unfor-
tunately he is paralyzed in the right
arm, and the physicians give no hope
that he will ever regain the use of it.
[ have been paying the penalty of
such precocity ever since. Let me tell
you, girls, to get into the news
papers before you are sixteen is
not only ridiculous and silly,
but disastrous. When am fairly old,
a whole generation will spring up and
exclaim, at the mention OF my name:
why, isn't that old woman dead yet?
I'm sure [ heard of her as gray haired
when I was youngp Now, it will NOR
tify me dreadfully when people shall
assert that have outlived my time-a
period never to long delayed in this
country"
OLIVE LOGAN, writes from Paris:
''You should see the curious poultry
feeding process which is on exhibition
at this lovely garden. You have heard
of this invention, no doubt, by which
hundreds of chickens, ducks, geese and
turkeys are fed in few minutes by
the operator inserting the India
rubber pipe down their Threats and
filling their crops by pressure Of his
foot, which plays a sort of food pump
, into them. The creatures double their
weight in eighteen days by this pro-
cess, and their meat is immensely i'm
proved in quality by the choice feed
thus scientifically administered to them.
The operation looks barbarous, but it
} is motor you must remember that
: chickens have crops; never forget that
chickens have crops, and complain Of
the next Paris dramatic correspondent
you get VINO wanders away from
Legitimate themes to tell you so.
A Scientists Anniversary.
In 1774 Joseph Priestly discovered
oxygen, and the year was otherwise re-
markable in the progress of chemistry.