Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-01-27
Personal.
BOUgcAuLT is al. work Oh comet

| j BpUtHcAULT IS at. work Oh comedy
to succeed "The Shaughraun.
MR. GLADSTONE is now sixtv-fiye
years, and Mr.. Disraeli sixty-nine wears
| OF age
b WHITTIER has promised to read one
OF his poems at fair in Boston in aid
Of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals.
\ REPORT is current in Glasgow that
Mr. Baird, the doncr of half a million
sterling to tho Church of Scotland, is to
be made baronet.
MISS NELSON is at present ia New
York, under the care Of DR.. Sims. It
IS believed she will be able to resume
her tour January rs.
RICHARD GRANT WHITE holds German
to be 1.-THE most horrible combination
OF sounds with which the human ear
can be tormented. "..f@
. JOSEPH HARPER, a ,centenarian dice
in Georgetown, D. c., at the AGE Of
1O6 years, on the 5th inst. Deceased
had been blind for nearly eighty years.
4. Miss EMMA ABBOTT has decided TO
make her operate debut in London in
May. Adelina Patti has promised to
throw her the first congratulatory bou-
quet.
Two centenarians have died in South
Carolina within the last few days-Mrs.
Rosenberg, aged 1O3, and Richard Cot
trell, aged 119 years.
The Norwich Conn., Bulletin
says that Mr.. David A. Wells would
not accept the presidency of the Ameri-
can Social Science Association, q posi-
ton which, it has been reported, will
be offered him. 4. ..E. ~
, MARION HART1AND has an income of
$4,000 from her "Cook Book alone.
The Tichborne claimant is to be en-
ployed as a tailor, and lis to fin; sh his
sentence at Dartmoor. r
The names of Israel Washburn. Jr
LII. D., and the Rev. E. G. Bolles.
d. D., are mentioned in connection
with the presidency of the Tufts Col
lege, as successors to DR.. Miner.
Mr.. HORACE WHITE, late editor of
the Chicago Tribune, finds his health
much impaired by his editorial labors.
and will visit the West Indies next
month in company with David A.
Wells. J.....a ,..,'..-..,
COLONEL GuDERsLEEvE, one of the
successful shots in the American team
last summer, has been elected Colonel
Of the Ninth New York Regiment, for
merly command by Colonel James
Fisk. infs j9'auyG aG.s3
Il On DIT, that Bret Harte has obtained,
through influential friends, $1,000
position in the New York Custom house,
as a relief from pecuniary embarrass-
ments.
The last King of Spain before the
one just proclaimed. bearing the name
OF Alfonso, was Alfonso XII, historical
~ called the Avenger, who reigned in
1854 until his death before the Gibral-
ter in 1850, SO that between Alfonso XI
and Alfonso XII there is only the little
period Of 525 years. rsa
The Rev. Edwin L. James, twin
brother of Bishop Edmund S. James, of
New York, died Sunday morning at
Flushing, L. L For six or seven years
he was one of the Secretaries of the
National Temperance Society. Dur
ing the latter part of his life he retired
from his pastoral duties and devoted
himself chiefly to the work of this tenn
perance society without receiving pay.
LEWIS, The wit of the Detroit Free
Press, is youth of about twenty nine,
with dark and a rolling eye, and a
mOustache like the shadow of a great
sorrow. He is engaged to lady whose
papa is worth half million.
IT was woman-Elizabeth, Countess
Thanat-who first petitioned the Irish
government for penny-post. This
was 172 years ago. Subsequently, for
that valuable hint, she was awarded
three hundred poun,is sterling per an
mum. >.
THE "Irish Times" says that one of
the objects of Sir Stafford Northcote's
visit to Ireland is to examine the sites
proposed for the establishment in Dub
lin of an extensive National Museum of
Science and Art, analogous in principle,
although not IN extent, to that of Ken
sington.
RAPHAEL SENMEs is not cherub in
his manner. The Louisville COURIER
Journal says he keeps stock of con-
gestive chills for everybody supposed
to be beneath hlm, and that means
everybody he meets.
The Philadelphia Bulletin says Mrs,
Holmes, ''the medium, spells "sick 3"
in this manner: "cick." The or
typography is defective, but the word
accurately expresses the condition in
which she has left Robert Dale Owen
and DR.. Child.
ELDER LUTz, the eccentric New
Haven preacher, had curious watch
night programme. He delivered two
sermons, one on He'll Closed for Re-
pairs,' the other on ''Time." At the
midnight hour the elder appeared in
costume, personating the dying year,
with hour glass and scythe.
The Boston Advertiser says: A
memorial window, destined for st.