Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-01-13
Personal.

respectively fourteen and sixteen.
= A CALIFORNIA lawyer has been fined
$1OO for calling judge fool. It is no
wonder that California lawyers have so
little love for truth, when they are
charged SO much for speaking it.
THERE lives in jacksonville, CAL, a
Spanish woman who is the mother of
twenty children, none of whom are
twins, and in the Pajaro Valley an
American vino has brought up a family
of twenty.
Toavoid notifying her lovers family,
who are very poor, Montreal heiress
was married the other day in a plain
Swiss muslin costing 500. But she had
marriage. s..
MOSES MENDELssOHN, son OF the
great grandson of Moses Mendelssohn,
the great musician and composer, has
lately been married in Berlin to a
daughter of the Breslau banker, Mr.
Robert Warschauer ...-
DIR PETER CONSCIOUS, a stout old Tex
an of seventy-slx years has had SIX
wives, always marrying young girl,
and is the father of ffty-four children,
forty-eight of whom are living and do
ing well. So he says, ..e .
The death of Eugene Renduel, one
of the most notable Partisan publishers
is reported. The friends of Victor HUI
go say that Renduel realized 100000
francs by 'Notre Dame de Paris" alone
"a very large amount in that day for
one work.
''THE most extensively dressed man
1 ever saw" writes captain in the
British navy, was an African chief on
the Gold Coast His wives had anoint-
ed him thoroughly with palm oil, and
then powdered him from head to foot
with gold dust. You never saw in your
life a man got up SO utterly regardless
of expense.
Miss SUSAN E, DICKINSON recently
published an open letter to Carl Schurz,
replying to some opinions advanced in
his lecture on Educational Problems"
Miss Dickinson is in favor of training
women to support themselves in life,
opposed to the education of children at
very early age, and presents her views
in lively and forcible manner
THINGS have come to a pretty pass
with Joaquin Miller. Earope Is getting
too warm for him. He can't enter
railroad depot but what he is headed
off at the ticket office by three or four
women all shaking their orders for ali
mony at him.-Brooklyn ArgAs.
The bronze statue of Jefferson, the
gift of Captain Levy, of the navy, to
the Government, which for some years
stood in front of the Presidents house,
has been returned froI. Philadelphia,
where it was sent to be cleaned, and
placed in the old Hall of Representa-
tives among other statues.
Mrs. z. P. BAN1srER, who died at
Newburyport, Mass, last week, at the
age of eighty, under her maiden name
of Grant was one of the most noted ed
ucators of the country forty years ago.
She was, early in life, principal of the
Adams Academy, at Derry, n. H, and
afterward, for eleven years, at the head
of the Ipswich (Mass.) Female Semi
nary.
A MISSIONARY, with his wife and their
three little girls, arrived in Boston on
Monday. The children, now for the
first time in the northern hemisphere,
were born, one at a mission station on
one of the South Sea islands, one i'll
Australia and one in Tasmania, former
ly known as Van Dieman's Land-thou-
sands of miles apart. The story OF the
life of that missionarys family would
be as interesting as romance.
HENRYA. PIERCE, Uuited States minis
ter resident at the Hawaiian Islands,
and now accompanying the King, is
member of the California pioneers. He
came around Cape Horn to Honolulu in
1925. and came to California in 1928,
and remained some time on that coast.
He again came to San Francisco in 1S41
and in l849, and also in 1867 He has
spent many years on the Pacific coast
and islands, and has owned some of the
finest clipper ships which have sailed in
those waters.
The Massachusetts, Temperance Ali
ance has secured the services of Mr..
Thompson Whitaker, of England, who
is called, in his native land, ''the prince
Of temperance advocates He is now
in New York but will return on January
LIST. DR.. Charles Jewett, also, the vet
eran advocate of our country, is en-
plOyed TO lecture Oh IuoSCIeHt1nc phase,
and Mr.. j. H. Osgood, the originator
of the Reform Club" movement, of
Maine, is employed to organize reform
clubs in Massachusetts.
4 NV 0 CLEANS eorrqerondant, wit
ing to Memphis paper about General
Longstreet, says that he is in very
poor state of health indeed. His right
leo Is crinnlad with the disease which
has kept him in doors for a month, and
his face bears every evidence of anxiety
and suffering. The excitement of fright
on September 14th' did him no good,
and his fortunate escape, a ball having
passed through his coat and vest Just
grazing his chest-must have proved
reminder to him of the other avs when
the balls came from another direction.
He talks but little, and seems to take
no interest in politics since the election