Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-03-31
Personal,

Mrs. ABRAHAM LINCOLN is soiourn1ng
at st. Augustine, Fla.
HENRY F. DICKENS is publicly reading
his fathers novels in. London.
HE late Hon. Samuel Hooper, of
Massachusetts, has left a fortune of
about $S5,00O,OOO.
AN American girl won the gold medal
at the recent examination at the College
Of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro.
TENNYsoN has pair Of deem. large
dreamy eyes, but there is nothing else
poetic In his appearance.
SENATOR BUCKINGHAM gifts to the
Yale Divinity School amounted to 1874,
900.
GEN. BURNSIDE will soon change his
place of residence from Providence,
Il. L., to Bristol, in the same State.
DIR. BIGGER, of Indianapolis, Ind,
is about to sue the Journal for $40, 900
damages, for charging him with criminal
NAL practice.
SEVENTY thousand dollars have been
laid aside already, as the fruits of Miss
Kellogg's experiment in English opera,
and she does not intend to give it away
W any man ELMER.
ELI PERKINS, according to tn YER
| acious St. Louis Journal, is suffering
| from cold in the head. This shows
that nature abhors vacuum.-Pitts-
burgh Commercial.
WILLIE WINTER, of the New York
Tribune, is the guest OF Joe Jefferson,
and is enjoying the luxury of a Winter
n ,,1o, foI
made trip Southga necessity.
PROF. WHITNEY, OF Yale College,
| will contribute book on the study of
language to the International Scientific
series, thus furnishing the third Ameri-
can work to that collection.
The Agassiz Memorial Fund is now
so large as to give to the committee in
charge of it the assurance that the
original amount contemplated, $500, 900
will soon be raised.
LORD MARLBOROUGH, lately known as
"the missing peer" on account of his
| mysterious disappearance some months
ago during fit of intoxication, has just
died in England.
DAN RICE is again and Overwhelmingly
bankrupt. He has over 200 creditors.
scattered over the United States, and
his Indebtedness amounts to 5000. 900.
Assets, one suit of clothes, S75.
Mrs. Proctor will publish the auto
biography left by Mr.. Proctor BARRY
CornwalD in the course of the wear.
AS Mrs. Proctor knew many of the dis
tinguished men of the present century,
the book is likely to be of interest.
| GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND saws of
Theodore Tilton: ''Let him compose
beautiful epitaph, repeat it to Mrs.
Woodruff and a few hundred other
sympathetic old maids and grass widows
and then get under it.
JOSEPH has just died in Paris. He
was remarkable only as the sole suryiy-
or of the family which Traupman tried
to extirpate. He wrote history of that
crime In verse, and the verses were bad
enough to inspire some regret that
Traupman missed him.
The friends of the late Admiral Wins
low are about to place over his grave. at
Mount Auburn, granite bowlder
| weighing several tons, taken from the
summit of Kearsarge Mountain, in New
Hampshire, surmounted by a granite
shaft emblematic of the ship and noun
tain he rendered famous.
WAGNER is said to have got together
an orchestra of $50 musicians chosen
from the most distinguished instrumep ).
talists of Germany, for the representa-
ton of the "Nibelungen-Ring in his
new theater. The first vocal rehearsal
will take place in July next, and the GEN
eral rehearsals in June and July, 1876.