Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-31
PERSONAL.

persistant theater goer of all the public
men in Washington.
The duchess OF Edinburgh reads q
great deal in several LANGUAGES. and has
her favorite Russian and French authors
always at hand.
ULYssEc GRANT, who is called
Buck" says his father wants him to
60 to Mexico with him; but "Buck" is
afraid that it will break up for q while
his law studies.
DIR. LEoNARD W. BACON. of Nor
Wlch, is building house which is to be
covered with California redwood shingles.
and is to have the chimneys standing on
the outside.
FIFE GRAY MILLA1s, the eldest
daughter of the distinguished artist, has
just been married to Lieut.. w. G. James.
only son of the Right Hon. Lord Justice
James.
ARCHIBALD FORBES having refused to
deliver lecture st Newport, England,
IN consequence of a dispute with the
manager, WAS followed to the railway
station by an excited crowd, who hooted
and pelted him.
HACKENsACK, N. j., owns a citizen
named Charles Harris, who failed ten
years ago and paid fifty cents on the
dollar. The other day he paid his cred
itors the other fifty per cent. of his in
debtedness to them.
THE celebrated Townley collection of
sculpture, for which parliament paid
800, 900, has remained for twenty-five
years in the cellars of the British mu-
scum, and has only been viewed during
that time by lantern h2ht by few peo-
pie who insisted on seeing it.
GRACE GREENwooD's daughter An.
ME, who went abroad with her mother
to cultivate her voice for the stage, has
renour ced that project. She says the
European plan for cultivatipg the voice
is entirely too narrowing for her.
The claim to being the oldest editor
in Ohio is made by w. 81. P. Denny.
who has been in the editorial harness for
~ years, and for so years has either
been printer or writer upon some paper.
He has set type every year since 1920, or
80 years, and his father and mother were
both printers.
HENRY LAVA SELwYN, full-blooded
Sioux Indian, and q son Of leading
chief of the Yankton tribe, has been
ordained pastor of the church at Yank-
ton agency. If the brother should take
a notion to get up revival in his parish
he will have it if he has to come down
and scalp the whole congregation.
MRS. Rosa HARTwICK THORPE was
the author of "Curfew Must Not Ring
To. Night" when she was but sixteen
years old. This poem has been one of
the most effective renditions of public
readers. 1t has been translated into
German, and several English plays have
also been based upon it. Mrs. Thorpe is
resident of Litchield, Mich.
MRS. HANNAH SIMPSON GRANT, the
mother of the general, is now at the age
of eighty, living with her daughter, Mrs
Corbin, in small retired house on the
heights above Jersey City. She is
quiet and dignifed old lady, with a
small, straight figure and regular fea-
lures. She has bright dark eyes and
kindly smile, and she moves about with
unusual vigor and activity.
REDPATH, in a recent interview, said
that Bob Ingersoll described a sanguine
man with a single stroke: "Show him
an egg and instantly the air is full of
feathers" The western orator..is apt at
illustrations drawn from the barn-yard.
In the days when he was Democrat, he
said of Lincoln's administration: 'sThis
administration doesn't know enough to
set hen; and if it were to try to set
hen it would first suck the eggs
LORD DURHAM, an English nobleman
who died recently, had a rather curious
history. He was one of twins, arriving
about thirty minutes before his younger
brother, and thereby, according to the
laws of primogeniture, inheritng all his
fathers property But the old gentle
man, who was sporting character,
thought that as the other boy did so well
he ought to be provided for, and there
fore built fine residence for him at
UvOnler, an excellent spot for shooting
and fishing, and this the dilatory twin
now inherits.
We clip from a London letter this
item: "Since the marriage of the
Duke of Edinburg with the powerful
jawed Sclavonic lady who espoused him,
the Russo Greek church in Melbeck
ob1CCg3 NAlCn 10 oeoOdoO0 ny GAO
Duchess of Edinburgh and her suite,
has become almost favorable in London,
though the Greek language is a bar to
some English ladies. As no member of
the royal family is likely to marry
Greek lady, there is no chance that the
genuine Greek church in London will
ever become very fashionable"
SENATOR JONES, of Nevada, is Eng
lish by birth, but spent nearly all his
childish years in Cleveland, Ohio, where
all the education he acquired was given
him in the public schools. The Leader
of that city says he was considered an
apt scholsr. When he was 20 years old
he made, with one of his brothers, the
voyage round Cape Horn to California,
voyage which occupied seven months.
After a short experience as clerk in
San Francisco the young man went out
through the state in search of fortune,
nearly losing his life in show drifts,
serving in various political Offices, and
ending as superintendent of mines at
Gold Hill New at q salary of $40 00fl a