Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-10
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

TENNYsON's hair is untouched with
gray.
A BROTHER of TaImage has been
missionary in Annoy, China, since 1847.
Mr.. JAMES RUSSELL LowELL's house
at Cambridge, Mass, has been rented for
the winter by Mr. Ole Bull.
PETER COOPER is now in his eighty
ninth year. and is more active than
most men who are twenty years younger.
THERE is on Long Island sound an old
oyster. digger who has raked the biyalves
in for nearly 10 years and has lived on
them for his daily food.
HENRY LAVA SELwYN, full-blooded
Sioux Indian, and son of leading
chief of the Yankton tribe, has been
ordained pastor of the church at Yankton
agency.
CORNELIUS VAEDERBILT, who will
reside in Washington this winter, is
worth two millions Of dollars, which pay
per cent. per annum, thus yielding him
yearly income of $3.50,
JOHN BRIGHT declares that il he was
teacher in school he would make it
" very important part of his business"
duty of being kind to all animals.
The Rev. Berry Little, a Baptist
preacher in Georgia, has the care of five
churches, breaches all day on Sunday
and cuts wood for living during the
week. He is seventy-one years old.
ERASMUS WILSON, the English author
ity on diseases on the skin, is about 10
give 100000 to erect sea-bathing in
Urinary for the scrofulous. He paid for
the erection of Cleopatra's Needle in
London.
REV. DR.. TUCKER resigned q $4,000
per annum passionate in New York to &C
cept So, 600 call at Andover, Mass,
and wicked exchange says that his
case is to be considered by the physicians
of the several lunatic asylums.
ONE of the eight ladies who have been
regular attendants of DR.. Howard Cros-
by's church in New York for thirty
years, was Mrs. Conkling, wife of Col.
COnkling, brother of Senator Conkling,
who wss buried day or two ago.
GEORGE 2. SICKLEs, father of General
Dan. f. Sickles, is remarkably like an
enlarged addition of the late William
Cullen Bryant, being fully once and a
half as large as the deceased poet He is
"a years old and remarkably we'll pre-
served, both mentally and physically.
REV. DANIEL 8. HELToN,.a Baptist
preacher of Rome county, Texas, is now
80 years old, but as vigorous as a man of
so ordinarily is. He has been twice
married, and is the father Of twenty-four
children. Of his SONS sixteen served in
the Union army during the war, and two
wore the rebel uniform.
MISS MARY ALLEN WEST is superin-
tendent of Schools in Knox county, ILL.,,
and her schools have taken six out of
eight premiums offered in the educa-
tlonal department of the Illinois state
fair. The superintendent of the educa-
tiOnal exhibit recommended the state
board of agriculture to grant medal to
Miss West.
TIE Empress Eugene is said to have
become almost childish with brooding
over her bereavements. She constantly
carries about with her dagger-shaped
fan, pur chased at fair and presented
to her by her son-it being his last gift
to her. When addressed she listens with
great show of apathy, never removing
her eyes from the fan.
DICKENS did not like early dinners.
In letter from Boston, in 1868, he
wrote: Yesterday I dined with club
here at half-past 2, and came back here
at half-past 8 with general impression
that it was, at least, o'clock in he
Two days before dined III
Longfellow at half-past 2, and came bAck
at 8, supposing it to be midnight.
THOMAS FULLERTON, a professional
rat killer from New York, is in Pitts
burg killing large numbers of rats in the
hotels. He entices rat from its hole
by a peculiar squeak and then brushes
its head with small pair of tongs. In
one night he killed 120 in the st. Clair
hotel. An hostlsr near by catches rats
with his naked hand, and has thus far
captured "a.
Mr.. CLARE SEwELL READ and Mr.
Albert Pell, the British agricultural COM
are nov in Philadelphia.
Since they arrived in this country they
have been as far northwest as Manitoba,
Dakota and Minnesota, and as far south
west as Texas. They have travelled a
daily average of 10 to 120 miles since
their arrival, besides making their
Investigations.
SENATOR SHARON once dined with
literary club in New York. Atthe table
he quoted from history, and little man
at his right joined Issue on the question.
Sharon waxed a trife warm, and insin-
ated that bis opponent might be clever
sort of man, but history was not his
forte. After dinner Sharon remarked to
a friend: Who is that little cuss there
who disputed my dates2" Bancroft,
the historian"
KossUTH has just lost his rights az
Hungarian citizen. The chamber of
deputies has adopted bill declaring
that any native of the country who vol
UNFAIRLY resides abroad for an uninter-
rupted period of ten years shall lose his
civil status. The Extreme Left violent
ly opposed this measure, accusing the
government of leveling it directly at
Kossuth, but it was finally carried by
al votes to 81.