Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
ABOUT PEOPLE.

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day.
MCFARLAND, the murderer of Albert
ID. Richardson, jig not dead as has been
reported, but is practicing law in Lead
vile.
M. STAN1sLAUs HARE1, one of the rich
est men In Rouen, has just died, leaving
his whole fortune of several million
francs to his valet.
SIR julius BENEDICT wore at his we'd
ding, which took place quite recently, a
dark-blue frock-coat, white vest, pearl
gray trousers, and sky-blue neck-tie.
A MAN at Bridgeport, Conn, kicked at
a hog, got bite in the leg and the doc
tors had to saw it off to save his life. A
soft answer turneth away wrath.
"BETTER is q dinner of herbs where
love u.s." than a whole hogshead of
church festival soup where oysters are not.
= Whitehall Times.
A LITTLE girl watching coniurer +" eat
fire. asked her sister If that was "the
light fantastic tow (which she had heard
spoken Of Worcester Gazette.
OURAY, the Ute, is short and stout.
has square face, and wears high hat.
He has somewhat of beard and speaks
Spanish well.
THE three most attractive actresses in
America, rating them by the money they
draw, are to play simultaneously in the
Boston theatre next month. They are
Lolita, Nelson and Anderson.
A CELEBRATED beauty in the time of
Napoleon Bonaparte, Nine. Louise
Lucerne, has just reached her Tooth
year. She was the friend and rival in
beauty of Nine. Recamier.
HENRY WIENIAwsKY, the well known
Russian violinist, who few years ago
visited this country in company with
Rubinstein, is now lying sick and desti-
tute in the Moscow charity hospital.
LIszT likes solitude, and spends a
great deal of bis time in his Roman villa
with no other companion than his piano
and his music. His tastes are very
simple and his luxuries few.
"DoN'T I make pretty picture?" ex-
claimed Jones, rather ruefully, as he
stepped upon the river bank after his
baptism through the ice. GA picture?"
replied his friend Snodgrass. 81 should
call it sillywet. "-Boston Transcript.
SINCE Tennyson has shown an in
vincible repugnancel to hearing his
poetry read by ladies, he will no doubt
be wrung out by the wild bellies
Hackensack Republican.
Tom TAYLOR is kindly, domestic man,
with many warm American friends. He
takes to Americans because he says they
have an independence and freshness
about them which he likes. He still
talks of visiting America.
EX-SENATOR DORSEY, of Arkansas, is
using the 81 10000 he made in mining
operations to carry on sheep rails
ing on a grand scale in New Mexico. He
was nearly bankrupt when he left the
senate.
LADY DEsART, the ex-wife of the Earl
of Desart, who eloped with and sub
sequently married Mr.. Sugden, the lead
ing juvenile actor, is about coming out
on the London stage in one of Bartley's
Campbell's plays.
YOUNG VALLANDIGHAM, is the only
Democratic member Of the Ohio legisla-
trlre who voted against Thurman, be-
cause he charges that the latter swindled
his father out of the senatorship in 1857
6S.
MAJOR GENERAL CHAMBERLAIN, who
attracted a good deal of attention in
Maine, was graduated from Bowdoin
college and was an instructor there when
the war broke out. He volunteered,
was commissioned lieutenant colonel,
and was soon made colonel. For bra
very at Fredericksburg, where he was
badly wounded, he was made a brigader
general, and the next year he was pro-
NOTED to be major general. He is now
president of Bowdoin college.
ADELINA PATTI, on her recent arrival
in Dresden, was met at the railway sta
ton by party of her admirers. Their
spokesman, general, handed her beau
tiful bouquet, and was about to deliver
an address, when the impressario of the
prima donna approached him and said:
"Your excellency, please postpone the
agreeable task of addressing madame,
for in this draught she may easily catch
a dreadful cold in the head, and every
such accident costs me $4,000 marks. "
ABosToN lady, whose husband was fre-
quently afflicted with nightmare, was one
night awakened by noise, and to her
horror saw her husband sitting up In
bed, saying in whisper, CHOW [ have
him, he can't escape?" and pointing his
pistol at an imaginary burglar. His fin
ger was on the trigger and he was point
ing directly at the head of the baby in
it's cradle. Quick as lightning, his wife
said low tone? ''Too low! aim higher?"
He raised the pistol, she snatched it
from his hand and the danger was over.
WHEN Mrs. Scott-Siddons read in
Greencastle, Ind, recently, she did her
audience the honor to appear before it in
full evening dress. The officers of the
"Asbury University a local school of
some sort, were so shocked by the spec
tacle of low-neck and short sleeves and
were so alarmed about its possible effect
on the the students that they spoke about
it at prayers the next morning, stigma
thing Mrs. Siddon's appearance as a
''gross insult This action vas rather
J1ncalled-for, it would seem, because the
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