Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-12-01
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

THERE'S many slip 'twit the pave
and the hip nowadays. --Detrot Free
Press.
MRS. HASTINGS, the presidents niece,
the young lady who was married at
the White House two years ago, has
named her little daughter Lucy HAYES
Hastings.
MRS. HAYES has already invited Mrs.
Garfield to visit her this winter in Wash
Ington, III order that she may become
| initiated into the domestic and social dr.
ties of the White House.
SIR THOMAS BoUcH, the engineer of
the Tay bridge, who died recently, il
said to succumbed to the effects of grief
and trouble consequent on the bridge
catastrophe.
| The Duke Of Buccleuch has taken so
severely to heart the defeat of his son,
Lord Balkeith, by Mr.. Gladstone, that
he has closed up his collieries at Dali
keith, removing 200 miners and reducing
the trade of the place by 93OO a week.
OLIVE LOGAN says Mrs. Cross George
Eliot) looks vastly better than she did
during the time she was anxious about
George Lewes' health and after his
death. ''Her face was then a map of
sorrow; now it is the map Of the Cape Of
Good Hope"
The present sultan of Turkey (says a
Constantinople correspondent appears
broken-down man of so, with a hooked
nose, restless gray eyes and thin beard,
streaked with silver. Two attendants
support every step he takes, placing a
hand under each of his elbows,
| THE tallest man known to exist is at
present at Kalisch RUSSIA Poland). He
is called Kikolai Simonow, and stands Z
feet lOa inches without his boots. This
young man served through the Turkish
war, and is decorated with several badges
for bravery. He is at present an under
officer in the Probascheuski regiment.
JOHN DoNAHUE, locomotive engineer
! for forty-six years, died at his home In
ousquehanna, n. Y, recently, at the
age of 50 years. "Uncle john" as he
was Familiarity called, was one of the
famous engineers Of the country, and
name was well-known by railroad men
both In this country and in Europe.
! GEN. MEREDITH READ, ax-minister to
Greece, mentions an old man who re-
Gently died in Athens, aged 112. A son
was born to him at the age of 80. The
young man is of ordinary size and
strength, but is entirely destitute of
teeth.
Miss BRADDoN, the novelist, has
shrewd Scotchman, Mr.. Maxwell, for a
husband, and the pair live in excellent
style in suburb of London, with riding
| horses, fine carriages and park hounds.
There is also large double family of
children. She is said to be an excellent
housekeeper, in spite OF her literary
| labors.
STEPHEN S. WANDELL, who was born
in Troy in October, 1900, is said to be
the Oldest native of that city. He is the
treasurer of the Upper Aqueduct blue
stone company and is prominent in bust
ness circles in West Troy. When he
was boy he went to the same school
with Gen. John E. Wool who frequent
! ~ carried him thither on his back.
Miss EDMONIA LEWIS, the sculptor. is
very happy in her Roman studio. In
early life her name, given to her by her
Indian mother (of the Chippewa tribe),
was Wildfre." and she roamed with
that tribe for fifteen years. Her father
was u negro. She became Roman
Catholic. Among her best friends Is
| United States Minister Marsh.
| 4 YOUNG American named Richardson.
of Brookline, Mass, who recently was
graduated III his class at Harvard college,
has just entered Boliel college, at Ok
ford, England, ranking first of all the
applicants, and receiving the usual hon
orary reward of e5OO, with a choice of
the best apartments in the gift of the
college.
| KEPPLER, the cartoon artist of Puck.
is tall and finely formed, with a good
breadth of chest. He is handsome
brunette, with a black mustache and
| wrestless black eyes. He is one of the
quietest of men, polite and easy, but
almost shy III the modesty of his manner.
He does not Like to have any one praise
his work, and he cordially invites criti-
cism. His brother artists claim that he
is the best artist in pencil portraits ip
the country.
WILLIAM SEXTON, mail agent in the
Bradford, Pa, region, has worked on
railroads III various parts of the country
for twenty-elght years. During that
time he has travelled on an average one
thousand miles week. Altogether he
has travelled one million five hundred
thousand miles, equal to little more
than hfty-elght times around the world.
He says experience has taught him to
stick by the train in smash-up. He
has observed that most people are in
lured by jumping OFF.
The engagement is announced in
Washington of the venerable Bishop of
Maryland, the Right Rev. William
Plnckney, to Miss Lucy Hunter, of
Washington, formerly of Virginia. The
romance Of this prelate's married life is
somewhat remarkable. His first wife
was lady twenty years his senior, who
made his christening robe when he was
babe Her death occurred several years
ago. The prospective bride is twenty
years his junior, lady who is highly
esteemed, and who for nine years has
held the post of matron in the Louise
home in Washington. 1t is said that
she refused, some years ago, an offer of