Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-11-10
PERSONAL GOSSIP.


CHARLES DICKENS wrote with a Quill
pen to the very last.
A BLIND girl of Cincinnati is to marry
bind man who loves her because she
can play well on the organ.
THURLow WEED was fishing with a
pin hook on an island near Catskill when
Fulton's steamboat, the Clermont, made
her first trip up the Hudson in 1907.
Col. WILLIAM PRESTON JOHNSTON OF
Kentucky, son of Albert Sydney Johns
ton, has assumed his duties as president
OF the Louisiana state university and
mechanical and agricultural college, at
Baton Rouge.
HE first white female settler of Indian
| apolis, Mrs. James Mccormick, died
at Frankfort, Ind, recently. Her hus-
band and his two brothers where the
original settlers, arriving at the site of
the present Hoosier capital in Februa-
ry, 1920.
IsMAIL PAcHA, ex-Khedive, is leading
the quietest sort of life in Vienna. He
drives daily In the Prater, never falling
to visit the Industrial Exhibition. He
dimes at and never stirs out afterward.
but sits in his room at the hotel PLAYING
cards with his suite all the evening.
SAM. ROGERS reputation as a giver of
breakfasts will outlve his poetry, add it
is possible that the highest of his pleas
ures of memory was when he asked lady
one night at the opera: CIVIL you
, came and breakfast with me tomorrow
morning?" She replied: "Won't I!''
| CHARLES UTTER, the Japanese servant
who accompanies General Grant, is q
bright, quick-witted young man. When
asked by an inquisitive young fellow
what his duties were were, he replied
quietly, with comical expression upon
his face, 81 am expected to mind my
own business and to be of service to my
employer when it is possible.
Mr.. HERREsHoFF, the president of the
Herreshoff Manufacturing company,
Bristol, R. L., is entirely blind, yet be
invents and builds torpedo boats and
small steam vessels for governments all
over the world. It is said that he can
tell as much about the construction Of
an ordinary steam launch by feeling as
others can by seeing.
UNITED STATES MINISTER MARSH viii
resign his position at the italian court
| by next spring, the reason being that he
is advancing in age. Mr.. Marsh is 70
years old He was minister to Turkey
under President Taylor, having previous
ly been a Vermont lawyer and mem
Der of congress- His Life has, however,
been devoted mainly to studies III philol-
ogy and physics, concerning which he
has published a number OF valuable
works.
RUSSIA is going to imitate the good ex-
ample OF the Prince of Wales 10 sending
his sens to sea. The Grand Duke Con-
stantine has had his second son, Con-
stantine, appointed lieutenant of the
frigate Duke of Edinburg, now fitting
out at Cronstadt for the Pacific. All
the sons of the high admiral of Russia
have had semi-nautical training, rank
ing as midshipmen in the Baltic feet,
and occasionally taking trip to Revel or
Sveaborg during the summer maneuvers.
THE ex-Empress Carlotta has fortu-
nately lost all memory OF her Mexican
experience, never making any allusion to
it. The unhappy princess, in the dark
ness of her mind, still retains the habits
of court etiquette, exacts all ceremonious
always attires herself in handsome COS
tune for dinner. The only visitor whom
she consents to see is Queen Marie
Henriette, who shows a kindly devotion
to the invalid which does her honor.
IT was melancholy sight, recently,
on board the Amerique, to see a crowd
of gaping curiosity seekers pushing
rudely by and elbowlng the widow of the
murdered Lincoln to catch a sight Of the
actress Bernhardt. Not one in fifty of
this vulgar crowd of men knew that thew
we're in the presence Of fallen greatness.
Mrs. Lincoln, modest and unknown.
moved among the crowd as one who be-
longed to another age, while they fell at
the feet OF the Partisan woman and wor-
shiped.-NeaO York Truth.
The Rev. George Newbold ran bakery
while pastor OF the Methodist Church
at Bartonville, Canada, and further di-
versified his pursuits by forging checks.
| While serving a term OF imprisonment
for his crimes, at Belleville, he made
love to the warden's wife, and on his re-
lease eloped with her. On his wedding
tour he visited Mansfield, O., and acci-
dentally meeting the Rev. Mr. Gilroy,
who at once denounced him, gave that
gentleman a sound whipping. He is now
to be prosecuted for bigamy because ne
! has three wives.
The aged emperor of Germany is de-
scribed as looking very imposing when,
with his wife on his arm, he emerged
from the venerable cathedral at Cologne,
followed by long train of princes and
generals. He took his place in pavil-
ion prepared on the platz, and signed a
record which, after having been signed
by sixty-seven German princes and
notabilities, was placed in long silver
betube and given over to the workmen to
deposited in the principal stone cross at
the top of the cathedral spire $50 feet
above.
CAPTAIN G. N. STONE, who has had
charge of Maud S. during the last sea-
son, has received from w. FL. Wander
bilt silver vase, gold-lined, of beauti-
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