Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-10-13
Foreign.
PERSONAL.


SENATOR MCDONALD of Indiana and
Congressman John 3. Clark of Missouri
are soon to be married to Washington
widows.
HE Empress Eugene was so fond of
the Castle of Pierrefonds (for which the
first Napoleon paid $500, and on the res
toration of which the third Napoleon
spent a million) that she always assumed
the title of Countess of Pierrefonds
when travelling incognita.
MIR. WHITTIER says: CT am out of
doors a great deal, and in summer take
long walks. I still write when I feel
like it, but have no regular habits of
work. [ read great deal, but am be-
ginning to have trouble with my eyes.
My health is good"
PRESIDENT CREWS salary and allow
ances amount to about $180,OO0 yearly,
The salary proper being $4,000. At
the end OF mis- seven years term he will,
consequently, have received $1,000, 600
out of the public treasury. He is not
penurious. and manages to spend this
large sum in receptions and subscrip-
lions. He gave 81 900 to the American
yellow-fever fund.
Mr.. ARCHIBALD FORBES is a tall.
squarely-built man of about forty-fve.
His hair is light, his mustache isreddish,
and he has in every respect an Anglo
Saxon type of face. Beneath two shaggy
eyebrows peer out pair of small, but
penetrating blue eyes. Although orig
inally fair, his complexion has darkened
from exposure to sun and storm
Coz. ALBERT CLARKE, described by
the late Congressman Willard of Mont
pelier, as the ablest journalist in Ver-
mont, gave $25, 900 bond in selling out
the st. Adams Messenger that he would
not again enter the newspaper business
in Vermont. He was well paid for his
paper, and Governor Smith breaths a
good deal easier. Col. Clarke will prob
ably return to law.
CHARLES r. ROBINSON, who lately
died at Waddington, ST. Lawrence Co.,
served in the British army number Of
years, and while at Gibraltar became
enamored of young woman, whom he
tried to have return to Canada with him,
but she refused. He then made solemn
vow never to shave or have his hair
trimmed, and this he kept until the day
of his death. Although possessing
robust health, and living in the village,
he, for eight years, had not been twenty
rods from the house.
AT 19 years of age Guizot wrote to his
mother: &C was intended by nature for
distinguished man of letters. I am
sometimes devoured with the longing to
write, if it were only for myself; I am
oppressed by my thoughts, and I am
continually occupied in resisting my in
clinations. [ feel drawn toward itera-
ture and poetry by charm which makes
me miserable. Do not fear that I shall
yield to it, but do not be angry if I some
times speak to you of the fire that con-
sumes me. I shall long continue to
suffer from it.
E. G. Observation-Disclosures contributes
to the ,S,0iss Continent, of Geneva, an
article on Lord Palmerston. In conclu-
sion he says: Those who knew Lord
Palmerston best, sometimes fancied that
they detected the traces of great sor-
row carefully concealed from all men.
AS his coffin was lowered into it's last
resting place in Westminster Abbey on
that cold autum day of 1866, a gentle
man stepped forward and flung a ring,
with two or three other trinkets, in the
open grave.
The Princess Zorka, of Montenegro.
who is to be welded to Prince Alexan-
der Of Bulgaria, is described by Krsun-
Wy, the Croatian painter, as "the most
charming creature I met; awell- trained,
sweet and blooming child, slender and
agile as roe, with deep, soulful eyes,
full of thought and power. She was the
only Montenegrin maiden I was allowed
to paint, but did not regret my Journey
from Warasdin, Notwithstanding the pc
cl1niary los it entailed. When [ showed
her the finished portrait, she asked, in
the simplest manner possible: sAnd
am really, then, SO beautiful p"
JAMES B. EADs was born in Indiana
in 1920. In 1888 his father started down
the Ohio river with his family, propos-
ing to settle in Wisconsin. The boat
caught fire, and his scanty furniture and
clothing were burned. Young Eads
barely escaped ashore with his pante
looms, shirt and cap. Taking passage
on another boat this boy of 13 landed at
st. Louis with his parents, his little bare
feet first touching the rocky shore Of the
city on the very spot where he after
ward located, and built the largest steel
bridge in the world, over the Mississippi
one Of the most difficult feats of engi-
neering ever perform d in America.
ALTHOUGH the empress of Germany is
not popular lady, she is an extremely
one. Her first visits on arriv
ing in Berlin are to the school and hos
pital she has founded, and which are
named after her. Not only are these
supported mainly out of her private
purse, but they receive from her large
share of time and attention. It seems
almost as If the precise military habits of
her male relatives had influenced her
character, for during her stay in Berlin
she may be seen at certain hour ON a |
certain day of every week driving in a