Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-04
PERFORMANCES.

co" BLANC, who Is to marry Prince Ro.
LAND BoNAPARTE, has fortune of $40, 900
a year.
| 1t is reported that the Marquis of
Lorne will resign his position next year.
in order not to be separated from his
wife 80 frequently.
M. MARCY, the French critic, says
when the Prince of Wales laughs at
theatrical performance, loyalty makes
every Briton laugh ALSO"
-ADELINA PATTI has been ill, and
some of her higher notes are said to be
much weakened. She IS about to get
away from the trying English climate
The general beauty of the English
upper class, says Mr.. DARWIN, is due to
the selection of beautiful wives through
numbers of generations.
Mr.. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, who
| fulfills his social duties assiduously,
attracts attention at halls and receptions
by his republican simplicity of dress.
The Empress of Austria is having
made in London a splendid China SER
| vice, to be ornamented with hunting
scenes after designs by the best English
animal painters.
: Earl GRANVILLE is described as
portly, white.hsired old gentleman, with
bushy eyebrows and sidewhiskers, that
form a symmetrical curl along his heavy
cheeks. and coal black, piercing eyes.
-VIcToR HUao's manuscripts of his
works are written on all kinds of paper,
pastebosrd, cards, backs of letters, enve-
lopes, ETC., and he intends to bequeath all
these to the Bibliotheque Rationale, in
Paris.
-DoRE has completed a grand case
picture, entitled "Moses before Pharaoh"
which is said to be one of the finest and
most wholly original pictures of the
great artist, and will rank among the
greatest of his productions.
Lieutenant Commander HENRY Fl.
CoRRINaE, who has safely brought to this
country one of the Cleopatra needles, is
native of the West Indies, and served
with distinction throughout the War of
the Rebellion. He received his present
commission in December, 1868.
MIR. EDWIN BOOTH is now at the
Lakes of Killarney. He will visit Scot
land and Wales, and expects to arrive in
London in September, whence he will go
go to Germany, where he may fulfill an
engagement in Berlin. Mr.. BOOTH has
not yet accepted any engagement in Lon
don.
Gen. GRANT appeared in Denver,
"dressed in suit of plain cloth, wore a
broad brimmed hat, slightly turned down
front and rear, In makeup Of costume
slightly resembling Dom PEDRO, and in
general appearance a reminder of some
plain old farmer one has seen with his
Sunday clothes on" The dress was re.
lieved by flowers in his coat.
The British Museum has received a
fine clay cylinder from the excavations of
Babylon containing sixty lines of cunei-
form writing of time Cos B. Co. when
Antiochus the Great was wintering at
Babylon. Sir II. G. RAwLINsoN says that
the employees of the British Museum will
be permitted for two years longer to make
excavations of the mounds of Assyris and
Babylon.
Captain HowGATE has received a let
ter from Captain PALMER stating that the
repairs upon the Gul,aare are nearly com.
pleted, and that they expected to sail from
st. Johns for the Arctic regions The
engineer and assistant, to whose careless
ness and inefficiency the accident to the
machinery of the Guznare was attributed,
have been discharged and others employ
ed to fill their places.
General GARFIELD is said to have
fine sense of congruity and harmony, and
sometimes tells little story which illus
trates this. When only boy on the
wide highway he one day met girl of
about twelve or thirteen years, barefoot,
of course, wearing soiled and torn
stow" dress, repaired conspicuously with
a large flannel patch of atched color;
her face, sun. burnt and Drowned, covered
by light silk veil. The bare brown feet
kissed the earth none too tenderly, but
very properly. The flannel patch was
not offensive, but that veil! She went
her barefoot way, that patched and yelled
maiden of twelve or thirteen, in the
Orange woods of long ago; leaving her
image, not in the boys heart, but, alas, in
his memory, to be a perpetual compari-
son. 1t never left him, 1t has always
stood with its lesson at his elbow. "This
is my tow.frocked, barefooted girl, with
the silk VEIL" "This is the silk veil for
my fannel-patched, barefooted girl"
An interesting story of the artist
COUTURE is told by Mrs. HOOPER. When
be was painting historical picture for
NAPOLEON Ill, the Emperor summoned