Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-13
PERSONAL.
PARNELL is 35.

W lille tnere ID Galk or building a mon
ument to the memory of miles o Reilly"
it is reported that the family is in needy
circumstances.
JULIAN KENNEDY, the well-known oars
man OF Yale, is manager of the Edgar
Thomson Steel Works at Pittsburg,
which has turned out 224 tons of steel
In one day.
LIE three great Lanes" all from
Indiana, all officers i'll the Mexican war
anu all active IL politics-namely,
General Joe Lane of Oregon, General
James Lane of Kansas and Colonel Henry
>. Lane-are now dead.
GENERAL WEAVER, the gentleman who
not long ago appeared as Greenback can
d1date for the presidency, is rather
handsome man, with good head and
brown moustache. He is a clever
speaker.
EDWARD A. GooDNow, of Worcester,
Mass, has presented $40, 900 to Plymouth
church, In that city, for the purchase of
a chime OF bells as memorial to his late
wife, and an organ as a memorial to his
deceased son, Henry B.
KATIE MULKERNs, a Louisville girl
only 10 years of age, has saved the life
OF eight little boys and girls who have
fallen in the river at various times
within the last three years. She can
not swim, but can row boat with a
single oar.
Two dwarfs have just been married at
Vienna-Henry Wolge, thirty-one years
old, weighing nineteen pounds and
twenty-eight inches high, and Mile.
Louise, twenty-three years older and
having the advantage of him in size by
an inch and pound.
JAMES ROBINSON, aged 70, county
treasurer of Staten Island, was in New
York the other day to deposit $1,000 Of
public money. Three confidence men
accosted him in succession, The old
man knocked the last rascal into the gut
ter, amid the cheers of the crowd, and
was molested no further.
WHEN Chief Justice Waite starts away
| from Washington to attend to his United
States Circuit court duties, he throws
his linen buster over his arm, takes his
hand-satchel, "boards" three cent
street car, goes to the railroad depot,
buys his ticket and makes his journey
like plain American citizen.
Mr.. HENRY G.. VENNoR, the weather
prophet, has handsome mustache; he
parts his hair in the middle, and he is
Al years old. His early life in Canada
was spent in poverty. In the Univer-
sity of Montreal he IS a professor, and
he is author of q book called sour
Birds of Prey"
LITTRE was over forty when he con-
| ho &c
airy which was destined to occupy the
best of his energies and of his life, and
which will remain the chief title to fame.
His almost encyclopedia knowledge and
his prodigious powers of work fitted him
for this colossal undertaking.
J. r, KEENE is prig, one of the cod
| fish aristocracy. He assumes GOODNESS
and indifference when his horses win,
does not know much about the turf,
carries an umbrella on the race course.
puts his hands behind his back, and
looks above the circumstances of win
ming. He likes consideration and that
took him on the turf, but it is to be said
in his favor that he pays literally for his
horses.
Col. INGLIs, of the United States Ser
vice Club, has won the Derby sweep
there three times in the last five years,
and this year he won the Oaks sweep
also. This is not all; there being a
second sweep this year, owing to the
large number of subscribers, the colonel,
who had drawn Peregrine in the first,
sold his chance for ESQ, and took another
number in the second. This time he
drew IroquOis.
Mrs. MYRA CLARK GAINES is quoted as
once saying to Mr.. Mr.. Webster and Mr..
Clay: 81 admit you are very great
men, but you cannot compare with Gen.
Gaines in all that is sublime and beauti-
full in human character. I often told
the general he was too perfect for this
ried upwards of ten years I have en-
deavored to find defect in bis character,
and have been unsuccessful.
Mrs. HAYES, according to the Wash
ington correspondent of the Troy Timss,
was, while congressman's wife, I" one of
the companionable sort to sit out on the
front doorstep of her boarding house
with a water proof over her head, chat
ting with the other boarders; and there
were several families of old friends where
she kept up fashion of running in
for a long time after she came to the
White House, though always with her
carriage. Mrs. Garfield, on the contrary
has never seemed to have much time for
intimate friends, but always to be very
much engrossed with the domestic side
of ife-a Martha, troubled about many
things"
OF the late Henry s. Lane an old
friend relates be was chosen chairman of
the Philadelphia Republican Convention
in '56, just after severe attack of ILL
ness. Pale, cadaverous and weak he
took the chair, and was regarded with
establishment by the southern delegates,
some of whom asked, "what is there
about that man to recommend him for
chairman" Presently he began to speak,
and In the howery manner especially
pleasing to the Southerners. At the end
of his speech they rushed over to the
Indiana delegates, enthusiastically shak-