Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-04-13
ABOUT PEOPLE.

FORBES has netted over $40 600 on his
lecture tour in this country.
IT is said that Sothern, the actor. did
not leave as much as he used TO spend
in year.
KING ALFoNzo and wife lately pre-
sented to the pope chalice mounted
with $40, 900 worth of precious stones.
Mrs. ELIZABETH Owens, who was the
first girl baby born in Louisville, KY,
died recently, aged 103 She bad never
ridden in steam car.
MIR. JOHN BoDKIN, an Irish landlord
now In Toronto, Can, who is fully seven
feet high, says heleft Ireland because he
was too big mark for bullets.
Don PIATT says that in three months
after young man has taken a Washing
ton clerkship he is either a good poker
player or a fool ON the subject of wo-
men.
THOSE who have seen Miss Genevieve
Ward upon the stage In the character of
Stephanie" have a very good idea of
how the Empress Eugene looked in the
days before her rich hair became white
and the wrinkles traced by sorrow be-
came deep. The resemblance is mar
velous one.-NeW YORK 75-Gbune.
The entire Foster family were down
with smallpox at Lexington, ILL., The
house was burned in the night. Rather
than seek a refuge with any of their
neighbors, and thus spread the disease,
they walked eight miles in the cold to
pest house, and imperilled their lives by
the exertion and exposure.
Ii was owing to the friendly energy of
Mr.. Frank Buckland that John Hunter
ultimately obtained "a grave 10 West
minister Abbey. Hunters coffin was in
the vaults of ST. Martins church.
auckland literally turned over every
coffin in the church before he found the
one of which he was in search, spending
whole fortnight among the dead.
The handsomest man in the next Con-
gress-so the correspondents say-will
be Mr.. Edward S. Lacy, of the First
Michigan district, banker by profess
sion, Of medium size, with dark COM
plexion, regular features and bright
hazel eyes. He is chronicled as affable,
rich, under 40 years of age, and a most
desirable "catch.''
BEATRICE, Princess Of Great Britain
and Ireland, leads dreary sort of life
divided between Osborne, Windsor and
BalmOral. She has no definite duties,
except now and then to stand in full
dress near her royal mother, at some ex-
ceeding uninteresting state ceremonials.
If she drives out, it is with the queen; if
she walks In Windsor park the majesty
is still with her. Full Of fun and high
animal spirits, she is bound down by
rigid court etiquette which must be in
suferably CALLING,
JUSTICE CLIFFORD and family have
left Washington for their home In Maine.
1t is possible that Justice Clifford goes
from these scenes forever, and that his
place on the bench will soon be filed by
another. His health, slightly improved,
gives no promise OF permanent relief.
His mind is almost gone, and that pitiful
death in life, softeniDg of the brain, is
his late. He is firm, gentle, conscien-
tious man, with old school manners and
courteous ways. He is quite stout,
snooth-shaven and neat, wearing always
the old-time swallow-tail coat, often with
flower on the lapel, and the whitest
of linen and ties; he leans heavily on a
cane, and his hair is gray, smoothly put
behind his ears.
JOHN MCCONNELL is the name of the
smallest man in the coal region, and one
OF the smallest men in the world. His
head, the breadth of chest and size of his
waist are those of a fully developed man,
but in longitude he is only small boy.
He will be 80 years of age ON the oath Of
June, and was born In Vermont and
came to the coal regions Of PENNSYLVANIA
nine years ago. He wears Y hat and
measures thirty-six inches across the
chest. His arm measures sixteen inches
from the shoulder to the tip of bis mid
die finger, and his legs are eighteen inch
es in length He stands three feet eley-
en- and half inches with his boots on,
and weighs eighty-six pounds. He Meth.
er drinks nor smokes, and his health and
appetite are good = 9dj
SIR GARNET WOLsEELY, it is said. will
be made peer; and if so, his peerage}
will be the twelfth which her majesty has
conferred on distinguished generals. Sir
John ColbOne and Sir John Keane were
created severally Lord Seatop and Lord.
Keane in 1889. Sir Hussev Vivian was
made Lord Vivian in 1910. Sir Henry
Hardinge and Sir Hugh Cough raised to
the peerage in 1916; Lord Fitzroy We're
Somerset was made Lord Raglan in 1885,
and Sir Colin Campbell was made Lord
Clyde in 1858. Sir Hugh Rose was Gre,
ated Lord Strathnairn in 1866: Sir Rob-
ert Napier Lord Napier OF Magdala in
1868; Sir William Mansfield Lord Sand
hurst in 1871, and Sir Richard Airey
Lord Airey in 1876. Of these peerages
only one, Lord Clyde's, is as yet ex-
tinct.
The Paris Charivar5 has discovered
most engaging type of the bibhophile.
He is Count Y, prominent man
about town. Among his heavy creditors
was one who made up his mind to get
the money by firing out the connt. For
more than six months he scot daily a
politely-worded note requesting the pay
ing of his "ittle account" Much to
his chagrin, nothing came OF the pro-
ceedings, and at length he presented
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