Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-04
PERSONAL.
Mrs. LIvERMoRE is 60 years old.
Mrs. LANGTRY is paid $500 a week

Mrs. LANGrRY is paid $500 week.
Mr.. ConFAx told them in the Scran-
ton lecture the Other night, that nothing
could induce him to enter public life
again.
SOME years ago Miss Libbie Minkler,
of Rochelle, ILL.,, lost both arms by fall
ing in front of a reaper. To-day she is
earning a good living by oil painting,
holding the brush in her teeth.
THERE is said to be no male descend
ant of the Sumner family. Its only rep
resentatives are the three nieces of the
great senator-the daughters of his
sister, Mrs. Julia Hastings.
Mrs. DELoNG, the wife of the COM
mander of the unfortunate Arctic
steamer, Jeanette, has resided In Bur
lington, Iowa, with her sister, Mrs. Gen.
L. l.. Glasgow, ever since the departure
of the expedition.
JUDGE GRAY is the sixth justice APP
pointed to the supreme court of the
United States from Massachusetts, his
predecessors being William Gushing,
Levi Lincoln, John Quincy Adams,
Joseph Story, andB r. Curtis. Judges
Lincoln and Adams, however, declined
their appointments.
MIR. LoNGFELLow's wife was
daughter of Abbott Lawrence, one of
the richest merchants in Boston. She
lost her life by frightfu1 accident
While making some Christmas toys for
her children, and using sealing-wax for
candle, her dress caught fire and she
was fatally burned.
EX-SENATOR THURMAN was looking at
his boxes in which his private books and
papers had been packed in his old COM
mittee room. He saw that the lettering
on the boxes was Hon. A. G. Thur
man, Keep Dry" Turning to friend,
he said, ''Who the duece would ever
think of giving me such advice as that ?"
MILE. Rosa BoNHEUR is short in
stature, but she is robustly and broadly
built, and she carries her head proudly,
almost defantly. Her cheeks are still
pink, and her face is full of health and
vigor, though her hair is fast turning
gray. She still wears it cut parted like
mans. In the studio and at home she
wears the masculine costume.
LIVING in the Home of the Little Sis
ters of the Poor, in the outskirts of Balti-
more, says a dispatch to the Philadel-
phia Press, is an old lady named Mrs.
Johanna Eastway, who is proved isy ire
tragahlls evidence to be the mother of
Henry M. Stanley, the world-renowned
African explorer. Mrs. Eastway was
born in County Cork, Ireland, near
ly seventy years ago. Her father was
butcher named Hauckens, and lived
until she had grown to womanhood. She
married Capt. Henry Eastway, seaman,
in 1897, and soon after the couple left
Great Britain and went to Baltimore.
The Hungarian baron Arpad Lopresst.
who has lately died, would never pay his
taxes. He kept pack Of blood-hounds
to hunt tax collectors, who consequently
gave him seldom opportunity. One hay
ing at one time succeeded in entering his
castle, which was undermined and man.
trapped, was shown into room where
he was presently joined by an enormous
wolf. He climbed on thestove, which was
only warm, but which soon grew hot and
hotter, the baron enjoying his dance on
the heated surface fora while. The au.
thorities, however, kept the record, and
his heirs have now paid all sums due.
Mrs. TAMAH Brooks, the Oldest ne
gress, and probably the oldest person in
America, has been visiting the Atlanta
Exposition. She was born in Virginia
in 1853, and is therefore 1913 years old.
She was the property of the late William
Yancey, and her birth is recorded in the
Yancey family Bible. When William
died, he gave Aunt Tamah to his son
Thomas. When Thomas died, she was
transferred to Mrs. Wilscn Walter
Brooks, who died recently, aged IS.
Aunt Tasnah is the mother of II chill
dren, eli of whom reached maturity.
Her baby son, an old headed man,
aged 50. attended the exposition with
her. Aunt Tamah is now the charge of
Col. T. W. Brooks, who gives her the
best of care and is making her declining
years peaceful and happy.