Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-11
ABOUT PEOPLE.

MARGARET GORDON (Lady Banner
MANI is said to have been Carlyle's first
love.
wife's portrait, which hangs in his room
at the White House, wreathed with
flowers which are renewed every day.
SPEAKER KEIFER and his wife are
Presbyterians. They grew up as chill
dren together. The oldest of their three
boys is 20. Their only daughter and
youngest child is s. He was school
teacher at the age of 19 years.
BENJAMIN PH1LIBERT has just died in
st. Louis. He was worth 100000.
His other notable distinctions were that
he had not been out of the city in sixty
three years, and had never ridden in q
steamboat or steam railroad car.
GEORGE TOD, the youngest brother of
the late Gov. Tod, died in Girard, O.,
recently. His was somewhat remarka-
BILE case, death resulting from stubhing
his toe about year ago. There was
first slight sore, then inflammation,
then gangrene.
HENRY RAPE, one of the Oldest citi-
zens OF Griffin, Ga, has never eaten fish.
His mother never did, and out of five
brothers none of them ever swallowed a
mouthfui of fish, Notwithstanding they
allhave been particularly fond of seining
and angling for the fnny tribe.
TALENTS are sometimes very unevenly
distributed in a family. r. G. Blaine,
brother of the secretary, is to be ap-
pointed newspaper clerk by the clerk Of
the house of representative The du-
ties consist, it may be presumed, In
looking at the wrappers and drawing the
pay.
On his death-bed Ole Bull wound up
his watch, large, heavy, gold time
piece, with his monogram on the case,
and said to his wife: "When my hand
is powerless to do this again, send
this faithful friend to Prof. Doremus,
in memory of our warm friendship, and
with the request that he will wear 1t him
SELF
VIM. D. GALLAGHER, poet of re-
nown in Ohio and Kentucky, lives on
small farm at Pewee Valley, near Louis
vile. Gray squirrels frisk in his door
yard, and the cat-bird, the red bird and
the saucy jay come to his porches for
their daily bread. He was born in Phil
adelphia in 1903, his father being an
Irishman and bis mother Friend.
SENATOR HALE says that ex-senator
Hamlin accepted foreign mission be-
cause he had never been abroad, and
had long wanted suitable opportunity
for trip on the continent. 81 do not
think" added Mr.. Hale, "t that he Will
retain the mission longer than twelve
months or so, for there is nothing under
the sun that could keep him away from
the United States for four years.
EX-SENATOR Gw1N, of California, is
said to have discovered his wife in Cali
fornia, at the wash-tub, as he rode up to
the house to get his dinner on his way to
Tennessee and Mississippi. She had a
splendid pair of bare arms and other
physical charms SO exasperating to Gwin
that, after he had ridden whole day on
the way toward home, ne rode back
again, introduced himself, and proposed
to marry her then and there.
CHARLES SUMNER is quoted by Mr.. G.
H. Brainard, in the Washington Star, as
sation, that it was full of humorous and
witty sayings. "And they sometimes
crop out in his speeches." Sumner
added, "but they never do in mine. Did
you ever see joke In one of my
speeches?" Mr. Brainard confessed he
had never seen one. "Of course you
never did" said Sumner. sYou might
as well look for joke in the book of
Revelations.
A TRAMP who wandered about the east
ern counties of Connecticut was remark
ably ugly, and apparently go years old,
his hair and beard being streaked with
white. He was successful beggar, his
hideous appearance exciting pity. One
day woman of Preston refused to give
him a dinner, and he angrily assaulted
her, throwing off his air of feebleness
and knocking her down with great vigor.
Being arrested, washed and dressed in
clean clothes, it was found that his hair
was artifcally whitened, that his decrep-
itude was all assumed, and that his age
was not over 30