Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-12-13
PERSONAL.

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SENATOR MCPHERsoN, of New Jersey,
has purchased 500 COWS and gone into
the dairy business.
Mr.. HOLLIS HUNNEwEL1, who has al
ready given Wellesley, Mass, public
library building costing $75, 900, is now
erecting there town hall worth about
100000.
Ex-CONGREssMAN LEWIS D. CAMP
BELL, who died recently at his home in
Ohio, said, few years ago, that he had
written the history of the Burlingame
duel of 1854, which would be published
after his death.
GOVERNOR BLACKBURN, of Kentucky,
is described as " dashing looking gen
tleman, with his broad-brimmed hat
turned up on one side like a Spanish
bull fighter, and his mustaches twirled
out to most prodigious length"
ONE day last summer Mr.. A. Bronson
Alcott, the sage of Concord, said to an
acquaintance: 81 early determined in
life not to be a slave to things; not to
put my life as pledge for fine fur
niture, for luxuries, for the material
surroundings. We lived simple life,
Mrs. Alcott and I, and have never re-
GREETED it,
HENRY GRADY writes in the Atlanta
Constitution: Governor Co4quitt wears
puff bosOmed shirts, Senator Brown
wears a mink-skin overeoat from Maine,
Captain Harry Jackson wears suspend
ers with solid silver buckles, Judge
Lochrane wears spotted waist coats, and
Bob ToOmbs has his cuffs and collars
sewed on his shirts"
From the New York Tribune: A few
days ago Madame Nilsson yielded to an
impOrtunate autograph hunter. Glanc-
ing through the book she saw on the
last page the inscription: ''Last but
pen she wrote on the inside of the cover,
facing this: Last and least. Christine
Nilsson Rouzeaud.
SIR GARNET WoLsEbEY's great grand
father was the Col. Wolseley who, In the
old Ono Popery" days, gained the bat
tie of Newtownbutler, and caused the
Mayor of Scarborough to be we'll tossed
in blanket in the market-plaee for MAX
ing a speech in favor Of King James.
The tales of his grandfather are said to
have been the inspiration of Sir Garnet
in his early days.
EUGENE HALE's old schoolmaster,
down In Maine, says that some of the
farmers boys who wore better clothes
than Eugene used to laugh at him.
Some of these same boys are now eking
out an existence On fifty acres of clay
and swamp land, while Eugene Hale is
a United States senator, drawing S., 900
year salary, and husband of lady
whose estate will soon be valued at
million and half of money.
ROBERT TooMBs, of Georgia, is thrifty
and one of the richest men IN the south.
Alexander FL. Stephens used to say that
at school Thomas was looked upon as
big, dull, awkward boy, who would never
amount to much. But, Mr.. Stephens
would add, "When Friday came and the
school week was over, we always found
that Bob Toombs had all the marbles,
knives, etc., which had belonged to the
rest of the schoolboys.
NJ. EDoUARD DETAILLE, the famous
French painter, is only "a years old. He
was born in Paris, and studied under
MISSIONER. After three years work In
the studio, he painted a picture, ''La
Halle des Tambour," and sent it TO the
salon of 1868. He was at the time only
20 years old, but when he showed the
picture to MISSIONER, that great master
exclaimed: "Now, my boy, you can
work by yourself. have nothing more
to show you.
The truth of the proyerb that So riches
have wings is illustr ated in the career
of John Tob1n, ex-president of the Hud-
son River Railroad, and at one time
power in Wall Street. Formerly 2 mil
lionaire and man whose operations set
the stock exchange in an uproar and in
fuenced speculation all over the coun-
try, he has become an utter wreck, ply
sicialy as well as financially. He was
recently arrested and locked up for be-
ing drunk.
PRINCE HENRY, second son of the
German crown prince, has lately had oc-
casion to show his quality as sailor.
On October 26, the Olga, on board
which the prince is serving as naval
officer, was exposed to severe storm IN
the Bay of Biscay. At II o'clock at night
wave swept over the men who were
steering and washed them, down the
deck. The vessel was in imminent dan
ger, when the prince, springing forward,
seized the helm and held it firmly until
succOr arrived.
Four tall men attracted much atten-
ton among the crowd Of passengers in
the Jersey City depot of the Pennsyl-
vanin Railroad, on Saturday evening.
Two of them were seven feet tall, and
broad in proportion; third was about
six feet eight inches; and the fourth,
boy, was little over six feet. They
are brothers of the Shields family, from
Texas. The tallest are twins, and are "a
years of age. The boy is Is years of
age. They said their father was seven
feet high, and that they had three
brothers in Texas of that height.
AMONG the old-time ball players who
made "home runs" at the last election,
says the Louisville Courier-J Journal, was
Robert E. Pattison, the governor-elect of
Pennsylvania, who played first base in
1866 and 1868 for the Harry Clay Club
of Philadelphia, well-known amateur
organization, which included in its ranks
at that time Meyerle, who afterward at
tanned prominence as a professional.
noviJcon too the recently