Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-12
PERSONALITIES.

MATILDA HERON introduced real food
IN stage spreads. She would not play
Camille unless the genuine articles were
on the table:
PERE HYACINrHE says that the relig-
ious struggle in France is not between
Catholicism and Professionalism, but be-
tween Catholicism and materialism.
GEORGE EIIoT's poem, "The Dead"
set as a cantata with orchestra and vo-
cal effects, will be given at the Positiv-
ist festival of the dead on New Years
day.
HENRY WIZARDS new palace will cost
an even million. The decoration of the
drawlng-rooms costs $50 900, the dining
room $40, 900, the hall $4,000 and the
mushroom $4,000.
HERR PoLLINI has offered Rubinstoin
the sum of 500,0 marks, or about
1925, 900, for tour of 100 concerts to
be given In America, but the great pi-
anist has not yet given his decision.
Mr.. ALFRED MACE, son of the ceIe-
brated Jem Mace, the champion pugil-
ist of the world, is at present giving
series of evangelical lectures at New
castle-upon-Tyne, and draws crowded
houses.
MISS EVA MAoKEY, the daughter of
Bonanza Mackey, has the choice of mar
rying an English nobleman or entering
a convent. AS she is a very sensible
girl, it is thought she will choose the
convent.
Ex-Gov. CoBURN, of Maine, recently
sold 100000 worth of western land In
single lot, and it is said that it was the
largest sale of country property ever
made in the United States by single
individual.
Mr.. JOHN ROGERS has completed his
model for the bronze equestrian statue
of General John f. Reynolds, which is
to be set up at the west side of thenorth-
ern entrance of the new public buildings
in Philadelphia.
Lolita London programme is emu
settle" "Llttle Nell and the Marchion-
ess," "Frefy," Heartsease," and
this repertory surprises the London
critics, who are unused to such versa
tility.
S. B. TAYLOR, a first cousin of Presi-
dent Zachary Taylor, is a Woodworking
farmer of Eureka Mills, Tex. During
the late war he lost four sons and two
sons-in-law, and thirty three nephews,
while two widowed daughters-in-lawa and
five orphan children were left to his
care.
GERALD MASSEY came to America to
lecture. HIS agent advertised him as
" an English poet who can be heard;"
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audible delivery, but the public had no
great desire to test the promise, and the
only audience numbered seventy one,
while the receipts are said to have been
$13.
The Oldest ex-senator is the Hon.
John P. King, of Georgia, who was
prominent politician III the times of
Jackson, and who is now in excellent
health at the age of eighty-four. He
was born April 8, 1899, was elected SEN
ator to fill an unexpired term in 1868,
elected to full term In 1884, but re-
signed in 1882.
THE Countess Gabrielle-Sybil.Aimee
Marie Antoinette de Riquitti de Mira
beau de Martel de Janville (the rest of
the name will arrive by freight, who
writes In the Vie Parisienne under the
nom de plume of ''Gyp," has sued an IL
Illustrated paper in Paris for daring to
publish her portrait. We infer the
countess has passed her meridian.
THE Polish novelist, Mlkowski
"Jez y whose work, "The Uskokes
met with such favor in Paris, holds in
political matters the opposite faith of
that of his great rival Kraszewski. The
latter has no hopes for the future of
Poland and sees It's Emission solely in
its industrial development, while Mil
kowsh is an enthusiastic believer in the
political regeneration of his country.
Mlkowski has had an unusually event
full life. He has fought for his con-
victions in Hungary, Romania and Tur-
key, as well as IN Poland.
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