Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-23
FACTS ABOUT WOMEN.

llshed the fund left by Sonora Josefo
Vergara, of Chihuahua, Mexico, to the
poor, amounted to the sum of 1886, 974.-
Mrs. S. W. DORSEY and her sister.
Mrs. Peck, widow of the ex-Senator's
partner, are in daily attendance at the
Star route trials, and are much admired
for their beauty.
SITTING BULL now claims that he
could have licked Uncle Sam out of his
boots In less than six months. but he
surrendered because his wives didn't like
to hear the report of guns. Susan 3.
Anthony, where are you?
MRS. RICHARD FRoTH1NGHAM, Jr.,
has presented to the Massachusetts
Historical Society Sc, 1000, together with
the stereotype plates of her late hEs-
| bands siege of Boston," "Life and
Times Of Joseph Warren" and "Rise
Of the Republic"
A YOUNG miss of IA, named Lille
Pmeroy, jumped into boat at Sagi-
| nav, Mich, and rowed out into the
river, rescued boy of II years who had
been upset IN the stream and would
have been drowned but for her courage
/ OoO fbSbLp1s Wu1lG, ulby SLdlWaIb
men looked on and did nothing.
MISS ANNA DICKINSON is now in New
York, the guest of Mrs. Croly. Miss
Dickinson Is in unusually good health,
ard is about entering On a course OF
readings from her drama, Aurelian, and
from a dramatic lecture on jeanne
D'Arc. She will be heard IN number
Of the eastern cities during the spring.
Miss ALICE MARGUERITE KING, of
Alabama, grand-niece Of the late Vice
President William Rufus King, has
brought suit against the Nashville
American for the publication of the let
ters Of its New Orleans and Mobile cor
respondents criticising her recitations as
dramatic reader in those cities. She
lays her damages at $25, 900.
SIGNoRINA TRFME1LI, who is to be
memb=r of Mr.. Mapleson's company
| next season, appeared III Lucrecia BOrgia
IN VieEna few weeks ago. DR.. Han
| sticks says that " since her italian con-
version her vocalism and her action have
gained in freedom and artistic polish;
phlegmatic and superficial she has re-
NAMED, as In her best IIemel period"
THE empress of Austria, who has
lately been known as an accomplished
horsewoman and the fame of whose
hunting exploits has reached around the
world, is now said to be poet as well.
She has ordered printing press, it is re-
ported, not too great to warrant its work
ing by One-empress power, and is learn
ing to set type in order to print her own
poems.
The domestic arrangements of Wag-
ner and Bulow, the pianist, have always
been regarded as very curious. Divorce
III Meipingen seems to be easier than In
even Indiana, and Herr Won Bulow now
desires to marry his former wife, Wag-
ner's widow, who is understood to he as
wlllin' as Barkis, and the present Frau
Won Bulow is quite as ready to De di-
vorced and so free both her husband and
herself from existing ties.
LADIES of rank in the last century did
not know how to spell very we'll Lady
Strafiord wrote Of the death struggle of
her fayorite dog, "poor charming Fubs, %
as follows: ''As 1t leved soc it dyed,
full of Low leening It's head in my bosom,
horrid rorter but nussle its head to US
and loock earnestly upon me and Sue,
whoe cryed for tire days as if it had been
for chide or husband
The Countess Mastai- Ferretti recent
" sold at public auction in Rome, after
liberal advertising bymeans of placards,
a number of relics Of her uncle, the late
Pope Plus TX The collection COM
prised many pairs of slippers embroid-
cred with crosses, watches snuff-boxes
and other articles Of use and ornamental
ton, some of which were gifts from
kings and mobiles. The commences of
every article was guaranteed by the Gar
dinal-Viear Raphael Monaco La Val,
letta.
Aida JOHNSON, who at tbs age Of u
years married man of q, employed on
her mothers farm, in Southbury, Conn.,,
was granted a divorce at New Haven
last week, johnson not opposing, he
having been placed in jail on the charge
of seduction, and having been promised
his liberty, as is asserted, on condition
that be would not oppose the appllca-
ton for divorce. The child wife APP
pearea in court daintigy dressed, and
looking to be about II years of age.
MBs. ANNA ELIZA BRAY, IN her will.
leaves the sum of 93, 900 for the purpose
of Publishing her autobiography and
certain of her works, under the editor
ship of her great nephew, John Arrow
Keape. An edition of 1 1000 copies is to
be published. Messrs. Chapman & Hail
have been entrusted with the bringing
out of these works. Mrs. Bray has be-
Gueathed to the British Museum the
original drawings by Chas. Alfred Stoth-
and for the engravings published in the
6 Monumental Efagies of Great Britain. .
The difficulty Of obtaining education
for girls In Hong-Kong IS shown by the
following paragraph frora an Official re-
port: "As curious illustration of the
continued prevalence Of kidnapping
practices in Hong Kong, may mention
that neticed in 1882. several cases IN
which Chinese girls, living at a great
distance from school and having to
traverse ON their way to and from school
the MOST crowded portion of the town,
were dressed like boys and attended, all
through the year, the girls schools in