Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-30
PERSONAL.

GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA is exactly 50
years of age.
JAY GOULD says he is for protection
and homeopathy.
PRINCE BATTHYANY has left the nice
little sum of GI0O, 600 to a lady.
Ex-SECRETARY LAKEWOOD is looking
over New Mexico, to rest and invest
slightly.
STILsoN HUTCHINs is writing letters
from southern Italy for his paper, the
Washington Post.
GEORGE Ill. CORL1ss, Of Rhode Island,
is building the engines for the first cot
ton-mllls to be erected in China
The Rev. Edward Savin, superior
general of the Holy Cross of the State
OF Indiana, has crossed the ocean forty
times.
ARTHUR HALE, son of Edward Everett
Hale, is engaged in the Altoona, Pa,
iron works, and writes miniature novels
between meals.
A LONDON scribe kindly tells us that
John Brlght's cigar seldom goes out I'M
til o'clock III the morning, for the old
man does bis work in the small hours.
Col, FRANK Fl. PIERCE, a we'll known
lawyer of Hillsboro, n. H., nephew and
heir of ex-President Pierce, has been
committed to the asylum for the insane
at Concord, n. Ell.
CHARLES FL. WELDING, who failed in
New York in 1863 for $400 00O,. paying
| only Is cents on the dollar, has recently
sought out his old creditors and paid
them nearly in full.
! CAPOUL, one of the great favorites of
Paris, has accepted the dictatorship of
the New York Consery atoire, to the dis
may of his French admirers, vino are not
likely to hear his voice again.
Mr.. GLADSTONE draws 1929 a year
from land, Lord Harrington G6, 900 q
year, Mr.. Dodson G3, 1853, Lord Spen-
Ger 942, 219, Lord Kimberley G24 1898,
Lord Northbroke Ell, 900, and Lord
Derby, G17O. 800.
IVAN SURGUEvIToH, being in failing
health, is nursed by Nine. Viardot, the
once famous singer, In her own house.
They have been intimate friends for
many years, and she will inherit bis per-
sonal property and manuscripts.
LOUISE MICHEL has three sons
engravers, now living, by her husband,
M. Tinayre, to whom she was much at
tached. AS he was led into the COM
mune by her influence and met his
death, it is believed that she is almost
crazed by the two passions remorse and
revenge.
Mrs. FRANCES MARIE SCovILIE has
filed a petition in Chicago court, pray
ing for an order to be permitted to as
sumo the name of Frances Marie Howe.
She desires to get rid of the name of
Scoville, and of course that of Guiteau,
under the circumstances, is not desira-
bic. Bertha, her daughter, is also averse
to it.
WHEN Mr.. Edwin Booth was in Vienna
he attended performance of Wilbrandt's
"Tochter des Herrn Fabricius :" at the
Burg Theater. In regard to Sownen-
thai, who is considered the best Of Ger
man actors, he subse quently remarked:
" Never In my life have [ seen better
actor. Yes, I may say that he was the
first actor that has moved me to tears.
He asked WiLbrandt for bis piece, and
intends to produce an English version
of it in America.
| PROF. TIMOTHY DWIGHT has sent cir
culars to the graduates of the Yale
Divinity School informing them that he
will complete the twenty fifth year Of
his service in the professorship of sacred
literature at the approaching anniver-
sary of the school on the 18th inst, and
that it will give him great pleasure to
meet at that time and exchange greetings
once more with those whom he has
known in the school and in the class
room during this long period
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SA1A, who was
educated at public school in France,
recalls his experience of forty three years
ago without enthusiasm: "There was
| too little recreation; the boys brains
were wearied by tasks of inordjnate
| length. They scarcely knew how to
play; when / was twelve I did not know
how to drive hoop. The food was poor.
The hours were too long. The inspec-
tors were DULLES, and the subushers
spies, and theere was but little sympa-
thy between the masters and their
| scholars.
ARTEMUs WARDs private life was
| spotless and his personality most engage
ing. The writer resides near the birth
place at Waterford, Me-. Of the boy.
| Charles Farrar BFo wDe. I find that the
| testimony of men who were his scooi-
| mates accOrdS with That puDES0ed by
| intimate associates of MS manhood to
wit, that with all his Unborn love OF inner
riment and of adventure he was excep-
tionally true minded, considerate and un-
selfish. He sought not to WELD his wit at
cost of another's pain He was devoted
son. He would talk to his friends of his
mother as other young men talk of
sweetheart. Mrs. Browne yet lives at
Waterford, and welcomes every visitor
who comes to honor the memory of her
son.-Chic0go ADVANCE.
The Son of a Good Mother.
| From the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.l