Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-08-01
PERSONALITIES.

Mr.. OSCAR WILDE is describing the
American girl to English audiences as
''a pretty oasis of unreaeonabIeness in a
desert OF common sense.
Miss CUNNINGHAM, who recently mar
ried clandestinely an army sergeant in
New Mexico, is sister, and not niece,
of Mrs. Senator Logan, as has been pub
lished.
MR. ALMA TADEMA, during his recent
brief visit to Rome, was entertained by
the American soul ptor, MIR. Ezekiel,
whose studio isin one corner of the ruined
Baths OF Diocletian.
The Princess Louise has promised to
send number of her paintings, both
oil and water -colors, to the Boston For
eign Exhibition next October, ''to rec
ognize the pleasant time she had in Bos-
ton last winter"
THE Oxford University of Mississippi
is free to women from all states. The
chancellor, Gen. Stewart, hopes to have
at least forty or fifty women students
enter at the fall session. Board can be
obtained at $40 per month, or even less.
PROF. REMsEN of the John Hopkins
Laboratory, deems the study Of chemis-
try as bracing for the morals as for the
mind. ST believe" he says, s'that fire.
quent practice in qualitative and quanti-
tatiVe analysis has a tendency to develop
honesty"
GIUsEPPA VERDI is probably one of
the richest musical composers in the
world. He is also one of the most bene-
VIOLENT. The poor of Cussebo call him
blessed, for his goldflled hand is ever
open and oUtstretched to alleviate their
sufferings.
IT is rather odd to see a man like
Robert Bonner, who owns 40 horses,
riding II street car. But Robert knows
better than to expose valuable horsefesh
down town, III New York, where it is as
much as a mans life is worth to cross
the streets In the middle Of the day.
The now Duchess Dowager of Mari
borough was, like her sister, the late
countess of Portarlington, one of the
great bellies of London about 1916, dis
putting the sovereignty of beauty Nth
Lady jerseys two daughters, Lady
Clementina and Lady Adela Villiers
Mrs. MARGARET F. SULLIVAN CHAR
garet Buchanan. wife of the president
of the Irish National League Of America
is writing new book which the Apple
tons are to publish. It is to be entitled
&c England, Ireland and the United
States, and Will be economic, historical
and social.
AN authentic portrait of Flora Nc
Donald has been placed in the Town
Hall of Glasgow, by Mrs. Flora Wylde,
a descendant. Flora Mcdonald occu-
pies place in history as the heroine who
accompanied Bonnie Prince Charlie in an
open boat from Benbecula southwest to
Skye III 1746.
PAUL DU CHAmLU has sailed to spend
q season under Scandinavian skies. This
time he goes in pursuit neither Of lions
nor gOrillas, but on an archaeological
quest, his design beng to illumine the
early history Of England through the
aid Of material to be obtained LII the
homes OF the Vikings.
MISSES Rosa DARK, Amy Wales, Ra-
ehael and Isabella Kingand Sarah Harris
on, for several years successful teachers
IN the public schools of Indianapolis,
left last week via New York, Liverpool,
London and Lisbon for the Argentine
Republic, where they are employed by
the government to teach.
CHARLES STICKNBY, who accidentally
shot and killed the wife of O. Il. Dever-
eaux at Denver, while shooting at Cam
pau. has transferred to Mr.. Devereaux.
freely and of his own will, about $10,-
900 as a part recompense for the ter
risle calamity which he brought upon
that household two years ago.
Mr.. HowEELs, In the August Century,
makes an editor who assists the heroine
of "A Woman's Reason" to earn some
thing with her pen, say, apropos of
working over her manuscript: ga Wom-
an can sometimes do something without
damaging others: but when lady under
takes to help herself, some man has to
suffer for it.
Rev. NEWMAN HALL's "Come to Je-
sus" has been printed IN twenty Ian
guages and 8, 900, 900 copies of it have
been sold. Mr.. Hall is tall in stature,
not robust, genial in manner and with
face kindling with sympathy. His home,
called Ivy House, half hidden by vines,
is full of pictures and books gathered
from all the world.
The eldest son of Beresford Hope,
NJ. P, and grandson of the last cele-
brated Marshal Viscount Beresford, is
about to marry an American, the daugh-
ter of Brig. Gen. Frost, late of the ar
my and now of st. Louis. The English
Journalists say the American bellies are
running the English very close ia their
own matrimonial market.
81. T. ERNST, an erratic man living in
Piqua, o., was arrested recently for
having lot of dynamite concealed on
bis person-enough to blow up several
blocks. He is the same man who Gre
ated sensation in Dayton the other
evening by carrying vaiise full of the
stuff around the streets OF that city.
He manifests some indications Of being