Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10
ABOUT PEOPLE.

THE aged Peter Cooper is rapidly fail
ing, his eyes and ears beginning to weary
of their work and refusing to continue
the functions they have performed for
over 80 years.
| WILLIAM GRAHAM, at the age of Is
years, has become a member of the
Carteryille, Ga, bar. He probably is
the youngest lawyer in the United
| States.
IT is said that the life of the poet
| Whittier Is much disturbed by women
One wealthy widow actually proposed
to him, and other women have made
violent love to him without avail.
Mrs. MARY HALLoCK FooTE, the story
writer, author of the sled Horse
Claims" now publishing in the Century,
is the wife of Mr.. Arthur Foote, a min
ing engineer. Mr.. Foote is brother of
Senator Hawley's wife.
The Hon. Joseph Holt, President Bu-
chanan's postmaster general and after
wards secretary of war and Judge advo-
cate general, lives in strict retirement In
| Washington. He is a childless widower
and is very seldom seen in public.
Mr.. RUTHERFORD STUYvEsANT, yes
| tryman of ST. Marks Church, New
York, is now building, at an expense Of
about 1925, 900, a beautiful brick church
in TOmpkins Square, for the benefit of
the mission supported by st. Marks
congregation.
Mr.. JAMES PAYN, the novelist, once
correspondent with the editor of an Amer
lean magazine, and told some gentle
manly Sc club stories. One day he re-
ceived letter from the proprietors of
the magazine, delicately limiting that he
was corresponding with lady.
GUsTAvE DoRE, the artist, is Is years
old. He looks like a German, smokes
like a Spaniard, has high cheek bones
like an Indian, wears his moustache like
a Frenchman, and works like a Turk.
| He has ten times as many orders as he
can fill, and makes from $40 900 to $50
900 q year.
MR.. Ross r. WINANs and family,
Baltimore, move this week into then
new mansion, which two hundred men
have been engaged in building for full
year past, at cost of nearly half a mil
lion dollars The house is seventy feet
square, five stories high, and looks like
a French chateau.
The home of Robert Toombs ia close
by the spot of his birth, at Washington,
Ga, and be has never lived permanently
elsewhere. Fifty years ago." he said
recently, II brought my wife to this
house, bride, and here We have lived
all these years. We have been blessed
more than the most, and [ thank God
for it.
! JOHN @. WHITTIER writes the follow
ing note in response to an inquiry as to
the truth of published rumor that
play from his pen was shortly to be pro-
duced: "Ihy time will be lost in going
in search of the drama of the news
paper slip. never knew of it before
It is a very foolish lie. The idea of
Quaker playwright is unspeakably alb
surd."
The Earl of Dudley, who derives
more from minerals than any man in
England, and whose income has often In
good years approached SIS, 900, 900, has
for some time been in q mental condition
bordering on imbecility. Consequently
his wife and children live very quietly,
and, as he may last for years, the ac-
emulation of money threatens to become
enormous.
THE late Robert Morris, a colored
lawyer of Boston, died worth 100000.
curious feature of his practice was
that it was largely among Irish people,
who believed in him and his abilities
and one of whom said: 81 should think
he was too smart man to be a naygUr.
On the other hand, citizens Of his own
color were quite shy of him, and he
never reckoned upon them for his sup
port.
W. II. GLIDER, the New York Herald
correspondent who crossed Siberia in
sIedges to carry the news of the burning
of the Rodgers, has arrived in New
York. He doesn't look as though he
had undergone some of the seyerest
hardships that ever befell man. He
says, however, that he does not feel very
well; that the horse he ate on the
Journey had not been well fed, and
didn't agree with him.
EVERY man has his price. Once upon
time when General Ney, the Duke of
Elchingen, who committed suicide last
year, was commanding the cavalry at
Versailles, circus manager was intro
duced who came to obtain dozen
cuirassiers to take part in the grand
triumphal entree of his circus. "Oh,
suppose you can have them" answered
UnS uIlhCs w AdO II JOA pay bACAh
sThree francs head. !" "Three fancsp
exclaimed the duke, who was very pru-
dent in money matters; "why, man, I'll
go myself. Paris Paper.
The evangelist Barnes, now III New
York, is cousin of Elizabeth Tilton,
and he has been TO see her. He says
"she is fearfully altered by those awful
years. Her personal beauty, once very
marked, is almost gone. Her delicate
hands, once as soft as velvet, are hard
with toll. The lustrous dark brown hair
is very gray, and the pink and white of
the once beautiful complexion are re-
placed by duh sallow. But her life is
full of peace and rest that the world
cannot give. The seven times heated
furnace has purified, not consumed her,
and to-day she has what others have not,
"a conscience void of offense toward
God and man." o
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