Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-23
PERSON Al.

THEODORE EILToN'S hair is very gray.
SPURGEoN's govt continues to trouble
him.
GENERAL GRANTS income is said to
be about SO, 900 year
KING KALAKAUA's ''army" is reported
to number torty-nine soldiers, exclusive
of bands and attendants.
BOB JNGERsonL has given $500 toward
the expenses of the convention of col
ored men to be held in Washington next
September.
The greatest feminine land owner
in England is Baroness Gin her own
right) WilIoughby d'Evesby, who has
an income of $3.50. 1000 from land.
Col. FRANK FL. PIERCE, a well-known
LAWYER of HillsbOro, n. H., the nephew
and heir of ex-President Pierce, has
been committed to an asylum for the in
sane.
MISS CATHERINE WOLFE, the reputed
S16, 900, 900 heiress, of New York, says
she has, on an average, one offer OF
marriage every day from unknown
suitors.
Mr.. DWIGHT READ, for some years
past first secretary of the United States
legation at Madrid, was recently mar
ried to young Spanish lady, the Senior
tia Empara Diaz.
THE Rev. Phillips Brooks writes from
the Himalayas that he has not seen any
thing so high as those mountains since
he last visited a certain ultraritualistlc
church in Boston.
THE Duke of Edinburgh is response
BILE for the latest English craze mule
riding. He introduced the fashion by
himself riding one of the particularly
fine mules which he obtained In Egypt.
SENATOR MORRILL,, who has just cele-
brated his seventy third birthday, at the
expiration of his present term III 1885
will have served thirty years III con-
gress, twelve in the house and eighteen
in the senate.
The first Colorado baby is now said
by the Denver Times to have been Mrs.
Brantner, daughter of Samuel Brantner.
She was born up the Platte, near Den
yer, October IA. 1859, and is now Mrs.
J. G. Mcintosh.
SINCE returning to Paris from New
York Due de Morny had led crusade
against the black coat evening dress.
He wears on all full dress occasions a
plun-coIored velvet suit, adorned with
sapphire buttons.
Mr.. JOHN BANvARD. the artist, it will
be remembered, delivered a very appro-
pirate poem on theiarrival on the obellsk.
He has now prepared poem appropriate
| for the opening ceremonies Ofthe bridge,
to be delivered on the occasion.
SAMUEL r. RINDGE, who died in Cam
bridge, Mass, few days ago, left an
estate estimated to be worth 50, 600, 900.
rIe began lite as an Office boy in Bos-
ton store, and the same store was owned
| by him at the time of his death.
TIE engagement is announced of Mr..
George Realy, son of Mr.. g. P. A.
HeaIy, to a young lady of Chicago. The
future daughter-in.l aw of the renowned
and popular portrait painter is of French
extraction, and is named Mdlle Montan-
nier.-PGriS Gazette.
GEORGE L. CATLlN, formerly of the
NV York Commercial, now American
consul at Stuttgart, has written novelen-
| titled Natalie Rev." which is now being
| translated into German, Tor publication
In the Tagblatt of Stuttgart. 1t is also
! to be published by Tauchnitz.
! Mrs. AUGUSTA TABOR, the divorced
was given a reception by 200 of the
/ wealthiest and most respectable people
in Denver few days after her return
from q California tour. Meanwhile
/ Denver society studiously ignores Mrs.
i Tabor No. 2.
i HERBERT SPENCER says Americans are
so driven by business cares that they
never stay to leisurely examine any
! thing. Guess he never saw five or six
busy Americans standing around for
two hours watching three men raising an
office safe to fourth-story window
Philadelphia Nea0S.
THE Comte de Paris recently sent to
a nurseryman in this country for some
dogwood trees, to plant about his villa
at Cannes. One of his most vivid rec
objections of this country is of battle
fought by the Army of the Potomac in
the Virginia swamps, when the woo6s
fer miles around were white with dog
wood blossoms.
A DISGUISED traveller who called on
Consul Mosby, at Hong Kong, sent uI
his card and got it back again with re-
quest to bring it up himself. Comply
ing with the request, he found the ex-
guerrilla with his heels on the table and
his thumbs In his armpits and was fur
Their made unhappy by being interro-
gated to who in gehenna he was and
where in gehenna he came from.
Not an Insult.
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