Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-09-05
PERSONALITIES,

free Christian Church IN KentishtOWp.
England.
A PORTRAIT of President Arthur, with
a complimentary dediction, adorns the
drawing-room of Madame Albani, at
South Kensington.
CAPT. HENRY MANN, of Maine, has
the under jawbone of Francisco Pizarro,
the cOnquerrOr of Peru. He took it from
q Callao cathedral vault.
Mr.. CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER is
buslly preparing series of lectures on
literature, to be delivered before the
senior class OF Princeton College.
M. VICTOR HUGO has run foul of the
majesty of the law. His name is posted
among the delinquent taxpayers of Jer-
sey for non-payment of taxes on two
dogs.
THE Longfellow bust for Westminster
Abbey is nearly finished. Mr.. Lowell
visited the sculptor's studio recently.
and expressed himself pleased with the
work.
A. A. SARGEANT, United States minis
ter at Germany, will sail from Bremen
In September, to continue his arduous
diplomatic duties at Newport and Mia
CARA Falls.
EDWIN ARNOLD is said to have been
overcome by the reception in the coun-
try of his Light of ASIA" the manu-
script of which has been presented to
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie.
The Boston Congregationalist says
that the unnamed donor of $4,000 to
the library fund of Olivet College
proves to be the late Mrs. Lucy E. Tut
tie, of Guilford, Conn. It is a lasting
memorial to her son, Willie Sage
Tuttle.
EDWARD McC1INToCK, who once
traded the site of all Denver for mule,
has never seen a steamboat, and within
a month had his first ride on a railroad,
| has money enough to make pleasure
trip to Saratoga, notwithstanding his
miss Of fortune in real estate.
Mrs. KATHARINE MCDOWELL, the
southern author, who has just died at
Holly Springs, Miss, was better known
as "Sherwood Bonner" She was
prolific writer for many newspapers and
magazines. Her series of stories of the
Moonshiners of East Tennessee attracted
much attention.
That prophet is not without honor,
u
too, for that matter, has long been evil
dent in Manchline, the little town. in
Ayrshire which was so long associated
with the name of Burns, and whose pub
lie library was not able to boast of pos
sessing copy of his poems until within
the last month !
A COPPER table to be placed in the
cornerstone of the Garfield monument
in San Francisco bears an inscription
reading in part: "To the memory of
James Abram Garfield, who faithfully
served his country on the battlefield,
in congress, and as president of the
United States of America. Born No
vember 10, A. D. 1881. Died Septem-
Der 10, A. D. 1881, from wounds re-
ceived at the hands of an assassin. May
his illustrious career serve as an ex-
ample and his memory remain sacred III
the hearts of his countrymen Erected
} by voluntary contributions of the peo-
} pie of the Pacific coast of the United
States of America. God and our coun-
try"
A RECENT caller upon Mrs. II. B.
J Stowe writes to the Chicago Inter Ocean:
"She is rather below medium height,
with strongly marked features, especial
~ in the lower lines of her face, which
is impassive except when quickened
into mo1nentary enthusiasm, when her
speech flows in silver torrent, followed
by lapses into contemplative silence.
my husband is sick, and I am his
nurse, she said I have written very
little since ''We and Our Neighbors. I"
What I find time for now is done for
"sweet charity's sake" I follow the
birds around-south in winter, and
north in summer. I have new story
in mind-a love story. I hope I shall
never be too old to write love stories.
On the subject Of modern fiction she ex-
pressed herself energetically. L do not
read novels nowadays. There is no ro-
nance in them. Human passion with
certain school has come to be synony-
nous With a mawkish hysteria to be
photographed without grace, and by
dry process which takes the victim In
the midst of an emotion, as a horse is
caught with all his feet in air. I like
Scott, and read him over and over
again. He drew life with free hand
and by broad and vivid strokes devoid
of mere prettiness, but infused and in
formed with true genius"
A FUNNY story is gong the rounds at
the expense of Washington's millionaire
and philanthropist, W. ". Corcoran. It
appears that Mr.. Corcoran chartered
special car for F'self and party" to take
them to White Sulphur Springs, paying
$50. When the car was switched off
from the Midland road at Charlottes-
vile to the Chesapeake road the new
conductor came around for tickets. Mr..
Corcoran refused to pay on the ground
that he had chartered the car for the
Springs. The conductor explained that
the Pennsylvania road lad no control
over the line, and unless $50 were forth
coming he would have TO side track the
car. ST will not pay another cent, said
MIR. Corcoran, who would have said the
same if the amount had been eighty
cents, and l will spend 81, coo, 900 be-
fore [ will be imposed on in this man
ner. "Who are you, anyway ?" asked
the conductor. "W. W. Corcoran, of
Washington, sir, was the stately reply
of the twenty-five millionaire. "Well,
sir, . was the rejoinder, I" If you are Mr..
Corcoran you can better afford to spend
s., 900, 600 than can to lose nv place. -