Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-25
PERSONALITIES.

JAY GOULD is said 10 be one of the best
bOtanists in America.
n. DE LEssEP8 has been presented
with son by Madame. He is 70 years
old.
The difference between the khedive.
who is leaving Egypt, and the English
| ambassador at Conetantinople is that
one is a dufer out and the other is a
/ Dufferin.
KATE FIELD has been spending the
earl y summer at South Norfolk, Conn.,,
but will start for the far west, Saturday.
During the trip she intends to visit Gen.
| Crooks headquarters.
WILLIAM MoRTHIMER, a one-banded
compositor in the office of the Carbon
Advocate (Pa.,) fastens bis stick dag
onally across the F't' box, and sets, cor
reefs, and distributes 5000 ems of solid
minion each day.
THE Toledo Blade says that it is the
custom of Frank Hurd Immediately a&-
| ter registering at a hotel to say to the
clerk: ''I wish you'd have sent up i'm
mediatelya pitcher of ice-wateI, couple
Of cocktails and shorthand reporter of
one of the dailies"
CHARLES DEKAY, who is looked on by
many as the coming" American poet,
is a descendant of Joseph Rodman
Drake, author Of the ''Culprit Fay"
and is brother-in-law Of r. Watson
Glider, editorof The Century. The De-
Rays are of Huguenot descent.
The Hon. Henry Overstolz, ex-mayor
of st. Louis, traces his ancestry back
IN the direct line to one Of the baronial
houses Of Germany ennobled in thefour-
teenth century by the emperor. It was
from this circumstance that he was call
ed 'Kaiser Henry" during his term of
office.
SILAs Il. BUTTRICK, who twenty years
age was a wealthy merchant IN New
York, has just died IN the Charity Hos
pital on Blackwell's Island He in
vested in some mining enterprises with
Gen. Fremont in 1859 and lost $50, 900,
and that was the beginning of his down
ward career.
PRESIDENT DE SoTo, of Honduras,
who is visiting this country, is q short.
stoutly built man, with complexion of
the darkest olive and et-black hair and
side whiskers. His eyes are dark and
bright and sparkle with animation as he
converses. He is apparently about fifty
five years old.
Miss JENNIE MARKS, OF Baltimore,
guessed there were %, 100 pills in bot,
tie in a window in that city and won
sewing machine by her guess, which
was the nearest correct. There were
%, 100 pills in the bottle. There were
over {, 1000 guesses and the worst one
was q guess of 5000, 900.
THERE are only three men in the
British house Of commons who we're
there when Victoria assembled the
throne, forty-six years ago. They are
Mr.. Gladstone, Mr.. Talbot, member for
Glamorganshire, and Mr.. Villiers, mem
Der for Wolverton. Earl Grey is the
only living member of the cabinet that
was in Office at that time.
The statistics Of the sale of Bishop
Colenso's works throw into the shade
those Of any other English writer IN the
same lines of authorship. OF the "El9--
ments of Algebra nearly 10000 copies
have been sold and, in forty years, more
than twice that number has been issued
Of lis parallel and succeeding volume,
the '' Arithmetic Designed for the Use
of Schools"
EDMUND YATES will not escape the
consequences of his libel on Lord Ions
dale, the attempt TO quash the informa~-
ton having failed. There will not be SO,
much mercy shown, and he does not -ex-
pect much, having recently made a bit
ter attack in his journal, the World, on
Ponsonbv Fame, one OF the Westmore-
land family, who have insisted on Lord
Lonsdale's prosecuting him.
The Providence Evening Press says:
"lt is pleasant to record the fact that
Mr.. Joseph B. Bishop, who began his
newspaper career in the Office Of the
Evening Press, but who has for a long
time been one of the leading members
OF the editorial staff of the New York
Tribune, has been offered fine position
on the editorial staff of the New York
Evening Post, which be has accepted"
ONE of the two medals granted for
wood engraving at the Paris Salon of
this year was awarded to Mr.. Robert
Hoskin, who has been for nearly twenty
years employed by Messrs. Harper &
Bros, and whose work, as in Parsons
SUNDAY Morning in Surrey and Alb
bey's ''Faustus, - is familiar to readers
of Harper's Magazine. The competition
in wood engraving at the salon vas very
sharp, Earope and America being well
represented.
RICHARD BELT, the sculptor, whose
famous libel suit is still before the courts
of England and bids fair to find final
settlement only in the house of lords,
was once a parliamentary messenger boy,
and his first artistic efforts were with a
nail on a bit of rough stone picked up
in the street. But he rose to work on a.
bust of Charles Kingsley in Windsor
Castle, IL the presence of the queen, and
to receive from her a commission for
Statue of Lord Beaconsfeld.