Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-10-17
PERSONALITIES,

P1UO,OUU year Tor his novels.
OSCAR WILDE is letting his hair grow
again. He was contemplating matri-
mony when he cut it off, but has since
changed his mind.
DIR. WILLIAM L. SHINE, a prominent
politician of New York city, formerly
deputy coroner, has been admitted to
the Bloomington Insane Asylum.
The Rev. DR.. S. T. Smith has re-
turned to Boston from Asia, where he
went years ago to visit the Baptist mis-
s1ons. He is more than seventy years
old, and will pass the remainder of his
days In America.
QUEEN VICTORIA now takes long walks
daily, and her health is said to be much
better than for some time. She has dis
missed her medical attendants, and is
in good spirits. She is to remain at Bal
moral month longer.
MRS. s. r. GREEN, the widow of the
historian, has herself been completely
revising her husbands conquest of
England" according to his last instruc-
tions. The book carries on the story of
England up to the period of the Nor
man Conquest.
1T is not generally known that Prince
Bismarck is a timber merchant in a
large way, and distiller in still larger.
At Varzin he has recently had new.
distillery built, steam engines put up at
an enormous cost, and the result is that
over 80, 900 liters of German eou-de-Vie
are turned out monthly.
Mrs. RUSSELL GREENE Is an old lady
residing on Clifford Street, in Provi-
dence, r. I. She is SO years old, does
all her own work, and recently she
wh1tewashed a long board fence between
her own and neighboring garden. She
rises every morning at o'clock, and
gets her work done before the majority
of people are up for the day.
The New York World gives the names
of nearly 400 people, all residents of
New York City, who are each worth
from 81 600, 900 to S100,000,000 Gen.
Grant is put down as "said by some to
have acquired by presents and invest
ments 81 900, 00O." The property own
ed by President Arthur and Robert G..
Dun is assessed at 1886, 700.
WHEN Mr.. Stedman gave his now
famous poem, ''The Diamond We'd
ding" to Horace Greeley and asked
him how much he thought it was worth
to the Tribune, the philosopher said:
:" Perhaps the paper it is printed on;
you forget, young man, to estimate the
reputation which the title of pot laure-
ate to the Tribune gives you"
IT is related that not long ago John
Bright attended an auction sale of high
priced sherthorn cattle in England, and
In response to an inquiry, said: Ono, [
have not come to buy, but to see the fool
who will pay So, 900 for bull. !" "There
he is," said Lady Skelmersdale prompt
~, pointing to her husband. The reply
made by the Peoples Tribune is not a
matter of record.
The preparation of Judge Blacks bio
graphy, essays, speeches and state pa
pers will be assumed by his son, Lieut..
Gov. Black of Pennsylvania One Or
more volumes of his public addresses,
state papers and other important pro-
auctions will be published with as little
delay as possible, with a predatory
sketch of his life. His biography will be
prepared by the same author to follow
the speeches, etc.
THERE has lately come to light in an
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dral own in the west of England what
is alleged to be contemporary bust Of
| Shakespeare, which stands upon splen-
didly carved mantelpiece side by side
with Queen Elizabeth, Sir Walter Ra-
leigh, and other worthless of the period,
and which is said to be more like the
| Stratford bust than the Droeshout head.
Mr.. HaWeis, the well-known author
and divine, is now the occupant of Ros-
setti's late residence. It is the most i'm
portant of the fine terrace known as
| Cheyne row, London. Cecil Lawson,
the painter, lived next door, Maclise a
| few door off, and George Eliot next to
| Maclise, If not actually in the house in
which he lived and worked and died. No
property in London has gone up more
suddenly and decidedly than this part
| of Chelsea.
DIR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES recent
| ly said to friend: So have written
much that I would willingly let die. The
public have treated me beyond my de-
serts. It would be better if I should be
found out in my lifetime. A life of
Emerson engages my attention at pres
ent, and whatever light reminiscent eff
fort of which am capable in intervals
of time must be put forth for the
Atlantic. l receive, every day, requests
to write for this or that publication, but
must decline them ali. %
| A ROYAL court is commonly supposed
to be center of luxurious aud extrava-
CANT influences, but that OF r umania
certainly is not. Queen Elizabeth,
when first she entered the country as
princess, was struck by the pomp and
lavish extravaganza of dress that pre-
vailed, and has ever since been energet-
ically working against it, and in favor of
simplicity, modesty and economy. For
| herself she is fond of the pam costume
of the Roumanian peasant girls, and
habitually wears it at her summer home,
among the Carpathians. Her manner of
life, too, both there and at Bucharest, is
unassuming. She rises early, often at 4
O'Clock, even in midwinter, and, without
disturbing any of the household, lights
lamp and sits down to her work. Her
rooms are richly adorned, IN great part
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