Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-07-23
PERSONALITIES.

ROBERT BONNER, the New York
Ledger man is said to be worth ST.
100000.
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, who wrote the
"Star Spangled Banner" is to have a
monument in Patterson Square, Balti-
more.
ALL presidents since Lincoln have
worn full boards, except President
Arthur, whose whiskers have the Eng
lish side-board cut.
THE Princess Louise, Of England, is
not in good health, having neuralgia
| pains since her historic fall in Canada.
She goes to Marienbad.
Mr.. BLAINE's family will OCCUPY
during the summer at Mount Desert,
Me-, the cottage tenanted in former
seasons by Senator Hale.
CAPT. ANDREWS, SO years of age.
has completed his walk from South
Carolina to Massachusetts, arriving in
Boston in good condition
Mr.. r. A. HUNT. of Flat Creek, Bun
combe. County, N. O., is renowned
throughout all that region by being
grandfather at the age Of 81 years.
Mr.. FRANCIS T. KING, the Quaker
President of the Johns Hopkins Hospi-
tai in Baltimore, refuses a salary of
1000, which the trustees have repeat
eddy offered him.
! DR.. MARY WALKER has created
panic in Washington by declaring that
she will wear breeches or nothing. Even
congressman declare that they can't
stand the alternative.
MRS. DUBYs, daughter of Gen. W. T.
Sherman, owns one of the richest
flower gardens in the South, on her
husbands plantation at Pass Christian,
on the Mississippi.
A LARGE staff of Yale professors are
engaged upon the revision OF Webster's
Dictionary, which will soon appear.
Many of them are also at work upon the
entury Dictionary.
CAMILLA URso, the violinist, has de-
cided to make Boston her home hereaf-
ter. Upon her return from Europe in
August she will take possession of her
new residence in that city.
THE brick Westinghouse for the
residence of Bishop Littlejohn at Gar
den City, near New York, owned by the
A. T. Stewart estate, has been COM
pleted and is now occupied by the Bish-
op and his family.
DIR. EVANS, the American dentist in
Paris, has given the Prince Of Wales
500 American trees imported for his
own estate, but they were excluded
from the French custom house for fear
OF phylloxera, not case of which, it is
said, ever was known in an American
orchard.
Mrs. EMMA MoLLoY, the temperance
Kas., at the earnest solicitation of
prominent friends in that city. Her
reform work in Kansas and Indian
Territory the past year has been emf.
nently successfully, and her meetings
have been attended by thousands of
persons.
The late Samuel M. Shoemaker of
Baltimore, general manager of the
Adams Express Company, directed that
$4,000 be given to his sons when they
each arrive at the ages of 81, % and 81
years. The remainder of 81 100000 is
left to trust committee to divide the
income among his children and grand
children during their lives. There
were no requests to charitable institu-
tons.
WARD H. LAMoN, once Lincoln's law
partner, who was marshal of the Dis
trict of Columbia, is dying of gangrene
in the feet. A few years ago Lamon
had cash fortune OF 100000. He
went into Wall Street determined to
make it 100000 and left it a
bankrupt. For four years he has been
in Colorado trying to mend his broken
health and fortunes, but the seeds of
disease, engendered by a life of dissi-
patton, had taken too firm root.
Mr.. WILLIAM GLAzIER has sent a
communication to the American Geo
graphical Society, in which he states
hat ne has discovered that tine Missis-
slppi River does not rise in Lake Itasca,
Mimi, as has hitherto been supposed,
but in another body of water to the
south, which has been named Like
Glazier. The discoverer claims that
this lake is three feet higher than
Itasca, making the source of the Missis-
gppi 1878 feet above the Atlantic
Ocean and 8, 1874 miles from the Gulf of
Mexico.