Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-04-16
PERSONALITIES.

John u CALHOUN 5 StdUu63 uOW OO-
ing made in Rome, will stand forty feet
high.
Mrs. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE raises
10000 oranges annually on her Florida
grove.
SENATOR RAw1EY, of Connecticut, Is
president of the Washington Literary
Society.
THE empress of Austria is not ex-
pected to visit Great Britain again as
huntress.
THE Misses Longfellow, attended
Mrs. Mackey's recent brilliant reception
in Paris.
PROF. J. G. WooD, of Boston, has
lectured on ''The Sea Serpent" A very
timely topic.
THOMAS A. EDISON, the electrician,
caught shark during his stay in San
Augustine, Fla.
Mr.. CABLES Madame Delphine"
has been translated into French by
Nine. Tn. Benton.
DR.. ZUKERToRT, the champion chess
player, has accumulated good deal of
money by his play.
Mr.. ARCHIBALD FORBES is writing
life Of Chinese Gordon, which viii be
published very soon.
MATTHEW ARNOLD is making money
III England by delivering his much
talked-of lecture on Emerson.
GEN. BEA1E will leave Washington
shortly for his annual tour to California,
where he owns an extensive ranch.
f. A. K. BENNETT, younger son of
Lord Tankerville, of England, is soon
to become a cattle farmer in Texas.
PRINCE BISMARCK has again shaved off
his beard, and wears only the historic
mustache, which is now quite white.
TEE French government has present
ed the queen of Tahiti with a gold
medal, in memory of her visit to Paris.
Rev. GEORGE A. GORDON is the six
teenth pastor of the Old South Church,
Boston, which church society is 215
years old.
MARY J. HOLMES novels have been
excluded from the Cleveland Public Lii
brary on the ground that they are too
sensational.
PRoF. MAHAFFY will presently
join DR.. Schliemann, who is now for the
second time making excavations on the
site of Tiryns.
CHARLES READE, the novelist, who
has been passing the winter at Cannes,
has returned to London IN very i'll health,
and is said to be rapidly sinking.
CHARLES BRADLAUGH's whole appear
ance and rhetoric constantly suggest
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher," writes an
American journalist from London.
GEO. W. CHInDs, of the Philadelphia
Ledger, has 100, 600 trade dollars, taken
in at the counting which he hopes
the government will redeem at their face
value.
Mr.. ARCHIBALD FORBES is graduate
of the University of Aberdeen, and his
Alma Mater has just done him the hon
or of comforting upon him the degree of
LII. D.
GEORGE EASTMAN, who invented and
perfected the machine which made the
first percussion caps in the United
States, is now living In Kalamazoo,
Mich, at the age of 70.
JAMES GoRDEN BENNETT is absolutely
homeless, having no place to call his
own, nor home ties of any kind. It is
said he prefers living in Europe because
there he is free from the annoyance of
the interviewer.
VALENTINE KoRsCH, the editor of the
St. Petersburg Gazette, who died re-
Gently at Reidelburg, left library of
over 5000 volumes, which is reported
to have been sold by Korsch's creditors
for only 45 forms.
HERR AUGUST LEsIMPLE, conductor of
A 1oIn nj
for thirty years an intimate friend and
correspondent Of Wagner's, has just
published a book of personal recollec-
tions OF the master at Dresden.
Miss ARIA CODY, daughter of Buffalo
Bill, is a student at the female seminary
at Morgan Park, n. Y. She is hand
some young lady of IL. and among her
other accomplishments is skilled shot
with rife and an expert horsewoman.
BOTH English commanders in the Sou
dan are sons of medical men. Sir Will
lam Hewett's father was DIR. W. W.
Hewett, who practiced at Brighton, and
the father of Sir Gerald Graham is DIR.
Graham, Of Eden Brows, Cumberland.
GOODWIN SMITH used to deliver his
history lectures at Cornell sitting down.
IL - EGA4L LIZ bpCdA6 WtbAOuG 010AuOCAA
or notes and with the familiarity of a
man who knows all about his subject,
and he makes it as plain as a nursery
tale.
Mrs. SAIMI MORSE keeps a candy
store In San Francisco. She does not
appear to mourn her husbands death
in sackcloth and ashes, but saws he was
never nearer the Holy Land than
Smyrna, and that much which he
claimed for himself was lies.
IRvrNG's election to membership in
the Reform Club of London causes much
discussion. Politically it Is thought to
mean nothing and his admission is re-
garded as simply a personal compliment
to distinguished man from friends who
hope through it to sometimes enjoy his
society.