Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-19
PERSONALITIES.

MRS. THUMB is worth 100000.
Mrs. GLADSTONE has suddenly taken
to rich clothes.
Rev. ROBERT COLLYER says Wendell
Phillips 'was born social aristocrat."
GEN. B. F. BUTLER is to be ora
tor on Decoration Day in New York,
May 30.
ISRAEL PHILLIPS, of Greenfield, Mass,
is said to be the oldest commercial tray
eler in that state. He is 81.
THE Duke of Marlborough denies that
Germany has made bid for the Blen-
helm house collection of pictures.
The Grand Duke Alexis, of Russia, is
going to England in May on visit to
his sister, the Duchess of Edinburgh.
MARY ANDERsoE's picture appears
upon new brand of toilet soap. There
always was something tidy about Mary.
HORACE WALPo1E's lately published
letters are interesting for the strange
pictures they give of London life in his
day.
PROF. J. L. SMITHS private collection
OF meteorites, the largest in the world,
has been bought by Harvard College for
$4,000.
LIoNELLE TENNYsoN, the eldest son
of the poet, who is now Baron Tennyson,
of Aldworth, is to marry Miss Boyle, of
London.
JOSEPH Cooks newly coined word,
"meiognostic, meaning every little
knowledge" applies chiefly to weather
prophets.
MISS NELLIE HUNT, daughter of the
late United States Minister to Russia, is
reported to be engaged to Russian
nObleman.
PROF. You've, of Prin ceton, says there
is no scientific foundation for the belief
that the star of Bethlehem" will re-
turn in 1887.
GEN. Borden is said to have invented
q new fuse for shell projectiIes, which
cannot fail to effect explosion at the
right moment.
Hon. l.. Fl. BIsBY, well-known law
yer of Chicago, has written laW-book
entitled "The Law of the Board of
Trade" designed for the use of bankers,
commission merchants, etc.
HENRY NJ. ALDEN, the editor of Har-
per's Monthly, and George W. Curtis,
the editor of Harper's Weekly, are said
to be paid 5000 week each.
BISMARCK would no doubt ha We heard
more about the pork embargo if the Gin
cinnati people had not been engaged
with the flood and opera festival.
THOMAS MAST is said to have become
so thoroughly infatuated with Florida
that he has gone back to New Jersey de-
termined to return with his entire fam
lily.
The New York Morning Journal says
that w. II. Vanderbilt told an intimate
friend who dined with him one day in
January, 1888, that he was worth 1884,
900, 900.
CHIEF JOHNSON, interpreter of the
Six Nations Indians, was buried recently
at Brantford, Ont, the ceremonies be-
ing conducted according to the Church
of England.
Gov. HALE, of New Hampshire,
has authorized Isaac W. Hammond,
state historian, to edit and superintend
the publication of the rolls of the re7o.
lutionary soldiers from that state.
MATTHEW ARNOLD said at the Boston
Authors Club reception: "Should the
literary class withdraw its support of
me, the public would give itself up to
such charmers as the Rev. Joseph
Cook"
JOHN ABBOTT, uncle of the gentle
Emma, the actress, says that she was
born at 1877 West Lake Street, Chicago,
thirty-seven years ago. Uncle John
ought not to let out family secrets in
that reckless way.
MoNCURE D. CONWAY, who visited
Arab Pasha in CeyIon, is convinced that
she is very able man, genuine pat
riot, the real representative of the peo-
pie" Arab is applying himself assid-
uously to the study of English.
Mrs. JAMES T. FIELDS offers for sale
the cottage which her husband built at
the place he named Manchester-b blythe
Sea, an affectation Emerson tried to
knock out of him by dating his own let
ters Concord mot Acknowledged.
LoTTA's London agents advertise that
she has accumulated $1,0OO,O0O: that
she has had 1877 offers of marriage; that
the wealth of her rejected suitors
amounts in the aggregate to nearly $780,,
600, 600, and that she has vowed never to
marry till her acting days are over.
TIKI London Times, speaking of the
Late United States Minister Hunt, who
recently died at st. Petersburg, says:
Mr.. Hunt was a Southerner, honest
and sturdy, and OF venerable presence.
He might well have sat to a painter as
the type of the Puritan father. His was
prominent head among the crowd of
diplomats present at the coronation at
the Kremlin last May. Hospitality was
nowhere more freely or graciously dis
pensed than at his elegant hired villa in
Moscow, over which waved the stars and
stripes.
The central figure in the Canadian
Parliament is also the greatest figure In
Canada. He is Sir John A. Macdonald,
the real ruler of Canada, with but a
short interruption, for twenty-five years,
and the greatest man British North
America has produced. He is Knight
Commander of the Bath and member
of the Imperial Privy Council, which is
distinction enjoyed by no other man
in Canada. The others are Honorable;
he alone is Right Honorable, like Will
lam E. Gladstone. Sir John is 70 years
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