Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-10-29
PERSONAL.

M. RENAN has completed his history
OF the Jewish people.
A NEW ORLEANS bookseller says that
cables stories find almost their only
sale In that city among the sojourners
from the North.
DIR. EMMA l.. CALL is the first lady
physician who passed the examination
admitting women to membership in the
Massachusetts Medical Society.
THERE has not been a marriage of a
President during his term of Office since
John Tyler married Miss Gardner and
took her to the White House in 1912.
PRoB. SIMON NEwCoMB. LII. D.. of
Washington, has been elected Professor
of Mathematics and Astronomy in the
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
MGR. CAPEL has made up his mind
that the two principal causes of suicide
in this country are too much mental
forcing of the young and too much
moral training.
BARON Won ALvENsLRBEN, the new
minister from Germany. to this coun-
try, is 45 years old and bachelor. He
is tall and slender, with light hair and q
full mustache.
GEN. W. S. HARVEY is said to be not
only the oldest but richest officer in the
army, and his domestic establishment
at st. Louis is described by an enthu-
siastic correspondent as "princely."
MISS MoLLIE GARFIELD is going to
be educated at Vassar. Of the 500 full
course graduates of that institution
since 1867, 1873 have married and only
twenty seven have died.
MRS. OLIVE CLEVELAND CLARKE,
Boston, has just celebrated her goth
birthday. Her mother lived to be 104
and her father 80. A sister of her faith
er, aged 81, and brother, 85, are still
living.
/ LADY LANsDoWNE, wife of the Govern
or General of the Dominion, has lumin-
GUS eyes and gentle smile, and is de-
cidedly handsome for the mother of
four youngsters boys and two
girls.
AMONG the curious crowd of names
in the recent applicants for pensions are
Pilgrim Crazylous, Pennsylvania ped
agogue; Christly Grow, a colored
preacher; Torment Twist, Christian
Bible, John Drinklager, Reason Tuig,
D. Slatecipher, aid Skye Leaf.
The bust of Mr.. s. L. Clemens MARK
Twain (Which Mr.. Karl Gerhardt
modelled at Elfnira last summer, and
which has just been put in bronze in
Philadelphia, is now on exhibition in
Hartford. Mr.. Gerhardt, who belongs
in Hartford, has been for four years a
student of sculpture in Paris.
Rev. DAVID WALK, pastor of the Cen
trail Christian Church, in Indianapolis,
and for thirty-one years minister of
the gospel, some years ago bought for
81, 500 five acres of ground near Kan
sas City, Mo. The property is now
worth 100000, and Mr.. Walk talks of
selling it and visiting the Holy Land.
The death is announced from Lon
dan of Mrs. Anna Eliza Bray, En-
glands oldest author. She was the
was born in Surrey, near the end of
the last century. She was the author
of numerous novels and biographical
sketches, and was friend of the poet
Southey.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT is again off
for Europe. Before going he turned
over his expensive independent news
paper delivery system to a news COM
pany and laid up his gathering
steamer" and paid off its crew. Mr..
Bennett left his yacht in the dock for
repairs, to be sent to him when ready
for the sea.
GEN. S. CADwALLADER well known
throughout the Northwest as an able
and experienced newspaper man, has
become business manager of the Spring
field (Mo.) Herald. Gen. Cadwallader
was formerly one of the proprietors of
ing correspondent of the New York
Herald during the war.
JEFFERSON DAVIS, in his fight after
the collapse of the Confederacy, aban-
doned his horse few miles from Macon
| and took TO the woods. On the horse
was a silver-mounteds saddle, such as the
heroes of fiction are wont to bestride.
The saddle has been recovered after
lapse of nineteen years, and last week
a Georgian sent it to Mr.. Davis as
present and a memento.
A FAMILY named Ross, residing at La
Crosse have been sadly afflicted with
disease of late. Mrs. Ross died on the
10th inst, and little son is in dan
gerous condition An older child,
daughter, is convalescent. The cause
| OF the disease IS matter of consider
able speculation. The family have been
doing something of business as taxi
dermists, and one theory is that they
have been poisoned either by the birds
which they have handled or by the ma
terial used in preserving the specimens
Italians and tha Cholera