Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-05
PERSONALITIES.

WILLIAM MILLER is the millionaire,
farmer of Wisconsin.
EDWIN BOOTH is to act before Ger
man audiences at Berlin in February.
MISS MAUD HOWE will spend much
of the coming winter in Washington.
The Princess Dolgorouki, widow of
the late Gar, will make Paris her prin-
cipal home hereafter.
Mr.. JEFFERSON intends to take his
"Trip Van Wrinkle" to England next
spring.
The Queen of Portugal sent $4,000
to Naples, and Humbert $4,000 to
Genoa, for the relief of sufferers.
THE Archduke Charles Salvador, of
the Austrian line, has applied for pat
emit on repeating rife which he has
invented.
PROF. JOHN Fl. HEWITT, of Baltimore,
aged 80, is named as the oldest living
graduate of West Point. He belonged
to the class of 1918.
SENATOR EDMUNDs is in Washington
for the winter, hard at work on the legisIa-
ton to be introduced at the approaching
session of Congress.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS the third
entered the freshman class at Harvard
this fall, and was immediately elected
president of the class
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, the President
of the Board of Trade in the Gladstone
Cabinet, like Ben. Butler, always wears
button-hole bouquet.
WILLIAM 81. CRAWFORD, secretary of
the treasury in 1920, was the first official
to appoint women clerks in Washington.
His clerk was his daughter
A NEW painting by Munkacsy, en-
titled "The Pawnbroker's Shop" is
creating quite sensation. New York
critics pronounce it true to life.
PRINCESS WILHELMINA, whose right
to the throne of Holland has just been
amicably settled, is little fodder
years of age in the royal nursery at
The Hague.
ALLAN ARTHUR, the son of the Presi-
dent, is said to be very much at home
at the White House, and to have ex-
pressed wish that the summer of '84
would last forever.
LIEUT. SHUFELDT, Of the United
States navy, VINO was the first foreigner
ever permitted to explore the Island of
Madagascar is now in Washington
writing his report.
JULIAN HAWTHORNE is said to be an
exceedingly handsome man. He is
about six feet in height, and has a
strong, clear-cut, intelligent face, and
full beard of dark red.
Miss MARY B. SPEILMAN has present
ed to Baltimore picture of her great
great grandfather, Philip Jones, as he
when laying out the town of
Baltimore on January IL. 1870.
SAMUEL B. LATHAM and Silas B.
Latham, with their wives, celebrated
their golden weddings at Noank, Conn,
a few days ago. The two couples were
the parties to a double wedding in 1884.
SITTING BULL has an enormous head.
He wears No. Il hat, larger than
Daniel Webster. He receives salary
during his present engagement-$200
month. He shaves with pair of tweez-
ers.
Roswell SMITH, editor of the Cent
ury, says he doesn't know who wlote
The Bread Winners" The man paid
for it says he didn't write it. The At.
lantic had first chance at the story and
rejected it.
1T is probable that Miss Carrie G.
Swasey, who has been so active an
associate commissioner of the Cincin-
natl Exposition during the past two
years, will go to New Orleans to assume
charge of Ohio's department in woman's
work.
Miss LOUISE HALE, beautiful and
talented Boston lady, is to marry Eu-
gene de RHO Raugalil, son of the
Greek ambassador to the German
court The son and groom is himself
an attache of the court of King George
of Greece.
The chief impending marriage in
Paris is that of the daughter of Worth
with the son of the tailor Delbalke, an
arch millionaire, who has palace in the
Avenue du Bots de Boulogne and IA
nous art collection. The newspapers,
giving long catalogue of wealthy Par
isian tradesren, declare that the scep-
Ire of the day is a needle, and that the
are tailors, dressmakers,
and milliners.
Mr.. BLYTH, of London, has a new
plan for disposing of the dead. It is to
abolish all permanent Gem eteries, and
allow each piece of agricultural land to
take its turn as a receptacle for the
bodies of the dead. After five years as
a cemetery, he would use the ground
for agriculture on the the theory of a
rotation of crops. He remarked in his
argument that "beneath the waving
corn or the stately pines the remains of
Io fnroxnr fr0o
besecration."