Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-10-01
PERSONALITIES.

MIR. CHARLES A. DANA, of the New
1otk gun, IS said to have the finest COL
iectlon OF blooded poultry in the conn
CYoLoNIA is the name oivop RI on
INDIANA baby who was born dnr;no
fr1ghtful cyclone IN jamaica two veera
ago. '"o years
Miss VAN ZANDT, who has mot -n;.b
success in opera abroad is - Io Will
RED shortly to Waldo Watrous ~ Wau
York. u Ne"
MILE. EMMA NEVADA. the NOM
singer, is OF Irish origin, and was horn
IN Nevada City, Cal. Her right name
MRS. ELLA WHEELER Wilcox and
Col. John A. Joice are at war over The
poem Love and Laughter" both claim
ing to be the author.
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, the humor-
1st OF the Atlanta Constitution. is now
SAID to be cousin to Lulu Hurst. the
magnetic girl of Georgia.
WILLIAM HENRY FoRMAN. editor Of
the Manhattan Magazine. saws that the
cost OF producing one number of the
periodical is little more than $4,000.
SAM SMALL, of Atlanta, Ga, boasts Of
having more than eighty scrap-books
covering the political history of men ori
events IN Georgia for forty years past
HENRY GEORGE is spending the sum-
mer at Jamaica, L. T., rewriting the
manuscript which was accidentally de-
stroyed OF book of the freedom of
trade. -
SPAIN has lost one of it's most popular
dramatic authors in Senior Garcia
Gutlerres, who had just died at Madrid.
lie wrote the play from which Verdi
drew "I Trovatore."
SENATOR ANTHoNY's last contribution
to the columns of his newspaner. the
Providence Journal, was a tribute to a
friend, and his last suggestion was to
Spare a political enemy"
ROBERT BUCHANAN, the ENGLISH noet
is IN this country, and complains of
American cookery. The Critic SAYS.
he looks as if he would prefer stalled
OK to lotos and wild honey"
The death is announced at Buenos
Ayres of Nichol Anchorene. who has
left S12,OO0,000. He owned an enor-
nous pastoral property, which carried
$4,000 COWS and 100000 sheep.
NINE. ADELINA PATTI has given q con-
cert for the benefit of the HOSPITALS
near her Welsh summer home. Two
years ago she did the same thing, and
added $4,000 to the hospital funds.
SIR MOSES MoNTEFIoRE will be 100
years old October "a. It is proposed to
establish Montefore professorship at
the Hebrew Union College at Cincin-
natl in commemoration of the event.
BISHOP BRoNDEL, of Montana, has
accommodated John Magensie,
theatrical manager, from the Roman
Catholic Church for the sin of bringing
Robert G.. Ingersoll into Montana to
lecture.
ISRAEL Coz, of Waterbury, Conn, is
the only survivor of the state legislature
of 1924, of which he was the Youngest
member. He is 80 years old, in full
mental and physical vigor, and is not
Prohibitionist.
DIR. DAMRosCH, of New York, has Sc
cured in Germany full company, in
Guiding the ballet, and will give Ger
man opera, or opera sung in German,
at the Metropolitan Theater, beginning
November Is.
Rosa BoNHEUR, the famous animal
painter, is engaged on a picture for the
frontispiece of the Percheron stud book
of France. It will be presented to the
Societe Hippique Percheroune in token
of her respect for the progressive Per
cheron breeders.
FIFTEEN years ago Charles Stafford,
of Erie, Pa, was convicted of heinous
crime on the testimony of two witnesses.
The witnesses died recently, leaving
statements generating him, and he
has since been released from confne-
ment.
j. BRUCE HALsTEAD, Phi. D., who has
occupied the chair of higher mathemat-
at Princeton for the past ten years, has
been called to senior professorship in
the same branch at the Texas Univer-
sity. The vacancy thus made will be
filed by j. A. Daniels, a graduate of
Ann Arbor University and late fellow
at Johns Hopkins.
MIR. PARNELL's land purchase and
settlement company have made their
first purchase in an estate in KilcIooney
in the county of Galway, the property
of the Bodkin family, one of whom for
many years represented that county in
Parliament. It consists of about 5000
acres, and the sum given was $4,000,
being about twelve years purchase on
the presentrental.