Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-05
PERSONALITIES.

MARY ANDERSON is reported to be
thinking of making her permanent home
in England.
MRS. lNNEs, an American woman of
beauty and dollars, has married SAINT
ley, the baritone.
MISS MARY EASTMAN is a LOBBYIST of
the Connecticut Legislature in the inter-
ests of woman suffrage.
SENATOR BROWN, of Georgia, is Civ
ing employment to nearly 1000 men in
his Georgia iron works.
JOSEPH CooK keeps an alarm clock on
his lecture desk to go off at appointed
periods during his discourse.
a WITTY contemporary attains the
com6Le Of sarcasm by calling Secretary
Chandler "seafaring people,"
VICTOR NAPOLEON, Plop-Plon's bow.
now travelling in Italy, will go to En-
gland to visit Eugene on his way to the
United States.
Col. JEAN BAsso has died in
Genoa. He was so devoted friend and
follower of Garibaldi that he was pop
ularly known as "the generals dog"
The New York Times squares the ac-
count in these terms: 'We care not
rush about Bismarck's opinions of Herr
Lasker, or about his opinions of us.
SIG. SALvTNI announces that he has
given up all attempts to master the En-
gllsb language. Perhaps it's variety, as
exhibited in companies which have sup
ported him, has discouraged him.
LoEENz WIEDMANN, who was Herod
in the Passion Play" at 0 berammergau,
died recently at Munich hospital, at the
age OF 80 years. He was tanner by
trade.
PROF. GREENER, of Washington. who
was not invited to the Washington
Alumni dinner, is nevertheless distin-
guished as the first negro that ever re-
ceived degree from Harvard.
JAMES MADISON, aged 10, and from
Virginia, is house page at Washing
ton. He IS great-grandnephew of the
fourth president of the United States,
and has set his heart on beng lawyer.
a CORRESPONDENT of the Liverpool
Mercury declares that one ounce of
cream of tartar dissolved in one pint of
boiling water, drank cold at short inter
walls, is a sure prophylactic and cure of
smallpox.
The Rev. Gro. B. CUTLER. whose
anti-divOrce sermon to his people in He
bron, Conn.,, caused SO much excitement
because of its supposed application to
one of his parishionere, has rendered his
resignation, to take effect April l.
CAyAL1oTTI, a member of the italian
parliament, and Luigi Illica, both
writer's of comedies, recently had a
street encounter in Rome, In the cout Sc
of which the former bit his antagonist
savagely in the calf of his leg.
THE earl of Huntington, now in the
country, after making arrangements for
the settling of English and Scotch
farmers On the extensive lands which he
and his associates have purchased in
will spend afew weeks in Wash
lngton.
COMMODORE UPsHUR is to be detached
from the command Of the Brooklyn navy
yard to take command of the Pacific
equadron. His successor at the navy
yard will be Commodore I. Scott File
bronn, now on special duty at Wash
lngtoD.
A VIENNA paper says that the three
great Wagnerian singers, Materna,
and Scaria, engaged by
Mr.. Theodore Thomas for an American
tour in the spring, are devotipg two
hours day to the study of the English
language.
LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL and Lady
over-shadowed all their En-
glish competitors as barmaids at the
recent international peasant festival, and
the fatuous dudes who went there were
Heeced numerically, the rule being to
return no change.
PETER DEER, colored, stole horse
near Crystal Springs, Miss, one day
On the following day ne was
arrested at Jackson, the grand jury
found bill against him, and he was
tried the same day and sent to the peni-
tertiary for three years.
HENRY IRvING'S two sons have been
themselves at Leigh
Viearage, Turnbr1dge, England, in tab
IeRux and recitations, particularly in the
School for Scandal, Henry playing
Joseph Surface and his brother Law
renee Charles Surface, both showing
talent.
GEN. GRANT looked out doors from
window Wednesday, for the first time
since his fall on Christmas eve. He
goes about the house on his clutches a
little every day. On the first pleasant
lay he is going to drive out to Central
Park. When ne feels strong enough he
will start for Norfolk, Va.
JULIA HATCHER, who lives near Sails
bury, in England, has been awarded the
Order of st. John of Jerusalem for
bravery in saving the life of James Iod-
Ter, boy who had been several times
yored and tossed by bull. The medal
las an inscription stating that it was
awarded ''for service in the cause of hui
nanity.
The pretty wife of Secretary Lincoln
g very popular in Washington society.
Mss Mary Lincoln is about IA years of
'ge and has a very pretty, graceful man.
Ter. She resembles her mother some
What, having the same light hair and
brown eyes. The youngest child is
Iessie, bright little girl about s years
II age. Between these two girls are
wo boys, Abraham and Jack.-NeaO
York Graphic.