Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-02-20
PERSONAL.

JOHN L.kSULLIvAN, says the Helena.
Mont, Herald, lost So, 600 in poker dur
ing his stay in Butte City.
The Prince and Princess Novosselsky,
OF Russia, are visiting this country. He
IS the son of the private councillor of tue
czar.
MRS. J. J. Aston has sent ], O63 home.
less children to the south and west in the
last few years, at an expense of nearly
$1,000
CHARLES DELMoNICo was the owner
OF valuable library, which includes
books on cooking from ancient times to
the present day.
GOVERNOR MoLANE, of Maryland, con-
tracted cold on the day of his inaugur-
alton, and it has developed into neural
gla and confined him to his room.
MRS. ANDERSON, widow of the late
General Anderson of Fort Sumter fame,
has leased house at Palatka, Fla, and
will remain there during the winter.
"LITTLE JOHNNY" GLEN, the "drum-
mer boy of Chickamauga, was only 9
years old when he entered the army.
He Is now In command Of the United
OCaGeS Ocnuylklll Arsenal.
q CUMMINGS, the eccentric mayor of
Bangor, Me-, has twice vetoed the coun-
cil's standard time order, on the ground
that solar time is according to zone of
the inevitable laws of God"
F. W. THURBER, who retires from
business in New York, is estimated to be
worth So, 600, 900. He began with few
dollars, and gradually built up colossal
grocery concern. His age is "a.
Mr.. KA1nooH, ex-preacher, returning
to San Francisco the other day, lectured
in his old "temple." His audience con-
sisted of bakers dozen. His popu-
larity is gone, and he finds himself, with
Kearney, on the shelf.
The monument which is to be erected
over the tomb of Turgenief, in Russia,
will consist of one massive block of mar
bic with the simple inscription {" Tur-
genief." The tomb will be encircled by
cast iron railing of special design.
GENERAL P1EAsoNToN is a familiar
figure at Washington. He is tall, slen-
der and straight as an arrow. His hair
is gray, but his step is elastic, and he is
considered to be one of the most enter
tanning story tellers in Washington.
DIR. HENRY A. DUBOIS, noted physi-
clan, who died in New Haven recently of
paralysis, aged Is years, was a lineal de-
scendant Of Jacques Dubois, the French
Huguenot, who took refuge in Holland,
and in 1875 came with the Dutch settlers
to Kingston, n. 7.
HENRI BLANC, who has just died in
France at the age of ninety six, is de-
cIared to have been the last French sur
vivor of Trafalgar, in which battle he
served on the Mont Blanc, and was taken
prisoner when that vessel was reduced to
wreck by the British guns.
A MAN always finds out when there is
hole IN the bottom of his stocking.
He makes the discovery when he takes
his boots off at night and puts his foot
down on the hot register to warm. He
rarely forgets to speak right out about it.
-ROckl0aad Courier Gazette.
The new novel of Miss Dudu Fletcher,
"Vestigia, is soon to be published ST.
simultaneously in London and Boston.
Miss Fletcher herself writes of it: "I
hope you will like my new book. It GER
tainly contains my best work; and in 60
ing over the proof-sheets I have really
found that like it myself.
IT is related of President Grevy, who
is well known to be a skillful billiard
player, that he recently invited the
famous professional player, Vignaux, to
the Elysee, and that the two men played
together. Rumors are now afoat that
the president actually beat the profess
sional player, and that Vignaux is some
what of q courier
lola, the novelist, is still compare
lively young, having passed his 40th
year. He is the son of an italian engi-
neer, and, curiously enough, failed to
pass his graduating examination at col
lege. He then turned to journalism, in
which he spent two years, living in a
precarious and wretched fashion, liter
ally from hand to mouth.
PROFESSOR LEwsE, OF Nuremburg, in.
Bavaria, has an order from San Francis
co for bronze statue of President Gar
field. The model has been made by the
sculptor Happersberger, of Munich,
native of America. It represents Gar
field standing erect, with head uncov-
cred, and clothed in civilian dress. The
statue will be over ten feet high. On
the pedestal are figures representing war
trophies and the American Eagle. In
front, under star, is the word Gear
field y in large letters.