Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-04-23
PERSONALITIES.


are to be published this month,
CARL SCHURz expects to deliver fifty
lectures in New England next season.
A STATUE of Dean Stanley has just
been placed in the chapel of Rugby
School.
MR.. TILDEN has tapped his barrel to
the extent of $42, 900 to buy house for
his niece.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT's prose
writings, which will appear this spring,
will fill two large volumes.
PRoFs. MORSE and Richards, of Yale
College, have left New Haven to walk
to Philadelphia and back.
GEN. TREvINo, who has been travel
ing IN Europe the last nine months, is
now IN this country, en- route for his
home In Monterey, Mex.
Miss MARY MCCLELLAN, daughter of
Gen. Mcclellan, appeared at an enter
talnment in Washington with eleven bou-
quets, the tributes of her admirers.
LIND1EY Muse is the Oldest official in
point of service in America. He is the
messenger of the Secretary of the Navy,
and has filled that position since the year
1928.
ONE Of the younger Vanderbilts is
said to be looking at some desirable
property in Washington, with view to
purchasing and erecting palatial win
ter home there.
MRS. STONEWALL JACKSON and her
daughter Julia have left Memphis and
are now visiting their friends in Atlanta,
where they will remain month before
returning to Richmond.
LADY RIPoN and Lady Hobart, Miss
Rye, and Miss Macpherson have aided
upward of 10, 900 men, women and chill
dren to emigrate from England to the
colonies of this country.
MISS HARDNESS, the Boston violinist,
has just finished a triumphal tour
through Schlesia, where she bore the
stage name Anna Senkrah. She goes
next to the provinces of East Prus-
STA.
GEORGE ELIOT wrote between 1859
and 1880 a series of letters to friend
in Algiers. These unpublished rem
iniscences have been handed to James
Darmesteter and are being printed in
the Paris Debats.
NJ GoUNoD having ascertained that
Mrs. Black, the original "Maid of
Athens" was living in poverty in a
London suburb, took Byron's poem and
composed song, the proceeds of which
are to be sent to Mrs. Black.
COUNTESS KIssIER has given a dinner
to assist in bringing out daughter of
Mrs. Bonanza Mackey, and with queer
idea OF furnishing something that should
be strictly American as part of the en-
tertainment twenty banjoists were hired
to play and sing such nationalities as
yankee Doodle" and 'sDixie Land"
MATTHEW ARNo1D's latest utterance
is the platitude that ''most of US are not
what we ought to be, nor even what we
know we ought to bel" No, indeed
especially Matthew Arnold, who ought
to be ashamed of himself for abusing
America, which has just put S., 600 into
his previously impecunious pockets.
SIR ANDREW CLARK says that his
patient, Premier Gladstone, who is still
at Coombe Warren, except when he is
able to run up for few hours to Lon
don, is getting along finely. he rarely
misses lunch or dinner, and displays at
either the appitite for which he is some
what distinguished. The London pa
pers have ceased to worry about him.
GEORGE DANIE1soN, the late editor
of the Providence Journal, who received
a stroke of paralysis the other day, was
warned two years ago that he would
suffer in that way. It was his custom
to go on duty at 10 in the morning and
see the evening edition to press, say at
2 or 3 p. NJ. Then returning at 7 P N.
he would work on the morning edition
until 2 A. NJ.
IsMAn PASTA, the dethroned Khedive
of Egypt, says: 'FIhe days of the Turk
are numbered IN moral, material and
marital power. The great event of the
near future is the coming Arab nation
atty. Where will it be initiated? At
Mecca. Who will supplant the Sultan
at Constantinople? Germany, Austria.
Russia will never come again as near to
the Golden Horn as she did few years
ago."
CHARLES BARRETT, of Ashburnham,
Mass, now 96 years old, had his life in
sured for $1,000 in 1916. Having
reached the extreme limit of life, accord
ing to the table of mortality on which
the insurance company does business,
the President sent him the other day
check for the amount of his policy. It
is believed to be the only case on record
where man has beaten an insurance
company by OUTLYING death policy.
JESSE GRANT, the Presidents young
est son, is 25 years old, and although
the youngest OF the family is by no
means the least in Importance. He is
engaged in the banking business. His
Stephen F. Moriarty. Thefirm
has been in existence about four years.
and its speciality is the placing of large
railroad loans. Its career has been en-
inently successful. Beginning with al
most nothing, Jesse can now count
fortune not far from 100000.
KAISER WILHELM wears civilian dress
only while at Ems. AS soon as he
leaves it he puts on his uniform, and he
always appears before his people In
brass buttons and military cap. Even
at home In Berlin he dresses in uniform,
and his palace is filed with military
relics. The portraits on the walls are
those of princes in uniform, and In the
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