Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-04
PERSONAL.

BANCROFT, the historian, boasts that
he can still work more hours at his desk
than much younger men.
BISMARCK is guarded as closely as
| the Gar of Russia when he goes to the
| sessions Of the German Parliament.
G. E. MULLER, of the Pittsburgh
Chronicle-Telegraph, has accepted the
editorship of the New York Independ-
ent Record.
RUBENsTEIN is so sensitive that he
| dare not look at his auditors while per-
forming, for fear he may see some of
them chatting.
PERE HYACINTHE, by his recent
Western lecture tour, has obtained the
means necessary to raise the debt on
his Paris chapel.
DIR. TALMAGE thinks that the presi-
Dental nominees will be the two most
unfortunate men in the United States
| for the next six months.
EDMUND YATES is of opinion that
"far from involving a superior. Amer
lean civilization seems destined to in
volve an inferior type of women"
IDA LEWIS, the Grace Darling Of
Lime Rock, Newport Harbor, attempted
to save four more lives the other day,
but was forestalled by three able sea-
| men.
| JOSEPH Cook has a stereotyped
motto which he invariably writes in
addition to his signature when solic-
tied for an autograph, 'Duty done is
souls freside."
The First Presbyterian Society, of
| Rockford, ILL.,, has extended call to
the Rev. John r. Sutherland, D. D., of
Jacksonville, Ill, to become their pas
tor. He will accept.
EMMA ABBOTT will spend this sum-
mer in Europe learning more roles. 1t
is believed that in time the repertoire
| OF this remarkable vocalist will include
| every opera ever written.
DR.. BURROWS, who is now an emil
nent preacher in Chicago, was de-
feated for school director in Kansas
village few years ago because he was
a descendant of the witch burners"
DR.. MARY WALKER wears broadcloth
Prince Albert coat, pantaloons of dud-
ish rotundity, shiny shirt bosom,
white necktie, plug hat, brown
black locks of hair dangling down her
neck.
OWING to the crazy-quilt mania, So
| c1ety young men on small incomes have
been obliged to fall back on the old
black tie. 1t is too narrow for patch
and too black to be attactive.-Hdrt-
ford Post.
The Hon. Truman Smith, of Connect
icut, whose death at the great age of
81 is just announced, was once very
prom inent actor on the political stage.
In the campaign of 1848 he was the
chief adviser of Gen. Zachary Taylor.
GAMBETTA once, while boating on the
Seine, caught cold which led to an
Inflammation of the larynx, and which
was never cured; and this, it is said,.
afterwards added much to his oratorical
triumphs, giving to his voice those
hoarse sounds which his admirers COM
pared to the roaring of thunder.
WHEN a woman secures all her rights,
the right of serving on the jury will of
course be included. It will be blessed
thing for the men folks in case of breach
of promise. The sex won't get any
sympathy from the dear creatures, I'M
less they change nightly from what
they are now.-BostOn Transcript.
A SCIENTIST asserts that bee can
only sting once in two minutes. We
hope no one will endeavor to change
thin law of nature on our account. A
bee that cam put enough ambition in
to man at one serepade to last him
two minutes isn't fit to be in business,
and ought to retire and give some of
his friends show YOakerS States
man.
sEH. H." HAS poem in Harper begin,
ming 81 have found out Springs Sc
cret." Now we know that II. H." does
write most beautiful things, and we al
ways did nad!do admire her poetry, but
we haven't read past the first line of this
poem. 1t begins too much like an ad-
vertisement of a new blood purifier.
We've been fooled too many times on
that sort of thing. Burlington HoaOk-
eye.
The Rev. Charles V. Spear, of Pitts
field, Mass, who recently gave Oberlin
College $4,000 to found library, was
graduated from Amherst College in
1915. In 1851 he married Miss r. L.
of Holbrook, Mass, who
died about two years ago, leaving him
all her large estate. It is understood
that his gift to Oberlin College grew
out of his high personal regard for Prof.
Finney.
1t is said that during her last visit to
Patti pieced ''crazy-quilt"
six feet square, composed entirely of
bits of plush and velvet, of which no
two were alike in color, and not one
larger than one of her hands. She took
it home with her, "to line it with swans
down and then give it away to be ratified
off at swell charity fair" Nicolini
thought it should bring 1000 guineas,
1t least