Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-07-02
PERSONALITIES,

PERE HYAoINTHE and the Rev. John
Hall sailed in the same steamer for Eu-
rope.
SENATOR BECK is the only Scotchman
in the Upper House of the National
Legislature.
JAY GOULD is said to have given his
yacht Atalanta to his son George as a
birthday present.
PRINCESS CHRIsTIANA has made S.
900 thus far out of her translation of
the Princess Alice letters.
EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN, Wall
Streets broker-poet, is reported to be
the writer of the new anonymous story,
"On Margin" in the Continent.
Rev. DENIS OSBORNE, the eloquent
native preacher of India, is the guest
of DR.. McCosh, of Princeton, and de-
lights the students with his talks on
India.
OsMAN DIGMA, the Mahdi's lieutenant,
is described as being very pious with
out being fanatic. In short he seems
to be not too good but just good
enough.
Mr.. MoGooMDAR, of Calcutta, will at
tend the Concord School of Philosophy
and apply the principals of the Indian
Brahmo- Somaj to the Emersonian
standard.
LEMUEL J. CURTIS, Meriden, Conn,
millionaire, has built in that town
home for the support of orphans and
aged women, and has further endowed
it with $250,0OO.
Mrs. elizabeth STUART PHELPS has
put forth theory that in the race for
immortality the same conflicts take
place as in the physical world. The
fittest only survive in the process of
spiritual evolution.
MRS. FRANK, of Chicago, who recently
fell heir to $4,000, sum unexpectedly
bequeathed to her by the late Michael
Reese, of San Fran cisco, has given the
money to establish in the former city a
home for Jewish orphans.
CAPT. GEORGE H. PERKINS is the
richest man in the United States navy.
He is worth seven million dollars. He
married the money and did not attempt
to save it out of his pay, as many Office
holders have DONE New Orleans Plea
yune.
NINE. ADAM, editor of the Paris Nou-
velle Revue, who is attaining some noto-
riety by her salon receptions of dis
tinguished people, is rich and still
youthful in face and form, though she
reluctantly admits that she is a grand
mother. &.
FRANCIS s. DRAKE. the New England
historian, has discovered the names of
100 persons who took part in the de-
struction OF the British tea in Boston
harbor, and has published them in vol
ume entitled "Tea Leaves"
CREOLE Corfu, very old man with
very young wife, living in New
| Orleans, claims to have discovered Min
ME Hauk when she was a poor young
| girl running round the streets with
considerable voice and inconsiderable
clothing.
Rev. DIR. WILD, of Toronto, is an ami
able monomaniac on the subject of
Anglo-Israel. His theory seems to be
that Englishmen are disguised Jews,
and that great Anglo Israelitish fed
Grafton will one day be established, of
which Jerusalem will be the capital.
MISS CoRsoN says the American
women generally know more about the
preparation of extra food dishes than
their cooks. She also says there has
been great improvements in dinner-giv-
ing and cookery in this country in the
past twenty years.
| GAMBETTA is to have monument in
Paris, and the memorial committee are
now considering the designs. Eighty
two have been sent in, one of which rep
resents him beside the balloon in which
he escapes from Paris during the
Franco-G herman War.
THE Earl of Wilton has just had his
tongue cut out. He bore the operation
well, and it has been successful, at least
in saving his life. Hitherto cancer in
the tongue has been deemed fatal. The
elder Placide, Henry, died of it, and his
brother Thomas committed suicide I'M
der the sufferings which attends it.
The Hon. Increase Sumner Kimball,
of Maine, who is 81 years old and the
last surviving member of Gov. Kent's
Council of 1871, is in attendance upon
the supreme court in Alfred at the
present term, and as active and quick
witted az many lawyers of 65.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER has ar
ranged to take horseback trip this
summer through the mountains of
North Carolina. The jaunt, as marked
out for him by his friend Prof. Chick
ering, of Kendall Green, who has spent
several summers there botanizing and
fishing, will occupy about month and
extend over some two hundred and
fifty miles.
The descendants of the Penns now
living who are to share the 1000
designated by the British National
Debt Commission in Communication of
the $4,000 annuity, paid that family
since 1899, as indemnity for the prop
erty it lost in Pennsylvania by the Rev
olutionary War, lear the names of Fell,
Rawlins, Newcombe, Barrow, Comm,
Gaskill, Baker, Coates, Hall, Reed,
Alexander Walker Golf C1ovfo,, on5