Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-23
PERSONALITIES.

Roscoe CoNKLING now weighs only
194 pounds.
OSCAR WILDE has named his son
and heir "Cyril.'
VIcToR1EN SARDoJ has black hair and
face like parchment.
IALMAGE In Ireland has earned the
title OF ''the O'Donovan Rosa of the
pulpit"
The Mahdi left four mothers-in-law
How under heaven he lived as long as
ne did is mystery-Boston Post.
SYMPHONY WHISTLER will shortly
open an exhibition of his pictures in
London.
MRS. MORTON, widow of the famous
Oliver 2. Morton, is visiting in San
Francisco.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES lives in q,
house painted a bright yellow, with
green blinds.
MILE. RHEA says she can well UNDER
stand why Americans are so proud of
Mary Anderson.
The Marquis of Lorne has an ink
bottle made of hoof of Lord Gives
Crimean charger.
America chiefly to see Niagara Falls
and the Yosemite Valley.
STRAUSS does his composing in the
morning as his nervousness interferes
with his labors IN the afternoon.
THOMAS HUGHES ("Tom Brown")
has arrived in this country in search Of
further data for the life of Peter Coop
er.
THOMAS E. MURPHY, son of Francis
Murphy, has returned to America
from long temperance campaign in
Ireland.
l.. z. MORTON is said to have spent
$IO0, 900 upon a piece of property at
Red Sulphur Spring that he has never
yet seen.
Mrs. MORTON, the widow of the
famous war governor of Indiana,
Oliver ?. Morton, is visiting in San
Francisco.
MRS. PAvY, widow OF DR.. Pavy, of
Greedy expedition fame, is preparing
biography of her husband for the En-
glish press.
GEN. Won MOLTKE, the German Field
Marshal, is in very poor health. 1t is
feared that he will not live through
the fall. He is 85 years old.
HENRY WARD BEECHER saws be has
been preaching over fifty years and
his next call and settlement will prob
ably be in Greenwood Cemetery.
KING OSCAR, Of Sweden, and his son
Gustaf, paid a visit to the United
States ship Pensacola, lying off Stock
holm, the other day, and were re-
celved with honors and shown over
the ship.
BARNUM is said to have been the
angriest in his life when he found that
the big man engaged to introduce Tom
Thumb to thespectators had snapped
Jobs with the small one who had been
selected to exhibit Col. Goshen.
FICE-PREs1DENT HENDRICKS and wife
have returned to Indianapolis. He
has given up his California trip, and
will remain at home until Congress
convenes, with possibly brief visit to
Washington in the intervening time.
IT is understood in Scotland that
Henry Craik, author of the latest
''Life of Swift and editor of the CEN
gllsh Citizen" series, will be appointed
permanent head of the Scotch Educa-
ton Department under the new Scotch
Secretary.
STEPNIAK, the Russian revolutionist,
who has lived in London for eighteen
months and is very popular there, has
acquired the English language quite
perfectly, and he also speaks most of
the Continental languages, which is not
at all remarkable for Russian.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES was pre-
sented on his birthday with copy of
a sketch of his life, with some of his
best poems, printed in raised letters
for the use Of the blind of Perkins In
stitute. DR.. Holmes says this was
the most delightful experience in his
literary history.
CHIEF LOCKWOOD relates an incident
that occurred on Main Street yester-
day. An iceman was weighing a big
cake OF ice at the tail end ofhis wagon,
and holding the scales steady with one
hand, he announced in naughty tone:
''One hundred and forty pounds"
| ''Hold on" said the purchaser; ''just
take your hand off and look again."
The iceman did so, and in a voice fee
BILE with suppressed emotion hegasped:
''Ninety pounds, and good weight too"
| -NOrWak Gazette.