Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-07-15
PERSONALITIES.

LIEUTENANT GREEDY is the father of
a new baby boy.
GEORGE WASHINGTON wrote bad
poetry when he was a very good little
boy.
JAMES r. OsGooD is to receive a sal
airy of $4,000 year from Harper
Brothers.
Mr.. BEECHER says that "charity
hasn't a mantle broad enough to cover
the man who uses bad tobacco"
MRS. STRUBLE, of Downingtown, Pa,
died recently from blood poisoning,
caused by new shoe rubbing one of
her f6et
president CLEVELAND has finally
declined the invita- ton to visit the
Kansas State Fair, at Lawrence, next
September.
IT is now proposed to make Mr..
George M. Pullman president and Mr..
A. T. Goshen director general of the
revived New Orleans Exposition.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS health is al
most restored, but weakness in his
legs prevents him from walking much.
He takes an hours drive twice daily.
QUEEN MARGARET, of Italy, at the
Feast of the Statue on the first Sun
day IN June, wore dress of ivory silk
covered with lace and adorned with
bows of moss-green.
The richest bootblack in America is
Patrick Malloy, whose stand is op-
posite the Adelphi Hotel, Saratoga.
He owns two houses and has fat
bank account. He saved his earnings.
SENATOR WADE HAMPTON has
beautiful and accomplished daughter,
Daisy by name, who is setting the
Southern youth wild by her rare and
radiant charms. She is just out Of
her teens.
SIR THOMAS BRAssEY believes in
beer as "an antidote to Socialism and
friend to property" which is in di-
rect conflict with Citizen Schwab's
views of the merits and us IS of that
popular beverage.
DR.. ARABELLA KENEALY, daughter
of the late distinguished London adj
vocate, is said to have a lucrative law
practice in that city, where her abili~
ties command the respect of even "the
old practitioner.
THE three Oldest reigning European
monarchs are the Emperor of Ger
many, who is SO years of age; the King
of the Netherlands, SO years, and the
King of Denmark, 81 years. Queen Vic
toria is sc years old.
R. B. DAVENPORT, formerly editor of
the New Haven News, but recently
holding the same position on the
Morning News, of Paris, has accepted
the editorship of the Panama Star
and Herald, and sailed from Havre
directly to the Isthmus.
BARON REUTER-, whose stupidity slow
agency for gathering foreign news is at
last arousing the ire of the English
papers, started on small scale in
Aix-la-Chapelle in 1849. Not only has
the agency yielded him millions, but
his profits in speculation through his
early knowledge of important events
have been enormous.
Mr.. RUsKIN says that he couldn't
live in a country that lacked castles.
II have never been able to trace these
prejudices to any royalty of Descent"
he writes. "Of my--father's ancestors
[ know nothing, nor of my mothers,
more than that my maternal grand
mother was the landlady of the Old
Kings Head, in Market Street, Croy-
DON"
WHEN the late Richard T. Merrick,
the noted Washington lawyer, first
became critically i'll, three other mem
bers of his household were also i'll.
His wife was suffering severely with
assesses in her ears; their second
daughter, who had been an invalid for
several years, and who is under the
care of a physician in Philadelphia,
grew worse, and another daughter,
who has occasional attacks of total
blindness, lost her eyesight.