Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-21
ABOUT PEOPLE,

FRANK JAMES, the Missouri despera-
DO, has been employed as a clerk in a.
Nevada store.
JOHN II. YATES, the author of the
cold Mans Ballads" is a. grocery
clerk in Batavia, N. Y.
The friends of E. P. Apgar, of New
York, have resolved to raise $4,000
Tor a monument to his memory.
MRS. A. T. STEWART will entertain in
her marble palace the coming winter
Tor the first time since the death of her
husband.
THE Marquis of Queensbury, a. good
looking man clad as "sport," is still
the cynosure of curious eyes in San
francisco.
SUSAN COOLIDGE denies aiding "H.
H." to write '"The Saxe-Holm Stories'
and that she is in the secret of their
authorship.
BEACONsFIELD talked in g. soft, low
voice. Gladstone talks distinctly in
medium tones, and Lord Salisbury
loudly, often boisterously.
THE sum of $1,5OO,OOO has been
expended in erecting a hunting castle
TOR the Empress of Austria in the
Laniger Wildpark, near Vienna.
LIEUT.. WYKoFF, just home from Ja-
pan, says life is a. Joke to the Japan
csc. He lived there five years, and
during that time never saw any one
angry.
ALGERNoN SARToRIs, the husband of
Nellie Grant, has undertaken the man
agement of his fathers Llangennech
estate, and will live there among the
tenants.
JOHN G. WHITTIER denies than he has
any brother at all, and says he knows
nothing of Clark Whittier who is said
to, purpose founding q temperance
colony in the South.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL returns to
his first love, and will resume his asso-
Citations in Harvard College by. lectur-
Ing IN the winter in the italian and
Spanish courses on Dante and Don
QuiXote.
STANLEY, the African explorer, has
fitted up a coy home in London, a.
couple of doors from Henry Irving's.
He has made the rooms look like a
museum with trophies of his travels
and adventures.
AMONG the audience at one of Nils
sons recent concerts in Sweden was
one OF the great singers brothers, an
honest peasant who had never left his
native place, and never before had
heard his sister sing.
THE marriage license law is already
giving trouble in Philadelphia, accord
ing to the Record. A negro applying
for a license was refused because he
could not tell his age, although evil
IDENTIFY between 80 and 40.
BARON HEINRICH BERLENsCH. of
Bohemia, is in Pittsburg, examining
the natural gas developments in the
interest of the Austrian government.
He will continue his investigations in
Washington, after Congress opens.
LORD LANsDOWNE's officialreception
at Winnipeg was "boycotted" by
many Of the residents because evening
dress was insisted upon and two en-
frances we're provided, one for the
mobiles and one for the common herd.
Miss SADIE Polk FALL, who has
been the belle at White Sulphur Springs
this season is a niece of Mrs. James <.
Polk, and she resides with that veneer
able and still beautiful woman at the
old Polk homestead In Nashville, Tenn.
G. G. HUssEY, of Pittsburg, has con-
tributed $4,000 toward fitting up
school for boys at Matamoras, Mex,
which is nearing completion. The
school is being built by the Quakers,
who have successful school for girls
at Matamoras.
J.P. ST. JoHNrelated in Philadelphia
the incident of Cassius M. Clay speak
ing to less than fifty people at Spring
field, ILL.,, when the Wings and Demo
Gratis had refused him the hall of the
House of Representatives Lincoln
was one of the fifty,
A COMMITTEE of New York ladies
have begun the work of raising tes-
timonial fund for Mrs. Della Stewart
Parnell, the mother of the Irish par
iamentary leader. Mrs. Parnell lives
at Bordentown, N. j., and is said to
be in straitened circumstances.
NDLMo MORAN, who has been spend
ing the summer at East Hampton, l..
l., has just completed another etching,
the subject of which is taken from the
kitchen yard surrounding the famous
old John Howard Payne" house, the
birthplace of the author of "Home,
Sweet Home"
THE oak tree planted by Lord Byron
at Newstead Abbey is still fourishing,
although the alder on which he cut the
names byron and Augusta" long
since died. The portion of the tree on
which the names were carved is pre-
served among the mementos of the
poet in the abbey.