Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-07-29
PERSONALITIEs.

Miss KATE FIELD is now il favor of
cremation.
THE Buffalo Express dominates Miss
Cleveland for president of Vassar Col
lege.
PROF. SIMON NEWCoMB, the astrono-
mer, is off on a pleasure jaunt to
Europe.
DR.. FERRAN inoculates 800 persons
daily in the cholera-infected districts
of Spain.
WH1TELAW REID, of the New York
Tribune, has offered $4,000 to found
a college at Cedarville, O., his native
town.
HUGH j. JEWETT, ex-president of the
Erie Railroad, at the close of the sum-
mer season, will return to Columbus,
o., for permanent residence.
JUDGE LAMBERT TREE owns the
original draft of the challenge sent by
Abraham Lincoln to Stephen A. Doug
las to engage in that famous debate.
STEPNAK, the Nihilist writer, is said
to be Michael Dragomanof, a native of
Gadiatch, in Little Russia, and agrad-
uate Of the university of Kief. He is
A years old.
The late Mrs. Charles Morgan, of
New York, had 100000 invested in
orchids. She also had hundreds of
thousands of dollars invested in paint
ings and china.
JULES CLARETTE, the accomplished
critic OF the Paris Temps, has Just
published a new novel entitled "Jean
Norris" 1t is said to be full of brill
fancy and dramatic vigor.
MILE. DE IMAGINATION, daughter of
Marechal de MacMahon, ex-president
of France, will be married shortly to
NJ. Delaire Comte de Cambaceres, an
artillery officer.
The father Of Bayard Taylor, who
died the other day, had never seen a
canal-boat, locomotive, or street-car.
He thought a wheel-barrow good
enough for common folks.
NINE. PATTI, now Mrs Nicolini, has
just settled finally her financial
troubles with the Marquis de Caux
| cher former husband) by the payment
to him OF $4,000 in lump sum.
Miss CLARA BARTON, the indefati-
gable head Of the Red Cross Society, is
in very poor health, owing to over
work, and has gone to Danville, her
New England home, for the summer.
BoALE HOLMES, Of Heathfeld, Sux-
sex, England, has reached the ripe age
of LOG. He was born in 1879. At
this advanced period of his life he en-
joys his pipe, his glass of ale, his chat,
and shady seat in the garden.
MONTGOMERY SCHUYLER, the success
sor of Hon. George William Curtis as
managing editor Of Harper's Weekly,
is both an authority and an enthusi-
asst on the subject ofhorses and horse
manship.
MARQUIS TsENG, the famous Chinese
diplomat, is soon to be called to
high official position at Pekin. He is
said to beregarded by the Chinese as the
principal hope Of the empire in dealing
with foreign countries.
DR.. PHILLIPS BROOKS has done in
London what he has done in Boston
again and again. He is credited with
speaking at the rate of 800 words
minute, which is 100 words minute
faster than the English reporters can
follow him. He is called one of the
mos rapid speakers ever heard in Lon
don.
GEORGE E. HoAR, OF Worcester,
Mass. who has just been made doctor
of laws by Yale, has previously been
similarly honored by William and
Mary, and by Amherst, but he is even
more remarkable as the man who pre-
vented the Harvard corporation from
giving the same degree to Ben Butler
in 1888.
VICTOR HUGO hated Goethe because
the latter severely criticised ''Notre
Dame de Paris when it first appeared.
Goethe" said he to literary Wis
itor, "only produced one really good
work, 'The Robbers The visitor
was astonished at the apparent blum
der until Hugo added with sneer:
"And that one was written by Schil-
en-"