Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-05-13
PERSOEA ETTEES.

Miss KATE FIELD is writing paper
on private and official life in Washing
ton.
THOMAS A. EDISON has bought a
winter Westinghouse at Fort Meyers,
Fla.
VICE president HENDRICKS and wife
intend to go to Europe during the
summer.
THE late Minerva Greeley, of Hart
ford. Conn, left $4,000 to Carleton
College. Mimi.
Mr.. PIERREPoNT, charge d'affalrs OF
the American legation at Rome, Italy,
is lying at the point Of death.
THE Francis Scott Key Monument
at Baltimore is to consist OF a tiuted
column 100 feet high, surmounted by
q bronze figure Of Key.
The Hon. William Henry Clifford,
is preparing a memoir of his father,
the late Justice Clifford, of the United
States supreme court.
Ell MAHDI, % rival of the False
Prophet in the SOudan, is now said
to be Larry Mackey, who used to keep
q shoe store in Donegal, Ireland.
Mrs. GARFIELDs brother has bought
hotel in Mississippi City and expects
that Mrs Garfield will be one of his
guests during the coming summer.
Mrs. ROSE III. THROPE, the author
of the poem, "Curfew Must Not Ring
Tonight" resides at San Antonio,
Tex, and talks Of going to California
to live.
SIR HENRY PoNsoNBY, private secre-
tary to Queen Victoria, has written q
letter authoritatively denying that
members of the royal family are be-
levers in spiritualism.
JOHN l.. SULLIVAN, according to thc
New York Times, is superstitious on
the subject Of white specks on his fin
ger nails. ''He cuts them out with his
penknife regardless of pain"
NINE. ADRINETrE PALU has just died
at Saint Pierre de la Martinique at
the age of 121 years. She had dis
tinct recollection of all the principal
events in the French revolution.
PROF. DOREMUs, it is said, makes
$4,000 a year from chemical an
alyses of patent medicines and other
similar articles. He does all his work
with his left hand, his right arm hav-
ing been amputated in youth.
MORTIMER F. REYNOLDS, of Roches-
ter, n Y, has given $25, 200 to the
University of Rochester for a chemical
laboratory, as a memorial OF his
brother, William A. Reynolds, who
was q member OF the board of trus-
tees.
CHARLES THOMAS FLoQUET has been
elected president of the French cham
Der of deputies. He received ITO
votes to IT'S for NJ. Fallieres. The
new president of the chamber is 81
years old, and prominent lawyer and
publlclst.
A BosToN swell, Henry Ligourney,
who is about 30 years old, has an in
come of nearly 500, 600 81 year, a
house on Beacon Street, and has for
some years been partial to the society
of professional sports and theatrical
celebrities, has married one of the
coryphees in the ballet of "Jalma."
THE house of Millet, at Barbizon, is
to be sold, and the widow OF the great
artist viii, it is said, be obliged to leave
it if left unaided. M. Tougher, in the
XIXe Steele, makes an appeal to all
admirers of Millet to prevent an event
which would be deplored.
ELIAS HOWE, the sewing-machine
millionaire, was private soldier dur
ing the war. It is said that once when
his regiment was suffering on account
of a delay in paying them he gave his
personal check to the quartermaster
and they were Immediately paid. The
government subsequently paid him
back
REV DIR. E. l.. MAGooN, pastor Of
the North Broad Street Baptist
Church, of Philadelphia, has rendered
his resignation, to take effect one year
from date, with the understanding
that he serve during the interval with
out salary. He is in his 18th year,
and has been pastor of the present
charge a quarter of a century.