Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-21
PERSONALITIES.

JOHN BRIGHT has quit night work on
account of il-health.
GEN. BUTLER states positively that he
is not writing book.
EX-Gov. BERRY, of New Hampshire,
is now residing with his son, at Bristol,
Ill.
IT costs Jay Gould about $500 per
mile for every mile he travels in his
yacht.
Rev. T. DEWITT TALMAGE has started
on special lecture tour through the
South.
Mrs. MULooH CRAIK, is dramatizing
her most remarkable novel, "A Life for
Life.
SENoRA Luz BoNALEs, who died in
Oaxaca, Mexico, lately, lived III years
to day.
Mr.. MATHEW ARNOLD celebrated on
Christmas eve his gid birthday an
niversary.
JUDGE POLAND again figures in soci-
ETY. at Washington in his blue coat and
brass buttons.
The late Asa Packer, of Pennsylvania,
bequeathed $4,000 to the Virginia mil
itary institute.
KING HUMBERT lost twenty pounds in
weight by his labors in behalf of the
cholera sufferers.
Mrs. HARRIET BEECHER Stowe is
spending the winter in Hartford, and is
reported as enjoying the best of health.
ELIHU VEDDER, the artist, is described
as large and lazy, jolly, whole-souled
fellow, with yellow hair and blue eyes.
PRINCESS BEATRICE, only daughter of
Don Carlos, of Spain, entered a nunnery
just before her father sailed for India.
NINE. D1AZ, the wife of the Mexican
president, is a woman of great accom-
plishments, and was educated in New
York.
F. Ct. NEKANDER, a Finnish clergy
man, is in Michigan looking for land
on which to place colony of 5000
Firms.
For the past twenty-five years the
chief cartoon in Punch has, with sin
gle exception, been drawn by Mr.. John
Tenniel.
PROF. T. G. MENDENHALL has resigned
his place in the Ohio State University
to accept position in the signal service
at Washington.
PROF. ALEX. GRAHAM BELL, of tel
ephone celebrity, says the service will
never be satisfactory until the wires are
laid underground.
Mrs. LILLIAN s. WALKER, a widow
of 80, has sued James Deshon, aged IS,
Boston millionaire, for 100000 for
breach Of promise.
DAVID DAVIS says his worst enemy is
woman whose poetry he once laughed
at. That was twenty-eight years ago,
but she still hates him.
Rev. DR.. FURNEss, of Philadelphia,
recently married a bride for whose
mother and grandmother he had per-
formed the same ceremony.
DIR. WILLIAM 81. FURNEss, of Phila-
delphia, by his ordination in 1926 the
Oldest Unitarian clergyman in this
country, is still active in his ministry.
P. T. BARNUM has given the schools
of Bridgeport, Conn, "Barnum fund"
of 81 900, the income to be used in buy
ing medals as prizes for the best orations
in English.
MISS MARY CALDWELL, who has given
100000 toward the establishment of
national Catholic university, is mem
Der, on her mothers side, Of the Brock
inridge family, of Kentucky.
A WESTERN paper says that the only
sister of the late Gen. Custer is giving
dramatic readings for livelihood, and
that she is in great demand for such
service among the different Grand Army
posts.
ROBERT G. WINTHROP hopes he may
recover sufficiently to write out his
Washington Monument address, and if
he does his son, Robert Charles, Jr., has
promised to read it, SO as to keep the
distinction in the family.
PRINCE ROLAND BoNAPARTE has a
novel idea. He proposes to have col
lection of the different uncivilized races
in Paris. We constantly, he argues,
bring together the various products of
the globe; why not bring together the