Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-08-19
PERS QUALITIES,

SAM JONES, the Southern evangelist
says that the man who sWears softly
Is q coward.
A CONNECTICUT man has a. machine
with which General Grant used to
split leather.
Miss TIDLMAN, q Staten Island Mu-
sic teacher, makes her professional
rounds on a tricycle..
IT is said that w. D. Howells, the
novelist, has become embarrassed by
the failure of James r. Osgood & Co.
The Rev. Thomas Tenant, of Fav-
ettevllle, Ark, is said to be the Oldest
minister living. He was born in It'll,
and is now Ia years old.
CHAPLAIN G. G. MCCABE, the Metho-
dist "church extender," has already
raised $4,000 CT the 81, 100000 he
started to secure q year ago.
THE Congregation Mishkan Israel,
Boston, possesses a scroll copy of the
Scriptures in Hebrew, presented to it
a few years ago by Sir Moses Monte
fore.
ROBERT GIBSON, of Macon County,
Missouri, is said to be the oldest man
living. He is 119 years old, and has
nearly 400 descendants, in five gener-
ations.
DIR. PROTHERo SMITH, who founded
the first hospital for women in En-
gland, has resigned his position as
senior physician after forty-three
years service.
Miss A. TAYLOR, for eight years
president OF the Wheeling Female Col
lege, has at the close of the school
year resigned her position, to accept
that of president of Dread College,
Worcester, Mass.
"LUCAs MALET," the author of the
new novel Colonel Enderby's Wife,"
is discovered to be a daughter of
Charles Kingsley, and displays, like
Julian Hawthorne, an instance Of in
herited literary power.
MISS GEORGIANA CAMPBELL, of New
York; recently completed an exquisite
portrait Of one of Vanderbilt's chill
dren, for which she received So, 800,
and has orders for more work,
amounting to $4,000.
MARGAET J. PRESTON, who divides
with John Eston Cooke the highest lit
erary honors of Virginia, is said to be
fast growing blind. She is a brilliant
writer, and has the sympathy of very
many friends in her affliction.
Army Of the Potomac by an accident
contained the name of Gen. Lee. It
was not so far out of the way. He
had that army under his control a.
considerable portion of the time be-
fore Grant took hold.-BostOn Tray
eHer.
Mrs. M. D. MORGAN, of North Caro-
lima, seems to have q monopoly in
taXidermy in that state. She can not
only mount the birds after being re-
ceived at the shop, but can take gun
and go out and bring them in. She is
an American edition of the Goddess of
the Ephesians.
MRS. CARL MYERS, ofMohawk, NY,
better known as "Carlotta," a lady
aeronautist, has lately obtained let
ters patent on several devices pertain
ing to aerial navigation. She says
she believes the day is not far distant
when people will navigate the air as
readily as they nowplow the seas.
MRS. II. M. T. CUTLER, in her "home
department" of the Western Fruit
Grower, notes with pride the fact Of
the graduation of her granddaughter
from college, in contrast with the op-
portunities of young women when Mrs.
Cutler was a school girl. The world
moves-generally forward, sometimes
backward.
THE present Queen of Roumania,
now 43 years old, has had romantic
career. Shewas born in a quaint lit
tie white country house on the banks
OF the Rhine, and was a great romp
in girlhood, fond Of outdoors and
fairy stories, impatient of control,
self-reliant and with an extraordinary
poetic talent. Her ambition, after
much travel, was to be a teacher, but
Prince Charles Of Hohenzollern, whom
she had met during her absence from
home, asked ner to be his queen. 1t is
fifteen years since she married.