Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-14
ABOUT PEOPLE.

MRS. CELIA THAxTER will spend the
winter in Boston.
GEN: LoNGsTREET, of Confederate
tame, is keeping hotel at Gainesville.
Ga. --i0'
JENNY LIND GOLDsCHM1DT, still sings
occasionally in Putney Church, Lon
don.
SHADRACK NUGENT, the "moon-man''
OF New York City, claims to be 125
years old.
THURE DE THULsTRUP is making
studiesfor his picture OF the "Battle Of
Winchester"
The late George Leib Harrison, Of
Philadelphia, bequeathed $5, 900 each
to eight benevolent institutions.
Col. JESSE HARPER, who nominal
ed Mr.. Lincoln at Chicago, is featuring
at county fairs in West Virginia.
ROBERT BROWNING, who is in capital
health, will remain in the Val d'Aosta
with his sister until late in the fall,
and then 60 to Venice for the winter.
G. III. HARRIS (Carl Pretzel), editor
of the National Weekly, and Col.
Armory Knox, of the Texas Siftings,
will be in the lecture field this season.
e2uipage Of the Gar of Russia when
he travels. Every baggageman in the
railroad service may be set down for
Nihilist.
DIR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, hav-
ing attained the age OF three score and
sixteen, facetiously remarks that he is
"a Revolutionary patriot-one Of the
men of 10"
WRIT WALTON, who runs a newspa-
per at Clay Center, Kas, and leads a
brass band as we'll, owns the fastest
team Of horses in the state. He calls
one Ingalls, and the other Plumb.
Mrs. GEORGE DAWSON COLEMAN, of
! Lebanon, Pa, owns a portrait paint
ed on a cobweb. The colors are beau
tifully laid on, and simply perfect as
! to harmony. 1t is said to have cost
| $4,000.
Miss CLARA BARTON, the heroine of
three wars and president of the Red
Cross International Association, one
OF the most practical and influential
women in the world, has recently de-
| clared for woman suffrage.
ANNA DRINKER, a well-known author
ess, who wrote under the nom de
plume of Edith May" has been re-
leased from the state asylum for the
insane at Harrisburg, where she has
been confined for many years.
THE will of Robert McIlvain, a
wealthy New Yorker, who died in
1881, bequeathed his books and
pamphlets and $4,000 to found a
public library from which all trashy
books and novels we're to be excluded.
1t is estimated, taking the report of
1880 as basis, that there are now
100000 praticing physicians in the
United States. It is also estimated
that IS per cent of them carry and
dispense, in whole or in part, their
own remedies.
MUSHROOM hunting is King Hum
bert of Italy's favorite rural pastime
just now. While staying at his coun-
try seat at Mona the king may inva-
riably be seen in the meadows after a
shower, industriously gathering mush-
rooms.
The death of Commodore Semmes
promotes Capt. David B. Harmony to
be commodore, Commander Alfred T.
Mahan to be captain, Lieut. Com
mander F. w. Dickens to be COM
mander and Lieut.. William T. Bur-
well to be enant-commander. By
the retirement of Rear-Admiral Roe,
October 4, Commodore Stephen B.
Luce will be promoted to be rear-ad-
miral.
''LoRD VIVIAN" says London Truth,
''would seem to be nobleman Of de-
cidedly feudal notions, insomuch as
he suddenly dismissed the crew of his
yacht because they had declined to at
tend prayers. The men had signed ar
ticles for voyage to the Mediterra-
mean, and when the yacht was lying in
Helford River they refused to go to
prayers, because, on the previous Sun
day, after service they were ordered to
get the vessel under way"