Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-22
PERS QUALITIES.

Mrs. LOUISE CHANDLER MoULToT is
in Venice.
TENNYsoN's salary as poet laureate
is $456 year.
The Rev. Phillips Brooks will pass
the summer in Europe.
HENRY M. STANLEY intends toreturn
to the Congo region in June
KING ALFONSO Of Spain has been in
vesting in London real estate
Ex-Gov. SPRAGUE, of Rhode Island,
is nowin business in the City of Mexico.
THE name of the Chinese emperor's
wife is Kan Di. Sweet, isn't it?
SECRETARY BAYARD is to believer an
address at the Kansas University in.
June.
GEN. FTTzHUGH LEE has resigned as
commander-in-chief of the Virginia
militia.
MAURICE THOMPSON, the Hoosier poet,
has been appointed state geologist of
Indiana.
Miss HASTINGS, aunt of an English
M. P, recently celebrated her 1O3d
birthday.
CHENG TsAo W, the new Chinese
minister to this country, has arrived
in New York
DAVID SWINToN has added $4,000
to his former gift of $25, 900 to the
Cincinnati Art Museum.
Miss BAYARD, daughter of the Secre-
tary ofState, is an accomplishing horse
woman and fond of athletic sports
CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW pays the bills. of
one student at Yale every year, select
ing the young man in his own way.
AMONG the many applicants for the
postmastership of Undertook, n. Y,
is niece of Martin Van Buren,.
THE estate of the late G. H. McCor-
mick has made another gift of $780,
900 to the Presbyterian Theological
Seminary at Chicago.
president CLEVELAND has pur-
chased a span Of horses, and returned
with thanks the span loaned him by
ex-President Arthur.
In view of the translation ofMr. Cox
to the orient, the New York Mail and
Express suggests that he be known
hereafter as Sunrise Cox.
JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY, editor of the
Pilot, is said to be the handsomest
man in Boston, and is much sought
after by the Hubs society.
Mrs. MCPHERSON wife of the New
Jersey senatcr) is an indefatigable
collector Of works of art-paintings,
engravings, china, silver, etc.
JAMES and Harry Garfield, sons of
the late president, are in Washington,
guests of Col. Rockwell's son. They
called on President Cleveland the 9th
er day.
THE first term of court in the dis
trict of Alaska will beheld at Sitka on
the first Monday in May. Judge Nc
Allister, of San Francisco, will occupy
the bench.
The king of the New York dudes, E.
Barry Wall, has returned from Europe
with twenty trunks of new clothes,
which promise to revolutionize dress
in the metropolis.
SUNSET Cox will sail for Constanti-
nople about June 1. His venerable
mother is quite i'll at her home in Ohio,
and the new minister to Turkey will
visit her before leaving the country.
JOSEPH LILLY, a wel-to-do farmer
living near Jamesport, Mo-. has been
IN bed for eighteen years, and is still
in perfect health. He labors under the
impression that if he gets out of bee
he will die.
LIEUT.. WILLIAM III. SCHUETZE anC
Chief Engineer Melville have made ap
plications to be sent to helena Delta
to distribute the rewards, providedfo
by an appropriation at the last ses
sion of Congress, to the inhabitants il
that vicinity.
Mrs. JULIAN JAMES, the wealth,
widow whom it is rumored ex-Presi
dent Arthur will soon marry, has the
dark beauty and pronounced features
that betray her Jewish origin. Sh
spent the last season in Washington
and assisted to receive at most of th
White House levees.