Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-07
PERSONALITIES.

JOHN KELLY, the Tammany sachem.
will be 81 years old April 81.
JAY GOULD will go to New Orleans in
his yacht Atalanta in February.
GEN. SHERIDAN has accepted the
position of marshal of the day for the
celebration of the completion of the
Washington monument on the Dist of
February.
Il NEVER allow business of any kind
to enter my chamber door," said Mr.,
Gladstone recently. "In all my politi-
cal life have never been kept awake
five minutes by any debate in Parlia-
ment."
PRINCE VICTOR, the heir of the Bona
parties, is reported to be living drunk
en- and dissolute life among the worst
kind of associates, and ex-Empress
Eugene and Princess Clothilde both
refuse to recognize him.
Gov'-ELECT GRAY, of Indiana, turned
over the executive Office to Gov. Por-
ter four years ago, and the lat
ter will turn it over to Mr.. Gray in
January. 1t is said that no two govern
ors ever stood in this relation before
FANNY ELLsLER left 100000 francs
in bank with the Rothschilds, and this
sum now goes to one of her cousins and
her own grandchild. A long time ago
she wrote her memoirs, but after she
had read them carefully over she
burned them.
| DIR. VINCENT, chancellor of the
Chautauqua University and of the @.
l.. s. O., and the counsellors have in
vited the Rev. Edward Everett Hale,
D. D., of Boston, Unitarian, to serve
as counsellor of the G. L. s. O., and
he has accepted.
The Rev. J. P. ARMSTRONG, of
Wheeling, W. Va, is said to look so
much like j. Wilkes Booth, the assas-
sin of President Lincoln, that some of
the people are anxious to examine his
neck where Booth was known to have a
scar, but the preacher will not allow it.
The Berlin North German Gazette
(Bismarck's organ intimates that Prince
Bismarck has finally decided to take a
rest from his public duties. Prepare
tions are being made throughout Ger
many to celebrate Bismarcks 10th birth
day and the fifteenth anniversary of his
career as chancellor of the Empire.
Rev. I. @. WILDER is probably the
Oldest college undergraduate in the
world, being SO years of age. He en-
teredgthe University of Vermont with
the class of 1882, but was compelled to
leave on account Of i'll health. He has
recently entered the class of '85 in that
institution, and hopes to take his de-
gree next June.
PROF. ALEXANDER AGAssIz, who has
just resigned his position as Fellow of
Harvard College, has been one of the
most generous of that institutions ben
efactors, although his iberality has
always been unostentatious. During
his official connection with it he has
given over half million for various OBJ
iects connected with the university.
AN emperor of Germany once stood
before the magnificent tomb of the
Duke Rudolph, of Suabia. Some of
his courtiers were of opinion that he
ought not to allow his mortal enemy to
have so splendid monument, but that
he should have his body exhuned and
buried elsewhere. ooh, let him lie
where he is, said the emperor; IT only
wish all my enemies were as splendidly
| buried"
AMONG the questions put to Sir
George Sitwell, a very young man, and
the successful candidate at the recent
election for Scarborough, was this:
would he be prepared to support
bill rendering it lawful for man to
marry his widows niece?" "Weu,"
said Sir George, II have not yet given
the matter serious consideration, but
-" Here he was interrupted with
shouts of laughter.
A MONUMENT is to be erected over the
grave of Judge Theophilus Harrington,
who died in 1913 and is buried in the
town of Clarendon, vt. He was one of
the early speakers of the House of Repre-
sentatives, and for ten years, from 1908
to 1913, judge of the supreme court of
Vermont. When an attorney, after es-
tablishing the ownership of runaway
slave, asked Judge Harrington what
more proof would be wanted, he re-
ceived the reply: II want bill of
sale from God Almighty"