Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-24
PERSONALITIES.

M. DE LEssEPs has been appointed
president of the Paris exposition in
1889.
NEARLY $4,000 women are engaged
in giving musical instruction in En-
gland.
THIS will be w. w. Corcoran's
fifty-third summer at White Sulphur
Springs.
LORD LORNE has been elected presi-
dent of the Royal British Geographic
cal Society.
DOROTHY DENE is the London rival
of Mrs. Langtry and Mary Anderson
as a beauty.
JOHN RUsKIN complains that some
body is forging his name to letters
sent to the London press.
M. DAUDET laments the fact that
Mark Twain's humor cannot make
him laugh, nor even smile.
SERGT. MASON, who attempted to
shoot Guiteau, is in jail on a charge of
having robbed fellow soldier.
JOHN STEfsoN, the theater manager,
was fined SIS for profanity on the
streets OF Boston the other day.
Miss MARY V. MURFREE (Charles
Egbert Craddock) will spend the sum-
mer at Swampscott Beach, Mass.
TEREsINA TUA, the violinist, is only
1S years old, and is under a two years
concert engagement at $4,000 q
year.
EDWARD S. STOKES has bought the
Julian estate on Staten Island, and 1T
is said will build a large summer hotel
there.
MGR. CAPBL has sailed for Europe.
His American tour was pronounced
social but very moderate pecuniary
success.
CHARLES H. TAFT, an insurance
agent from Rockford, was ridden on
rail at Laramie, w. T., for insulting
several ladies.
WALT WHITMAN has been invited by
Tennyson to visit him at his home in
the Isle of Wight, and in all probabili-
ty will accept the invitation.
BRITISH MINISTER WEST at Washing
ton, while playing lawn tennis, wears
a peajacket, green spectacles, and
serious, not to say lugubrious, ex-
preston.
OF the nine great composers
OF Germany not one OF them had
face an average oman would like to
meet on a lonely road at tWilight's
solemn hour.
SIR SAMUEL BAKER, who is on a
shooting excursion in India, writes
that hehas obtained plenty of exciting
sport. One days bag consisted of
three tigers and five panthers.
BIG BEAR reasons that all the Indi-
ans will be killed off in about twenty
years, and it makes but little differ
ence whether he goes up this spring or
freezes through a few more winters.
JAMES r. OsGooD, of the firm Of
James R. Osgood & Co., the well-known
book publishers in Boston, who failed,
has accepted an offer of a position in
the publishing house of Harper Bros,
New York.
LORD LYTTON'S manners are de-
scribed as being "a cross between those
Of the Partisan petit maitre and the
dandy diplomat of Great Britain"
Men do not like him, but ladies pro-
nounce him charming.
HAVING buried his young friend,
Victor Hugo, M. Ferdinand de Les
seps announces that he accepts with
alacrity the presidency of the Paris
Exposition for 1889 and will be on
hand to open the Panama canal in
1920.
NINE. NILSSON recently astonished
a Paris audience by appearing in silks
of the Swedish national colors-blue
and yellow-''while on her neck, from
shoulder to shoulder, blazed Swedish,
Spanish, Austrian and Russian orders
set in diamonds"
THE Mount Allison Methodist Col
lege at Sackville, n. B., has conferred
the degree of M. A. on Miss Hattie
Stewart. This is the first time an
educational institution IN the Cana
dian Dominion has conferred such an
honor upon a lady.
BARON ADoLPH RoTHsCHILD has pur-
chased, at an enormous price, the IA
NOUS gold jewel box presented in
1910, by the Nuremberg goldsmiths,
to Duke Albert, of Bavaria, on his
marriage with the renowned Princess
Anna with the golden hair"
Miss GREENWOOD of the Woman's
Temperance Union, said the other day:
"In a Brooklyn street car I saw two
richly dressed ladies. Their faces bore
evidence of culture. They were from
thebest society on the hill. One fell
to the right, and then to the left, and
then forward. Presently there was
such a disgraceful scene that the car
was soon empty. They had been to
a champagne dinner. There are just
such scenes enacted in Fifth Avenue,
on the Heights, and elsewhere"
MAYOR DEERING, of Portland, Sun
day, saw two drunken men carrying
on running fight through the street,
a crowd of several hundred people fol-
lowing them. His honor followed the
men to see how long it would be before
a policeman would turn up. After
walking long distance, during the
progress of which the men drew knives
and made a lot of entertainment for
the hoodlums, the mayor discovered
the policemen watching game of base
ball with much interest.-Lewisto
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