Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-05-20
PERSONALITIES.

DOM PLATT IS writing life of one of
Gne greatest soldiers-George H.
Thomas.
Miss ISABELLA OATES has been an
pointed vaccination officer at Ford
ingbridge, Eng.
The high sheriff of Worcestershire.
Eng, this yearis Mr.. Perrin, of Worces-
tershile sauce fame.
PROF. w. E. BYERLY, of the mathe-
NAUTICAL department of Harvard, will
spend next year in Europe.
VIENNA has granted John Strauss
the freedom Of the city and lifelong
exemption from income tax.
REV. J. r. GoUCHER, of Baltimore
has given $4,000 toward building a.
woman's college in that city.
IT is reported that Mr.. Parnell is
soon to marry a young and wealthy
American lady, an intimate friend of
his mother.
Miss LINDA GILBERT, of Chicago, the
lady who has placed twenty different
libraries IN as many prisons, is visit
ing Boston.
THE Rev. F. Won Schluembach,
whose revival work has gained for
him the name Of 'the German Moody"
has been visiting in Pittsburg.
A BRIDGEToN, n. j., man has planted
over 2OO,O cOcOanuts at Biscayne
Bay, Fla, and will make the number
1000, 900 before he stops operations.
SIGNOR CARDINALI, the handsome
tenor OF the Mapleson Opera Compa-
ny, it is announced, will marry a.
daughter of Judge Sanderson, of Cali
fornia in June.
The San Francisco Argonaut saws
that Joaquin Miller's daughter Maud
has made runaway match with Steele
Mackaye's eldest son, and the respec-
tive parents are Wroth.
DANDELIoN parties are the latest
amusement in Philadelphia. Young
ladies and gentlemen 90 out with table
knives, baskets and tin pals to hunt
out the weed from lawns.
The floral Offering of Queen Victoria
at the obsequies of President Garfield
is to be preserved in a handsomely
carved oaken frame presented by the
Cleveland Sons of ST. George.
KELLY, of motor failure fame. has
at last discovered a new power, which
he says consists Of 'interatomic air.
or ''luminiferous ether" and dyna-
mite is as a parlor match to it.
THE new Lord Mayor of London,
Robert Nicholas Fowler, NJ P, was
the immediate predecessor of George
Swan Nottage, the remainder of whose
term as Lord Mayor he is to fill
THE Canadian Premier, Sir John
Macdonald, has his only son, leu
tenant in a regiment of infantry, doing
line duty in the forces under Gen. Mid
dleton, now operating against Riel
PENNSYLVANIA has furnished eight
ministers to the Russian court: George
M. Dallas, Benjamin Rush, James B u
chanan, Albert Gallatin, - Welsh, of
York; William Wilkins, ex-senator
Cameron, and ex-Gov. Curtin.
Mrs. GEN. CUSTER has sent to the
Soldiers Aid Fair in Boston the flag
Of truce sent by Gen. Lee to Gen.
Grant at Appomattox. It was a.
towel, and cost the officer who bore it
$40, Confederate money.
Ten thousand black foxes were
killed to furnish the necessary pieces
for Mrs. Bonanza Mackey's $1,000
fur cloak, which is claimed to be finer
than the one that the Duchess of Ed
lnburgh inherited from her mother.
the Empress of Russia.
LOUISE MICHEL still poses as the
French Becky Jones and refuses to
leave Saint Lazare though her pardon
IS thrust in her face, but the authori-
ties are determined she shall 90 even
if it should be necessary to put her
out.
AN ingenious Partisan, NJ. Adrian
Gacon, has patented a blasting powder
which provides a new explosive COM
pound intended to have the force of
dynamite without it's extra hazardous
properties. The compound consists
OF a mixture of nitrate of potash or
nitrate of soda with sulphur ashes
and tannin.
London, is not a professional diplo-
matist, but a military engineer. He is
under 80 years of age, a fluent talker,
and Chesterfield in department. He
is by birth French Jew, and trans
acts his business with the British
foreign secretary, not In Russian or
English, but in the politest of French.
Col. IvANoFF, whom the Russians
threaten to turn loose in Afghanistan,
is still a young man, very tall and
handsome, with fair complexion
and a full thick beard. This beard
has won him the appellation of
Sara-Sakal-Tura ''The Yellow-Beard-
ed Chief" and the natives of Turkes-
tan never speak of him nor address
him by any other name.
E-PREsIDENT HENDRICKS speaks
with enthusiasm of the women of the
District. He aver9 that their pronun-
citation OF the English language strikes
that happy medium nowhere else to
be found throughout the United States.
The Objectionable harshness and ped
antry of the North and the slip-shod
procivities of speech observable
throughout the South are both agree
ably absent. The mother tongue is
spoken by the resident Washington
ians in its greatest purity and rhythm.
The Vice-President, from his varied