Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-01
PERSONALITIES.


the handsOmest woman now on a
throne
UNITED STATES MINISTER LEW WAL
LACE, at Constantinople, has resigned
and is coming home.
CONGRESSMAN SAMUEL J. RANDALL
is in bad health, and has been ordered
to go to the seashore.
DR.. J. III. VINCENT will edit the new
Sunday-school paper to be issued by
the Methodist book concern.
ROBERT T. LINCOLN, the retiring Sec
rotary of War, is to resume the prac-
tice of law in Chicago.
PROF. Balm says that "the posses
sion of a spot Of land is the most DOW
erful of all known motives to indus
try"
EX-EMPREss EUGENE is seriously i'll
from q nervous shock, having been
thrown from her carriage at Farnbor-
ough.
A WASHINGTON dispatch states that
ex-President Arthur is going to Eu-
rope IN July, to remain abroad sever
al months.
The Duke of Buckingham, who has
no heir to his dukedom, has just mar
ried the daughter of a Scotch baronet.
He is So.
GEN. GRANTS salary under the re-
tirement bill is $13, 500 year, and
$125 per month as communication for
quarters.
LIEUT.. GREEDY will deliver an adj
dress before the Scottish Geographical
Society while in Great Britain next
summer.
Miss DORA, daughter of Randolph
Rogers, the American sculptor resident
in Rome, will be married in June to an
italian colonel.
president ELIOT of Harvard, holds
that the ability of people to handle
their mother tongue is a very good
test of their education.
PRIVATE HENRY old sweetheart has
been discovered living at Parkersburg,
Va, and the horrors of the Arctic ex-
petition under Greedy are revived.
NINE. MoDJEsKA has taken q quaint
little cottage on the coast of Cornwall
Eng, and means to live there until
she comes to America in September.
THE late David Dickson, of Sparta,
S. c., who wrote book on "HOw to
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valued at 100000.
CONGREssMAN-ELECT J. D. RICHARD
SON, of Tennessee, will be the tallest
member Of the next house. He stands
nearly seven feet high in his stockings.
Mr.. CONNoR, Jay Gould's partner,
dlsclalms that there is any engage
ment between himself and Miss Nellie
Gould, who is scarcely II years of
age.
Ex-LIEUT-Gov. R. II. GLEAvEs, for
merly of South Carolina, is now a
waiting man in a restaurant in Wash
ington, D. C.-Char7eston IS. c.
News.
PRoF. ASA GRAY, the eminent bot
anist, who is now in his 18th year,
has been on a visit to Florida, and
will return home via New Orleans and
California
AN American lady who CHANGED to
sit near Mrs. Oscar Wilde at some pub
lie entertainment, recently, says she
fell in love with her, and that she is
very pretty.
MRS WENDELL PHILLIPS is living
quietly in the house which was her
husbands last home, in the southern
u,
near fremont.
GEOKGE w. CHAMBERS, an octogena-
rian, of Pleasant Unity, Westmore-
land County, Pa, claims to be the
real inventor of the air-brake patent
ed by Westinghouse
M. RENAN is now figuring as the r.
Heber Newton of Paris, and his inter
estlng lectures on the Old Testament
delivered daily in the College de
France, attract large audiences made
up of both sexes.
NATHANIEL PEABODY ROGERS, abo-
litionist, requested before his death, in
1S47, that no stone should mark his
grave so long as slave lived in the
United States. Now an association
has been formed to place a monument
where his bones lie
OLIVER DOUD BYRON announces that
he has dropped the Doud as remotely
suggestive Of dude and hereafter will
write his name and wishes to be
known as Oliver Byron, the Oliver be-
ing retained to distinguish him from
the late lamented Lord Byron.
REV NSTEvE" HoLCoMBE was once
the greatest gambler in the South.
He is the only man who is said to
have known certain method of win
ming at poker. He is now a home
missionary at Louisville, KY, but
cannot be induced to part with his
poker secret.
Miss MAUD HOWE and her mother,
Mrs Julia Ward Howe, are especially
commended for their energy in the
New Orleans Exposition in turning
to and with their own hands building
the counters for the women's depart
ment, and yet neithe" of them are
plain women.
JEFFERSON HAYES, a colored gentle
man and agricultural dentist, of
Hawkinsville, Ga, is the champion
stump-puller, having removed 827
stumps from thirteen acres The
close connection between stumps and
acres suggests the possibility of good
pun for some suffering Photographer.