Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30
ABOUT PEOPLE,

CaClOn at q WlId spot IN the Val d.
Aosta, Italy.
LIEUT.. GREEDY will be q guest of
the Scottish Geographical Society, of
Edinburgh, inNovember.
ROSE TERRY Cook wants school
children to carry raw lunches to school
and be taught there to cook them.
PROF. JOSEPH HANSON CLARKE, Of
Baltimore, who just died in that city,
once had Edgar Allen Poe for a pupil.
NINETY-FoUR years have elapsed
since old Philip Ginter stumbled over
a piece of anthracite coal. Last year
100000 tons were mined in Penn
sylvania.
CAPT. JAMES B. EADs, of st. Louis,
says he has been called to Brazil by
the Emperor to examine the harbor
Of Rio Grande do Sui with a view to
it's improvement.
THE King Of Denmark would give
$40, OOO.to get rid OF a wart there is
on his chin. There are plenty of Danes
who would take it at that price, but
the doctors dare not remove it.
PROF. ASA GRAY, of Cambridge, has
lately been reminded by a congratu-
latory letter from the oldest natural
history society of Germany, that he was
elected member Oft fifty years ago.
BARON TENNYsoN has gonefrom Far
ringford, on the Isle of Wight, to his
other seat, Aldworth, near Haslemere,
to give his wife the benefit Of the Surrey
Downs air. Lady Tennyson is a con-
firmed invalid.
THE carriage used by the Gar Alex
ander H., on the day of his murder,
has been preserved just as the bomb
left 1t; with the rear part torn to
pieces. It is a strong and constant
reminder to the present Gar.
OSWALD OTTENDERFER, editor of the
Staats-Zeitung, has presented his ma
tive city of Zwittau, in Austria, with
the sum of 100000 forins, to be de-
voted to the erection of a hospital
and orphan asylum.
The following temperance address is
from the Boston Globe: "With Bur
dock suspended from the ball nine and
John L. Sullivan going to the demni-
ton bow-wows, according to his broth
er's testimony, our athletes have two
mighty examples before them of the
folly of touching strong drink"
BRET HARTE's son, Griswold Harte,
is the business manager Of Town Top
les New York;, formerly the Ameri-
can Queen, which has recently passed
into the possession of the proprietor
of the Mann boudoir cars. A nephew
of the poet-Ernst Knaufft-is the art
director of the paper.
WILLIAM HENRY HURLBERT writes
from London that Mr.. Forster once
said of the late Lord Houghton:
':Foibles or no foibles, this is to be
said of him by me, that of all the men
| have ever known he is the one man
to whom I would 60 at once, not only
were | in trouble, but were [ in dis
grace"
MAJ. E. S. SANBoRN of Boston, who
recently died, founded Sanborn Sem
mary in Kingston, n. H, expanding
over 100000 on the principal semin-
airy building, which is said to be the
finest school building in the state. His
estate is at present estimated at $780,
900 and is given by the terms of his
will to the institution bearing his
name.
ONE of the most dignifed and i'm
portant personages in the German en-
pire is Herr Staude: He is the barber
Of Kaiser Wilhelm; and so impressed
is he with the Importance of his posi-
ton that he has closed his shop to
other customers, and devotes all his
time and ingenuity to the task of
the Emperor, whom he accom-
panies on all his trips to Ems and
other watering places.
HUGH MAXWELL, brother OF Mrs.
Commodore Upshur, and son of the
Hon. p. Maxwell, who was collector
Of the port Of New York under Presi-
dent Taylor, has lately, through the
death of his cousin, Sir William Well
wood, of Wildwood, Scotland, acceded
to the family title of Earl ofNithsdale.
Unfortunately for Mr.. Maxwell the
title carries no estates with it, as they
we're coniscated in 1712.
LONDON Life says: ''The latest i'm
possible news which reaches me from
P aris, and which l publish under re-
serve, relates to the irrepressible
Sarah Bernnardt. Impossible as it.
nay sound the great Sarah has made
Up her differences with M. Damala,
md, instead of taking advantage of
he new French law of divorce, they
intend to spend the remainder of their
ives in harmonious union"
REFERRING to the various persons
n this country who claim to be the
Novelist who writes under the name
The Duchess" J. B. Lippincott, of
Philadelphia, has Just received a letter
rom the one real and only person en-
titled to that distinction, dated at
london, and saying: 81 authorize
'ou to expose these pretentions. do
lot belong to your country, but to
roland, and have never as yet had the
pleasure of visiting America. hope,
however, I shall not have this to say
much longer"
EDWARD EGGLEsTON, who is now in
london making researches in the Brit
81 museum and the public record Of
zee, has been at work five years upon
is History of Life in the American
'olonles," several chapters of which
ave been published in the Century.
When he began the undertaking in
7oohe thought it would occupy three
ears. Int rnu ho Soao OF loo CT 4hraa