Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-03
PERSONAL POINTERS.

again at Lenox, Mass.
THE late Prof. Arnold Guyat Is to
be honored with memorial tablet IN
Narguand Chapel, Princeton.
MATTHEW ARNOLD has peen spending
some weeks liz Berlin studying the edu-
cational system of Germany.
Gov. SwINEFoRD of Alaska writes
regularly for the Detroit Free Press
articles descriptive of Alaska.
MRS. A. T. STEWART isso seldom seen
in public that she caused 1utter IN
New York theater box q few evenings
ago.
HoRATIO SEYMOUR has been re-elect-
ed president of the Fort Schuyler Club
of Utica and of the Oneida Historical
Society.
FRANCIS MURPHY and his son Thorn
as have pinned the blue ribbon on25,-
900 persons in Cleveland, o., within
the last two months.
ROSCOE CoNKLING sends q check for
$50 to the Grant Monument Associa-
ton of New York Sin the furtherance
of most worthy cause"
A. A. Low, the father of ex-Mayor
Low of Brooklyn, is building In that
city $4,000 hospital as amemorlal
to a daughter lost by death.
GEN. GEORGE A. SHERIDAN has lee
tured in New York for the benefit of
the Grant Monument Association, and
the net receipts were about $3.50.
GEN. LoNGsTREET thinks that his I'M
Gle, William Longstreet, of Augusta,
Ga, should share with Robert Fulton
the Iaurels of the inventor of steam
boats.
JOHANN STRAUSS, the German waltz
composer, has renowned his Austrian
nationality and become naturalized
in Saxony. Family reasons have occa-
stoned this step.
XAVIER ULLEsBERGER, whose death
is reported, was the most eminent
paleontologist in Switzerland, and
was the discoverer of the remains OF
lacrustine villages in the lake OF Con-
stance.
G. 2. HUNTINGTON, railroad magnate,
has control east of the Mississippi
River of ], 1872 miles of road He can
travel from New York to San Francis
CO over a system OF transportation
largely CONT oiled by himself.
Ex-UNTTED STATES SENATOR JOSEPH
CILLEY, completed his ninty-ffth year
at his home in Nottingham, n. H,
last week. He is in excellent health,
and resides on the Cilley homestead,
surrounded by his children and grand
children.
REV. CHARLES w. WENDTE, late
pastor of the Charming Memorial
Church, at Newport, R. l., has been
engaged by the American Unitarian
Association to proceed to the Pacific
coast and engage In missionary work
at a salary of $4,000 a year.
JOHN BROWN is the veteran of the
Philadelphia post-office employees. He
is now time-keeper, butt the forty-on
postal service in that city he has filled
ascore of minor positions. He entered
the service when Tyler was president.
OUT of the eight delegates at large
from Alabama to the Charleston con-
vention in 1860, Gen. Levi Welburn
LAWYER alone is living. William l..
Yancey, E. S. Lyon, D. W. Blaine,
Leroy Pope Walker, John A. Winston,
A. B. Meek and Henry D. Smith are
all dead.
ACCORDING to the Jewish Chronicle,
Baron Alphonse de Rothsch1ld is not
the first Hebrew who has been adj
mitted into the French Academy of
Fine Arts. The late Achille Fould,
the finance minister to Napoleon I'LL,
was elected free member OF the Acad-
envy in 1854.
THE Count de Castel Maria, an opu-
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most singular spit IN the world. It
turns 40 different roasts at once,
and plays "a tunes, and whatever
tune it plays corresponds to certain
degree of cooking, which is perfectly
understood by the cook.
Col. E. 2. JUDsoN, "Ned Buntline, !"
is described as an elderly man, short
of stature and badly crippled by
wounds received during the war. He
says that he is paid from So, 900 to
50, 500 for his stories, and that under
pressure he has produced six hundred
pages of foolscap manuscript In six
days.
LONDON Truth says: ''There has
been bitter quarrel between the En-
peror OF Russia and his uncle, the
Grand Duke Michaei, and the latter
has left st. Petersburg in high dudgeon
Tor his estates in the Caucasus, having
previously resigned all his offices, in
Guiding the presidency of the council
of state"
THERE was recently celebrated at
St. Petersburg afete in honor OF Baron
Alexander Jomini, chief councillor of
the Russian foreign Office, who first en-
tered that department fifty years ago.
The emperor sent the baron an I'M
perial rescript, accompanied by hand
some gold snuff-box bearing his males
tvs portrait set in diamonds.
M. PANALI, OF French note as an art
lst, Was about to be married in Paris,
when he objected to the bride wearing
a hustle at the wedding declaring that
part of her dress was inartistic. This
did not please the girl, who was OBJ
durate, and insisted on making her
toilet to suit herself. The match was
broken off and the artist went to
Egypt.