Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-06
PERSONAL POINTERS.

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The Empress of China is learning to
box.
Mr.. LABoUCHERE has it in mind to
swing around the American circle next
year.
Mr.. GLADsToNE's autograph sells in
Paris for 20 francs, Bismarck's for 80
| francs.
FRANK A. BURR is writing biogra-
ply OF Gen. Simon Cameron, of Penn
sylvania.
DIR. METZGER, of Amsterdam, has
gone to Rome to treat the Pope for
rheumatism.
MISS MURFREE's new novel is to bear
the title Sin the Clouds"
MRS. DIANTHA JONES, of Batavia.
Mich, is in her Tooth year, and never
needed spectacles.
The italian poet, Senior Maffei, has
had a stroke of paralysis, and his
life is despaired of.
A RECENTLY published French book
AYERS that Prince Bismarck charges
$50 for his autograph.
GEN. SHERIDAN, it is said, will write
an account of his historic campaignin
the Shenandoah Valley.
KING MILAN, of Servia, is 80 years
old, and that, too, is the age of Alex
ander, the Prince of Bulgaria.
GEN. TooMBs in 1850 pledged him
self to drink all the blood shed in Sc
curing secession for the South.
JOHN w. MAcKAY, the millionaire,
says that he has "no intention of
founding, buying or backing a newspa-
per-"
Mrs. FAWCE1T, widow of Henry Faw-
cett, is to lecture upon "John Wicliff
and the dawn of the Reformation in
England"
REV. G. G. JOHNSON, of Twiggs Coun-
ty, Georgia, is Is years of age, and is
the father of thirty-six children,
twenty-five of whom are living.
CLARK RUSSELL, the novelist, is suf-
fering seriously from chronic rheuma-
tism-so seriously that he is trying O.
| voyage to the Cape of Good Hope in
search of relief.
VICToRIEN SARDoU writes his plays
twice, first on little scraps of paper,
then on foolscap. The first draft
when finished is a maze of alterations
and interlineations.
ABRAHAM HENDRICKS, grandfather of
the late vice-president, was Justice of
the peace at Lancaster, Pa, in 1904.
| A stone house which he built near West
Fairchild is still standing
III. III. KTsoN, a Boston artist,
whose work has attracted attention
in the Paris Salon, is engaged in model
ing life-sized bust of John McCul-
Tough, which will be cast in bronze, for
the Lotus Club OF New York.
THE new lord mayor of London is
master of the Leathersellers' Com
pany, whose corporate expenditure for
the year has been returned at about
| $4,000, including close on $4,000
| for entertainments and $1,000 for
| wines.
A BLIND London beggar asked aims
| of q gentleman, who, in reply, wanted
to know why he begged. The man said
that, being blind, he could do nothing.
'I am blind, too," answered the
famous Mr.. Fawcstt-"but I earn my
living"
The Empress Eugene, who was born
in Granada, has been there once oflate
years, but not since the death of the
prince imperial, and her name appears
| on the visitors book at the Alhambra
in a delicate hand simply as "Condesa
de Perrefonds, 5 Mayo, 1877"
DIR. G. V. RILEY, entomologist of the
department of agriculture, has do
mated to the National Museum his fine
collection of North American insects,
numbering over 100000 specimens,
representing over 10000 different
species. The collection is valued at
| $25, 900.
MISS LINDA r. RICHARDS, late super
intendent of the training school for
nurses of the Boston City Hospital, is
going to Japan for FIVE years to estab-
in Toxic. 1t will be partly under mis-
sionary. and partly under government
patronage.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL has Just
given to the Massachusetts, Historical
Society an autograph letter of Robert
Burns, dated at Dumfries, May 81,
1913. Mr.. Lowell received the letter
from the widow OF Byran Waller Proc
tor Barry Cornwall), mother of AIDE
laide Proctor.
THE venerable banker and art
| patron, w. w. Corcoran, of Washing
ton, enlivens his evenings by the quar-
tette banjo performances of four
charming young ladies, ono of them
his granddaughter, Miss Eustis, two
others her cousins, daughters of Sena-
tor Eustis, and the fourth Miss Nellie
Horn.
In 1868 William Penn fought duel
In France. It was not duel accord
ing to the code, but when, for some af-
front, q gentleman drew his sword,
Penn drew his. The Quaker showed
that he was the best swordsman, dis
armed his adversary, and inflicted up
on him only a..sermon on the evils of a
quick temper.
The Grants are living quietly in the
Old home In Sixty -sixth Street, New
York. Col. Frederick and Jesse r. are
engaged in bringing out the second
volume OF the Generals memoirs. o..
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