Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-05-05
PERSONAL POINTERS.

BLoNDIN, the tight.rope dancer ia
now 81 years of age.
SENATOR TELLER dresses in bIacL
and combs his hair without a part. O.
la pompadour.
JENNIE CHAMBERLAIN S portrait. bv
Hughes, OF London, will shortly ad orn
the Grosvenor Gallery.
HENRY GEORGE, the political econo-
mist, is AZ years old and about five
feet two inches in height.
The late William E. Forster first
gave to Mr.. Parnell the title of Gre
lands Unerowned King"
w. s. JACKSON, husband of Helen
Hunt, will probably become president
of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway
when reorganized.
THOMAS M. NICHoL, who was Gen.
Garfeld's private secretary, has rail-
road and j 200 acres of land, from
which he hopes to realize part of the
sum he put into the Denver Exposition
scheme.
MRS. CHARLOTTE MOORE, 8 brilliant
little lady, who was born in Ohio
and sent South during the war
for her avowed rebel opinions, is
the author of the taking novel GA
Modern Hagar."
SAMUEL PLIMsOLL, of London, q
well-known member of the late Parlia-
ment, is now on g. visit to this coun-
try, whittier he has come to inspect
his extensive land interests in Florida.
He will not return to England until
July.
MRS. F. V. G. FULLER stands at the
head of the eligible list of candidates
for appointment on the vaccinating
corps attached to the Brooklyn health
department. She scored 75b marks
out of 100 at the recent civil service
examination.
POSTMASTER GENERAL Villas has &C.
cepted the invitation to deliver the
grafton at the Academy of Music,
New York, on the evening of Memorial
Day. Gen. Sheridan will also be pres
ent and probably President Cleveland
and Gov. Hill.
JOSEPH WILLIAMSON, of Belfast, Me-,
is making good progress with his
photography, in which he purposes
giving brief sketch of every book and
pamphlet ever printed in Maine or by
a Maine man, and it's author. Hehas
now secured {, 900 titles.
PRINCE BISMARCK has fallen heir to the
sum of 81 800, willed to him by a rich
merchant of Warsaw, native of Prus-
STA, who emigrated to Poland fifty
years ago and who leaves this sum to
Bismarck to be invested in some keep
sake In remembrance of the testator.
By the death of Lord Forester an
other priest becomes entitled to a.
seat in the English House Of Lords.
The new peer is canon of York, and,
by a privilege accorded to his ances-
tors by Henry VII, has the right of re-
naming covered in the presence of his
sovereign.-Chicago Living Church.
WALTER PAIGE, as the Charleston
Is. CO. News puts it, is q North Carroll
MAN and knows as much about North
Carollnians, perhaps, as any North
Carolinian could be expected to know
about anything. He says: ''There is
not q man whose residence is in the
state who is recognized by the world as
an authority on anything"
THIRTY SEVEN years ago, says a cor
respondent of the New York Sun, the
writer was attending the Haverhill,
Mass, High School, of which young
Ingalls, then was 81 pupil and g con-
spicuous ornament. His compositions
and declarations riveted the atten-
ton Of every scholar, holding US spell
bound, and giving promise of the en-
viable fame he has since achieved as a
statesman and in the field of litera-
ture.