Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-24
PERSONAL POINTERS.

Miss MULoCH is said to be writing a
play for Mary Anderson.
The Rev. DR.. Bartol has just entered
his tiftieth year as pastor OF West
Church, Boston.
CHARLES PRATT, of astral oil fame,
has given 100000 to the Adelphi
Academy, Brooklyn, N. Y.
JIMMY COSTELLO, Pittsburg boot
black, has invented a wonderful pump
and sold the patent for $28, 900.
Jimmy will hereafter shine among the
capitalists.
E. 81. CLEVELAND, q cousin of the
president, has invented an automatic
car track, designed to make it easy
for horse-cars to round sharp curves.
IT is proposed that q medallion
portrait OF the late Charles Reade,
modelled from a cast taken afew hours
after death, should be placed in ST.
Paul's Cathedral, London.
The widow of Gideon Welles, who
recently died in Hartford, was a mem
Der of the well-known Hale family OF
Glastonbury, Conn, and was q woman
OF strong character and intelligence.
CAPT. JACK CRAWFORD, the famous
Western scout, says: eff | had my
way [ would imprison for life all writ
ers and publishers of the yellow backed
lies that ruin many young men and
bring them West to fight Indians
ATLANTA, says the Constitution of
that city, has long since forgiven Gen.
Sherman. He cleared the way for the
new and greater city, and gave us,
when half grown, @ chance to build
from the ground up in the light of ex-
perience.
COUNT HERBERT BISMARCK is not to
go as German ambassador to England.
He is the right-hand man of his father
in the Berlin foreign Office, and will
stay there, ready to become the head
| OF the department on the chancellor's
death or retirement.
Mr.. GLADsTONE's recent interview
with the Queen, says the London
| World, lasted more than an hour; he
lunched after his audience, and he was
in company with Sir Henry Ponsonby
| the whole time, till he left to drive
back to Cowes. Sir Henry is liberal,
and has always been a great admirer
of the prime minister.
| JOSEPH ENGLISH, of Boston, has
wasted ten and q half valuable hours
in writing on a postal-card the entire
address of III. B. Metcalf delivered
at the general convention of uni
versities held last year in Brooklyn.
The address contains 4,162 words,
and Mr.. English wrote them all with a.
steel pen, by gaslight, without the aid
OF a magnifying glass.
| M. HALEVEY, a day or two before he
was received at the academy among
the ''forty immortals," was driving
out to Passy. when his coupe was
smashed by washerwoman's cart,
and be narrowly escaped the same
fate. When his friends inquired how
he felt when the collision occurred, he
replied: GAS if | were beginning my ap-
premiership for Immortality"
THE King of Italy recently sent g.
gift Of 10000 francs to the fund of
the Press Association in Rome, which
Is intended for the assistance of it's
poorer members. A deputation of the
Press Association waited on his
majesty, to thank him. The writer
and politician, Ruggiere Benghi, was at
its head. King Humbert remarked
that he was glad to see writer's of all
shades of political opinion among the
members of the association.
ELIZA HARVEY, an old pensioner Of
Trinity Church, Pittsburg, who died
lately, was supposed to be penniless,
but it was found that she had 81, 900
in the Dollar Saving Bank. Her only
son, just before going to the war, pur-
chased for his mother one hundred
bushels of coal. She received word
that her son was killed in one of the
first battles of the rebellion. From
that moment she would not burn any
of the coal, even in the most severe
weather, but guarded it religiously in
the cellar to the day of her death.