Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-03-28
OFT OF THE CROWD.

Mrs. GARRETT ANDERSON, the leading
woman physician in England, makes an
income of $50, 900 year.
Miss FANNIE FISHER, better known as
christian Reid" occupies the old
homestead of her family IN Salisbury,
n. c..
Mrs. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE is very
active for her years, and takes great in
terest in the parish work OF her son, the
Rev. Charles stowe.
MARION HARLAND says that the COM
ing woman will have her own bank &C
count. Then the coming woman is
surely to be immensely popular.
MISS NINA VAN ZANDT denies that she
is going on the stage as rumor has it.
She saws she has no idea of acting"
But that needn't keep her off the stage.
VIscoUNr Cross, England's secretary
of state for India, is said to be incom-
petent, without tact and deplorably ig-
norant The Tories regard him as the
right man in the right place.
NJ. GoUNoD has emphatically the
'tgrand air. He is above the medium
height, heavily built, with large head
plentifulIy supplied with gray hair and
beard, and a commanding look In his
brown eyes.
of the interior, has introduced bill
providing that peasant proprietors shall
be prohibited from selling the land
which was allotted to them when, as
serfs, they were emancipated in 1861.
AsHMEAD BARTLETT, WHO'S spoken
of as Mr.. Balfour's successor as chief
secretary for Ireland. will, If appointed,
be the first man of American birth who
ever held cabinet office. He was born
in Connecticut, and is about 81 years
old.
THE PENNSYLVANIA delegation in Con-
gress is one short. The unfortunate
mental condition of Congressman Maj
felt, of the Twenty-ftth District, has en-
tirely incapacitated him for service, and
he will probably never be able to re-
sumo his seat.
By the will of Paganini the only man
who was permitted to touch his violin
was his pupil, Sivori. The other day in
Genoa, to which city the violin was be-
queathed, Sivori tuned it up in the pres
ence of some royal delegates, and after
playing several tunes, put it back.
LOUISA M. ALcorr found in men
friends and companions rather than
lovers, and used to say: 81 think [ have
mans soul in a woman's body, for
while l am continually falling in love
with pretty girls, | have never seen a
man | could love the least little bit.
Mr.. VANDERBILT, just before leaving
Paris, had portrait of his child taken
by Chaplin, and it was so pretty that
the proprietors of the Bon Marche
thought 1T worth while to putt on their
CONNECTION box covers and to copyright
the design. The picture represents a
little boy playing with kittens.
DIR. D. HAYES AGNEw, of Philadelphia,
on April a, Will celebrate the fftieth
anniversary of his entrance into the
medical profession. A reception will on
that date be rendered to him by the
medical faculty and students of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. He will receive
IN memory of his long and distinguished
services gold scalpel with jeweled ham
de-
COUNT HERBERT BISMARCK, the favor.
tie son of the Iron Prince, was forced,
much to his disgust, to share a sleeping
compartment with commercial traveller
while journeying to Dublin by the Irish
mail train. The train was crowded, and
the drummer" declined to be bought
off, while the company's official init
mated to the count that "he could take
it or leave it.
Bronson ALCoTT was kindly, neigh
borly man and during his last weeks he
sat in his study window, when he was
we'll enough, that he might see people
who passed. To everybody on the
quiet street he waved his hand in
greeting, whether it was fellow thinker
or laborer with his pick, and for that
matter Mr.. Alcott was too nearsighted
to distinguish one man from another
across his room.