Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-01-04
PROMINENT ONES,

PRINCE BARCLAY DE FOLLY, son OF
the well-known general, has been
struck off the Russian army list for
having christened his child after the
Lutheran rite.
Mr.. AND MRS. JOSEPH RAMsDELL, OF
| Warren, Mass, have just celebrated
the sixtieth anniversary Of their mar
| ried life. Mr.. Ramsdell is 81 years of
age, while Mrs. Ramsdell is 80.
WILLIAM D. HowELLs recently re-
marked "Many imagine that writing
books, and especially novels, is easy
work. | tell you that it decidedly is
not. 1t is work, and hard work"
The Bangor, me, Wing says: The
Rev. G. w. Field has gone to Belfast
to attend the funeral of domestic
who has lived in his fathers and his
| brothers families for a. period of
eighty years.
FLOYD TUFTS, OF Westmore, VT, is
but 7 years old and weighs only lis
pounds, but he is able to shoulder
two bushels of corn with e4se, and to
lift his grandfather, who weighs IT'S
pounds, from the floor without exert
ing himself.
HERR PAsCHKE, a Berlin butcher, re-
Gently celebrated q curious "jubilee"
the slaughter of the 10O,OOOth
goose in his establishment. He began
business in 1850, and on December 2
was able to kill the jubilee goose, a
choice specimen specially fattened for
| the occasion.
THERE is an old-fashioned million
aire who lives at Second Avenue and
st. Marks Place, New York, who is
SO fond of dogs, and particularly OF a
pet st. Bernard, that he pays g. man
SIS q week to devote his time to ex-
ercising the dog. 1t should be Incl
dentally remarked, however, that the
st. Bernard cost the millionaire So
500.
THE will of Mrs. Vrania Humphrey,
formerly of Brooklyn, n. Y, and late
ly OF Norfolk, Conn, makes bequests
aggregating $685. to various re-
ligious, charitable, and educational
institutions. including $4,000 to
Yale College. Mrs. Humphrey was g.
sister of Joseph Battell, who gave
Yale $50, 900, and after whom Battell
Chapel is named.
SAYS the New York Graphic:
"Apropos of Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt
it is said that she and her husband
have settled $1,000 year on the
formers sister, Miss Minnie Smith,
who is now engaged for the --th time,
and who this time has announced
Turin as the scene OF her coming nup-
tials, although nobody seems able TO
speak with authority on the name OF
the latest lucky man.
EX-PREsIDENT GREvYis an exquisite
classical scholar. He loves music and
painting, and has a chastened style
in writing and speaking. The pas
sions of his old age are money and his
daughter, without whom he could not
live. Nine. Grevy was formerly a gen.
eral servant in the employ Of the fist
wife of the ex-French President, and
Nine. Wilson was born prior to the
marriage OF her parents.
IT is contended by society and club
men in New York that A. Wright San
ford pays enough annually IN club
dues to support half dozen families.
Mr. Sanford belongs to the Union,
New York, Manhattan, Knickerb ock-
er, Racquet, Lambs, New York Ath-
Ietic, Coney Island Jockey, American
Jockey, the Country Club IF Pelham,
the Meadowbrook and Rockaway
Hunts, and half dozen others.
The house of Jacob Ortiz, an aged
German soldier living in Davenport,
Iowa, was buried recently, and
among the articles consumed was q
medal which he had received from the
Grand Duke Ludwig l., for services
in the war against Napoleon Bona
parte. The loss of the medal trou-
bled Mr.. Orth greatly, and he wrote
to Kaiser Wilhelm about it. Last
week he received from the Emperor
handsome gold medal bearing the
Grand Dukes likeness.
JUDGE BRINsoN, of Burke County,
Ga, has just married Miss Hearn, of
Ftanklin, Tenn. Years ago the judge
was g. student IN q law school in
Franklin, where he met and became
engaged to Miss Hearn. The lady's
father, being g. Methodist, objected to
him because he was q Baptist, and
thus severance took place. Several
weeks ago Judge Brinson accidentally
heard that the lady was still single,
80 he at once renewed the romance of
his youth, with the result stated.
THE French Academy the other day
distributed the annual ''prizes of vir-
tue" The Montyon prize of 1000
francs was awarded to Jean AdoIphe
Delannoy, g. Calais pilot who has
twenty one times risked his life in
saving ship-wrecked crews. Delan-
noy is loaded with medals and wears
the cross OF the Legend OF Honor.
The Academy now proclaims him the
most heroic and devoted of Free CHI
men. The other awards included l.
900 francs to Bonaparte Wyse for
his survey and book on the Panama
Canal.