Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-04-25
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

HENRY JAMES, the novelist, prides HIM
self on his resemblance to the Prince of
Wales.
OSCAR WILDE lives in Carlyle's house
and has bought Carlyle's old bookcase at
auction.
SAM SMALL intends to start Prohibi
ton paper in Washington, where he
now claims legal residence.
Coz. JEROME NAPOLEON BoNAPARTE,
who bas!ust sailed for Europe, will re-
turn to this country and spend the sum-
mer at Newport.
CONGRESSMAN BURNEs, of Missouri, a
man of immense size, with deep, bass
voice, is known in the reporters gallery
as Sitting Bull"
CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE is said to have
on the title under which are held the
lands of Northwestern Ohio.
THE ex-Queen of Spain, Isabella, now
lives in Paris. She has sold her horses,
and has been obliged to economic great
~ In various directions in order to pay
her debts.
THE only woman lawyer IN Georgia is
Mrs. Hamilton Douglas, of Atlanta. She
is a graduate of the Law School of Mich
lgan. and when she graduated was COM
plimented by Judge Cooley on her legal
attainments.
Mrs. MARY d. LowMAN, mayor OF Oska-
loosa, Kan, is 40 years of age and OF
Pennsylvania origin. She has a pleas
ant face and motherly manners, her
deep set hazel eyes being the hand
soonest feature of her face.
A LETTER received from Robert Gar
ret, dated at Cairo, says that he and his
party will ascend the Nile as far as
Thebes, and returning by way of Cairo
will cross the Mediterranean to Greece.
From there they will go to Russia.
THERE are 200 men in Cincinnati who
carry an aggregate life insurance of $10,-
100000. One well-known railroad man
has policies on his life amounting to
$685., 900, and Mr.. Stewart Shillito, the
drygoods merchant is insured for $3.50,
900.
IT is said that the first work Gov. Da-
vid B. Hill ever did outside of his school
ing was to sell apples on the trains that
passed through Havana, n. Y, his birth
place. From the money thus acquired
he bought all his schoolbooks, and what
was left he saved and gave to his moth
er.
THE Car of Russia is said to do much
more work than any of his ministers,
and can be found at his desk at almost
any hour of the day. He rises before
any of his household, attends mass
every morning, and is scrupulously
exact in the performance of all his relig
Gus duties.
THE engagement is announced of Miss
Flora West, daughter of the British min
lister, to Gabriel SalansOn. Mr.. Salanson
is one of the sec etaries of the French
Legation in Washington. Miss Flora
West is the second of Sir Lionel Vests
three daughters. and is accounted the
handsomest of them all.
VINCENT DE BAUERFEIND, who is en-
ployed as Waterman at the Grand Opera
House in st. Louis, asserts that he has
the royal blood of Hungary coursing
through his veins. He is now 45 years
old, somewhat below medium stature,
with dark complexion, coal-black hair
and eyes. and has an air of refinement.
His father, Count Vincent de Bauer
feind, was chief of the medical staff of
the first Napoleon.
A WESTERN newspaper writer says
that he once heard John W. Mackay say
when strike was threatened in Virginia
City: IT am sorry that these men who
are receiving 81 a day do not save more
of their money. [ rolled logs in Yuba
river IA hours day for months at time
and went to camp every night soaked
to the bone, and did not average So a
day, but no one ever found me quite
broke or ever heard me complain
A MOVEMENT is on foot in Boston, on
the two hundredth anniversary of the
death of John Eliot, the Opposite to the
Indians" to erect a monument to his
memory in the grounds of the First Re-
ligious Society, of Roxbury, in Eliot
square Eliot was settled as teacher of
the Roxbury Church in 1882, being
colleague of Thomas Weld, the pastor.
The latter returned to England in 1910,
and from that date Eliot was pastor till
his death.