Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-08
PERSONAL ITEMS.

MISSIONER has recovered from paral-
ysis of the thumb, and is again at work.
THE Marquis of Salisbury has given
$500 to the mayors fund to provide
work to the unemployed OF London.
ISRAEL Coz, Of Waterbury, Conn, is
the oldest surviving member OF the Con-
necticut legislature. He celebrated his
ninety-third birthday December Is. He
was a member of the Connecticut house
of 1924
IsMAIL PAsHA, ithe eXKhedive OF
Egypt, has had his claims against the
Turkish Government settled. He will
move to Constantinople, where he has
property and palaces valued at e500,000,
and will receive 100000 in cash.
Mrs. CoRDELIA A. HENDRICKS, the IA
nous Philadelphia borrower, has turned
UP at the residence OF her brother-in-
law in Middletown, Pa. She is said to
be handsome woman and dresses in
good taste. but suffering from mental
troubles"
MILE. MARIA BAsTIA, one of the best
Aidas produced by the country Of Verdi,
recently committed suicide by starving.
Near her body was found a letter, in
which she said that she had killed her
self in chagrin at having grown too stout
to play her operate roles.
JOHN WANAMAKER, the big dry-goods
man and art connoisseur OF Philadelphia,
has gone far to. solve the problem of
cheap houses for WorkingWomen by Civ
ing them for 1925 week board, lodging,
a liberal washing allowance, and the
use of ception-roOms, dancing-rooms,
and bowling-alieys.
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN having been i'll
lately the Musical World offered the
following explanation: "Sir Arthur is a
hard worker and a great lion at social
gatherings, and his indispOs1tiOn is al
most entirely due to a commendable
and genial attempt to keep pace with
the numerous demands that are made
upon his leisure
GEORGE KEENAN,, the noted Russian
traveller, whose late articles on political
eXiles have attracted wide attention,
sent his first telegraph message when
he was six years old. He was a tele-
graph operator in Cincinnati during the
war, and entered Siberia in the service
of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany before he was 81.
THE Duke of Edinburg having with
drawn his annual subscription OF five
guineas to the Kent County Hospital at
Canterbury on the ground that he has
ceased to reside IN the district, the Lon
don Truth denounces him as "mercan-
tile and mean beyond merchandise and
meanness," and adds that CHS conduct
is in the highest degree discreditable. y
THE winter term at Wellesley College
has opened with Helen A. Shafer as
president, Miss Shafer is a woman of
remarkable intellectual qualities. Her
specially is mathematics, and in that
branch she has proved that the female
mind is able to achieve success IN field
which man has, to a great extent, mo-
nopolized. Miss Shafer is tall, graceful
woman, with pale. delicate face, brown
hair and earnest, blue gray eyes.
Mrs. ELIZABETH THOMPSON, the phil
anthropist, never goes to the theater,
and has read but two novels. ''Jane
Eyre and the Scarlet Letter." Her
tastes are perfectly simple. She has a
great liking for bread, milk, and apples.
tits doubtful if society has ever heard
of her. But she is the only woman who
has the freedom ofthe floor ofthe House,
"a right which even the Presidents wife
does not have