Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-10-10
PERSONALITIES.

PERSONALITIES.
w. S. GILBERT never laughs at his own
| jokes.
DIR. J. S. BILLINGS, U. S. A., has been
made an Edinburgh Ii. D..
| Mrs. AMELIA BARB writes novels with
| great rapidity and some of them are
good.
ANDREW Lang stands sponsor for the
| verses.
ToLsToI's wife threatens to have a
guardian appointed if he does not stop
squandering his estate.
CARL SCHURz is detained in Europe by
the illness of his son, who is suffering
| from abscess in the stomach.
| The Empress of all the Russias has
son whom she wishes to marry to
daughter of the Prince of Wales.
| Mr.. JACKSON, the husband of the
married recently to niece of his first
| wife.
! BYRON SALEsBERRY, the Delaware
peach-grower, recently made profit of
cents on carload of peaches that sold
Tor 81, 122.40.
F. S. HYDE. who was graduated this
year from Amherst, will go to teach for
| three years In the Syrian Protestant
J College at Beirut.
IT was habit of the late Prof. R. A.
| Proctor to take an hours nap every
afternoon, and his wife always sat at his
bedside while he was sleeping.
| CONGRESSMAN HENRY CABOT LODGE has
edited 1.-THE Federalist," reprinted from
the original text of Alexander Hamil-
| ton, John Jay and James Madison.
| The Earl of Crawford and Baicarres,
F. r. S., F. r. A. S., known as one ofthe
| leading astronomers and electricians of
Great Britain, expects to visit America
| for the first time during the coming
winter.
| PRINCE EUGENE, youngest son of the
| king of Sweden, is radical and believes
| in a republican form of government.
lie has just withdrawn from the Free
| Masons because he thinks that order, in
| Scandinavia, is too conservative.
THE proposed monument to Peter
| Cooper is to be erected in the little park
south of the Cooper Institute The
trustees OF the monument fund have
closed contract with St. Gaudens, the
sculptor, for the monument, and it is to
be finished by December.
| THE Empress of Japan is rapidly be-
coming one of the best informe d women
| of her time. She is hard student of
| German, Russian, French and Italian,
and it is said that her majesty has GER
tain days of the week upon which
Japanese is forbidden language.
Miss FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE is now a
confirmed invalid, and is patient at ST.
Thomas Hospital, London. Her serv-
ices during the Orimean war injured her
spine, and she has never recovered
from the effects thereof The illustrious
philanthropist is nearly sixty-nine years
old.
THE wedding of Princess Sophia, of
Prussia, to the crown prince of Greece,
will take place next June at Berlin.
The Princess is not to enter the Greek
Church, but any children of the mar
riage will be brought up in the orthodox
faith of the Greeks. The fact that King
George, of Greece, contemplates abdicat-
ing his throne was announced some
time ago.
AMELIE RIvEs went to the theater in
New York the other evening. Three
district messenger boys brought in three
bushels of flowers and deposited them
along the front of the box. When the
writer retired the boys came for the
flowers and took them to her carriage
Sensible people in the audience thought
her snob; others said she was merely
advertising herself.
sPRINCE FREDERICK of Saxe-M einin-
gen, who has just arrived in England, is
the intended husband of one of the
Queens granddaughters, says the
London Truth. 'Prince Frederick, who
was born in 1861, is the son of the Duke
! of Sake Meiningen by bis second mar.
rage with the Princess Feodore Of
! Notwithstanding, and he is also
connected with our royal family through
his half-brother, the hereditary Prince,
having married the eldest sister of the
Emperor William"
THE Carroll family of Marylan i has
long been matrimonially popular with
the English peers. Miss Mactavish,
who is to marry the Duke of Norfolk, is
a member of the Carroll family. Three
of the granddaughters of Charles Car
roll, OF Carrollton-the Misses Cation
became respectively Marchioness of
Wellesley, Duchess of Leeds and Mary
Stafford. Ofthe Marchioness of Welles-
ley it is said that when her husband be-
came Viceroy of Ire land, it was said by
an Irish bishop that ''to the land from
which her fathers father fed in fear
his daughters daughter returned a
Queen"
WHEN Mrs. Mary E. III. G.. Dow was
made president of the Dover IN. H.)
Horse Railroad Company, in January,
1888, the stock of the concern was worth
only So or 81 share and the road was
| heavily in debt. The directors have
just declared 20 per cent. dividend
and shares are now worth more than
500 apiece The dividend is paid from
the earnings of the road and there is a
surplus in the treasury. Ali this has
been accomplished by the energy and
executive ability of Mrs. Dow. When
she was elected president many people
thought that mistake had been made.
They were greatly at fault.