Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-05-22
ABOUT PEOPLE.

SENATOR INGALLS, will spend the sum-
mer among his Kansas constituents.
n. VICTOR ADoLPH MALTE-BRUN, a son
of the Industrious ~geographer, is dead.
He was himself a geOgrapher OF high at
lainments.
MAN O'RELL is coming back to Amer
lea on another lecture tour in the fall.
One may hear the chestnut tree already
rattle its branches.
L. P. O'CoNNoR says that the Prince OF
Wales never pays a tailor bill. The I'd
vertisement bis patronage affords is all
the remuneration Poole wants.
WORD comes of the death of John
Kidd, the last survivor of the passen-
gers of the Forfarshire, who were res
cued by Grace Darling in 1888.
THE late Jeremiah Learned, of Wor-
chester, Mass, lett a generous legacy to
the people of Oxford for a free library
and for cemetery improvements.
r. d. SEARS the tennis champion OF
America, says that, comparing the play
ing OF men and women of equal grades
in the game, the latter would be entitled
to a discount of so per cent.
SOME of the papers speak of Mr. De-
pew as an 'old man This is q blunder,
Mr.. Depew is just 55 years of age, and
he is as lively In his youthful way rs he
was a long, long time ago.
WILLIAM G. P. BRECKINBRIDGE, OF
Kentucky, has accepted an invitation to
deliver the address at the dedication OF
the National Forefathers' Monument at
Plymouth. Mass, August l.
THE Chicago News says: "Chauncey
NJ. Depew is said to have a horror of
death, doubtless because he knows he
will not be permitted to make a speech
at his own funeral"
The Straduarius violin which was pre-
scented to DR.. Joachim at his jubilee eel
ebration formerly belonged to Lady
held in her hands when Watts painted
her portrait.
PRINCE FERDINAND of Bavaria is really
quite a useful and manly aristocrat. He
practices as a physician at Munich, and
eve receives a fee for bis services. A
few days ago he risked his life to save a
woman from drowning.
AN omen for the British Liberals, Sar-
alb Bernhard changed the name. of AL
gle Balfour to that of Lord Ramsey in
her adaptation of "As in a Looking
GLASS;" She says the French public will
not stand a name that terminates with
with -four"
RIDER HAGGARD, nOtcontent with serv-
Ing up 3 01gQIy udVOf0O conception OF
Cleopatra to a bored public, contemplates
a visit to Asia Minor and Persia, so that
he may use Queen Esther for a heroine.
The only thing which excuses this kind
of cropping in the remote past for a basis
for fiction consists in scholarship such
as that possessed by a Becker or an Eb-
ers. Haggard's efforts in historical fc-
ton are about as valuable as would be a
commentary on the decalogue by Sarah
Bernhard.
THE late Duchess of Cambridge was
of a singularly commanding presence
tall and majestic looking-and although
her n seemed tinged with an air
of sternness, she was of a most gentle
and amiable disposition, and suffered
scarcely any diminution of spirits from
her enforced physical inaction of later
years. Indeed she seemed rather to
gain in iveliness, and it was only when
life vas visibly ebbing that her habitual
vivacity showed signs of declining. Her
CHEEKY fortitude never forsook her. She
was very fond of conversation and OF en-
tertaining friends and prominent per-
sonages, and toa great charm of manner
she added an unfailing and well-stored
memory. AS a linguist she was excep-
tionally accomplished, and she con-
versed with equal iuency in English,
French and German, betraying in none
them any race of a foreign accent.
lehad also a competent knowledge of
Italian.