Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-10
PEOPLE WE READ OF.

HENRY GEORGE is to visit Australia
in November next.
JUSTICE HORACE GRAY aud his bride
will spend the summer In Europe,
THE young king of Servia is feeling
very much BATTERED at the discovery OF
plot to dethrone him.
The Duke of Portland's marriage re-
moves the last really desirable English
peer from the matrimonial market.
PROF. HUxLEY's daug hter, Mrs. Albert
Eckersley. has come over to Mexico
to live, her husband being engaged in
railroad building there.
WHITTIER, it is said. falls asleep in his
chair when visitors begin to praise his
poetry Earthly honors grow less val
uable to him as the years wane.
KAISER WILLIAM Ii. bought up all the
peaches at Montreuii, France, tue other
day, to entertain KING Humbert with.
Thus corner was produced, and peach
es sold for s. piece.
HoRATIo GATES JONES, of Philadelphia,
wants the paper manufacturers OF the
country to celebrate the bi-centennlal
of the erection Of the first paper mill
OH this continent in 1890.
PRESIDENT CARNoT, of France, is very
fond OF Americans, and is cultivatlng
sedulously the society of our country
men, now in Paris. At his receptions
more Americans are to be found than in
any drawing-room in Europe.
Miss DALLAS YoRKE had her wedding
gown made by woman who has done
most oil her sewing since her childhood,
and all her wardrobe was prepared on an
economical scale. AS Duchess OF Port
land she will now not have to be so
careful about her shopping bills.
ENTERTAINING the Shan means some
thing, as with him are to be entertained
his doctor, seven generals (aid-de-camp)
seven chamberlalns and three men,
bers of his cabinet, not to speak of IA
domestic servants; cooks, bearers, etc.,
ali OF whom must be looked alter as the
royal Persian's suite.
AT NJ. Cernuschi's great ball the other
evening, NJ. Zola appeared as a triar,
with his handsome wife as a Norman
peasant; M. Munkacsy was sixteenth
century German; NJ. Daudet was law
yer; nj Pitt a Zulu chief, and Nine. Ber-
nadeki had an Eitfel tower on her head,
yard high, set with diamonds.
THE will is published of Auguste
Marquet, the co-laborer of Dumas, the
elder, who died last ear. He directs
his executors to defend his dignity as a
writer, and to show the public what an
immense share he had in the works OF
Dumas, vino never paid him either in
friendship or in gratitude, and took
to himself all the honor"
Mrs. HENRY B. FLANNER, of cleveland,
has given to Marietta College, Ohio, a
fine herbarIum of $4,000 specimens,
gathered and arranged by herself and her
late husband. The collection was made
chiefly in the Ohio Valley Missouri,
Georgia, Michigan and Upper Mississip-
piregion, and..was enlarged by exchanges
with botanists in all parts of the world.
ONE of the most curious among all
the curious presents which the En-
peror of Germany has recently received
as products of his African possession is a
transparent walking-stick made ofrhino-
ceros skin. It apears that "Reichs-
commissaer Hauptman WIssman" sent
a large piece of skin over to friend at
Hamburg, who gave itlnto the hands of a
clever turner, to be made into walking
sticks. By means of some novel process
the turner has rendered the skin trans
parent and of beautiful amber color,
which has been done before, but never
without changing color in very short
time, while IN the present case the yell
low is steady and unchanging.