Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-06-19
PROMINENT NAMES.


GEORGE w. SMAILEY, says Consul Gen
eral New, can easily save 500, 900 from
the lees of his London office IN four
years.
QUEEN VICTORIA still has her boots
made In the old-fashioned way-elastlc
sides, soft kid uppers, pointed toe caps
and low heels.
THE Countess CTosy. of the old nobll-
ity of Austria, has gone on the road with
her circus troupe. She Will take 1t to
Paris before the Exposition closes.
D. B. FLINT, of Boston, still drives one
of the horses ridden by General Grant
during portion of the war. The ami
NAL is 90 years old, milk white, and still
tull of lite.
GEN. GREEDY, of the Probabilities Blu
reau. is afflicted with rheumatism in a
mild form, and grimIy refers TO this ad-
dition to his outfit for predicting wealth
er changes.
MINISTER RYAN goes to Mexico forti-
fed against the facilitating effects of
the high latitude. He has pledged him.
self not to touch drop of the Mexican
national beverage.
Mr.. BANCROFT, the English comedian.
thought to pay pretty compliment to
his wife at the recent celebration of his
silver wedding by saying: my dear.
you ought TO have married better man
than / am" To which Mrs. Bancroft re-
piled: MY dear, did"
ONE of the handsomest women in
Washington is the wife o. ex-senator and
exRegister Bruce. Her face is fine and
oval, her features regular, and her COM
plexion not near so dark as that of the
conventional Cuban or Spanish beauty.
hi ful ifrE+
NJ HENRI RoCHEFoRT belongs to one
of the oldest of noble French families.
But he has discontinued the titles, and
as his sons are not legitimate, they can
not claim them, so that when the
will lapse. Strange to say, the last or
the line who bore the title, Henri
Rochefort's father, died some twenty
years since IN lowlv garrett, In absolute
poverty.
THE acoustic properties of Mrs. Ole
Bulls music room in her new residence
on Brattle Street, Cambridge, says a
cotemporary, are unusually fine. The
room was not planned on any special
theory. but has numerous windows, en-
frances and Irregularities of outline. 1t
is beautifully decorated with carved
teak wood from India. The friends
who have been Mrs. Bulls guests on
occasional afternoons of late, when Mrs.
Wulf Fries has played for her, and she
herself has assisted at the piano, have
enjoyed musical treat, appreciated the
more for being informal and inn
pIomptu.
IT is said that M. Gounod, the COM
poser, who is man of intense religious
convictions, once spent an hour upon
his knees nravinC for the conversion Of
Sarah Bernhardt, in that lady's pres
ence. Sarah's response was short but
not very sweet, and at last she had to
turn him out of her house, GouEod's
country house was threatened during
the Franco-Prussian wars. Trusting to
his fame for defense, he put up the fol-
lowing inscription: 1.-The house of
Charles Gounod, the composer of
Faust" But the marauding Germans
burnt it to the ground all the same.
AN eminent publisher tells very Gu
rious literary incident. One of his
authors-a lady novelist who has won at
least two brilliant successes-had in
manuscript at the time ''She" was
published a work based on the very
same idea. 1t mad been the work of
years, but she destroyed it rather than
to appear to have plagiarised. M. Bour-
get has just related similar experience.
He had four chapters written of novel
for the Revue des Lettres ct des Arts
when Maupassant's ''Strong as Death"
appeared with exactly the same plot.
AS the two writer's had no communica-
ton the incident illustrates how intan-
gibly ideas float in the intellectual air,
the same thoughts being suggested in
different minds by reading or CONVEX
sation, or discovery.