Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-03-12
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SELECT PERSONALS.

EDWARD BELLAMY is dramatizing his
Looking Backward"
ROBERT BRowNING's manuscripts are
to be put up at auction.
Mrs. JEFFERSON DAVIS gets S., 900 from
the citizens of Macon, Ga.
MRS CHARLES D. HAINEs has been
elected president OF the Medina Valley
Railroad of Texas.
WILLIAM WINTER is preparing for the
Dunlap Society a memorial volume deal
ing with the late John Gilbert.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, has
been dissuaded from publishing vol
une of poems which he wrote as q
young man.
RICHARD MALCoM JOHNSTON, the author
of "Mark Langston" and other inimit-
able tales of old Georgia life, is writing
another long novel.
The death is announced, at North
Easton, Mass, of Sarah Lathrop kmes,
widow of Oliver Ames. She was
seventy-seven years old.
SARAH BERNHARDT wants to play Juliet
in English on her next tour of this
country, and is brushing up her knowl-
edge of the language to fit herself Tor
the task.
Mrs. CRoLY ("Jennie June') is the
first woman to serve on the board of
the New York State Forestry Associa-
ton, of which she has been elected
vice president.
Mr.. STANLEY's book, it is now thought,
will be out by May. 1T will be translat-
ed into French, German, Italian, Czech,
Morse and even Spanish, and will be
published simultaneously In these coun-
tries.
Bronson HOWARD, who is now in
Europe, writes to friend in this coun-
try that the days Of kings and queens
has passed. Howard finds his day of
royalties in the United States just at its
height.
RUBENsTEIN has announced his inten-
ton of dividing between the ST. Peters
burg Conservatory, and the Imperial
Russian Society OF Music-St. Peters
burg branch-all the money presented
to him on the occasion Of his recent iu-
bilee day.
JUDGE THOMAS I. BoULDIN, who is now
II years old, habitUally sleeps in the
room he was born in, on plantation in
Charlotte County, Va, that has been III
his family for l46 years. His father and
great-grandtather are buried on the
plantation.
THE late Moses Taylor, of New York,
| IL III dUOub 1OT a nos O1tdl dU cCTdu-
ton, Pa. For five years the building has
remained unfinished and neglec ted.
But last week orders were given to
push the work to completion as speedily
as possible.
ANNE BEsANT, the English socialist,
who is about to visit New York, is a tall
thin, sad-faced woman, with wavy, dark
hair. and ''the pluck Of q famingo."
She edits a labor paper called the Kite,
and is sister-ln-laW Of Walter Besant,
the novelist.
MooRE's MS Of Italia Rookh," Sir
John Franklin's MS. journal at Malta
and the Ionian islands in 1881, Sir Wal
ter Scott's Ms. Of the first canto of the
LAY of the Last Minstrel" and Tenny-
sons Ms. of the lyrics in 'fThe Princess"
were sold in London the other day
E. Z. JEFFREY, who mas been selected
as director general Of the Worlds Fair
| if it should be located at Chicago, began
his career forty years ago as Office boy
| for the then general manager of the
Illinois Central Railroad Company. to
! whose position he afterward worked
| his way.
The eyes of Henry M. Stanley are de-
| scribed as having marvellous effect up
| on the wild Africans. 1t is said "that
| he first looks as if be were going to eat
them, and then, when they give IN, and
do what he wants, he looks as if he had
| done so and were grateful to them for
| the NEAL