Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-03
PERSONAL POINTS.

the COrnGu university, IS master OF no
less than thirty languages.
CATHERINE WEED BARNET, a niece of
Thurlow Tweed, resides at Albany, n.
Y, and is recognized as the leading
woman amateur in this country in the
art of photography.
ANNIE LOUISE CAREY, at one time con-
sidered among the greatest of contral-
tos, now finds her time entirely occu-
pied with domestic affairs and charity
work.
WAYNE MACNEAGH, who successfully
defended the Pullman Car Company in
the suit against it of the Central Trans
pOrtation Company, in case involving
millions of dollars, is reported to have
been rewarded with a Sl00, 200 fee.
DUFF1ELD OSBORNE, the novelist and
author, is young and rather delicate in
appearance His hair and mustache are
becoming tinged with gray. He is a
member of the Authors Club and lives
in Brooklyn.
DIR. LoRIMER meditates starting an en-
terprise in or near Boston as rival to
the Chautauqua movement. 1t is to be
called the Temple Educational Union.
Bible study, literature, science and
social and political economy will be in
Guided in his system.
YvETrE GUILBERT, the reigning concert
ball favorite of Paris, is said to earn
$500 an evening, and for couple of
songs in q drawing room she receives
S4O0. Her father and mother are
concierges, and few years ago she was
poor and obscure.
JOHN w. THOMPSON, of the Ballston
Spa National Bank, of Ballston Spa, n.
Y, who assumed the presidency of the
predecessor of that institution (the old
Ballston Spa Bank in 1915, and has
uninterruptedly held the same posi-
ton to the present time, is undoubtedly
the oldest bank president in the coun-
try.
ANTOINE CHAPU, the French sculptor,
who recently died from influenza, exc
cuted a bust of President Carnot last
year, making his model IN Bonnat's
studio, where that painter was at work
simultaneously on a portrait. He was a
bright, vigorous gentleman of IS years,
and was often seen at receptions and
fetes with a lovely daughter, who COM
pletely tyrannized over him.
Mrs. LELAND STANFORD has decided to
turn the Lathrop Memorial in Albany
over to the trustees of the local orphan
asylum, and endOW it with So, 000a year,
so as to secure relief from personal at
tention to this charity, which she found
ed in memory of her parents several
years ago New cares in connection
with the Leland Stanford University
will prevent her visiting Albany AS fire.
Quently as hitherto.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, to the surprise of
many people, has appointed Prince
Albrecht Of Prussia, at present Regent
of Brunswick, the successor of Count
Won MOltke as president of the National
Commission of Defense. The Prince is
cousin of the late Emperor Freder-
lex He is the handsomest living MEM
Der of the HohenzOllern family He is
one of the tallest officers IN the army,
being almost & feet inches in height.
PRINCESS LOUISE, of Denmark, daughter
of the Crown Prince of that country and
Prince Eugene, third living son of the
King of Sweden, are engaged to be
married. The bride is a descendant of
Queen Louise, of Prussia, mother of the
late Emperor William. Prince Eugene,
who was born in 1865, and is cousin of
the bride, spent several years in Paris
in the studios of celebrated painters, and
became an artist of some pretensions.
EUGENE KELLY, the banker, is one of
the most active men of his age in New
York. He is worth S10.0O0O0O or more,
and is perhaps the wealthiest man of
his nationality In the world. He began
his career in that state as an itinerant
peddler, but in 1919 the gold fever at
tracted him to California. He became
millionaire dry goods merchant
in San Francisco, and returned to New
Y DIRK.
GEN. WAGER SwAYNE. of New York,
who is the law partner of ex-Judge
John F. Dillon, lost leg while leading
division of Sherman's army in front of
Atlanta. This, however, does not pre-
vent the General from being one Of the
busiest men, socially and professionally,
in New York City. He and his crutch
are familiar sight around Wall Street,
where he Is known as counsel for
dozen or so big railroad corporations.
THE Count and Countess of Paris are
making great preparations to receive
Queen Victoria at Stowe during the last
week in June. The Queen last visit to
Stowe took place in 1915, when, with
the Prince Consort, she was the guest of
the second Duke of Buckingham for sew
eral days, and they were received with a
magnifcence which rivalled the cele-
brated display of the Duke of Devon
shire, at ChatsWorth, in 1S43.
GEN FRANZ SIGEL does not look we'll
anu 1t 1S CNIuCDU UIdG lIlC udIu GA DCII-
ences of life have told upon him. He is
but IS years of age, yet it is half
century since be was a student of the
military school at Carlsruhe, in Ger
many, forty-three years since he held
command in the Baden Revolution,
forty years since he came to New York,
and thirty years since he entered upon
services in the war for the American
Union, IN which he won renown.
ADMIRAL WoRDEN, who commanded
the original Monitor in it's historic fight
with the Merrimac, still shows in his
race the heavy peppering with gunpow-
der which he received III that engage
ment by the explosion OF a rebel shell
at the peephole to which his ear was APP
piled. He is living unostentatiously In
Washington, and it is difficult to get
him to say anything about himself or
about the battle in which he won dis
tinction. He eschews all articles of
dress which would indicate his profess
sion