Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-12-16
PERSONAL NOTES.

Two HUNDRED AND FIFTY dollars is the
price which the Princess of Wales is
said to have paid for tabby cat.
Miss HARRIET MONROE, the Chicago
lady chosen to write the poem for the
Worlds Fair, furnished the ode for the
opening of the great Auditorium a few
years ago.
THE remains of the late King ia ia
were accorded an imposing reception
upon their arrival in West Africa. His
800 widows and lot of warriors, who
kept firing shot guns necessarily, were
on hand.
IT was at Oxford University that
LLOYD Bryce formed that friendship for
Allen Thorndyke Rice which resulted
in his succession to the editorship Of
the North American Review.
LORD HAWKE and his cricketers, who
are now at their homes in England,
have recently given expression to the
cannibalistic sentiment that Phila-
delphia girls are nice enough to eat.
There is positively no accounting for
tastes.
SURGEON GENERAL HAMILTON, of the
United States Marine Hospital, is Sec
rotary Fosters chief physician at pres
ent.
PROF. F. NICHOLS CROUCH, the COM
poser Of the music for Kathleen Ma
vourneen," now lives in Baltimore at
an advanced age.
BISHOP PHILLIPS Brooks has once
again displayed his sturdy common
sense by using his influence to secure
for the Salvation Army the right to have
street parade in Boston, which had
been refused by the political authori-
ties.
PROF. WIGGINs has come to the sur
face again long enough to poke fun at
all astronomical calculations, and to con-
vey the important information that the
moon is 800, 900 miles distant from the
earth, and not 240, 600, as our ridiculous
astronomers had so fondly believed.
Mrs. NINA VAN ZANDT MALATo says
that she hates Anarchy, and that her
great love was for August Spies and not
for his cause. 1t would seem that this
is a matter of more interest to Mr..
Malato than to the general public, and
it may be conceded that the time has ar
rived for the press to discontinue its at
tentions to this rather hysterical young
lady.
MARY ANDERSON, according to DR..
Griffin, her step-father land erstwhile
blooming, booming press AGENT, lis
sweeter, happier and prettier than ever,
and her married life is simply dream.
She has no intention of ever returning
to the stage, and has never had any
such desire nor expressed it since her
marriage any wish to do so. When she
married she put the stage away for
ever"
CYRUS FIELD is one of the few Ameri-
cans vino have standing acquaintance
with Queen Victoria. Mr.. Fields part
in the laying of the early Atlantic cables
obtained for him a presentation to the
Queen that meant rather more than
such things usually mean, and the ac-
quaintance of many years ago has been
kept up by occasional meetings and
communications of one kind or another.
ANDREW JOHNSON, says the New York
Press, was the only president who ever
stood on foreign soil while holding
office. 1t occurred during the famous
''swing around the CIRCLE" in 1866,
while visiting Niagara Falls, when he
went in a carriage to the Canadian side.
The President did not think at the time
that he had violated a precedent, and
it occurred to him only when he had re-
turned to his hotel and was alone with
his secretary, who promised to keep
the matter secret