Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-28
FOREIGNERS AND OTHERS.

GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS bequeathed
his estate, valued at $780, 900, to hi wife
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA has the pleas
ant remembrance that the first money
he earned with his pen was paid him
by Charles Dickens. By the way.
speaking of Dickens, the interest
ing statement is made by Mr.. Chapman,
Dickens publisher, that the sale of
his works last year was four times as
large as that of 1869, the year before
Dickens died.
RUDYARD KIPLING's earnings are said
to have been deposited in the New
Oriental Bank, which recently suspend
ed; and the writer was SO troubled over
it that he abandoned his proposed trip
to Samoa.
Mr.. FRoUDE is quoted as saying that
Of the people he has known only two
Tennyson and Carlyle, are likely to
live. "The people | have known, be
added care far more interesting than
those of to-day"
Mrs. CRAGIE, the American woman
living in England whose successful
novels have been first published there
under the name of "Jonn Oliver
Hobbes," is only 25 years old.
BRONSON HowARD's manuscript, with
all its curious interlineatiOns and mar
ginal marks, from which his new play,
"Aristocracv," will be rehearsed, is in
the managers hands.
JOHN Z. REDMOND, M. P, the leader
of the Parnellite branch of the Irish
Nationalists, is distantly related to the
family of the late Mr.. Parneu.
SUCCI has begun a new fast at Naples,
with a committee of doctors to watch
him and observe the phenomena of cir
culatiOn, respiration, weight, ETC., dur
ing the progressive periods OF his alb
stinence from food.
THE son and namesake of Henry w.
Grady, of Atlanta, will enter the Uni
versity of Virginia this autumn.
RENAN is great lover of animals, and
looks for a paradise where they shall
abound. When he leaves Paris for the
summer, he takes with him to Brittany,
or whatever quarter Of France he visits,
a lot of pets whose individualities he
studies as enthusiastically as a fond par
ent does his children.
AT festive college dinner in Cam
bridge, Mass, many years ago, someone
gave the toast, Fame builds where
Everett goes, but he can never build
above one Story" that great iurist be-
ing present. Oliver Wendell Holmes is
credited with Gaping the punning toast
with another on speech by James
Russell Lowell, GA witty poet, but here
is Whittier"
In the will of John Ruskin there is a
clause making Prof Charles Elliott n or
ton. of Harvard, literary executor. 1t
will be remembered that Prof. Norton
was executor of Emerson and Carlyle,
as he is now for James Russell Lowell.
Mr.. WHITTIER in a recent letter said
>"For years | have been DESTROYS of a
movement for uniting all Christians,
with no other creed or pledge than a
simple recognition of Christ as our
leader"
A BROTHER IF II. Rider Haggard,
Frank Haggard, has been rusticating
now seeing q little of the United States
before returning to England. He dis
avows any fitness for literary work.
HOME SECRETARY AsoUTH is not only
lone of the very youngest cabinet
officers on record" he is declared by
high authority to be the most finished
Of the younger race Of parliamentary
orators. for restrained excellence Of
style" comparing with Mr.. Gladstone.
CLARA SCHUMANN, the widow of the
composer, is said 10 be in failing health.
Robert Schumann fell in love with her
when she was but Is years of age. She
was already on the concert stage, and,
with her maiden name of Clara Week,
had won reputation as pianist.
YUNG KIUNG YEN, the writer of an
article in the September Forum en-
| titled ga Chinaman on Our Treatment
CT China" was educated in this country
and is now an Episcopal minister in
Shanghai, where he is devoting himself
to the work of Outstanding his people
and improving their social condition.