Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-02-03
FAVORITES OE FAME.


M. DE FREYCINET has been elected to
the French Academy in place of the
! late Emil Augier.
| +. HoPKINsoN SMITH, the artist, author
and engineer, is a man of SO wears.
| somewhat above the ordinary height.
| with iron-grav hair anO the moustache
OF military man.
Bishop BROOKS, of Massachusetts, has
thrown himself into his duties with
such earnestness for the past few weeks
that his health is beginning to suffer in
consequence.
JERRY SIMPSON and Senator PETER both
wear gold spectacles, and have a fond
ness for "store" clothes. Mr.. PETER af-
fects a shiny black coat Of rather an
tlque pattern.
SECRETARY FOSTER continues to i'm
prove slowly, but the prevailing stormy
weather will detain him at Fortress
Monroe much longer than was original
ly contemplated.
Miss AMELIA B. EDWARDS, traveller,
author and Psychologist, is about to pe
awarded civil list pension in En-
gland.
The late Sir William White was mas
ter of twenty eight languages. This
number, however, included several
Ill ore UIdlCClS ClOSSlp dlllCu.
GEN LEW WALLACE. is suffering from
an embarrassment Of riches in the way
of offers from the publishers for his new
novel.
MARK Twain has delivered lecture
in London for the benefit Of the Amer
lean Church. Lucy Campbell assisted
on the violoncello.
JUDGE ABRAHAM j. LAY, the new gov
ernor of Oklahoma, was born in Penn
sylvania, but was transplanted to Mis-
souri, when only years old.
THE late G. A. White, the song writer,
had no theoretical knowledge of music,
and studiouslv avoided going to the
opera and like performances, lest his
originality should be impaired
'1F [ were young man." said John
G. Whittier recently, 81 should allv
myself with some high, and, at present.
unpopular cause, and devote my every
effort to accomplishing its success"
AN item is current to the effect that
Dickens was d shorthand writer. He
was, as a matter Of fact, and he said
once that the accomplishment was as
hard to acquire as half a dozen modern
languages and much less valuable.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has addressed a
letter of congratulation to Her Won
Ie1tung, in London, on the occasion of
the ,50th anniversity of the founding of
that journal.
Mrs. CLEVELAND is said to be in very
delicate health. She lives almost en-
til ely ON milk and wine.
THOMAS K. HUGHES, vino always has
the last word in matters pertaining to
Dickens, has recently written a work
on Pick wick, which does not have to
be taken in purely Picwickian sense.
THERE is clergyman in New Mexico
who struggles along under the name Of
the Rev. Innocent Wolf,
DIR. KELLEY, the gold-cure man, says
the reason he does not make his formula
known is because he is afraid that it
will soon become SOLDERING up process
instead of cure.
CARTER HARRISON, who saw much of
the late Lord Lytton while he was in
India, was chiefly impressed by the
fact that he rolled his own cigarettes
and smoked them between each course
at dinner.
SAMUEL II. RoTHERwELL. Of PhiIa-
delphia, and Peter EIlmaker, of Lam
caster, Pa, are sole survivors of the
committee of 100 who received Daniel
Webster in Philadelphia during the
Wing campaign Of 1910.
GIDEON j. TUCKER, once secretary of
New York State, and afterward sur
rogate of New York City, is understood
to be preparing his recollections for
publication.
Miss FLORENCE KALLOCK, the pioneer
woman preacher Of the West, has a
study that is filed with soft rugs, bric-a-
brac and draperies, and very much re-
sembles a buudoir.
THE late Randolph Rogers, the cele-
brated American soul ptor was one Of
the sleek and portly men that Caesar
liked to have about him. His shoulders
were broad and his chest immense.
THE youngest of the prominent cler
gymen OF America is said to be Rev.
Samuel A. Eliot, son of President Eliot,
of Harvard, and successor to Rev.
Brooke Hereford's pulpit in Boston.
THE early career of Robert Louis
Stevenson was a great disappointment
to his family, who expected that the
rare talent ne displayed in his youth
would win him distinction in the law,
for which he had been trained.
THE only Turkish poetess is supposed
to be Osman Pasha's daughter. rich
young matron of 2S, who lives in a
white marble palace overlooking the
blue Bosphorus, and dimes in con-
servatory from service of gold.