Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-12
FOREIGNERS AND OTHERS.

FOREIGNERS AND OTHERS.
THE Sultan of Johore. who is contem-
plating visit to the Columbian Fair,
is the possessor of S10,000,000 worth of
diamonds and other Of the world goods
in proportion.
A BOOK of ESSAYS by Henry James
will shortly be published by Harpers
under the title Of ''Picture and Text"
THE new pOstmaster-general, Baby"
Bissell, the largest man in the Cleve-
land cabinet has discovered that he is
too big for the chair occupied by his
predecessor, and is having one con-
structed according to plans and specifi
cations furnished by himself. 1t is 81
inches across the seat.
PROF. ELISHA GRAY was once a black
smiths apprentice and has a rusty
wrOught-iron fire-shovel kept in the
corner Of his library to prove it. He
pounded the shovel into shape on an
Ohio anvil early in the fifties.
THE face of William Muldoon, as
pictured in current Autographs, has a
family likeness to that of the famous
Greek pugilist represented in a plaster
cast of much interest in the MetrOpOi-
tan Museum of Art. Nose, lips and
brOws are strikingly alike in the Greek
and American professors of the manly
art.
SENATOR CoCKERELL, of Missouri, uses
the identical desk in the Senate cham
Der that was was used by Jefferson
Davis.
LEO NH. is said to command a per-
sonal allowance of 500, 900 a year, and
to spend only $50 month of it on his
table.
Mrs. BELAMY SToRER, of the Rock
wood Potteries, Cincinnati, who won
100 awards in the Paris Exhibition, eX-
poets to be even more successful with
her Chicago exhibits.
SIR RICHARD OWEN, the naturalist, left
an estate valued at $4,000. He first
came into prominence through his
work in the prehistoric department of
the Crystal Palace.
ACCORDING to a correspondent at
Rome, Emperor Williams announce
ment of his intention to visit the Italian
capital on the occasion Of the silver
wedding of the King and Queen has
not been received in Rome exactly as
boon and a blessing. 1t is an honor,
according to the correspondent, which
the Romans would willingly have dis
pensed with.
SOME time ago Prof Royce of Har-
ward lay down to take nap on the sofa
and on waking up saw the eyes Of his
youthful son fixed on him with a look
of great intensity. 'What are you
thinking of, my boy?' asked the Pro-
fessor soicitously. Il was thinking,
father" said the budding philosopher,
''that you look like the devil"
AN earl is about to enter the editorial
ranks in England-Lord Winchelsea,
= II 70 found W
devoted to the movement for a union Of
all classes of agriculturists.
JOINS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY will next
June, for the first time, confer the title
of Phi. D. upon a woman. Miss Flor
ence BascOm, a Massachusetts, girl, will
at that time be so honOred by that in
stitutiOn.
Mrs. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON is a
portly, gray-haired woman, who was a
grandmother when she became Mr.
StevensOn's wife. She is a remarkably
clever woman, talented writer and a
chatty and CHEEKY conversationalist.
GEN. SAUssIER, military governor of
Paris, has seen active service in Algeria,
Italy, Mexico and the Crimea, and is
kept on the active list by special act,
exempting him from the operation of
the age-limit law. In the event of war,
it is understood, Gen. Saussier would
be commander in chief of the French
forces.
AMANDA BREWSTER SEwELL, the artist,
was the daughter of an Adirondack inn
keeper. Her surprising talent was dis
covered by some philanthropic summer
tourists, who helped the young girl to
get out in the world and set her on the
way to that study and practice which
eliminated, before her marriage, in a
fame that has known no diminution
since then.
NINE CATHERINE GABACH, whose death
occurred recently at Tarascon, France,
aged 100 years, was baptised in 1893
under ''tree of liberty" A century
ago there were thousands of these So
called 'trees of liberty in France, but
few Of them are standing at the present
time Two Of them that stock near the
Botanical Garden, Paris, were cut down
a short time ago.
IT is said that until a year ago the
people of the little town Of Randolph,
Mass, where Miss Mary Wilkins lives,
had no idea that she was an authOress.
In Miss wilkins own household there
are two of the quaintest old ladies in all
New England, whose peculiar person
atty has given the authoress some Of the
best material for her stories.