Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-12-13
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

A MONUMENT to the memory of Emin
Pasha, the African explorer, will be
erected in Neisse, Germany, where his
sister and little daughter live. A popu-
lar subscription will be taken up
throughout Germany to build the me-
mortal shaft.
AT Nagoya, in China, merchant,
who is in his 65th year, has just di-
VorCed his tWenty-siXth vile and is
about to marry the twenty seventh.
He had resolved when he was young to
marry thirty wives, and is delighted
that he has now only three more to
marry.
MESsRs. G. NAGASAKI and G. Watanabe,
the former representing the Specie
Bank of Yokohama, and the latter the
Imperial Bank Of Japan, arrived at
Denver yesterday from the West. They
are visiting the United States for the
purpose Of studying the silver question.
SIR JULIAN PAUNCEFoTE, the British
ambassador at Washington, has q stand
ing order at the embassy regarding
cranks. The other day an Irishman
named Michael Berry called and asked
for an audience. His actions demon
strated that he was a crank. Within
three minutes after he entered the
doors Of the embassy he walked out
again in charge of a policeman.
The Gould boys never miss an oppor
tunity to care for their own interests.
Edwin Gould is going to exchange New
York Tor TarrytOwn as place OF resi-
dence. BY this move Mr.. Gould as one
of the executors of his fathers estate
will annually save a personal property
tax of SlS2, 900 and OF 81 $50 on 100000
oJpI1 h al III
valued.
THERE are thirty women registered in
the postgraduate department at ale.
Last year at this time there were
twenty three.
THE hereditary throat trouble which
is fast reducing the Princess Of Wales
to the stonedeaf condition of her
mother, the Queen of Denmark, has
made it's appearance in the Princess
Maud of Wales, whose weakness Of
the throat will, it is feared, impair her
hearing.
IT would be pleasure to know "Miss
Smith of England" better, She is
described as the protector OF "ineX
pensive homes for gentlewomen."
Among these desirable places are some
small furnished cottages as low as SD
a week. After Miss Smith shall have
housed the impecuniOus gentlewomen
of England, she will be more than
welcome on this side.
Mrs. w. J. BAIRD has won for the
third year in succession the county
medal for the first prize three-mOver i'll
Already this year Mrs. Baird has won
six first prizes and two second. In each
of the competitions she was the only
woman playing. Besides her success in
chess Mrs. Baird has, during the past
summer, won five prizes at archery.
A NEW school of medicine for women
has been started at st. Petersburg, to
which the state contributes $4,000 rOu-
bles annually. The course at the school
lasts four years, but students are eX-
pected to work from one to three years
as we'll in hospitals for women and chill
dren before presenting themselves for
the final examination.
SARAH BERNHARDT has acquired two
strange pets in the shape of a couple of
jaguars. They are not yet past the
kittenish age, but are already beautiful
creatures with formidable claws and
teeth. Nine. Bernhardt has passion
for wild animals, and thinks she would
like a villa III some geological garden.
THERE are very agreeable perquisites
IN the life of royalty. For example, the
Duke and Duchess of York have &C.
cepted present of three handsome
pairs Of skates trlm the Metropolitan
Branch of the National Skating Associa-
ton, of which his Royal Highness is
president. Two pairs are adjustable
figure skates, the sole plates of which
are of solid silver, elegantly engraved
with the royal crest, the white rose, and
a suitable inscription.
BEERBoHN TREE, the English actor,
has a 4-year-old daughter who has a
fondness for snakes. She keeps a pet
snake in the house to the intense sor-
row of the maids. Now, however, she
wishes to enlarge her dumb retinue by
the purchase OF pony. She told her
father. ''I'm afraid,' said that gentle
man, that [ can't afford to give you
one just yet" "Then," said the child,
with great severity, why don't you act
better and get more money!"
JAMES PAYN has been telling some
strange stories of why and how people
have themselves photographed. There
was the maiden, for instance, who
wanted to soften the heart Of an offended
lover, and therefore had herselfdressed
IN grave clothes and photographed in q
coffin. Unfortunately, the shock was
too much for the mental equilibrium Of
her lover, SO she was worse off than be-
fore. Mr.. Payn also tells Of young
man who made himself as ugly as posi-
bic when facing the camera, and ex-
planned that he wanted to break off his
engagement.
SIauohter of RirdS