Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-02-13
NOTABLES OF THE DAY.

The Rev DR.. Gundison of Worcester,
Mass, has declined the presidency of the
St Lawrence university which was re-
Gently offered to him.
-VirchoW believes that variations in the
bony structures of the man were more
constant and distinguishable in uncivilized
than in civilized races.
The Rev. DR.. Mckenzie of Cam
bridge. Mass, has declined the Bartlett
professorship in the Andover seminary to
which he was recently elected.
Giovanni Bellini was one Of the few
great artists who executed his best
works in extreme old age. His paint
ings show improvement up to the age of
90
-Vecchio's pictures exhibit one female
| face which recurs from time to time
so frequently as to attract attention and
excite curiosity. 1t is the portrait of his
| daughter.
George Morgan Ward, Of the middle
class of the Andover Theological seminary,
| has beer called to the professorship of his
tory and political economy in Atlanta uni
versity, Georgia. He will lalso be ap-
pointed dean, in case of his acceptance.
1t is announced that Mile. Lucie
| Faure, daughter of the President, has
been betrothed to NJ. Paul Deschanel,
member of the Chamber of Deputies for
| Eure-Et-Lois.
-Tihamar II. Fennyery, a friend and
compatriot of kossuth, and who was
assisted by the latter to escape to this
| country when he was exiled, is living in
Springfield, Mass
In accordance with the expressed
wish of the Earl of Aberdeen, governor
general of Canada, his name has been
| placed upon the list of the vice-presidents
Of the Anti-Gambling league.
The most showily- woman in
| Europe is the Empress of Portugal. She
| buys costumes, bOnnetS and hats WhOle
| sale Her pale complexion and auburn
hair permit of any kind of headgear.
| Senator Ransom of North Carolina
retires from office in March after twenty
two years of service in the Senate at the
age of 70 poor, and with no profitable en-
ployment he can fall back upon at that
| time of life.
On account of the fact that it encour-
ages gambling the German Emperor has
| he is indirectly the largest owner in the
be is indirectly the largest woner in the
whole of Germany, as the Granditz stud
belongs to the crown, and the horses
trained there have won more than those
from any other stable in the country.
The Rev. DR.. Henry Lunn of Eng
land is in this country to promote the
federation of Trinitarian Protestant
churches. AS the subdivisions of the
great sects find themselves unable to
come together, DR.. Lunn will probably
| find his task a difficult one in persuading
the great sects themselves to come to-
gether.
Miss Wrede devoted herself to prison
work in Finland twelve years ago. From
that time she has with transformations
| heroiSm visited at least once every year
all the prisons and every prisoner in each
prison in Finland. She enters the prison
in the early morning and leaves it late
in the day. and every day in the year finds
| her steadily pursuing the same ministry.
lutely refused all offers to render his
songs in a private house. When Lord
Rothschild offered him 80 guineas to
sing a couple of ditties in his drawing
room he declined and even when Princess
| Louise sent a special messenger TO en-
deavor to secure his services for party
at Kensington palace ne felt bound to eX-
| Cuse himself.
Chinese papers say that the Emperor
| ras ordered six two-edged swords for
Prince Kung. Ii Hung Chang Ii Hung
Tsao, Weng Tung Ho, Kang Vi and Gen.
Won Hanneken. With these they have
| the right without asking imperial permits
sion, to cut off the heads of all persons
from the second rank down who propose
peace with Japan. This does not look as
| 1t is said that the late Hans Won
Bulow left directions that post NOR
fem examination of his brain should be
made to ascertain the cause Of the ex-
cruciating headache from which he was
lifelong sufferer. The autopsy re-
vealed the fact that the end of the nerves
had become imbedded in a scar of an in
jury to the brain that he had received in
childhood.