Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-08-28
BRIEF NOTES OF NOTABLES.

The Shahzada derived nightly JOY
by attending smoking concerts given by
West End clubs of London.
There is general feeling in scien-
titc quarters in favor of a national
memorial of the late Mr.. Huxley.
Henry White, eX-secretary of the
United States embassy in London, and
Mrs. White have started on Il tour of
Scotland.
Miss Marine Mackenzie, daughter of
Sir Alexander Mackenzie, principal of
the Royal Academy of Music, London,
is likely to make the stage her profess
sion.
DIR. Newman Hall, the distinguished
English preacher, has entered upon his
S0th year. He was born at Maidstone
in 1916. He is still almost as active as a
young man.
Although he has been singularly for
tunate as a commander, Lord Wolseley
has been wounded, sometimes very
seriously, in almost every action in which
he has fought.
"A Radical says the Duke of Ar
gyll, lis a man who goes to the root Of
things, but Lord Rosebery and his
friends are the most superficial thinkers
and actors in the world"
Mrs Brown, widow of Senator Brown
of Georgia, with ten young American la.
now in Berlin on their way back to the
United States.
w. S. Stratton, a millionaire of Col
orado. has struck what is reported to be
the richest lead ever discovered. 1t is
said that the ore will run $4,000 to the
ton, with several million dollars worth
of ore in sight.
1t is reported that the Marquis of
Lorne has written a drama dealing with
Scottish historical events, and that it
has been accepted by a London manager,
who will produce it before the close of the
present year.
Miss Lila Herbert, daughter of Hi
larry Herbert, secretary of the American
navy, after a visit to Clifton r. Breck-
inridge, the American minister to Russia
has arrived in Berlin, where she will
make short stay.
Prof. Rudolph Gneist, the renowned
professor of law of the University of
Berlin, who died few days ago, was
with Won Treitschke, MOmmsen Curtius.
Du Bots Raymond and NirchOw, one of
the great men Of that seat of learning.
1t is reported that the novelist George
Moore is shortly to marry Mrs. Craigie,
better known by the pen name of John
Oliver Hobbies. who was recently grant
ed q divorce from her husband on the
ground of cruelty and unfaithfulness on
his part.
There Is great rejoicing at EaStnor
castle, Ledbury, county of Hereford, over
the coming of age of Lady Henry Somer-
sets only son, who will, in all probability,
eventually become the Duke OF Beaufort,
as the Marquis of Worcester, the eldest
son of the Duke, is unmarried.
The artist, Paul Alfred de Curzon.
who died in Paris the other day, was an
interchangeable worker. Among his nu-
merOus paintings were 'Niew of Ostia. y
"A Fisherman's Family of the Capri
Islands, "a Dream in the Ruins of
Pompeii' and THE Bots de Boulogne."
The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Iewis CARROLL the author of 'Alice III
Wonderland" says writer in the La
dies Home Journal, has spent the great
er part of his life in college. lie was a
student, i. e., a Fellow of Christ church,
in 1854, and from 1865 to 1881 he was
mathematical tutor.
Mr.. Ingersoll, manager of the New
York Life Insurance company. and Mr..
McClintOck of the Mutual Insurance
company, accompanied by their lawyer,
Charleton Lewis. are in Berlin in connec.
ton with the action of the Prussian gov,
eminent in forbidding their compa nice
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