Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-28
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

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 Mark Twain is a baseball enthusiasA
 Boulanger is travelling through Ffnnes under an alias
 Justice Stanley Matthewswm summer at Pittsdeld, Mass
 Judge Tourgee, the authorshaspatented . metal fence post. o
 Tho czar of Rnsta,piaysssaea earoubone-as well as the autooarz a14Sa
 Cardinal Gibbons,was- .; a;asfxhop~ st~8e and an archbishop at47.
 of his noiseless tire cabs
 on fundamental proofs "
 The late Marshal Lebnuf was physically the finest man in the French army.
 President Dwight, of Yale, has received the degree of IL. D. from Princeton.
 Bishop O'Sullivan, of Mobile, was at one time sexton of a church in Jersey City.
 E. P. Roe entertains guests by reading to them chapters from his forthcoming novel.
 Wilkie Collins letters are headed with monogram in which .a qufn pierces the letters.
 Master J. Miller, 18.yearsold, isthe organ fst of St Clements Episcopal church in Philadelphia. sr-e'
 Dr. McCosh, ex-presidentof Princeton col lege, will spend the summer in Maine and New Hampshire is o
 Sheridan knew nothing of his mothers death, and the old lady knew nothing of her great son's illness.
 The fine imposed upon Gen. Cafaral, lm- plicated in the French decoration scandal, has been remitted.
 A. W. Longfellow, of Portland, Me-, is 10 years old and bears astrong resemblance to his brother, the poet. f'7d2ie
 The prince of Wales hassevemteen in-law, sixteen uncles, fifty seven cosgius and fifty eight nephews and ntecee. ~ /, MT. Walter Besant Is small, auimated, bright eyed and black haired man, fond Of the theatre, claret and pipe
 The emperorof Brazirs bill for onemonthAs living expenses for hirnsen and suite at Milan, Italy, amounted to $8O, ,O00. ssT
 Lord Wolseley has presided over a meeting the bicycle a military instrument of great promise a'l s--. s51fs5 f.@
 So far Pasteur's receipt for killing theAus- tralian rabbits with chicken cholera has failed. The rabbits inoculated showed no signs of disease.
 The father ofrMr. B1ackbmne, the great chess player, Is professional phrenologist, and predicted of his son, when q child, that he would become exceedingly proficient in chess ~-z,..e~7r-
 Mad King Otho, of Bavaria, no longer amuses himself by peeling potatoes, but now tmaglnes himself a mole and hides in dark corners or crouches beneath beds.and other articles of furniture. s93Afe. Eesl 157'S
 The word bandana comes from Hindus- tan1 Band' hnu band hna, to tde), mode of dyeing in which the fabric is tied in knots so as to exclude the color from the knotted portions, and thus produce white s1,ots
 When he was offered a baro11etcy Mir. George F. Watts declined if, Ut would, i" he said, make me paint nedther better nor worse, nor would it affect in any way the quality of my work, 90 whreis theruse of itp ea ~- -- s.ee
 Mrs. Donald Crawford, wh nse name was connected with the famous Di1ke scandal, has become very devout of late. She haa Joined the Wesleyans in LonG lon, and Is an enthusiastic adherent ofsthe> Re V. Hugh tExi6s Hughes. 1@E'.s= 2azF
 NAA ~AAoA OAA 0dSkS1IX10Y 2US1 D GI0cC&c~AS Ao likely to be made baronet | v Queen Vic toria, as an additional mark of gratitude for his services to her daughter, the empress, and her son-in-law, the late German ern. peror.
 M. de Blowftz, ttp, eccent1tor Paris core spondent of The London TimeA is inclined to think that the new French rife, Is a wonder. ful weapon. He avs that 1t is both ,7oiseless and smokeless anf sends bullet with perfect accuracy distas lce of four miles. -
 Mayor Filler, of Philadelphia, is "a rope maker, and he sometimes exhibits to hii friends curious rope cable that he eeps ir his office. It is made of hangmen's ropes each strand having been taken from ,s ropt by which sone poor CT trninaIs neca: wa broken. '. l- :, Prince Rupert, heir pr ssumptfve to th' throne of Bavaria, has bee ordered to.l re mote town in mad King ( tho's dominA 'ns with instructions to report or duty as,sus al tern of an artillery regimen He is in dis grace with the regent for ha wing run off fp weeks spree in Paris witho ut asking leave