Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-14
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

H# Judge Thurman has fortune of about $500, 1000. | The Archduke John of Austria has been restored to official favor.
 Mrs. Langtry's father is reported to have had only s25 when he died.
 Prince Henry, the future admiral of the German navy, is watchmaker.
 Ex-Senator Tabor has an income of from ss,O0o to sl0,O0O month from one mine. William K. Vanderbilt has left for Canada with H. B. Rollins on salmon fishing ex- cursion.
 The Rev. James Freeman Clarke, D. D., willed everything to his wife, from whom, he said, he received it.
 From Washington by way of San Fran cisco comes another rumor that Senator Fair will presently be married again.
 MT. R. B. Anderson, minister to Denmark, has received from the state university of Wisconsin the honorary degree of LL D. ] Dr. Daniel Wilson, president of the To ronto university, has declined the knighthood proffered him by the imperial government.
 Mir. Melville W. Fuller, who has been nom- mated for chief justice of the supreme court, has gone to Maine with his family on a vacar tion.
 Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, will send to each crowned head of Europe perfected ! photograph. Such 8 present will speak for itself
 ', Edward Burgess, the yacht designer, has been made an M A. by Harvard. It was only short time ago that his wife made him aPA
 Sir Charles Halle and Sir Edward Stanier, the two musicians who were knighted by the kqueen a few days ago, are both robust and hearty men, although considerably beyond middle age
 Cardinal Mazzofanti, the linguist, who is said to have known a hundred languages, de- clared that he never forgot @ word he had once learned.
 Marshal Lebuuf was soldier to the end. His last words were; "Let my regiment march past want to see my artillerynen, every soldier of them"
 The Rev. Dr. the Marquis of Donegal has lately celebrated the eighty-ninth anniversary of his birth The marchioness is eighty-six, and they have been married sixty-seven years
 Count Maurice Esterhazy has been put un- der guardianship to check his mad extrava- gance. He owns, free and clear of encum- brances more than 220 900 acres of land in Hungary, and can travel in straight line moro than fifty miles without quitting his estate.
 Isaiah V. Williamson, of Philadelphia, is reported to be the wealthiest bachelor ill the United States He has a fortune of $20, ,0OO,- 900, and gives away large portion of it an- nually In charities. He Is plainly dressed old gentleman, very modest and retiring in his ways.
 ID ! lxf-. largest mirror telescope that has been con- structed at Paris for 40, GOO florins, and pre-. sented 1t to the Vienna observatory. A gal lery for it has also been built and endowed by the baron. The total cost of this scientific gift will amount to upward of eS,0O0
 Maximilian, duke in mot o0 Bavaria, is almost hopelessly i'll. He Is 80 years old and was to celebrate his golden wedding anni- versary next fall. His third child is the En- press of Austria. The fourth, Prince Charles Theodore, who, by the remuneration of rights made by the eldest son, is heir to the title, Is eminent q surgeon.
 S. G. W. Benjamin, ex-minister to Persia, has settled down to his old life of art and let ters He has been painting a number of marine pictures lately, and is now on his way to Florida to amass material for history of that state that is soon to be published by a bOSCOn mousse N6NU WluUSr ne lDC2nQS to take 0 studio and devote much of his time to painting
 Seabrin Stroke, an eccentric old cobbler in Jefferson, Ga., who still keeps at his trade, although 80 years old, Is 6 veteran of threa wars. He beat drum in Jackson's army at the battle of New Orleans, fought in the Mexican war and served with credit through the war of the rebellion Despite his ad- vanced age he makes as good shoe as any shoemaker in the state. Dr. Morell Mackenzie takes deep interest in musical matters, and is the director of the Lyric club of London. He never takes pay for professional services to singers. He has occasionally asked vocalsts of phenomenal voices or singers the formation of whose throats seemed to him unusual, to subject themselves to his examination as a apersonal favor, and thus he has become acquainted with almost all the great singers of Europe, and has cured them of occasional troubles.