Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-11-02
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Secretary Endico&t has forbidden the use Of tobacco in the war department
 Mrs. John A. Logan will spend year abroad, acting as the chaperon of the Misses Pullman, who will study music at Berlin.
 Empress Frederick is greatly pleased with Sir Morell Mackenzie's book and has written letter of nearly twenty pages to tell him so.
 Three Englishmen now have statues in Franee-Lord Brougham at Cannes, Jenner at Boulogne-sur-Mer and Shakespeare at Paris
 Editor Burbanks, of The New Orleans Picayune, has eleven children, seven horses, pack of dogs, a pet camel, six parrots, steam yacht, an orange grove and S2, ,000, ,OO0 n bonds
 Senator Hearst, of California, is said to have at least one mine to every mining state and territory in the country. He began his mining ventures as a day laborer in the mountains
 Elder F. W. Evans, the able leader of the New Lebanon (N. Y.) Shakers, is English man who came to this country in 1895. He is now eighty years of age, but vigorous in mind and body.
 King Khoulalonkorn, of Siam, has just forwarded his wedding present to his royal brother of China. It consists of a footstool of massive gold, studded with large rubies, and represents a value of $200, ,00O
 Prince Constantine, of Greece is only Duke of Sparta by the creation of his father, the king. The Greek parliament decline to permit any titles of nobility and only allow their monarchs sons to be called princes by courtesy.
 One afternoon as the Prince of Wales was walking across the Place de la Concorde, D.. D.. speak as they pass by, as they have never been presented to each other. They looked at each other very sharply.
 In a crowded car in Cincinnati, recently, Gen. Sherman carried a likely young colored maiden on his knees for five blocks. She was snatching at the straps, which were just out of her reach, when Gen. Sherman gently seated her on his martial knee.
 The London Academy speaks enthusiastic ally of the merits of James Whitcomb Riley's book of poems, "Old Fashioned Roses" It says, among other things, that Sit can hardly be denied that the average of American books of verse is higher than the English"
 Dr. Morell Maokenzie's three daughters have a cottage of their own on his grounds, with special apartments, in which they pur- sue their studies and occupations. The youngest is giving her time to music, and the second daughter to painting, while the eldest is in journalism.
 Count Tolstoi, the Russian novelist, was found by visitor at his country place en- gagged in repairing the cottage of one of his tenants. The count was kneading clay in a large tub, into which a peasant woman was shoveling it. The counts daughter was spinning string for binding straw to thatch the roof.
 King Milan, of Servia, had very cool re- ception in Austria apart from the official ceremony observed at the visits of foreign sovereigns to Vienna. It is asserted that the Emperor Francis Joseph seriously remon- strated with him for not paying his gam bling debts and for allowing his quarrel with Queen Natalie to becomea public scandal
 Marshall P. Wilder tells that at big recep- tion in London he got into conversation in corner with Q quiet, steady, middle aged gentleman. 1T would rather talk to plain person like yourself" he said Sin 0 quiet fashion, than to the Duke of Teck, who be- lieve is here" MT. Wilder found later on that his quiet companion was the Duke of Teck himself.
 Miss Elizabeth Gardner, the American art ist, in private letter from Royat, France, says: "This summer have much enjoyed the society of Rosa Bonheur and her sister, who have been my near neighbors. Every day they go off to tho surrounding villages to make studies. This splendid woman is still full of energy and of enthusiasm for her art. She has that simplicity of life and con- versation which gives Such a charm to inter course with the most of the French masters Usually unsociable, in sympathetic company she is most affable."