Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-15
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

The Prince of Monaco is 70 years old and has an income of $900 900. a
 Bill Nye, it is said, made $2, 900 last month by being funny ln various western cities.
 The Prince of Wales is just under feet iIClIoo i'll height. He weighs 1Go lvuIIuS.
 The archbishop of Gran, the Hungarian orimate, has an income of $4OO,OO0 year.
 Dr. Hansen, of Bergen, is preparing for a snowshoe trip across the center of Greenland from east to west
 MT. Gladstone has discarded the shabby old victoria which he used to drive, and now drives spanking turnout.
 MT. Carl Zerrahn, the eminent Boston mu- sician, thinks Josef Hofmann is the most re- markable musical prodigy since Mozart.
 Ferdinand of Bulgaria is not a big man, but it begins to look as though he would eventually overturn the peace of Europe.
 Joseph Chamberlain expects to have baron honors thrust upon him when he gets to Lon- don. If he is not made a baron he may be knighted. .-....- ....-..-- ...s..
 Cardinal Gibbons is said to be the favorite of English, German and Russian cardinals for the highest office in the church when Pope Leo dies. -
 Gen. Bragg, United States minister to Mexico, is now on his way to the Land of the MonteZumas. He is accompanied by his wife and daughter. --.....-.
 Col Valentine Bakers friends, including the most distinguished soldiers and sailors of the British forces, are getting up subscrip- tion for his widow. -g-..g. D. .s- 5s
 Stagg, the famous pitcher of the Yale nine, will twirl the sphere for that team during the coming season. He enters the Yale Theo- logical seminary in September.
 It is pleasant to observe that in his last fight Osnan Digna was only wounded in the left foot. Hitherto he has been killed six times and fatally wounded three times.
 Ion Gcnnadius, the Greek minister, is a bachelor. He is D. c. L. of the Oxford university, and wears short jacket and a multifoided stiff white petticoat for full dress. .....
 Baron Hirsch de Gerenth, who has been raised to the Austrian house of peers by the Emperor Francis Joseph, is the first Hebrew to receive such an honor. It cost him $50, GOO, ,O0O in charity.
 Secretary Whitney has two sons old enough to be away at boarding school. One of them wrote home the other day: We have de- batting society, and one of our favorite sub jects is: The United States navy and how might it be i'm proved. ,"
 The mikado, according to a Japanese lecturer ill the Berlin Academy of Oriental Languages, is descended from the gods, and is the 121st of his race. The national religion, Sivtois1n, possesses 5000, 900 gods and saints, and there are 136, 900 temples.
 At 80 years of age the Hon. Hugh McCul- loch looks and acts like man of 55. He re calls with satisfaction t;iat during his six years at the treasury department, two as controller of th.. currency and four as secre- tary, he was not absent in all two weeks.
 Mir. Browning has added a short notice to the new edition of his wifes poems just ls- sued. 1t tells that Mrs. Browning was born at Carlton Hill, Durham, her uncle's house, in~1S00. She was at the time of their mar rage 40, while he was her junior by six years.
 w. R. Hughes, of Manchester, England, has in his house a s'Dickens Room," which contains from 2,Ooo to 5000 articles relating to the famous novelist. Among these are sixteen portraits, 200 volumes of Dickens works, with no less than eighteen editions of 'tPickwick" and copy of the "Autocrat of tic Breakfast Table," i" with an inscription by pr. Holmes, bought at the sale o< 6he Ddciuzaa GbGaSy.