Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-27
THE WATERBURY EVENING APRIL 2 l888
PERSONAL GOSSIP.


 [ PERsoNAL GOSSIP. E yon Moltke is to be made princeL
 Tennyson is at work on . poem Of some length.
 Senator spooner is devoted to horseback riding. aetI A s Dom Pedro has reigned over Brazn for l fifty years. e----,,,a -.ee.r King Hunnbert, Of Italy, is something of an Angiomaniac as regards his attire. M. Eloouet is . diminutive man with . large head and fine crop of white hair. l 1o "Dsnr Rice, the old snowman, owns s50,- 600 acres of land in Texas and New Mexico
 Sir Andrew Clark, MT. Gladstone's physi- clan. received $25 900 for : journey to Italy.
 William O'Brien, the Irish leader, says that journalists are tho watchdogs of civil ization.n ..etEtaia 4 rstt8 a s}f3.f-g2 Senator Evarts has purchased . now silk hat, spring style, to wear to the Chicago con- vention. IsTF ast'f9fzElzf F1eiH@ at'5 tAa alia.l | Daniel Websters great grandson is to marry great granddaughter of Benjamin | Franklin.
 Caroline Herschel, the discoyerer of eight comets, never could remember the multipu- cation table. .s.E-za b,,t. l..ssess.ry s-s y5
 Senator .Blodgett, of New Jersey, Is six feet four and the tallegt man in the United States Senate. ugid ~-ftIieia--7ss .a9 Issf
 Two sons of Charles Dickens and one son of Anthony Trollops are In the stock raising business in Australia. 1% President Cleveland has made an addition to his stable by the acquisition of pair of handsome sorrel horses -r | Mir. Mackenzie, son of Sir Moren Mac kenzie, is now playing with success in farce at the Strand theatre, London. aE
 William K Vanderbilt Is reported to have spent S2o0, 900 in London in clearing out tho old curiosity shops of Bond street.
 George Gould is a model husband, who never smokes, seldom drinks and never goes out without his wife of an evening.
 1 c. H. Jackson and George A Jackson, father and son, are rivals for class honors in Hillsdale college, where they expect to grad uate in June.
 Young John A. Logan has developed a great love for the turf. Ho has four promis- ing horses in training at Louisville for this seasons races. -- *' -' <1
 While Gen. Boulanger was minister of war l metal busts of him, to be sold on his beeom- ing the ruler of France. zs..., esr.z,f 7,.s,s.s 4 The emperor of China has four physicians, each of whom receives 8 weekly salary, stopping when he becomes sick; therefore his indisposition is never of long duration. r MT. Thomas Mast will make his home among the Los Angeles journalists who have founded colony of their own at Ramona, in the San Gabriel Valley, . few miles out of the city. ...,. -.'-- -.-s, .., I -..-.. -
 Probably the oldest employe of the gov ernment in term of service is Lindsey Muse, an ancient colored man, who has stood guard at the door of; the secretaries of the navy since 1898. .rf ettr .:..-se,~ -4r=st-.,-s g.as It is reported in London that the Duke of Marlborough will return to this country in June, to continue his wooing of 6 fair widow whose charms attracted him whom he was here last year. @E L5.g:G.1 G14 ,zE1h
 Gen. Boulanger reiterates his exclamation at the recent speech he made prior to his election: "If wished for war I should be a madman; if I did not prepare for it should be worthless wretch" "
 James Bailey, a poor coal miner of Shamo- kin, Pa, with wife and seven children, has fallen heir to $1, 600 by the death of an uncle in England, who disinherited him at the time of his marriage, and repented on his deathbed. .sft ,fS1f f.r -st5 t[. es.py,e ; 1s. Senator Ingalls, has had eleven children, seven of whom survive. The names given l to his offspring have been somewhat pecu- liar: Ellsworth, Ruth, Ethel, Ralph, Addi- son, Constance, Sheffield, Faith, Marion, Muriel, Louise. f'ra@az c<5. .z4 3aHls ]
 Blaine, Sherman, Edmunds and Windom are the living four of the eight Republicans who received votes for the presidential nomi- nation at the Chicago convention of 1880 The dead four are Grant, Garfield, Wash burne and Conkling. '1
 The king of Dahomey has embarrassed the king of Portugal by sending six negro girls, the "most beautiful" in his dominions. King Louis doesn't know what to do with them, and has housed them in the Geological gar dens pending reflection. .r,, -.e-rr.r
 The Chinese minister and his suite will shortly leave Washington for 8 three months tour through Peru. He goes by tho rule of his office every three years to Peru i to acquaint himself with the condition of the Chinese in that country. ... ea.l .
 One of Mark Twain's eccentricities lies in his habit of always wearing slippers on a railroad train. Sometimes he even puts on a smoking jacket and makes himself as much at home in a drawing room car as in his own library. He wants to give the impression, doubtless that he is in no sense abroad when travelling ' ',A -'.-7- ','.s @'-''-''-' 5-'i'
 It has been the custom in the United States senate for each member to contribute SIG toward a wedding gift for the bride of . E senator who marries while in office Some body has just recalled the custom and finds that the usual tribute has not yet been paid to Mrs. sHawley. The oversight will be rem edleo 'at once' --.4 5s-.sts- .asgsyZ s!5.zs[ s .Ex-Secretary Windom has sold the mag nificent house which he built in Washington at a cost of $1O0, 900 to Mrs. Charles Mum, o1
 Chicago, for. $7o,O00. The house is now,oc
 cupied by Senator Jones, of Nevada. Mr
 Blainc occupied it at one time, then Senate, Palmer, of Michigan, and afterward Mir
 Warder, of Ohio. ssG5azs lgs.ssta aa3la @ It is interesting to learn that Mrs. Cleve
 land always calls her husband "Nr. Presi
 dent" Mr. Cleveland addresses his wife a. ''Frank "' Martina Washington in he1 younger days called her husband George $ but in the last twenty five years of her lift |, l e1,n nddr,orcod him sts1es,efal