Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-21
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
r. Gladstone is writing his memoirs.

MT. Gladstone IS WrlUlnS ms nleHoHS.
 Count von Moltke wears yellow wig
 Rev. Dr. Talmage has f. 1S4 souls under his command.
 The czar is about to build palace near Kas1a in Finland.
 Lord Beaconsfelds nephew, Mr. c. R. Dis raeli, came of age on Feb. 9.
 Buffalo Bill has been presented with gold watch and chain by some of his admirers.
 Henry James, the novelist, brides himself on his resemblance to the Prince of Wales.
 John Platt, Miss Alcott's adopted son, has inherited all his adopted mothers copyrights
 Burtette, the hunorist, is alternating the lecture platform with the pulpit in Cali fornia.
 Prince Bismarck, at dinner recently, pro- posed the health of the cZar of Russia in French.
 The Prince of Naples, the only son of the King of Italy, is to be married to a German Princess.
 Mr. w H. H. Murray is going on tour of exploration to the extreme north of British America
 Sir Charles Dilke will, in all probability, begin his political life over again during the next eighteen months.
 Mrs. Leland Stanford has ven memorial chapel to Trinity Episcopal church, San Francisco
 William Henry Hurlburt indignantly de- nies the rumor that he proposes becoming British subject.
 Viscount Eversley, aged 93, is the oldest of the English peers, and the Duke of Albany, who has just completed his Sd year, the youngest.
 The story that Emperor Frederick III re- gretted the deprivation of his pipe is not true. He never smoked pipe except when hunting or campaigning.
 Oscar Wilde purchased Carlyle's book case in an auction room. It is a plain wooden structure, made expressly for the philosopher when he was young man.
 Ex-President Andrew D. White announces that the corner stone of the new library building at Cornell university will be laid by President Cleveland in June
 Gems. Sherman, Sheridan, Howard and Terry are the only four men now living who have personally received the thanks of the congress of the United States
 Sir William Jenner, the English court physician, is often called to Windsor to see the queen. His visits are never mentioned J secret.
 Senator Evarts is said to make from S35,- 900 to S5O, ,OOO year out of his law practice. Senator Edmunds has an income from the law that is five times as great as his salary as senator.
 The son of w. w. Story, the American sculptor, has followed in his fathers foot aoops He has recently received a very large o.lAer from Baron de Rothschild, which will prJ. .)lbly take him five years to fill.
 Thomas F. Bayard is the only living man v-o was balloted for in the St. Louis con- >- of 1876. Hidden, Hendricks. Allen |. Packer are dead, and John Kelly and Ii MOrrissey have followed their chiefs
 Il great many drawing rooms in Washing toA are now more or less adorned with large s-.-;cu photographs of Joseph Chamberlain. lie senate chamber will probably be adorned Wltl Josephs scalp when the fish treaty cones up.
 MT. Gladstone is now to take his turn in donolishing Robert G. Ingersoll, the most famous American assailant of the Christian | system of which Mr. Gladstone is a cham pion. The British statesman will work his religious batteries through American | magazine next May. The Grown Prince Nicholas of Russia, who is now F years old, is described as an affec- tionate, warm hearted boy, who is great favOrite with every one and who possesses very democratic notions. At the same time he has his fathers inlperious will, and does not like to have his plans interfered with.