Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-23
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Secretary Endicott has fondness for yell low gloves.
 Robert Louis Stevenson was paid $S, 600 for his last novel.
 Southern members of congress wear boots, northern members, shoes.
 Governor Jerry Rusk, of Wisconsin, stands six feet three in his stockings.
 Prince Bismarck is now known as the Ward McAllister of European society.
 Senator Ingalls always has red kerchief peeping out of his breast pocket.
 President Hyde, of Bowdoin college, spends much of his time at tennis, and is an expert player.
 Secretary Whitney is considered to be by long odds the best dressed man at present in public life.
 Bronson Howard recently made the witty remark that he would rather be play wright than be president.
 Until few years ago Kaiser William ex- changed photographs with every pretty wo- man whose acquaintance he made. Gen. Von Moltke says that Gen. Boulanger tsknows something." From such reticent old pessimist as Won Moltke this is high praise
 The late Chief Justice Waite was 72 when
 
 64; Harlan, 55; Blatchford, 6s; Gray, 60; Field, 72; Miller, 72, and Lamar, 63.
 King Humbert, of Italy, has grown very gray of late. He is only A, but he looks very much older. Humbert is not handsome man, nor does he look highly intellectual.
 Senator Stanford still affects the low cut vest of old times. His wealth does not show in his clothes, though the stuff is the best of black broadcloth and his shirt is of linen from Ireland.
 M Goblet, the new French minister of foreign affairs, has 8 very hot temper. Ev cry one has heard of tempest in teapot, but an outbreak of passion in a Goblet is some thing new.
 Pope Leo has ordered that the walls around the Vatican palace he heightened. High buildings have been erected in the neighbor- hood which overlook the garden in which the pope takes his daily walk.
 Stenographer D. F. Murphy has been the reporter of the United States senate for nearly forty years. He has reported Clay, Webster and Class, and later Sumner, Sew ard and other famous men.
 Austen Chamberlain, eldest son of Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, is to enter parlia- ment. He has been studying in Berlin, and it is said that Prince Bismarck took a great fancy to him and frequently entertained him at dinner.
 If Ezekiel B. Smith, of Fayetteville, N o., should be confirmed by the senate as minister and consul general to Liberia, the diplomatic and consular service of this country would at length have Smith upon it's list, a name which does not appear thereon at present.
 ''Money" Miller, the recently deceased Australian millionaire, had one fancy, apart from the main ono of money making, which absorbed his life. This was for Scott's novels, which he is believed to have read through once a year, and that for score of years in succession.
 A letter received from Robert Garrett, dated at Cairo, states that he and his party will ascend the Nile as far as Thebes, and, returning by way of Cairo, will cross the Mediterranean to Greece. From there they will go to Russia This is better than danc- ing on hot griddle a la Jay Gould. Assemblyman Gallagher, of New York
 wants to be investigated. He has name which has for some time past been widely
 known. He should hava his slightest wish gratifed. Nobody should so far forget the } respect due to popular hero as to oppose f Gallagher when he really wants to s'let el ' go."
 t MT. Kuki, who until recently cared for the interests of Japan at Washington, is now il t his native country, playing the role of Pooh
 Bah. He still holds his rank as envoy extraordinary to t1is country, while at tht f same time he is chief of the imperial archives of Japan, and also president of the examin ing board of the Universal exposition to b, ,l held in Tokio ir 1890.
 = Dr. William s. Bryant, of Boston, com 6 pleted his course at the Harvard Medica l school last year. Young as he is, however y he has made discovery in anatomy whicl : has profoundly impressed the few scientist l who have heard of it. He has found that il e the portal veins of very young infants exs q valves which disappear as the child grows il years. These valves are found in the porta 7 veins of the lower animals, but science make l no mention of their existence in children : Dr. Bryant's discovery is important in tha e it offers one more proof of the truth of tn |, evolution theory.
 Washington is excited over the report tha s Mrs. B. B. Briggs, newspaper correspond $ ent who writes over the name of "Olivia, $ has donated about 70, 0,000 square feet of Ian '' known as Maple square, situated betwee South Carolina avenue and Sixth, Sevent C and D streets, as site for 8 women's un s versity, to be patterned after Girard college y Philadelphia. Tine property is worth abou e $2O0,0O0. The proposed institution is to b y wholly under the control of women The ir
 SUTuCUlOn gwen WILL DC III UQ0 10TH or l6( O lures, so as to give the women 8 chance
 talk.
 The other afternoon two chiefs of th
 Chippewa Indians called on President Cleve " land regarding matters affecting their trib'
 Fleet Wolf and Hound d-that-Bays are clear t. clear eyed Indians who talk good Englisl ,- They were perfectly at ease in the presene ,r of the president. Fleet Wolf, in fact, offere ,e MT. Cleveland chew of tobacco, which WE s. declined in dignified way. As they stoo 2. up to depart, Hound-that-Bays asked # Wont you give drinkg' MT. Clevelan IS was astonished, but with great presence ,r mind opened cabinet and taking out d r canter and three glasses drank with h l. guests to the toast of ''Her's how," uttere le by the two chiefs The White House hs
 since been overrun with Indians. d OUR DUMB ANIMALS.