Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-21
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

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 PERSONAL GOSSIP. Robert Garrett is on his way to Russia.
 Paul de Chaillu has settled for good in
 England.
 Robert Louis Stevenson was paid $S, 900 for his last novel Senator Stanford affects the low cut vest of olden times.
 Gladstone is said to have got e25O for magazine article.
 The Duke of Marlborough is again in pecuniary difficulties. Speaker Carlisle has just paid $24, 900 for house in Washington. Minister Phelps will not return to England l until the middle of June. Tennyson is again at work, and, it is stated, at poem of some length. Governor Rusk, of Wisconsin, stands six feet three in his stockings. Postmaster General Dickinson is extremely fond of the game of tenpins. "Ferdinand the Silken" is the nickname at Vienna for the prince of Bulgaria.
 Ferdinand de Lesseps, the great engineer, is extremely fond of taking cold baths. MT. Balfour, the Irish secretary, used to be nicknamed "Clara" at school and college. Governor Hills first business venture was selling apples on train, at the early age of 9. President Ingalls, uses a sand glass to time speakers when the senate enforces the five minute rule.
 Frank saltus, brother of Edgar saltus the <,f ent languages.
 The sultan went into mourning for Elm peror William, although it is contrary to Turkish custom.
 The papal jubilee has turned out to have been very expensive. It cost the Vatican about $1,0OO,OOO.
 Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, now in his Seth year, is very feeble, and his end is fast approaching.
 Confucius is visiting England. He is Chinaman and claims to be direct descend ant in the seventy generation of the famous Confucius who gave China a re- Igion.
 Karl Formes, the famous basso, who has lived in America for the past thirty years, has been engaged to sing at the approaching London season of Italian opera. He is 73 years of age.
 Justices Lamar and Harlan are the only members of the United States supreme court who do not own houses in Washington. Mrs. Lamar, however, is wealthy, and intends to buy or build a house at the capital. Dr. Carlo Gardini, husband of Mime. Gerster, the opera singer, has received the order of the Grown of Italy from King Umberto in recognition of the value of the doctors work on the United States-two large volumes. California papers are holding Israel Mat thewson up as sample case. Ten years ago he found $2 bill on the streets of San Fran cisco and restored it to it's owner. Today he is worth $SO,OO0 and runs the biggest faro bank in Montreal.
 Senator Isham G. Harris, of Tennessee, was first sent to congress in 1860. There is not a man in either house whose congressional career dates back SO far as his. He has served two terms in the senate and is ready to run for another. Mr. Isaac Putnam, the 'father of shorthand writing" is now 76 years old. He is almost an ascetic, using no wine, beer, spirits, to- bacco nor animal food of any kind. In re- igion he is an earnest Swedenborgian. He is an early riser and hard worker. | Now that Gen. Boulanger has been turned | out of the army, he is entitled to a pension of ,0O0 francs year and 1000 francs addi- tional as a grand officer of the legion of honor His parliamentary salary will be | 5000 francs, leaving him 21 900 francs in all. | Vienna bread has made many fortunes and one of $S,OOO, 900 came to Count Fang, who died recently in Vienna. In 1S42 he estab- lished the first shop for Vienna bread in Paris, and from that gained his wealth The shop exists still as the Maison Fang, on the Rue Richelieu.
 "Gen." Booth, the Salvation Army leader, is one of the sharpest business men in Eng 1 land and has accumulated a large fortune. Tickets of admission to his daughters we'd ding to MT. Fakeer Tucker were sold at $5 1 apiece, and hundreds were purchased by the aristocracy of London.
 Immediately after Emperor Frederick left San Remo the sultan sent him collar, con- sisting of nine hazel nuts with inscriptions l from the Koran over which the dervishes and sheiks of the palace had prayed, and | which, as the sultan assured the crown prince, would cure him as if by magic.
 The wealthiest man in the northwest is James J. Hill, of St. Paul, president of the Manitoba railroad. His fortune of $10, ,OO0, 900 has nearly all been made during the past ten years in railroad speculations and real estate. MT. Hill is 51 years old, and bids fair to double his wealth before departing this life.
 Crown Prince William, of Germany, had an opportunity of displaying his hatred for everything English the other day, in which dislike his own mother is included. He had a sudden attack of nose bleeding, and several
 members of his suite offered handkerchiefs to stay the flow. He refused assistance, with the remark: .'The moro of this English blood
 I lose the better"
 Oscar Wilde and his wife are very ordi-
 nary looking pair of mortals, according to @
 London correspondent. He has grown SO stout as to be absolutely unpicturesque, and
 the latter, while she dresses with degree of
 individuality, is by no means the picture of artistic loveliness that one might reasonably
 demand that the wife of the apostle of the sunfower should be.