Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-11-22
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

MT. Gladstone will soon be heard, by pho nograph, in this country.
 Berry Wall, the New York dude, won, 1t is asserted, $5, 900 in election bets
 It is rumored in London that Sir Morell Mackenzie contemplates visit to the United States
 Pax, the Corean minister at Washingto on, is not to be recalled. Society at the capital is wild with delight.
 MT. Pendleton, the United States minister to Berlin, is much improved in health. He will go to Nice on @ furlough.
 The emperor of Germany sleeps, as did his grandfather, on an iron camp bed. He is subject to insomnia and often walks his room nearly the entire night.
 Edwin Booth does not eat the hearty late supper that he used to. A cracker a piece of cheese and one glass of beer insures to him @ sound and restful sleep.
 Garter Harrison, of Chicago, returns to this country an Anglomaniac He smokes pipe in public. Chicago is wild to learn what he thinks about Browning.
 Olive Harper's three-act emotional drama, called 'A Fair Californian" will be put upon the boards early in January at one of the leading theatres in New York.
 Chang Yen Hoon, Chinese minister. has just returned from Peru to Washington. He has a severe cold and his cough is generally referred to as Peruvian bark.
 The rare ruby once presented by King Louis of Bavaria to Lola Montez and valued at S10,000, is now the property of Mrs. J. B. Haggin, wife of the California turfman.
 Sarah Bernhardt still carries her coffin around with her on her theatrical tours. It was observed in her recent journey to Vii enna incased in its regular travelling box.
 Luther R. Marsh, who was so effectively done in oil by Raphael and a medium who is now in jail, has paid $500 for a type written copy of the recent trial in which he was one of the central figures.
 Gen. William Seward, the son of Lincoln's secretary of state, lives in the Seward home stead at Auburn, N. Y. The house was built by his mothers father in 1S16, and is sur rounded by pleasant grounds.
 The empress of Austria and the empress of Japan will be in this country about the same time. The former has the more beauty and is the better horseback rider, but the mika- dos wife will possess the greater charm as a novelty.
 J. M. Levy, proprietor of The London Daily Telegraph, died peacefully in his arm
 
 fused, saying his rule was to go to bed at a certain hour, and he did not intend to devil ate from his custom.
 Verdi was 75 years old last month. To set at rest stories that are now and then re- hearsed as to the composers avarice, 1t is worth while noticing that he has just built a hospital in the commune of Villanova d'Arda, and endowed it with an annual in- come of 7,200 lire, or $1 400.
 Pascal Porter, ''the boy preacher" is really what his title claims. He is only 12 years old, and he has been preaching for two years. He not only expounds the Bible text, but quotes poetry, and argues with all the force of a logician. His father says he began preaching before he left off pinafores.
 George Gould's newborn son, who is now but few weeks old, is said to bear striking resemblance to his grandfather. Although he is a much smaller baby than his year-old brother, he already shows signs of restless energy, and he has the keen near-together black eyes of the famous money king.
 Prof" Wiggins, of Canada, is amazed be- cause he has been elected an honorary mem Der of the Ananias club of Boston, He is evidently as narrow minded as he is unreli- able. If he did not live in Canada he would realize that it is an honor to be elected a member of anything Bostonian.
 Eugene Field, the we'll known newspaper man of Chicago, has become interested in esoteric Buddhism. He has temple to Buddha in his apartments and, it is said, pays his devotions to that oriental deity. They say in Chicago that Field is likely to take the place of Mime. Blavatsky in this country before very long.
 The Marquise Taff1ni d'Acceglio of Italy, considered one of the beauties of King Hum bert's court, was. formerly Miss Wickersham, of Philadelphia Her husband, the marquis, is a lieutenant general in the Italian army and a man of wealth, besides being the twenty-frst inheritor of his title. A sister of the marchioness married ex-President Gowen, of the Reading road.
 By all odds the most gorgeous dude in Paris is the Russian duke of Mondelfi, who dazzles the town and delights his mamma, Princess Woronzof, at interviews" by don ming either an ivory plush dressing gown, lined with peach colored satin garnished with silver braiding, and ornamented with jewels, or an ample jacket of heliotrope vel vet braided with gold and clasped together with ducal coronets studded with brilliants, while the interesting being" himself reclines on a divan, and when conversing with his visitors toys with precious stones and diamonds of rare value, but unpublished and