Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-23
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

GtASOsS' - ~sSOSs'' s.sssA s3 Paul du Chaillu has been for eight years working on his new book.
 Sir Edward Baines is the oldest active journalist in Europe. He is S8
 Senator Evarts will spend most of the sum- mer at his home at Windsor, Vt
 The Duke of Westminster is the richest of Queen Victoria's subjects in Great Britain
 Jules Ferry enjoys being caricatured, and collects and preserves all such pictures of himself.
 President Carnot. of France, will spend the summer ip writing a history of himself and his ancestors
 Allen G. Thurman is great smoker, and is credited with consuming between ten and twelve cigars day.
 Charles Dudley Warner says that most of the works of fiction of the present day are too much tinctured with materialism-
 The Duke of Cumberland and his sister, Princess Frederick, have become reconciled after an arrangement of nine years
 The kings of Cambodia and Assam will visit Paris next year and will receive distin. guished honors at the hands of the French government
 President Carnot of France, will pass his SuIQner nOuOdy III pI0paI1uS LShItEAd1S AOI history of his illustrious family of repub itcan patriots.
 Bartley Campbell, the mad playwright, is still an inmate of the Middletown asylum for the insane. He is happy and quiet, but will never be sane again.
 Andrew Lang, the English balladist, who does not admire American poetry, makes part of his income by writing verses for ar English soap manufacturer. e.5
 w. G. Grace, the great English cricketer, is 40 years of age, but is still unexcelled as a batter. The year of Grace 1888, in fact, bids fair to give him his best record
 The largest private library in this country is owned by H. H. Bancroft, the historian, and is in his San Francisco home. It COD sists of 50,000 volumes and is valued at $2OO,O0O.
 Dr. Thomas W. Evans, the dentist, has re- ceived from Queen Victoria jubilee medal of gold as a token of her appreciation of his work on the instruments for Emperor Fred erick's throat.
 Gen. Gresham is said to be one of the worst dressed men in public life. His lack of friendship with the tailor is made, however, less apparent by his handsome face and com manding figure &
 Don Pedro, beside being wise and liberal monarch, an accomplished musician and an experienced traveller, has been a profound student of languages, and is well versed in Hebrew, Arabic and Sanskrit.
 Samuel J. Randall has bright young SOD who wears glasses and is said to look just like his father. He is called ''Little Sam Ran. dall," and is described by a correspondent as being ''as fat as butter and as sharp as tack" ... -.
 .Nawab Zaighom-ud-D Dowlah, brother-in- law to the late king of Oudh, is in London specially engaged to teach the Prince of Wales and Prince Albert Victor Hindostanee. The Nawab has the degree of Learned Pundit."
 Rev. W. J. Gaines, of Atlanta, who has lately been made a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal church, belonged to Gabriel Toombs, brother of Robert Toombs, in slavery days, and was farm hand until his emancipation t..... .. .ae.
 Lord Dudley, the wealthy young English noble who has just come into possession of his heritage of some $2,OOO,O0O per annum, has already developed strong taste for gam bling and reoently lost s10O, 1000 at racing and 0,O00 at cards. '7a'
 Gen. O'Ryan, the Spanish minister of war in Senor Sagastas' reorganized cabinet, is, as his name indicates, of Irish descent He is, however, thorough Spaniard, his great grandfather having entered the service of Spain over 100 years ago. .r- .sr.
 M Daniel Wilson, the unfortunate son-in- law of ex-President Grevy, of France, does not dare to enter the chamber of deputies; but he holds on to his seat for Touraine and pockets the salary attached thereto, and rndor ho law thora is of getting rid of him.
 M Clemenceau and Gen. Boulanger re- gently met by accident at the dinner table of lady who is friend of both. They sat one at each side of their hostess, and to avoid seeing each other so as to compel 8 saluta- tion, which would have been distasteful to both, they sat with their backs turned to- ward her. .-.-sz.. ~. The Duke of Rutland, accompanied by the duchess, is likely to visit America this sum- | mer. The duchess is a popular magazine writer in London, and until her husbands recent accession to the dukedom her signature | was frequently at the end of long articles in The London Queen on social topics for women. One object of the American journey | is, it is believed, to enable the duchess to widen her sphere of observation into feminine | life in large cities
 Munemitsu Mutsu, the new Japanese min- ister to this country, is about 45 years of age. He is extremely learned and possesses great | executive ability. In 1877 he was imprisoned near Tokio for his connection with the Sigo | rebellion. His sentence was for twelve years, but at the end of five years the government released him, having discovered that his offense was less fragrant than at first sup posed. During his confinement Mutsu trans lated Mills Political Economy into his native tongue ..e