Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-07
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
The Prince of Monaco is 70 years old and has an income of $9OO, GOO.

The Prince of Monaco is 70 years old and has an income of S900, 900.
 Bill Nye, it is said, made @, 900 last month by being funny in various western cities. Ire Prince of Wales is just under 5 feet 2 inches in height. He weighs 1So pounds.
 The archbishop of Gran, the Hungarian primate, has an income of S4o0,ooo year.
 Dr. Hansen, of Bergen, is preparing for ,nowshoe trip across the center of Greenland from east to vest
 MT. Gladstone has discarded the shabby old victoria which he used to drive, ana now drives spanking turnout.
 MT. Carl Zeirahn, the eminent Boston mu- sician. thinks Josef Hofmann is the most re- n,arkable musical prodigy since Mozart.
 Ferdinand of Bulgaria is not a big man. but it begins to look as though he would eventuall; overturn the peace of Europe.
 Joseph Chamberlain expects to have baron Lonors thrust upon him when he gets to Lon do-1, If he is not made a baron he may be knIghted
 Cardinal Gibbous is said to be the favorite of English, German and Russian cardinals for the highest office in the church when Pope Leo dies.
 Gen. Bragg, United States minister to Mexico. is now on his way to the Land of the Montezumas He is accompanied by his wife and daughter.
 Col. Valentine Bakers friends, including the most distinguished soldiers and sailors of the British forces, are getting up a subscrlp- tion for his widow.
 Stagg, the famous pitcher of the Yale nine, will twirl the sphere for that team during the coming season. lie enters the Yale Theo- logical seminary in September.
 It is pleasant to observe that in his last if .nt Oa.nan Digna was only wounded in the lel foot. Hitherto he has been killed six times ;.1d fatally wounded three times.
 Ion Gennat,ius, the Greek minister, is a bachelor lie is D. c. l.. of the Oxford university, and wears a short jacket and a .nu:tifo.dyl stiff white petticoat for full dres;
 Baron ITirsch de Gerenth, who has been rais Il to tie Austrian house of peers by the L.1l TOT Francis Joseph, is the first Hebrew to rs..eiye such an honor. It cost him SSO,- COJ, ,UJ0 ill charity.
 Secretary Whitney has two sons old enough to be away at boarding school. One of them wrote home the other day; "We have de- batlug soc4esy, and one of our favorite sub- jecus is: Tine United States navy and how might it be i'm oroved.'"
 The misado, according to Japanese lecturer ill the Berlin Academy of Oriental Languages, is descended from the gods, and is the 12lst of his race The national religion, Sivtosln, possesses S,OoO,000 gods and saints, and there are l56, 900 temples.
 At 50 years of age the Hon. Hugh McCul- loch looks and acts like man of 55. He re- calls with satisfaction that during his six years at tho treasury department, two as controii1r of the currency and four as secre- tary, he was not absent in all two weeks. EIr Drowning has added short. notice to the new edition of his wifes poems just is slc,i. 1t tells that Mrs. Browning was born 1 ao Carlton Hill, Durham, her uncles house, | ill 1,yj. She was at the time of their mar la j.. 10, while he was her junior by six years
 5 V. R. Hughes, of Manchester, England, has Ill his house s'Dickens Room,' which | coltli.is from 2O00 to 5000 articles relating to the famous novelist. Among these are sixteen portraits, 200 volumes of Dickens works, with no less than eighteen editions of ''Pics swick'' and a copy of the ''Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" with an inscription by Dr. Holmes, bought at the sale of the Dickens 1 library.