Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-28
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Lord Charles Beresford is bow legged.
 Prince George of Wales favorite sport l. bowls
 Baron James de Rothschild once sat for a beggar
 The king of the Belgians manages to live on $66O, 900 year.
 Henry Clews Is building bathroom en- tirely fitted in onyx.
 Simon Bolivar, the Bolivian iberator, will have monument costing R4O0,0O0. Prince Henry of Germany has had 700 diff fsrent photographs of himself taken. Baron De Hein, chief justice of the Aus trian empire, has seventeen children
 Chauncey Depew and Adam Forepaugh might be mistaken for twin brothers.
 Pao Yun, president of the Pekin academy, is translating Shakespeare into Chinese.
 Senator Farwell gives fortune annually to various religious missions and charities
 Archbishop Benson, of Canterbury, Is . warm advocate of the use of bicycles by the clergy. -
 Wilkie Collins, Professor Huxley, George H. Pendleton and Dom Pedro will pass sixty three this year.
 Joseph w. Fifer, the Republican candidate for governor of Illinois, is six feet tall and very spare in flesh.
 The ameer of Afghanistan is said to be meditating a Journey to England to call on the empress of India this summer.
 President Seelye, of Amherst college is able to greet by name every living graduate of the college whom he has ever met.
 Father Mortara, the young priest who is creating such sensation with his sermons at Madrid, speaks twenty-two languages.
 Professor Frank c. Woodward, of Wofford college, South Carolina, has been elected to the chair of English literature in the univer- sity of that state.
 MT. Gladstone has accepted tho dedication of the English edition of Professor Villari's "Life of Savonarola" This work is now be ing translated into English by Mime. Villari.
 Senator Palmer, of Michigan, is the owner of a fine homestead farm and he plants tree there for every senator who visits him. Ed munds' is beach, Jones' mulberry and Sherman's soft basswood.
 Tho Hon. Charles Gayarre, who was a member of the United States senate fifty three years ago. is still living in New Orleans He was born in that city in 1895, and is said to O0 u "1AhAAA5 SAASJ SASfo~' O~ -~o>>A~~~>>~- history.
 $. w. Burnham, of Chicago, who is pres ent1y going to California to take charge of the great telescope at the Lick observatory, has phenomenal eyes, which are said to have naturally as great light grasping power as ordinary eyes get through six inch tele- scope.
 President Adams, of Cornell university, and President Hyde, of Bowdoin college, are said to be the only two college presidents who play tennis. Maine folks claim that President Hyde is the better player. A match to decide the question would be very interesting.
 Mr. John Noah, of Washington, has been dressed in the clothes worn by George Wash ington when resigning his commission, and photographed into fair counterfeit present. ment of the father of his country at A. He has also successfully posed for Gen. Jackson in his after New Orleans clothes; so he may be set down as a young man of a gifted and most obliging countenance.
 John Wanamaker's brother has been giv- ing some "reminiscences of the boyhood of the great Philadelphia merchant His first work Lippincott, where he received a salary of $15O week, all of which he gave to his mother. His dinner, when he had any, con- sisted of a piece of pie and a glass of milk, costing two cents Each year his salary was increased, and at the time he was 20 he had saved S2OO