Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-14
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

The emperor of Brazil writes poetry.
 Tennyson never smokes the same pipe twice.
 King Kalakaua will become coffee planter.
 Bismarck received lOl plovers' eggs on his birthday
 Gen. Sheridan is building a summer house :t Nantucket
 Roscoe Conkling left an estate estimated to worth s2OO,0OO Herbert Spencer works three hours day. sing stcnographer. Hos:etLer, the patent medicine man, carries ,U.D3a life insurance
 Col. Mapleston owes s21o,05O. and his only Esets are new scheme.
 in is calculated that the pope's jubilee pres -nts are worth $2O, O,OOO,OoO
 The Duke of Buckingham is contemplating n early visit to the United States. Lester Wallack, the actor, owns 200 suits ot clotles, and none of them need patching
 NIT. John Boyle O'Relly has set out on canoeing voyage through the Dismal Swamp.
 Balfour never goes anywhere in London without a couple of plain clothes detectives after him.
 
 for q farewell entertainment he gave Nellie Farren recently.
 Lord Lucas spent $500, 900 to keep a rail- road from crossing the place where Matthew Arnold is buried
 Mir. Walter Besant has gone to Italy to rest He is one of the very hardest working literary men in London
 It .is probable that the president and Mrs. a1 lfN1 x,s~sk we'll us the Adirondacks
 A son of Justice Harlan is connected with the law office at Chicago of Melville w Ful- Ter, the new chief justice
 The honorary degree of IL. D. will be con- ierred upon Prince Albert Victor by the University of Cambridge
 The king of Spain is IS months old. and has salary of $1, 900, 900, with prospect of a raise as soon as the business will warrant it. Sir Joseph Chitty, the we'll known English Judge, was at Oxford in 1852 captain of the finest boat crew ever known at either uni versity.
 Notwithstanding the fact that be has thirty physicians and as many surgeons in his pal ace, the emperor of China manages to enjoy fair health.
 Mr. Charles Drury, the new minister of agriculture ill Ontario, was formerly a Me thodist preacher, and still exercises that call ing occasionally.
 T. H. Garrett, of Baltimore, has had made for his steam yacht Clean the smallest piano ever constructed. It is 47 inches high, 47 inches wide and 26 inches deep.
 The Prince of Wales has no intention of visiting America at present, and he is an- noyed at the rumor of his being about to do c0o ioI 1,vy% n,,1~ Charles Howard, of Milwaukee, widely known Masonic dignitary, but in moderate circumstances, has fallen heir to s1,OOO, 900, left him by an aunt in England, from whom he ran away when boy.
 Lord Salisbury, premier of England, who was formerly working journalists, is al ways as courteous as his position will allow to newspaper men, and frequently incloses news to men who were formerly his colabor- CTS. Stepniak, the author of Underground Russia" usually lives in London He is of medium height, but of massive frame and deep ckest. His head is large and his type of face essentially Slavic. He has a charming wife. Of the eight Republicans who received votes for the presidential nomination at the Chicago convention of 1880, Grant, Garfield, Washburne and Conkling have passed away. The four who remain are Blaine Sherman, Edmunds and Windom.
 Kit Carson's old partner, Dick Wootton, who, among other notable deeds, once drove IA, 900 sheep 1,6O0 miles overland to Cali fornia, and made S4O,0o0 by the operation, and who is now p years old, has just had his sight restored, by an operation by Chicago surgeon, after eight years of blindness.