Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-21
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

constantly advises hlS priests 1o dVoiu SCi eo' | cars. Senator Griggs of Prince Edward county | is theonly colored member of the Vrglnla senate.
 Joseph Chamberlain's collection of orchids at his home, near Birmingham, IS valued al S5O,OOO.
 MT. Ellsworth Ingalls, is said to be an al most exact physical counterpart of his father, the senator. The Grand Duke of Baden wishes to take an American tour, but his ministers oppose the project.
 Senator Hampton amuses himself during debates by making and throwing paper boomerangs. Ex-Mayor Carter Harrison, of Chicago, has named an island in the Pacific ocean after the Venice of the West.
 The oldest United States consul in con- tinuous service is Horatio J. Sprague, who was appointed to the consulate at Gibraltar in 1S46.
 Congressman Allen, of Massachusetts, carries pocket camera and amuses himself by taking sudden photographs of his col leagues
 Buffalo Bill is said to be negotiating for leStS0 Ol AlcAduO1 Po4oSO AoA OAAA O0 JOe~AS and to be thinking of making his home in England.
 Judge Wardell, of Buffalo, owns a photo graph of Grover Cleveland taken in 1862. It represents tall, slight young man, long haired and with heavy mustache.
 Gen. Albert Pike never uses any but quill pens, and he carefully preserves them when they are worn out. He has probably 10, 900 old r,af1c sforad away in his cl1nhoards
 Governor Hill, of New York, neither smokes tobacco nor drinks anti-prohibition liquids. He breakfasts regularly at 6:30 a. m. and shares his bachelor meal with two dogs and a cat.
 Charles Dickens will remain in America till June, and it is estimated he will carry home fully 10000 good American dollars. So much for being the son of great father.
 Jules Simon is the Chauncey Depew of France. He complains that his country is becoming great sculpture gallery, and that a monument cannot be unveiled but he is asked to speak,
 Everything in the czar's kitchen is kept under lock and key, and no ''ne can serve him anything except the maitre d'hotel, a Frenchman named Brenger, who alone att tends the czar at table.
 When Wade Hampton goes to hotel he never registers, hoping ill that way to escape the reporters. He looks like Jersey farmer. He is broad shouldered, well built and wears clothes in loose fashion.
 Minister Hoon, the Chinese minister in Washington, affects gorgeous brocaded robes of snow white satin. He is always sur- rounded by dozen beautiful women directly he appears at a reception.
 
 in congress The more he is annoyed the more he chews, and whenever he thinks deeply, or thinks he is thinking, his angular jaws go up and down like chopping ma chine. The stingy old Prince of Monaco has taken eleven months to answer the appeal made to him on behalf of the victims of the last earth quake in his state. He has at last decided to subscribe e4OO, provided that .20O is spent on his own tenants
 King Albert of Saxony has written to this country for volumes on the American war by living authors. His majesty is an authority on European military matters, having greatly distinguished himself in the Flanco-P -Prussian war.
 The Baroness Burdett- Coutts has entered into a partnership with the Duke of Vest minister, and together they are to run a cab business in London. Their cabs are already on the streets, and their business motto is, "'Ansom is as 'ansOm does."
 The oldest living graduate of Princeton college is Rev. Melancthon B. Williams, of Cambridge, N. Y. He was born on July 16 1797, and entered the junior class at Nassau hall, as the college was then called, in his l 10th year, and was graduated in 1914. l Wilkie Collins was asked how he came by l Count Fasco, the only fat villain in fiction ''He was an agglomeration, replied the nov. elist land 1 made him fat because a lady once made the remark to me at dime 1 party that no novelist could make really | lfe-like fat villain"
 The startling accusation comes from Eng land that John L. Sullivan recently perpe trated pun at Windsor. He was running through Queen Victorias park, when a lv cried official stopped him and asked what ht was doing. Improving my wind, sir" ex plained the champion as he hurried on.
 Swinburne, the erotic English poet, j scarcely five feet in height, his face is ghastly pale and his immense head is covered witt great masses of wild, unlzempt hair, while his mouth is small, almost girlish in it's ex pression. He is shy of women, but he is fone of the society of artists and men of letters.
 Carter H. Harrison, ex-King of Chicag' and Lord of Bridgeport, writes that he ant the King of Siam are thick as two dog heads The king has several wives, and at the az of thirtyone years is the father of thirt, children. His royal highness wanted Carte to tarry and marry a few princesses bu Carter said, No, sir am better as Siam. Miss Blanche Willis Howard writes iron
 Stuttgart that she is writing novel, keepin
 house, educating a family of nieces an
 nephews, nursing several cases of diphtheri
 and scarlet fever, supervising the translatio of one of her books into German, Italian an
 French, improving her memory according system and learning to use typewriter. ABOUT INDIANS. The total Indian population of the Unite States is PAT, ,761.
 The estimated number of Indians } Alaska is 30,OOO.
 The Indian agencies of the United State
 are sixty-one in number.
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