Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-01
PERSONAL.

Jules Verne is just 60 years old. George w. Cable pronounces his name Caw-ble.
 Col. Robert Ingersoll is one of the closest students of bhe Bible in the United States.
 Otto, the poor mad king of Bavaria, is slowly dying, locked up in the solitary castle of Furstenrled.
 Ex-Mavor Carter Harrison, of Chicago, has made a collection of nearly ton of fans in Japan and Siam.
 Senator Farwell, of Illinois, was once poor man himself but he now makes S1OO lay. Such is brains.
 Lord Tennyson is making small fortune put of his dairy produce. "Poet laureate" butter is one of the joys of the Isle ot Wight
 King Umberto, of Italy, is still crippled in his private means, owing to enormous arrears of debts he is paying for his late father.
 Postmaster Meyers, of Harrisburg, Pa., was confirmed by the senate early in Jan 1ary, but he did not learn of the fact until a few days ago.
 Congress has four members who part their aair in the middle Two, Belmont and Rayner, are Democrats, and two, Phelps and Long, are Republicans.
 The astonishing statement is recorded that Justice Gray has drawn 1000 French novels from the Congressional library since his ac- cession to the supreme bench.
 Busts of President and Mrs. Cleveland, made of pulp, to which O,OOO of tattered currency has been reduced, are for sale in the corridors of the Capitol at Washington.
 The reigning Prince of Monaco, who is now 70, is blind. He lives principally at his chateau of Le Marchais, and he is rigidly careful in his expenditure, although his for tune is S9000OO year.
 Ainsworth R. Spofford, the librarian of congress, is 63 years old. He is of slight physique and dark complexion, with iron gray whiskers. His memory is the most wonderful thing about the capital.
 Josef Hofmann, the infant prodigy, has gained eight pounds while he has been in America and has given four concerts week, ,he average receipts of which, according to Manager Abbey's testimony, have been over | b2, 700 concert.
 l Ex-President McCosh of Princeton college is now devoting himself to literary work. He is at work on volume to be entitled | ''First or Fundamental Principles" which he thinks will be the most enduring of his achievements in philosophy. | James Russell Lowell was 69 years of age on the 22d, Washington's birthday. In a re- cent letter he says: 'I had the misfortune to be born on the 22d, and thus to be brought into competition once year with the most august figure in our history"
 Over six feet in height, with manly face, traight nose, bright blue eyes, and a mouth of remarkably delicate shape, fringed, not hidden by a brown mustache, skilled in all athletic sports, and famous at :54-such is a recent description of Mr. F. Marion Craw- | ford.
 When the Emperor William celebrates his o1st birthday in March, every soldier in the great German army will be presented with the Kaiser's biography. The cost of the work is to be defrayedR by public subscription, and the names of the subscribers will all be presented bound to the emperor.
 Joseph Chamberlain has fine collection of orchids which is valued at $5O,OOO. He has been interested in orchids for the last twelve years, and is as learned in Horticulture as he is ill the details pertaining to codfish. His orchid conservatory at Highbury is lighted by electricity and the floors are in- laid with mosaics