Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-16
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Mir. Henry James is quite unwell in Lon don.
 ODonovan Rosa has talen to writing poetry.
 William Gladstone says he win never sit for another portrait
 William D. Howel.s will spend the summer in the neighborhocd of Boston.
 King Charles, of Roumania, is one Of the most expert trout fishermen in Europe
 Boulanger's book appears to have fallen fiat and is already drug in the market.
 Robert Browning recently refused $1 900 from Boston publisher for short poem.
 Robert Louis Stevenson considers Henry James the greatest of living American novel ists.
 Senator Shermant; estate at Mansfield, O., including stocks ard other investments, is estimated at $100,0N.
 Alan Arthur, sor of the late president of the United States, was presented" at the levee held by the Prnce of Wales.
 The Vanderbilts spend enormous sums on furniture, bric-a-br.c and artistic decora- tions, but comparasi vely little on jewelry.
 It is said that c. 4. Dana's royalty of 12N per cent. on each volume sold of the Ameri- can Cyclopmdia has yielded MT. Dana over $1OOOO0
 Le Figaro, of Paris, announces the elec- tion of the younger.L. Coquelin as president of the Society for tn, Protection of Beautiful CravatA
 Henry Willard ccni irms the statement that he is about to un1ert ake an expedition to the South Pole. Dr. Nsumayer, of Hamburg, will cooperate with him.
 Mrs. Langry now owns 5000 acres of farm land in Lake county, Cal, and MT. Frederick Gebhardt is creditett with the possession of 5000 acres more ad joining.
 Bristol cathedral ill Englandshas just been adorned with a large white marble medallion and tablet in memory of the late MT. Samuel Morley, the eminent philanthropist.
 The sultan of Zanz ibar has German wife, and by singular coincidence Germany ob- tains valuable cones sions from his majesty's government denied to other powers.
 Mir. J. Seton Carr, the English explorer and writer, has set put on journey across this continent by the way of the Mackenzie river and the Hudton bay company's pos sessions.
 M. Daniel Wilson does not dare to enter the chamber of deputies, but he holds on to his seat for Tourane and pockets the salary attached thereto; anl under the present law there is no way of gstting rid of him.
 Dr. A. L. Chapin, the venerable ex-presi- dent of Beloit college, who was recently stricken with paralysis, was graduated at Yale in 1887 and seven years later went to Milwaukee, where he was Presbyterian pastor for twenty-foIr years.
 The Duke of W4 tminsteris returned in "Bateman's Landowners in Great Britainn as her majesty's richest subject; and the young Viscount Belgrave, grandson of the duke, if he lives to inherit his patrimony, will, it is stated, be the richest man in the world.
 President Diaz of Mexico is making an honest effort to keep on friendly terms with the United States. Ths Mexican govern ment has announced that it will punish with death interferences by it's soldiers with American citizens or American laws when committed on their side of the border.
 Mir. Melville w. Fuller, who has been nominated for chiei justice of the United States supreme cout, Is reported to have visited San Francisco recently in secret. He went there on busine ss, and kept his identity hidden from the public because he wished to avoid being talked with by newspaper men.
 The Duke of Sutherland has become so impoverished by the agricultural depression in England and Scotland that he contem- plates selling Stafford house, the wonderful mansion which, whsn Queen Victoria en- tered, struck her as Icing so magnificent that she said to the duke: "I came from my house to yOr1r palacen