Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-09
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Judge Thurman has fortune of about $50o, ,o00.
 The Archduke John of Austria has been restored to official favor.
 Mrs. Langtry's father is reported to have had only $25 when he died.
 Prince Henry, the future admiral of the German navy, is watchmaker.
 Ex-Senator Tabor has an income of from $S, 900 to S10, 900 a month from one mine
 William R. Vanderbilt has left for Canada with H. B. Rollins on a salmon fishing ex- cursion.
 The Rev. James Freeman Clarke, D. D., willed everything to his wife, from whom, he said, be received it.
 From Washington by way of San Fran cisco comes another rumor that Senator Fair will presently be married again.
 Mir. R. B. Anderson, minister to Denmark, has received from the state university of Wisconsin the honorary degree of u. D. ! Dr. Daniel Wilson, president of the To- ronto university, has declined the knighthood proffered him by tho imperial government.
 Mir Melville W. Fuller, who has been nom- mated for chief justice of the supreme court, has gone to Maine with his Samily on vaca- tion.
 Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, will send to each crowned head of Europe a perfected phonograph. Such present will speak for itself.
 Edward Burgess, the yacht designer, has been made m M A. by Harvard. It was only short time ago that his wife made him PA.
 Sir Charles Halle and Sir Edward Stanier, the two musicians who were knighted by the bqueen a few days ago, arc both robust and hearty men, although considerably beyond middle age.
 Cardinal Mazzofanti the linguist, who is said to have known hundred languages, de. clared that he never forgot a word he had once learned.
 Marshal Leboeuf was a soldier to the end. His last words were: Let my regiment march past. I want to sec my artillerymen, every soldier of them"
 The Rev. Dr. the Marquis of Donegal hos lately celebrated the eighty ninth anniversary of his birth The n,archioness is eighty-six and they have been married sixty-sever years.
 Count Maurice Esterhazy has been put un der guardianship to check his mad extrava gance. He owns free and clear of encuna brances, more than 220, 900 acres of land 1T Hungary, and can travel in a straight line more than fifty miles without quitting hi! estate.
 Isaiah V. Williamson, of Philadelphia, i reported to be the wealthiest bachelor in tht United States. He has fortune of 500 900, 900, and gives away a large portion of it an nually in charities. He is plainly dresseS old gentleman, very modest and retiring ii his ways.
 Baron Albert Rothschild has purchased tht largest mirror telescope that has been con structed at Paris for 4O 900 florins, and pre- scented it to the Vienna observatory. 4 gal lery for it has also been built and endowed by the baron. The total cost of this scientific gift will amount to upward of GS, 900. Maximilian, duke in (not of Bavaria, i almost hopelessly i'll. H e is so years old ant was to celebrate his golden wedding ami versary next fall. His third child is the Elm press of Austria. The fourth, Prince Charle | Theodore, who, by the remuneration of right made by the eldest son, is heir to the title, i eminent as q surgeon. | $. G. W. Benjamin, ex-minister to Persia has settled down to his old life of art and let | terS. He has been painting a number O. l marine pictures lately, and is now on his wa, 1 to Florida to amass material for history O l that state that is soon to be published by Boston house. Next winter he intends t. take studio and devote much of his time t, painting.
 Seabrin Stroke, an eccentric old cobbler il Jefferson, Ga, who still keeps at his trade although s9 years old, is a veteran of thre | wars. He beat drum in Jackson's army a tho battle of New Orleans, fought in th, Mexican war and served with credit througl the war of the rebellion. Despite his ad | vanced age he makes as good q shoe as an, l shoemaker in the state.
 Dr. Morell Mackenzie takes deep interes in musical matters, and is the director of th l Lyric club of London. He never takes pay for professional services to singers. He ha occasionally asked vocalists of phenomena voices or singers the formation of who's l throats seemed to him unusual, to subjec 1 themselves to his examination as persona 1 favor, and thus be has become acquainted 1 with almost all the great singers of Europe and has cured them of occasional troubles.
 DAUGHTERS OF EVE.