Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-09
PERSONAL PlCKlNGs.

The late czar is to have . monument in the | Kremlin costing S65O,0OO
 The king of Portugal will make a tour of l northern Europe for his health.
 The Prince of Wales is again undergoing 1 treatment to reduce his obesity.
 The owner of The London Times, MT. Wal l ter, is.now on the verge Of a peerage.
 Paul Phillippoteaur tho cycloramic artist, has just celebrated his thirty y-eighth birth day
 Gen. Boulanger has completely passed out of existence as far as the French press is con- cerned
 MT. Lorillard, the tobacco man, is hunting in Florida with a costly yacht and several S2, 2,500 dogs.
 Senator Cockrell is credited with having used three gallons of ink in his private cor respondence last year.
 Senator Riddleberger shows no signs of age To use an athletic expression, he seems to be in very good form.
 John James Piatt, the Buckeye poet, has returned to his post at Queenstown, Ireland, where he is United States consul
 Pasteur's plan of exterminating rabbits by inoculating them with chicken cholera has been tried at Rheims with success.
 Kaiser William has contributed 700, 900 marks to help along the Berlin opera. It was precisely the amount of last years de- ficit
 Berry, the English hangman, has executed 113 persons up to the present tinle sixteen of them having been in Ireland and two in Scotland.
 King John, of Abyssinia hates the sight, taste and smell of tobacco, and he cuts off noses and lips of smokers and chewers in his donn:nions.
 The most costly private collection of pict- ures ill the west is said to be that of MT. N.ckerson, president of the First National Bank of Chicago.
 Ex-Senator David Merriwether, of Ken t.1.ky, the appointed successor of Henry Clay, has recently been visiting Washington. He is 80 years old.
 l Ex-Governor Alger, of Michigan, is said to own over 100 square miles of forest land near 1 Alpena, bearing more than 5O0, ,0OO, ,OOO feet of standing pine timber.
 President Carnot is credited with saying that any Frenchman who would declare war against Germany while Moltke and Bismarck are alive ought to be shot.
 Professor Van Benschoten, of Wesleyan university, owns one of the rarest gems of Greek pottery in existence. It is an Athenian | SdSo, Wu1CA Wdo 1OOU D. S
 There are four men in the house who part their hair in the middle. They are Raynor and Belmont on the Democratic side, and Phelps and Long on the Republican side.
 The German ambassador at Rome gets 95, 900 year. while the St. Petersburg and London embassies each pay e7,50o. The Spanish representative is to have 900.
 Forty-one thousand chasubles formed one portion of the pope's jubilee gifts. The Char treuse monks sent G2O, 900 in cash, and Cali fornia sent staff filled with gold dollars.
 A California millionaire named Buckley, says The Irish Times offered to make Mir. Parnell his heir, and, on being rebuffed, asked MT. Parnen to name somebody else.
 Prince Eugene of Sweden, has been study ing art in Paris under all incog. Sometimes he is recognized under this thin disguise, and seized upon by fashionable reception givers.
 All efforts to induce Governor Hill to try the toboggan slide at Albany this year have been vain. He took one ride down the chute last season, and he says that he never wants another.
 Gen. Longstreet, the Confederate soldier, is living at his country seat near Gainesville, Ga. He IS said to be growing gray and old, but he is active and looks after his farm with a watchful eye
 The author of the famous forged letters which caused so much trouble between Rus sia and Germany is said to be Count do Kat a!1azy, who was formerly Russian minister at Washington.
 One of the latest of Mir. Whittier's birth day presents was balsam pillow. The bal sam which it contains grew by the grave of Helen Hunt Jackson, in Colorado, and the pillow was made by an Indian girl.
 Hannibal Hamlin refused to don an over coat even during the recent severe blizzard in Maine, when the mercury sunk out of sight He so far compromised himself, how ever, as to put on a new pair of woolen init tens.
 It is said that George Gould does not spend over S1 ,000 a year on clothes. He is very modest in his taste and always selects good plain cloth but is very particular regarding the fit His younger brother Edwin is more of a dude.
 The most characteristic part of the per sonal adornment of Senator George, of Mis . sissippi is an old fashioned, open faced silver
 watch about as big as a tin dipper, which he carries in his brooches pocket, hung upon tht end of a shoe string.
 Sardou, the French dramatist, is building magnificent villa at Nice for the specia
 benefit of Sara Bernhardt. The three larg est and most magnificent apartments of tht | villa have been designed and furnished ant
 set apart for her.
 Princeton's class of '79 was the wealthies
 ever at the institution. It's members arc nov . considering the project of presenting the col lege with an elegant bronze statue of Dr. Me 5 Gosh, to be made by H. Gaudens. The COS will be about $25, 900. b James Whitcomb Riley began his caree , as sign painter, and for time travele' t through Indiana with Q patent medicin
 man. He looks more like comic actor thai a poet, and he adds many of the qualities o the former to those of the latter. 5 Capt. Smith Cook, who is candidate fo doorkeeper of the Kentucky house of repre- ] sentatives, is supposed to be the tallest ma tive born American. He is seven feet eigh inches tall, and only stopped growing seve
 years ago, when he was % years old. ] President Cleveland has adopted the habi , of slipping away from his desk for half a ] hour at about dusk for sharp walk of tw miles through the unfrequented portion ( the west end. He is said to have alrsady r, ! duced his weight about twenty pounds.