Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-22
INDIVIDUAL PARTICULARS

THE richest Chlnaman in Seattle bears the very inappropriate name of Bad Luckec.
 BUFFALO BILL recently wrote from Paris to a friend in Colorado that he had received proposals of marriage from twenty-seven wealthy Parisiennes,
 Ir is said that Millet never saw picture until he was twenty years old, although he often tried with bit of charcoal on the sole of his wooden shoe to draw the sheep he saw about him in the country.
 THE author of "Home, Sweet Home" died without a home, and now the author of the Homestead law, George w. Allen, of Ohio, has no homestead of his own, and Is about to die in abject poverty.
 THE Shah of Persia met and heard Mrs. Alice Shaw, the charming American whistler, at London, and was so greatly pleased that he gravely proposed to buy her and take her with him to Persia on his return.
 PRESIDENT HARRISON has been so unlucky in his choice of days for journeying from Washington that the people of the capital now nod thoir head and say: "It's going to rain to-day" whenever they see him going toward the depot.
 MRS. MACKAY gave the first of series ot farewell dinner parties at her home in Lon-
 
 spent in decorating the house. Among the Americans present wcre Minister and Mrs Lincoln, Miss Lincoln, MT. and Mrs. Me- Cormick, of Chicago aud Consul and Mrs. John c. New.
 A VISITOR to the home of Charles Stewart Parnell describes it as 8 comparatively small house. The great front hall is given over to billiard table and innumerable framed addresses and resolutions presented by sympathetic followers to their leader. The room in which MT. Parnell was born is sort of lumber room now, and contains only few empty wine boxes.
 ACCORDING to custom, Premier Bismarck always remains standing when talking about affairs of state to the Kaiser. As the old Chancellor suffers from rheumatism, this Is not an easy sacrifice to ceremony, but he has such a dcep-rooted respect for royalty that he refuses to give in to the intirmities of age in the matter. The Kaiser, however, never remains seated when Bismarck is making hls reports.
 THE richest woman in America is a res. ident of South America She is not only the richest woman in the Americas, but she Is the richest woman in the world. She has one of the largest fortunes held by either sex. This woman is Dona Isadora Consino, of Chili. She is the biggest real-estate OWucE III unu ooutA American fortunes are hard to estimate, but many people have put hers above $2O0,- OOO,OOO
 SENATOR JONES, of Nevada, has made an other strike in Southern California. Some | time ago, as he began to recoup his fortunes, he gave Mrs. Jones Q considerable sum of money to invest in her own right. She bought property in Southern California, which now turns out to lie above rich streak of the famous Mother Lode of the Pacific coast, within which all the great dis coveries of gold have been made The mine could now be sold for s1,OOO,0 900, but the lucky Senator will put in hundred-stamp mill and take out the gold himself. GENERAL ARTHUR ORWELL, wealthy citizen of Boston, is the champion base-ba l crank. He has retired from active busi. | ness and finds more pleasure looking at the Boston club play ball than in any thing else | in life. Early this year he contemplated an | extended tour abroad. When the Boston club took the lead in the race his heart bub- bled over with joy and he abandoned his European trip He has not missed game l in which the Boston club has participated since the league season opened, and he says he does not propose to miss game during l the entire season