Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-16
DEMOCRAT. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 16 1ssq
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
Vice President-elect Morton is an accom- plished whist player.

Vice President-elect Morton is an accom- plished whist player.
 At cabinet meetings Secretary Bayard al- ways occupies rocking chair.
 Rev. Phillips Brooks delivered a sermon re- gently of 5000 words in fifteen minutes.
 Mir Blaine will not sit down with thirteen people at the table. He has great faith in dreams, and has a sign for almost every oc- currence of life.
 John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia never drinks, smokes, drives fast horses, goes yacht ing nor plays billiards He never went to . theatre or circus.
 Newman Hall the other day received a let ter from Mir Sturgeon in which the celebrat- ed Baptist preacher remarked: Something of the comic attends solenlnity when am in it."
 Col. Pevtsoff is about to start to take up the exploration of Thibet, in which Prjeval- ski lost his life. Joseph Martin, a French man, will also soon attempt to enter Thibet from the side of Pekin
 Ono of the fancies of the king of Wurten- berg is to ascertain whether the moon is in habited by causing photographs to be taken of that luminary and then magnifying the negatives hundred thousand fold.
 Capt Edmund L. Zalinski, whose expert ments with the dynamite gun have attracted widespread attention, was born in Poland about forty-two years ago. He joined Gen. Miles staff in 1864, when mere stripling.
 "Chippy Norton," one of England's most eminent sports, was arrested in Monte Carlo for an attempt at ready money betting." He merely showed e1OO note, but it was not in the gambling house The Duke of Hamilton got him clear.
 President Cleveland, it is asserted, has never crossed the threshold of moro than two Washington homes outside the cabinet circle. He has never seen congress at work and in four years he has not onco entered depart ment building.
 Cardinal Haynald, of Hungary, who is one of the greatest botan;sts ia Europe, has pre- sented his celebrated herbarium to the Hun garian National museum It contains over 5000 American specimens.
 The present sultan is one of the most enthu- siastic chess amateurs in Europe He will play the game for hours without intermis- sion and will not allow any matter of state to interfere with the problem in which at the time he is engaged.
 A thoughtful and worthy New Years gift was that of Prince Charles of Sweden to his mother, the queen. It was set of furniture
 
 has been placed in the queens name in the Royal hospital at Stockholm.
 C. T. Studd, the famous athlete, who at tracted attention one of the foremost lead CTS in the mission movement in English uni versailles, has allied himself with Gen. Booth, of the Salvation Army, and will lead ill an aggressive movement in China.
 Sir Arthur Sullivan when a choir boy of the Chapel Royal, composed an anthem, and it so pleased the bishop of London that he gave the little author half sovereign. This coin MT. Sullivan wears around his neck as talisman while composing, till this day.
 The best point of the evening at the Phelps dinner in London is thought to have been in Sir Frederic Leighton's speech, when he said: "As artist he drank to another artist q gentleman who had e1celled in one of the most admirable of all arts, the art of making many friends"
 The old Marquis of Donegal, who died the other day in his Goth year, was a typical Irish nobleman such as Lever depicts in his novels. He was rich and spent his money in his own country, where he lived the greater part of his life. His son, Lord Belfast, who succeeds him, sympathizes with home rule.
 In a letter to the Harvard society of Balti- more, Md, James Russell Lowell says that his health is not what it was. He writes: II have been compelled to avoid, so far as could, all excitement and fatigue. I have therefore steadily declined all invitations that would ill any way expose me to the risk of either"
 The ameer of Bo&hara has made stipula- tion with the Russian government that while articles of Russian manufacture are to be freely admitted into his dominions, no intoxi- eating drinks arc to pass the barrier unless they are intended for the use of members of the Russian diplomatic agency or other Europeans.
 A few days since there was sold on the boulevard of Paris a small cake for 1 sou, which boro this inscription: Souvenir of the Election of Jan. q, lSS9-Boulanger: What he will promise-Eat and you will find what be will give" The cakes sold rapidly, for they appeared appetizing, but the first mouth full told the story. They were filled with hay.
 On April 10 Gen. Lew Wallace will be 62 years old His father was Governor David Wallace, of Indiana and the author of Ben Hur," was born at Brookville, ill that state. He was volunteer ill the Mexican war then q lawyer, then state senator, next volunteer in the late war, adjutant general of the state and colonel of the Eleventh Indiana infantry
 MT. Blowitz, the European correspondent of The London Times, is described as a short, stout, middle aged gentleman, who speaks with very marked foreign accent, and wears fantastic and eccentric clothes. mixture of gold digger, corsair and buccaneer. His favorite ''gct up" is red flannel shirt with low loose collar and crest embroidered on his bosom, scarlet and blue striped Turkish trousers tucked into crimson top boots and a big Astrachan cap on his head.