Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-12

 PECULIARITlES OF PEOPLE.

QUEEN VICToFIA, who travelled to France as Countess of 3almoral, took her own bed and bedding with her, a custom which her Majesty meyer breaks, even if invited to stay in royal palace.
 MRS. POLK, now eighty-five years old, wears black kid gloves all day and walks with gold headed cane. She never leaves Nashville nor goes anywhere in that town, except to church on Sunday.
 JUDGE TRACY, the Secretary of the Navy, is an enthusiast in horsefesh His especial hobby is the trotter, and of the best strains of this blood he professes to be as good a judge as he is conceded to be of law. JAMES WHITCoMB RILEY is authority for the statement that Private Secretary Elijah Halford was never known to whistle in his life. MT. Riley and Mir. Halford were brought up together in the same newspaper office, and it may therefore be assumed that Mir. Riley knows whereof he speaks.
 JOHN JACOB AsToR has all his life been firm believer in the efficacy of pedestrian exercise as means of health. He rarely enters a public vehicle, no matter what the weather may be, and seldom makes use of his own private carriage, one of the plainest and most inconspicuous of all the million aires in New York.
 Ex-SENAToR PALMER, the new Minister to | | is often seen with one in each overcoat f pocket and another peeping out of his vest. | He has no children, and, as he and his wife | are of an affectonate disposition, their l houses in various parts of the country are 1 regular menageries.
 GENERAL SHERMAN recently said, in dis cussing the subject of death with his friend l General Slocum: "I Iam a coward in the face of pain, and can not bear to think of the 1 physical sensations that may attend my death-the choking in the throat the paraly- SIS here, the torture there; but that aside, l think of death as though it were sleep and rest, and I have no feeling whatever of dread of the hereafter"
 MRS. STOREY, widow of Wilbur F. Storey, of the Chicago Times, is said to have large cedar chest filled with lace handkerchiefs, all made by French manufacturers at the i special order of her husband, who disliked to have her use any other kind. Another of his whlms was that she should have a l quart of unset precious stones, and he bought and bought until jewel casket, made to hold just a quart, was filled.
 IT is the pet ambition of the Princess Maria Theresa, of Bavaria, to own more dogs and know more people than any other mem. Der of tho royal families of Europe. She is unmarried and travels with maid of honor | and a chamberlain, to whose tender mercies arc confined the fourteen animals that com pose her travelling menagerle. When in | Madrid she carried a tame rat in her arms when she walked abroad, and was followed by her chamberlain, who was chained to a ! small cinnamon bear.
 THE New York World says: "A great many people wonder why MT. Cleveland was so anxious to settle down to hard work as a lawyer, instead of taking a vacation after reslgning the Presidency. The fact is that MT. Cleveland is not happy when he is not busy. He rejoices in the scratching of 6 pen, the rustic of important papers, the sub dued sounds of earnest conversation, the tonic influence of the presence of far-reach ing affairs, and against all this the charms of leisure weigh with hlm not at all."