Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-19
PEOPLE WHO ARE POPULAR.

LORD TENNYsoN recently remarked that one of his greatest regrets was that he had never visited this country.
 MIR. GLADSTONE has an unconquerable aversion to smoking. It is recorded that once he was offered and accepted cigar: cite from the Prince of Wales. He did not find the result encouraging, and has never been induced to repeat the experiment.
 REV. ROBERT COLLIER has presented Cor nell College with an old factory bell which has an interesting history. It was the bell that rung him to work every morning in his young days and fixed the time the days toll was over. The bell will be used at Cor nell for summoning the students to their classes.
 MADAME CARNoT, the wife of the Presi- dent of the French Republic, personally superintends the education of her children. With the Italian governess she speaks Italian, and English with the English gov erness. She reads the best literature, watches over the music exercises and keeps well informed of the movements of the outer world.
 PRINCE BISMARCK speaks all the most inn portant languages, including even Russian, which is by far the most difficult to ac- quire of the European tongues. Though 1t is not as a inguist or an orator that the German Chancellor is chiefly distinguished, his knowledge of languages and his power over an audience are no small addition to his fame.
 JOAQUIN MILLER, who, after he went into Wall street and lost his little pile, used to rail at the rich and revile leading New York capitalists, has become capitalist himself. Some years ago he bought two hundred they have become valuable for town lots. The poet says that he shall spend the re- mainder of his days on the Pacific slope. STURGEON, the eminent Baptist preacher, never makes any preparation for sermon. It is his habit to choose some text on Satur- day evening to be used on the morrow Thirty minutes, and no longer, he devotes | to looking up references. Of these refer ences he jots down few notes, and with nothing else at hand he steps into the pull pit on Sunday morning without manuscript l or thought of his text other than that given it during the half-hour's study of the pre- vious evening.
 THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH, says New | York correspondent, is a lucky journalist l and has never been forced by circumstance to work for a living. He likes to entertain his friends, and is perfectly competent and able to entertain every body he receives no matter what their station in life. He 1. absolute ruler as an editor, and has strong ideas about style. He has penchant fol set phrases, and he has prepared list o1 communicated words and phrases which l if found in manuscript, almost invariably means that it will never be put in type 1T MT. Aldrich's establishment.
 THE people of Paris, who have been i'm pressed with the conviction that Edison wa: the inventor of the telegraph, the telephone the electric light and the photograph, ani
 possibly even of electricity itself, vii
 probably think him more nearly demi
 god than ever since hls gift of 5000 for thu
 benefit of the poor of Paris. Mir. Edison il
 claimed to have received the greatest ova
 tion in Paris ever accorded to foreigner
 M. Jules Clarete even declares that it may be said of Edison, as 1t was of Humboldt that no nation can claim him as exclusive l lY it's own; hls country is the world.