Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-03
GOSSIP OF THE GREAT.

KING JOHN of Abyssinia, whose deat. was announced recently, died poor. His es tate, as figured up by the Philadelphia Press l consists of eighty wives and three barrels of yams.
 THEIEmpress of Austria is in precarious condition. She has abandoned all thoughts of a visit to the United States. Rheuma- tism, which Is no respecter of persons, has her imperial body In its painful clutches. NJ. CARNoT, President of the French Re public, is 8 whist player of whist play CTS. 1t is the one relaxationlhe allows him. self from the duties of his office, barring g an occasional visit to the theater or the opera.
 PRINCE BISMARCK has had his two sons, Herbert and William, promoted respectively to the rank of Lieutenant-Colon and Ma Jor. There is one thing about the old Chan cellor-when he sees any thing he wants he isn't difident about asking for it.
 PRINCE ALEXANDER of Battenberg, who was refused the hand of Emperor Williams sister, didn't lose his appetite and pine away and die. He told the woman who re- 1ected him that there were as good fish in the sea as ever were caught, and went and married an opera singer.
 THE artistic glories of the house of Marl- borough are said to be reviving under the
 
 Is spending her fortune in a royal fash ion. She is improving in English eyes, and her toilettes are reported to be more "thoughtful and elaborate" than when she first graduated.
 CARDINAL HAYNALD, the Hungarian pre- late, was leaving his hotel to go to his car riage, lately, when a child begged him for aims. He felt in ell his pockets without finding coin, and, seeing richly-dressed woman passing beckoned to her, asked for her purse, and taking from it liberal sum bestowed it upon the child. Then he thanked the woman gravely, and, entering his car riage, was driven away.
 MoLTKE's request to resign from the Danish navy, addressed to the King of Denmark, is still to be seen at the Danish War Office at Copenhagen. Moltke gave as reason for his resignation that he hoped to get on better in the German service, and also asked for three months pay in order to be able to travel to Berlin, which the King, however, refused. Moltke had to go with out.
 A SMALL man, less than medium height, but well made and with the dark hair and eyes of his race, a pointed Van Dyck beard of raven blackness-this is Abdul -Hamid, Sultan of Turkey. The mans gaze is some thing remarkable, at once soft and keen,
 
 ward, yet expresses both doubt and sus- picion of what it may find in another's.
 THE Emperor of Germany, not content with getting up at four a. m. and break fasting at half-past six with his family, has now had writing table, such as igused by 1nvalids, placed at the side of his-bed, and 1t IS his practice when he can hot sleep, which is frequently, to take pencil and paper and begin making notes. of the fol- lowing days work. It is not insomnia that keeps him awake, but attacks of earache, which in severe weather are always troublesome.
 THE latest romance about Alexander, late of Bulgaria, is that while he was being King there he was always attended by a tall and handsome jager, who never left him for moment and who on several occasions interposed between him and danger at great personal risk At night the jager slept in the ante-foom of the royal chamber, and at leastone plot to as- sass1nate the Prince Is said to have been thus frustrated. After the Prince left Bulgaria the jager disappeared, and it has since been discovered that tho person was . woman who was desperately in love with the Prince and had sworn to protect him.