Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-12-16
PEOPLE WIDELY KNOWN.

IALLEYRAND laid great stress on . knowledge of whist as indispensable to a happy old age.
 MYRoN w. WHITNEY, the popular Bos- ton basso, is proud of the fact that he was bricklayer for seven years of his life.
 A FINE monument has been placed above the grave of the late Oliver Dit son, the music publisher. It consists of Balls statue of St. John, on suitable pedestal.
 MRS. MORTON, the wife of the Vice. President, was Miss Anna Livingston Street before her marriage, and isa de- scendant of Lord Stirling, of revolution ary fame.
 STURGEON, the great London preacher, has correspondence that averages five hundred letters day. He is obliged to employ three secretaries to answer the communications that como to him from all parts of the world.
 WHEN Wilkie Collins was presented to President Grant two gentlemen made a bet that Grant never read one of Col 1ins' works. AS soon as the President met the novelist he told him he had read all of his works and thought that "No Name" was the best.
 MIR. PIERRE LoR1LLARD has invented floating stable, which follows his yacht horses, besides horses for cross-country riding and pack of hounds are accom- modated on this raft, and when the owner gets tired of sailing he anchors his stable, mounts his horse, and away he goes.
 MRS. GLADSTONE takes deep interest in politics. She concludes recent let ter to friend as follows: ''I must thank you in both our names, for it is only just that we should give you share in the glorious victory. It seems to us sig nificant and, looking at the facts, we see in it the voice of the people; but we must persevere."
 EMILE ZoLA, who has become fabu- 1ously wealthy for an author, even In these flush days of authorship, was ex- trsmely poor upon starting out and be- fore he secured place in Hachette's book concern; while writing his first romances he was often reduced to bread and water, and playfully remarks that he was compelled ito play Arab,' or to stay in bed night and day because he had no clothes.
 HENRY LABoUCHERE, editor Of the London Truth and NJ. P. for Southamp- ton, was for years rover in the wilds of the far West. Finally he settled down and, through family interest, managed to secure an att tacheship to the British legation at Washington, but at the end of two years he was dismissed for enlisting American citizens for the Crimean war at the same time with Champion, the British Minister. He then turned his attention to journalism, and after serv- ing on the editorial staff of several Lon don papers he started his own success full journal, which now yields him an in- come of upward of s5O,000 per annum. ROSA BoNHEUR, the great animal painter, wears the cross of the Legion of Honor, and M. Rene Peyrol, her brother-in-law, now tells us how the dis tinction was gained. The Empress asked for it for the artist, but the re- quest could not be granted. The cross had never been given to a woman, and tho ministers protested against prec- edent. But the Empress bided her t1me tlll the 1ollo"lnS year, Wnen, our- ing the absence of the Emperor in All geria, she acted as regent. One morn ing a servant hurriedly entered Rosa 1 Bonheur's studio with the announce ment that the Empress was below. In another minute she was in the studio borrowing pin from one of her ladies. The Empress then kissed the artist who, glancing down, saw the cross o1 the Legion of Honneur pinned on he' | breast.