Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-12-15
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

An Australian millionaire named Manat, who went from London to live at the antipodes some years ago, died recently at his mansion in Victoria. He was the man who once seLt an order to England for ton of books.
 Miss Braddon, the novelist, has one great hobby - the collection of old china. She has series of magnificent cabinets of this at he: house in Rich mond, near London, and one room is known as the plate-room, because it is hung round with china plates.
 On the anniversary of Lord Nell sons death every October his flag ship greens, and the white ensign is freshly displayed as it was all the night long prior to the battle of Trafalgar, when he ordered it kept in view on every ves- sel of his fleet, to indicate that he would engage the enemy the instant he encountered him.
 -Erastus Wiman has gone to the Muskoka territory, in Canada, about three hundred miles north of Toronto, where he has hunted nearly every sea- son for twenty-five years. There the Dwight Wiman Sporting club owns two thousand acres, including many lakes. It has log club house, raises it's own potato crop and makes it's own maple sirup, and the fame of it's cuisine is widespread.
 The medal presented to Prof. Vir- chow at the recent jubilee is unique. It measures 118 millimeters in diameter, weighs five pounds, and is made from eighteen-carat gold. The front of the medal bears bust representation of the professor in relief. The back is adorned with an heraldic design, the allegorical figures of medicine and pa thology, microscopes, books, skulls and an Egyptian mummy.
 The total number of distinct words in the New Testament, excluding proper names and their derivatives, is 4,S29. A few comparisons may be interesting; The vocabulary of the Old Testament is larger. Gesnius' 'Lexicon,' emitting proper names and obsolete roots, con- tains 5,S1O words, of which GAP are marked 'Chald.' The 'Iliad' and the Odyssey together contain g, 900 words. Shakespeare uses 15,000 and Milton 5000. 0.-Presbyterian and Reformed Re view.
 A unique thing in books is prom ised to a chosen few. It is book con- taining twenty-three poems by the late Francis s. Saltus, Jr., the cratic young genius who died a year or two ago. His father will have twenty-five copies pub lished by Parisian house at cost of $15, 900, and will distribute them among the personal friends of his son and him self. The poems could not be brought out in this country Each poem is writ ten in different language. The young poet, whose brother is Edgar Saltus, the novelist, lies in Sleepy Hollow cem- etery at Tarrytown, N. Y., where he is to have SIP, ,O0O monument.
 -Tsui Kno Yin, the present repre- sentative of the Chinese government at Washington, has scholarly tastes, and is especially interested in astronomy. In order to gain time for study he is accustomed to retire at seven and rise at three in the morning, to enjoy the | perusal of his favorite authors while the streets are quiet and his attention not likely to be diverted by outside sounds. Mrs. Yin, tiny creature with diminutive feet, does not speak English and on state occasions is quite thrown in the shade by her brilliant husband She spends the greater part of her time in retirement, and is an adept in the art of intricate Chinese embroidery.