Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-08-12
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Count Leo Tolstoi, the Russian poet
and novelist, whose serious illness is re-
ported, can handle farm implements as
well as the pen, and is, withal, skill
full shoemaker. During the last winter
and spring he has worked necessarily
among his famine-stricken countrymen.
Mime. Adelina PATHS diamonds
alone have been valued at $375. 900.
Empress Eugene gave her a comb set
with twenty-three diamonds as q we'd
ding present when she married the
marquis de Caux. A gift from Queen
Victoria was superb diamond locket-
Cardinal Howard is the only car
dinal now in England. He il a brother
of the duke of Norfolk. and lives in re-
tirement at Arundel, the seat of the
duke He has completely lost his rea
son. At one time he used to off1ciate at
St. Peters, Rome. he is a splendid
looking man, with a handsome face and
fine figure.
The chances are that the man who
wrote an immortal book may have
something worthy to say even in a
posthumous book, Henry de Roths-
child has secured a newly dis
covered manuscript from the pen of
lie Sage, author of "Gil Bias" 1t
is an opera-comique, entitled "Arle-
quin Colonel" and is written with
remarkable elegance and wit.
Prof. Skeal, who maintains the
orthodox belief that the study of Latin
and Greek is serviceable for improving
students style in English compost
ton, thinks also that there is some
thing to be said on the other side.
Whatever the student of Latin and
Greek might do toward improving the
students style, the study of languages
and English literature would do more.
The little queen of the Netherlands
has been made chief of the Second reg
ment of Westphalian infantry, known
as the "Prince Frederick of the Neither
lands, by Emperor William of Germany.
The late Prince Frederick of the Meth
erlands, from whom the regiment took
its name, was its chief for sixty years.
The regiment has an honorable history
in German military annals, and distin-
guished itself at Guiappe during the
late Franco-Prussian war.
When King Arthur visited the Prince
| of Monaco recently, the latter ruler not
only turned out his full army to receive
| the guest, but he reinforced the organ
ization by borrowing a few policemen
| from the city of Nice. The governor
| general of Monaco, the Baron de Faren-
| court, presented himself in his new uni
| form made for the occasion, which the
sovereign visitor is said to have declared
| to be the most magnificent which ne
had yet seen in the west.
James II. Miller, postmaster al
Gauley Bridge, w. Va, was appointed
by President William Henry Harrison
over fifty years ago, and is probably the
| oldest postmaster in the country. HE
has retained his Office through all the
| political changes of the last half cen
fury, and at the age of eighty-six years
is as prompt and efficient as any post
master in the state. During the late
war Mr.. Millers Office was several time.
within the confederate lines. but ht
was never disturbed or annoyed in any
| way
| -Maurel has publish ed book OF
singing, which, he says, is passing
| through a crisis, due to the changed
condition of modern life. In old day
the profession of singer offered few at
fractions comparatively, and those wen
into it only who had real vocation TO
it, and they prepared themselves by
long and rigorous course of study
Nowadays business is the leading me
tive. Singing is looked on less as ar
than as way to make money, and pee
pie push into the profession in ever
state of crude preparation.