The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-07-05
PERSONAL.

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The Duke of Nassau is said to
be the richest man in Europe
, richer even than Rothschild.
! The LAST INTENTIONAL paper
: says the late Mr.. Dickens is to be
stmonumented."
/ The Emperor of Brazil, on reach
ing home, after his tour abroad, is
said to have expressed the opin-
+ ion that "there are only two coun-
tries in Europe-England and
Germany; the rest is rubbish
Thomas Carlyle has come out in
favor of prohibitory liquor law
for Great Britain.
/ st. Petersburg has a prominent
female lawyer. in one Madame
krietzoff.
| MIR. William j. Florence is said
to be receiving at the present time
in London larger salary than was
ever before paid to an American
actor. Mr.. f. is very Intelligent
and agreeable gentleman. More
over. thrifty; and on interest-days
may be seen at the Treasury, in
New York, receivinga right good
" income from his registered Five
Twenties.
General Mott, formerly a gal
liant soldier in our army, and now
in the Egyptian, is considered by
the Khedive such o 6on-Mot that
lac has bestowed one of the high
est decorations on him.
Professor Fawcett, now thirty
eight, and in the prime of his pow
ers, was at social gathering on
the evening of the day when the
telegram announced the death of
President Lincoln, and heard from
girl of eighteen the exclamation,
at would have been less loss to
the world if every crowned head |
in Europe had fallenr' He asked |
to be introduced to this girl, who |
has been his wife for five years,
and with the exception of her
sister, Mrs. Anderso n, is the most |
popular woman in England, and |
the best of any of the lady speak |
ers.
Mr.. Gerritt Smith has furnished |
the money to build n handsome |
monument above the grave of DIR. |
Azel Backus, the first president of
Hamilton College, Clinton, New
York. He died sixty-siX years
ago.
After continuous pastorship
of thirty five years President Fin
ney has resigned his charge at |
Oberlin. He has never stipulated |
for a regular salary, trusting rath-
er to the religious promptings of
his people; and the resalt is he
has had all his wants supplied, |
and has $4,000 put aside for damp
weather.
The late T. Buchanan Read was
once dining with an ex-senator
from Ohio, who, like several other
persons residing in the United
States, was fond of a glass of wine.
A gentleman present who was not
given to tipple alluded to the Sen
ator's habit, whereupon his wife
replied, 81 do hate the sin, but I
love the sinner" On this iuci-
dent Read founded one of his
poems.
Mr.. Max Strakosch and others
are said to have bought the old
Harlem railway station at the cor
ner of Fourth avenue and Twenty
sixth street, running through to
Madison avenue, on which they
propose to erect an opera-house,
which for size and splendor shall
far exceed any edifice of the sort
in the United States. It is to be
completed by the autumn of 1878,
and Adelina Patti will be the open
ing star.
Mr.. James Anthony Eroudc, the
historian, writes to gentleman in
New York city thus:
81 design delivering ten or
twelve courses, of five lectures
each, in your principal cities, on
the relations of England and Ire
land. should like it understood
by the Irish generally that I am
neither going to fatter them nor
flatter England. The relations
which have existed, and exist still,
between the two countries, are a
scandal to both of us. Both have
been deeply to blame. / desiI e,
by exposing the faults on each
side, so far as I understand them,
to elicit an impartial judgment
from America on the whole case.
I hope, therefore, the Irish will
hear me out, and that if they want
to break my head they will wait
till have finished the course. So
far as l take q side, it will be for
the poor Irish peasant against his
Oppressors of whatever nation"
Mr.. Froude will arrive in New
York about October l.
| Mr.. Samuel A. Way, Boston
broker, whose whole life has been
given to ney-making, has shown
by the disposition made of his
money that he knew the value of
wealth in more ways than one.
His will gives the greater part of
his immense property to trustees
for the benefit of sewing women.
The money is to be divided into
two funds, one of which is to be
used in building comfortable and
healthful apartment-houses, which
are to be let to sewing women at
fair-paying rents, and the other in
the manufacture of clothing dur
ing the seasons of the year when
] sewing women fall short of work.
The clothing is to be made solely
for the sake of giving work to
needy women, and the profits de-
rived from its sale, as well as those
coming from the rents, are to be
, added to the general funds again.
/ The trustees are allowed a wide
} discretion in the administration of
: this grand trust and there are no
limitations upon them of such a
nature as to embarrass them In
. carrying out the spirit of the tes-
! tator's purpose, which Is to pro-
! vide work and homes to the sew
: ing-women who are able to work,
and to give temporary assistance
, to those who are not. The world
: can never have too many Samuel
> A. Ways.