The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-09-08
Gossip about PeODle.

Mrs. Bob Burdette has fallen heir to
$4,000.
Mrs. A.. G. Goodell of Salem has for
warded to the wife of President Garfield q
set Of seven beautiful pillows for the sick
bed. They are of different sizes, filed
with live geese feathers and covered with
fine white kid. Each has the initial aGn"
embroidered thereon. They were all en-
closed in linen covers.
Ajournalist of the Philadelphia Times has
been ona fishing trip. t'Somtimes," he
writes, "a raw-looking country lad, with a
hook and line made fast to a stick cut from
q tree. will bring in all the fish he wants,
while the tourist, with split bamboo rod and
silver platedreel will have to buy of the lad.
or go home without fish,,
The California newspapers chronicle the
death at Cairo, June 81, in the fortieth year
of his age, of General E. S. Purday known
in Egypt as Purdy Pacha, one of the most
accomplished American officers in the ser.
vice of the khedive. General Purdy was a
son of Lieutenant Governor Samuel Pur-
dy of California. Like his venerable faith
er, who survives to mourn his loss, he was
a native of New York and a near kinsman
of Mr.. John F. Purday, now Of New York.
Hereis a genuine tgood saying of Bish-
op Wilberforce's, which is newly in print:
When the present bishop of Peterborough
made his great speech on the Irish church
j 1863. he was sitting next to Wilberforce.
At the conclusion Of his splendid grafton
he sat down amid a tempest of cheering,
and, being somewhat Hurried, he took up
WilberfOrce's trencher instead of his own,
but. as lie was about to put it on, Sam,
stretching out his hand said, We will ex-
change heads, if you like, but not hats.
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omer royal of England, though yet quite
confidential assistant to Sir George Airy
since the autumn of 1879, but more popu-
larry as the able editor of an astronomical
periodical founded by himself in 1877, and
calledthe Observatory. Mr.. Christie is the
author of several important astronomical
and physical papers, and is particularly an
authority in spectroscopic matters, and has
made a considerable series of observations
for determining the motions Of stars in
the line of sight. A recent paper treats of
the systematic errors of the Greenwich
north polar distances. Early in 1860 he
was elected secretary Of the Royal Astron-
omlcal society, and in February last was
reelected to the same Office.
The late Matthew Vassar's benuest Of
$1,000 to the fund Of the Poughkeepsie fire.
men was in recognition of his having once
been a member of the force. His interest
in the affairs of that useful department was
always active. The $50. 900 granted for
scholarships to Vassar College is to pro-
vide for the education, perppetually, Of
eight young women, preference to be given
to residents Of Poughkeepsie. The $780,
600 for the benefit of the professorships Of
Natural Science and of Languages, it is
reported. was given with the condition that
if q were ever appointed to ELL one
of those chairs the money should revert to
the city treasury. and be applied toward
the payment of the city debt. He left HIS
wife $4,000 and the homestead. The esq
tate is roughly estimated at $3.50, 900, and
It IS supposed that the proposed Vassas
Hospital. as residuary legatee, will receive
about s250,00O.