The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1881-09-02
8 Personal Notes.

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Dean Stanley left $450,OO0. r
James Gordon Bennett has an income
of 100000 a year.
A lady living in Adrian aged q, is
said to he reduced by consumption to
the weight of only thirty pounds.
Mrs. Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr., who
is a worker ofbeautiful embroidery, has
recently sold one Of her designs for
$500. guf iieF ift
1t is said Edison holds between $4,-
OOO, 1000 and $5,000,000 worth of stock
in the various companies formed to
introduce his incandescent light. an
A Three Rivers woman who moved
a few days ago pulled up and destroyed
all the garden ''sass" she had raised, SO
that the tenant who, succeeded her,
should not use it. &C.. e
For the past two years Ann Eliza
Young, at odd spells has been telling
Michigan people what she knew about
the late Brigham Young, and she pro-
poses to keep the thing going as long
as the door receipts are satisfactory.
The studdies of James and Harry
Garfield have been uninterrupted since
the first week of the President s illness.
Their tutor expects to graduate both
and Dom Rockwell i'm time for them
to enter Williams college in Septem-
ber. - '..
In spite Of General F. A. Walkers
acceptance of the presidency of the
Boston Institute of Technology, he will
remain Superintendent of the Census
until the census of 1880 is4complete.
This is the condition which he made
before taking his new position.
Gov. Hamilton, of Maryland, has
good reason to be as mad as was the
Dublin fshwoman when Daniel O Con-
nell called her hypothenuse. The
Baltimore Gazette accuses him of "as-
sisting at the gemmiparous, fiissipar-
GUS and very equivOcal generation of
100 factions of the Democratic party"
We don't know what that means, but
it must be something dreadful.
Anna Dickinson has grievance
against the Lincoln Monument Associ-
alton of Philadelphia. '1t was who
proposed the monument" she says,
"and l gave the $1,000 which came
from a lecture to the cause in question.
The rest of the fund of $4,000 was
made up in small subscriptions, the
greatest being $50. When it came to
erecting the monument, I,who had Civ
Ell one-twentieth of the fund was not
even mentioned. The pamphlet which
tells of the association alludes to me
in no way"
Daniel Woods, an Indianapolis scis-
sors-grinder. .l04 years old, but hale and
hearty still, loves to tell how he went
from Nova Scotia, where he. was born,
to Ehgland,to serve under the Duke of
wellington in all his great campaigns.
He took part in forty battles and skir-
mishcs, including Waterloo. During
his long service he received 1872 sword
cuts, sabre stab in the eye, and elev-
EN- pistol or gunshOt wounds. Since
his return to America he has lived in
Montreal, st. Albans, Boston, New
York, Philadelphia and Indianapolis.
He has had seventeen children, of
whom the eldest sufTiv is eighty
nine, and the youngest, by a second
wife, twenty three years old. This is
the story which Daniel Woods tells.
and if he can 60 glibly through it
without changing color he ought to
abandon scissors-grinding and take up
diplomacy. us -.l h.,t 8 a'.,
The family tree of the Vassars will
be list of philanthropists. Mathew
Vassar, nephew of the founder Of Vas
sar College, after devoting many years
of his life to its service, bequeathed n
large share of his property to that and
kindred institutions in Poughkeepsie.
The college receives $4,000, the Vas
sar Brothers Home for Aged Men $15,-
600, the Vassar Brothers Hospital
$85, 900, and tie last named institution
is also made residuary legatee, giving
it probably very large endowment.
These latter charities are the work of
the two brothers, who bear the same
name as the Vassar brothers of the last
generation. Another charity, the In
stitute for the Poughkeepsie Scientific
and Literary Association, is not re-
membered in the WILL as the project
was begun after the will was drawn.
The surviving brother, John Guy Vas
sar, announced that he renounces in
advance all legacies under Matthew's
will, and will erect the Institute as a
monument to his memory. This is a
rare partnership in good works, the
recollection of which will be sweet in
mems months for MANY n day.