The Dickinson press., 1884-05-31
Personal Gossip

&eT5o0al GOSSIP
Mi. John B. Tolman % veteran printer
u Lynn, Mass, has given the Young
Mems Christian Association of that CITY
an estate valued at $50 900, STIMULATING
u q the income shall be used in promot-
ing the cause of temperance.
The widow of the late Gen. Thomas r,
Kane of Philadelphia has donated to
the board of trustees of the
Presbyterian Hospital the Thorn
son House at Kane, Pa, for hos
pltal uses, in accordance with the inten..
ton of her husband. She desires that
it be not restricted to sick and HELPLESS
paupers but that its policy be the most
liberal; The hotel property is valued at
MIR. Adam lockwood, of Uptown,
Mass, writes to the Boston Traveller as
follows: II have been a member of the
Orthodox choir in this place for sixty
three years last fall, and have always
been treated with the utmost kindness
and respect by old and young, and
should like to hear from others Of life
long experience"
On his recent birthday celebration,
Bismarck was offered the compliment of
m honorary membership in the Scien-
tifc Society of Berlin-a high distinc-
ton which Won Moltke was glad to &C.
cept. But the Chancellor c~uriously does
not approve of viviseetion. Nor has he
forgiven Professor Mommsen. So he
declined the society's offer. Moth
ingon earthwould induce me" he wrote,
Ito become in any way whatever the col
league of Virchow, OR of Mommsen.
1 Inn a Doctor of Laws of Gottingen
and an honorary citizen of Berlin. 1
Am satisfied"
Rev. Samuel u. Ferguson, a native
of Liberia and a full-blooded negro,
was chosen by the Episcopal House of
Bishops, in session at New York, to be
Missionary Bishop for Cape Palmas, in
Africa. He is the first colored man who
has been elected to this high office, but
white men cannot live long enough in
the malarial towns of Africa to do any
effective church work.
Marie Taglioni, whose death at Mar
settles, France, was announced, was the
most celebrated dancer of her dau
She was born on the 23d of April, 1906,
at Stockholm, Sweden, where her faith
er was ballet master and leading dancer
at the theater. Her mother was a daugh-
ter of the celebrated Swedish tragedian
and singer Karsten. Marie began the
study of dancing when s years Of age,
and on the 10th of June, 1922. made her
debut at the Vienna theater. From her
first appearance her success was phe-
nomenal, and within q few months she
became the queen of dancers. She.
could never be induced to appear in.
the short dress usuallyxorn in the ballet.
She became the wife 81 Count Gilbert.
De Voisins to whom she had a son and
daughter. The latter is Princess Mar.
guerite Trowbetzkay. In 1S47 while att
the zenith of her fame, she retired from
the stage.
The father of Mrs. Celia Thatcher was
4 crank. He had been defeated for an
office by the New Hampshire people,
%whereupon he decided to abandon them
to their sins. In order that he might be
able to witness their torture he bought
the isle Of Shoals and built a bit of shanty
no it, where he lived in comparative
solitude for q number of years.
Gradually the cabin was enlarged until
it became a summer hotel, though CON
Quoted in the most Indifferent as
to whether guests came or went. They
were never sought after. When the
daughter Celia reached the age of Is a.
young lawyer. at the island for his health,
fell inlove with her. Duly and respect.
fully he requested her hand of her faith
er who irritablyorderedhi him ofthe island.
Respecting the rights of proprietorship,,
the young man removed to an Adjacent
one, and, there erecting a little hut
avowed his intention of remaining r.o+,l
the daughter became Of age, v,an he
would marry her. Recognize, no. nrob-
ably, the fellows obstinap~, and strong
will, her father relented, t'tipulating onlyS
a years delay. That.r ,assips thew were
married. -"''AAs 'neJ "eAo