The Dickinson press., 1885-02-07
Personal GOSSIP.

Rersona1 Gossip.
Viscomte Bumont, who made an I'M.
mense fortune by the manufacture Of
champagne adopted the daughter of an
ltallan laborer, and at his death be-
queathed her his entire fortune. He
lett his wife, from whom he had lived
apart, but So, 900. His relatives made
an Intellectual attempt to break his will
JlJl Shampo, a Japanese newspaper.
declares that japanese noblemen have
untitled themselves by immortality and
luxurious living for the responsibilities
OF State, and warns them that if thew
DO not turn over q new leaf, they will
soon be as low in the scale of humanity
as are German princes.
Mrs. Stowe, tho wonderous~ storv-tel-
Ter, who has given greater usefulness
to fiction than all its people except Bur
yam, is again in health and homefuIness
at Hartford: She is now y years old;
nef husband is 81. At fifteen she was q
school teacher like Mrs. Blaine. in es-
sentlals she was of the west, where she
l1ved seventeen Years and where she be-
gan to write. Therefore her ]eadino
characters start in Kentucky and es,
cape to Ohio.
Rev. DR.. Howard Crosby, of New
York, did not begin his great life work
Until more than fifteen years after his
graduation from the University of the
City OF New York. He never attended
a theological seminary, but received the
degree OF Doctor of Divinity from Har.
ward before lie had assumed his first
passionate.
By the efforts of Ex-Governor
Prescott. of New Hampshire, 40 por-
traits of distinguished men have been
secured for the State House, Tor Dart
mouth College, his alma mater, and
Exeter Academy, where he received his
preparatory education. Most of these
are excellent licensees and of much
merit as works of art. In Exeter
Academy can be seen licensees of
Daniel Webster, Edward Everett.
Lewis Cass, Jared Sparks, James
Walker, George Bancroft, DR.. Abbot.
SO long its principal, and many others
OF great emimence. forming a gallery
OF names such as probably 10 other
academy in the United States can
boast.
The Duchess de Persigny, a rich
French widow, is a defendant of the
famous Marshal Ney. Her extravaganza
tastes led her to spend $40, 600 during a
trip to Japan, and $250,0GO for a villa
at Cannes. Her son has caused the
courts to take legal possession of her
property for fear of being left q penni-
less orphan.
A returned Western gold miner came
up to the counter Of the Miners Arms
on Front street, New York, q day or
two since and received 5000 in English
sovereigns for q fifty ounce bar of gold.
1t was the result Of twenty-six years
mining i'll Nevada and Montana. The
man was a native of Penzance in Corn
wall, and was about to sail for home.
Some of the provisions of the will of
an eccentric Canadian physician named
Dunlop are as follows: "To my eldest
sister, Joan, my five-acre field, to con-
sole her for beiag married to a man she
is obliged to henpcck. 70 my second
sister, Sally, the cottage that stands
beyond the said field, with its garden,
because, as no one is likely to marry
her, it will be large enough to lodge
her. To my sister Lydia my silver
drinking cup, for reasons known to her.
self. To my brother-in-law Jack, a
punch-bowl, because he will DO credit
to it. 70 my brother-in-law Cilristo-
my best pipe, out of gratitude
he married my sister Maggie,
whom no man Of taste would have talk
en-. To my friend John Cadlell, a sill
yer teapot, that, being afflicted with a
slatternly wife, he may thercfrom drink
tea to his comfort.