The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-02-05
Personal Mention.

Mr.. Vanderbilt owned what is pro,s
ably the most valuable private 81
ection of modern paintings IN i.
world. It's value is well over am;u;os
and a half dollars. The v Meissa
nlers alone are estimated at S18s
900. The works number a little oya.
200 and are many OF them of capital
Importance.
pension OF 81, 500 a year has been
granted to Professor Huxley oin rec.
ignition of his eminent scientific .er.
vices He has accep ed it.. He =.
tains, at the request of the Lords -
the Committee of Council on Ednc.'
ton, the positions of Dean and Hon.
orary Professor of Biology in tha
Normal School of Science and RovaI
School of Mines at South Kensinpton
From all other publicp ositions he haa
retired.
Han Ira, a banker OF Canton, il
supposed to be the richest man in the
world. He pays taxes upon an estate
of $50, 900, 900, and his total wealth
is estimated at q figure that would
make him a Millionaire.
The domestic felicity OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Hendricks was a proverb in In.
diana. At a wedding ceremony in
S~helbyville three years ago the
officiating clergyman, after shaking
hands with the newly married couple.
gave them his benediction in these
words: May you be as happy as
Mr.. and Mrs. Hendricks are.'
Miss Frida Unger, the daughter OF
Charles Unger, a we'll known and
wealthy banker of New York City, was
recently married to Joseph Merklen,
an instructor in a. riding-school which
Miss Unyer attended. She was 20
ears old and Merklen was so. They
have gone to Europe.
Commodore Vanderbilt's advice to
his son William was: "Don'tyouever
sell anything you haven't got nor buy
anything you can't pay for" Here is
q pointer for young men of speculative
tendencies.
Mr.. Philip d. Armour, OF Chicago, is
so years old, and vas originally from
Watertown, N. Y, whence he went to
California in 1849. During the war he
made a moderate fortune in grain at
Milwaukee, He now employs 5000
men, and in 1884 exported sec, 000,-
900 worth of food products.
DR.. Newman says that OF all the let
tiers received by Gen. Grant fromgood
people who we're solicitous about his
spiritual welfare the one which touched
hun most was written by an aged
Quaker and ran as follows: "Friend
Grant, am a stranger to thee. |
would not intrude upon thy suffering,
but am anxious for thy soul. Trust
in Jesus, He will not fail thee"
Congressman Golf, the only Repub-
lican member from West Virginia, has
fallen heir to $500, 900 by the death
of his uncle, after whomh he was named.
The uncle, an old gentleman, was one
of the richest men in West Virginia,
and he was a Shareholder before the
war, but began to pay wages to his
slaves from the date OF the emancipa.
ton proclamation, and not one OF
them ever left his employment. In
his Will he provides handsomely fol
them all.
Charles H. Tweed, who died atPitts'
burg, had peculiar eccentric views
Among other things in his will he said
mo flowers at the funeral, Grape or
the door, nor monument nor stone &c
mark the grave. The first is cheap re
spect, the second heathenish, and thu
last | cannot afford What money
there is must be devoted to useful pur
poses"
Patti, the queen OF song, has, TO-
the first time in her career, broker
down, and been Obliged to return <
her loved mountain home to recruit
The pictures drawn of her life there a.
OF that OF most prima donnas. are ROSY
GctioI.s. Her life at Craig-y-Nosl is on
Of almost complete solitude, as n !
not visited byRny OF the gentry arount
in consequencUbfher NicClinl relations
She spends the morning IN readln
and writing.