The Portland daily press., 1891-03-12
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

The late John Scoville of Buffalo, N. Y,
left fortune Of $3,0O0,oOO, and among his
requests is $4,000 in trust for Donald f.
Warner for the erection of suitable library
in Salisbury, Conn.
A memoir Of the late Professor Austin
Phelps is in course of preparation by his
daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Ward. The work will include number OF
Professor Phelps's unpublished letters.
The experiment of a reading trip in CON-
pany is soon to be tried by Mr.. Alfred l..
Burbank. the well-known reader, and "Bill
Nye." Their tour will probably extend over
several weeks.
Mrs. Frank Leslie will make new will by
which the bulk of her fortune, amounting to
at least 5000. 900. will be left in trust for the
establishment of great institution for
the instruction of women, and the advance
ment OF higher education of the sex.
Mr.. Henry Savage Lander, the artist, VIII
recently made professional trip through re-
mote and savage districts of Japan, is the
grandson of Walter Savage Lander. He
penetrated as lar Yezo, the extreme nothern
limit OF the Japanese Empire and during
his journey which occupied over four months
he was subjected to much privatiOn and even
to dangers; but he secured three hundred
sketches and great deal of valuable infor-
nation.
Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller, who is devoted
member of several New York and Brooklyn
women's clubs. has prepared little book
which she calls The Woman's Club; Practi.
cal Guide and Manual. In this she gives de-
scriptions of different kinds of women's
clubs. with directions for the organization
OF such bodies, and a model of constitution
She has endeavored to make the work as
complete and as helpful as possible.
Mrs. Eleanor w. j. Baker, who was the
wife of Walter Baker. the great chocolate
manufacturer, left large legacies to a mum
Der of benevolent societies and institutions
| for women. Among those she benefited are
| Wellesley College, the New England Hospi.
| tai for women and Children, the Womail's
Board OF Missions, and the Woman's Union
Missionary Society of New York. She also
| bequeathed large sums to certain co-euuca
tional institutions. The sum Of her beauest:
amount to $1,00O.0O0.
John S. Kennedy, Wall street banker
proposes to erect building for $4OO, OO(
which will house the leading charity organ
izations of New York. He has bought the
property at the corner of Fourth avenue and
| Twenty-second street, now occupied by St
| Paups Methodist Church, and on this will
| place structure which will bear the same
| relation to the charities of the city that the
Bible House does to its religious institutions
1t will also contain hall for meetings, and
perhaps library-on charitable and general
topics.
One of the men prominently connected
with the movement among the personal
friends Of the late Secretary Window to
make some expression to his family of the
high esteem in which he was held makes the
following statement: "No public or general
appeal has been made or will be made in the
matter. This would have been as foreign to
their thoughts as 1t would have been OBJ
| jectionable to his family. The amount con-
templated has been realized, and 1t is proba-
BILE that 1t will be Invested In suitable resi-
dence at washington, II the family shall de-
termine to make that city their home'
One of the most interesting and striking
figures among the Oxford students is
Cornelia Sorabji, tall olive-skinned girl, as
slender as the traditional Indian princess
who weighed only one rose leaf Clothed in
her native dress of pale blue Grape embroid-
erea with gold, with its mantle draped over
t ner nead IKE veil and shadowing her as
tonlsnlngiy large and brilliant ewes. she
hanSs "a Strange picture among the rosy
Eighteen and Profe s sneiT If tailor gowns
the unisersity at Bombay, she still thirsted
for broader opportunities. and found i' Ser
way to Somerville, and attracted attsntion
by her brilliant examination papers for the
history and literary schools. The Govern
ment decided, however, that women with
knowledge of law was needed to collect evil
dence in the Zenanas, and she Immediately
entered upon legal course. After six
months study her papers on Roman law
were held by the examiners to be the most
remarkable and able ever presented by any
student of either sex In the university.
Prince Dhuleep Singh's two daughters are
also members of Somerville, and on its rolls
stand very many OF the most noted and
hears less of the work done by women at
Oxford than of those at Cambridge, because
of different system Of comforting honors
but here Is really found the best example Of
women freely sharing In university life, and
the best proof that neither young men nor
young women are the worse for that COM
munity of study.