Lively Mrs. Hobbs

LientenaDt Colonel Thomas H. Maginnis (Pennsylvania national guard, retired) gives us interesting' partioulars of his grandinother, Mis. Hobbs, to whom The Journal recently referred as one of the few surviving widows of peninsular veterans. He says: "She is indeed a most wonderfnl woman, of 102 years of age. I was in Enrope two years eince and present at her one hundredth anniversary, and on that occasion she spoke to hundreds of people, read numbers of telegrama (one f rom the queen and Duke of Cambridge ). She reads five papers daily, as well as family prayer, and never uses eyeglasses. She is the ■widow of Captain Thomas Francis Hobbs, dragoon guards, who died of ■wounds received at the península, where his five sons and my oldest brother were ngaged. Mrs. Hobbs is my mother's mother, and my son 's son, Thomas Hobbs Maginnis, third, makes her a great-great-grandmother, Captain Maginnis's son being the fifth generation. Ihe is likely to live many years. She manaïcs an estáte herself and has all