Personal Mention

Fifty thousand per annum is the marriage dower of the young women of the Vanderbilt family. William J. Scanlaa, the actor who has been confined in the Blooming1dale asylum since 1893, has been pronounced incurably insane. The royalties on his songs were assigned to Mrs. Seanlan several years ago. The (Jonfederate veterans of Nashville propose to erect a monument in that city to General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Confedérate cavalry commander. It is proposed to unveil the monument during the Nashville Centennial exposition in 1896. The will of tre late Edmund Yates contaiged a clause in which hs expressed the desire that his jugular vein should be opened immediately after the physician had pronounced him dead, in order to prevent the possibihty of his being buried alive. Rosa Bonheur's paintings are scattered all over the worid, and not many galleries have more than one or two specimens. It was therefore noted as a curioaity that at the recent art exposition at Frankfort-on-theMain there were no fewer than nineteen of her paintings. Harvard ooilege a year a#o, as a measure of economy, dropped Or. Huntingdon, assistant in the laboratory and lectura room. His uncle, Professor Josiah P. Cooke, for over forty years in the faculty, sterns to hav noted the fact, for in hi will, which gave the collega are versionary interest in his 8500,000 eatate, thera is a codicil cutting off the reversionary inU est. And tha codicil is dated October 30, 1893, just after Professor Cooke's nephew, whom he treated as a son was dismissed. It is being told of Eugenie that on a late visit to Paris she went "ineog. " to a fashionable palmist to have her fortune read. As part of the necromancer's art is not to see hi fair penitenta, she had to put : -r hand through a slit in a ser' ■ ■ After quite a cursory examina' i. :!ia fortune teller said: 'M ■ : ■ i , your hand is so extraordinary : . ■ . one of two things must be tha train; either my skill must beat fault for once, and I see impossible event.H, or you must be the Bmpress Bug enie, for no otherhand could teil of such strange vicissitudes."