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...making of "freak" wills has become a common proceeding. Old persons of large fortune and eccentric taste are heard of daily who have left behind them, when they departed this life, some charitable gift to be administered in its own peculiar way. In one newspaper yesterday, at least two such cases offered news for Sunday readers. The first was of a Marblehead resident whose will provided a fund, the income from which should be divided annually among the fathers of twins born in the town during that year. The other was the bequest of a wealthy New York woman, whose...
...land-grants, and reservations" is the statement in its preamble, but outsiders have pronounced it a poorly disguised attempt to rob the Indians of what little land they have left. And this, in spite of the possession by each chieftain of the tribe of a silver-headed cane--a gift received by his predecessor from Abraham Lincoln as a guarantee of ownership, for ever and ever...
Count Paul Teleki, former prime minister of Hungary, has presented to the Harvard College Library a collection of 53 volumes and pamphlets about Hungary, as part of a gift intended to relieve the scarcity of Hungarian material in American universities and public libraries...
...gift is similar to one of more than a thousand Austrian books and pamphlets sent last year to the Library by Professor R. Wettstein, vice-president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, through the generosity of Wilhelm Ofenheim, a promoter of science of Vienna. The Austrian gift included books on a wide range of subjects published in Austria during the war, including volumes on history, literature, law, finance, politics, and medicine...
...give empty words of thanks or flattery, nor try to add to what he has already said. With a graceful gesture he turns over the complete proceeds of his lectures to a fund which is being raised "for sending American boys to France, and bringing our students here". A gift ends his tour of America-a gift which strikes a note of sincerity characteristic of the man, and which adds more to his plea for closer relations between the two countries than a hundred lectures could have done. It calls to mind a passage from his first speech...