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Show PERSONAL PARTICULARS. The will of the late .Tnse Dc Lavcpa, of Santa Cruz. Cal.. contains a bequest : of run 1 estate in San Francisco valued l at more than v.i'ij,ei;:i as a sustiiininfT fund for an asylum for the blind, dumb. ; lame, paralytics and aged people of 1 both sexes. j Wi:.vvss Rkid. now Sir Wemyss Reid, i the editor of the Speaker, who was for ; a long time editor of the Leeds Mer-j Mer-j cury, is one of the most conspicuous men in the liberal party. His biographies biog-raphies of Mr. i-'orster and of Lord Houghton are finely done, and his one novel, "Gladys Fane," has had a fair success. Jamks An'TUOnv Fuoi'DF. is nearinr the end of his active life, writes a London Lon-don correspondent. He was born in lJS, and has outlived his generation. Tennvson, t.'arlvle, Newman, Dickens, Arnold, Kinney, Maurice, all the great men of the century, who were his friends, are dead. Uuskin and Gladstone Glad-stone are the only great men who shared in the intellectual triuir.phs of the middle of the century. With the possible exception of young Lionel Walter Rothschild, the eldwst son of Lord Rothschild, there is not a single son of the male Karons Rothschild Roths-child who is competent to take t he place of his father in the firm. The sons of the Paris Rothschilds are both physically and menta lly stunted, the result of too close intermarriage a practice the object of which has been to keep the money in the family and to prevent the business secrets of the live-headed live-headed bank from leaking out. The total fortune of this great house is estimated es-timated as being over 01)0,000,000. Philadelphia Press. |