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GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 



GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 



Slocmn, Gen. Henry W. See OBITUARIES, AMER- 

 ICAN. 



Smith, John Donnel, of Baltimore, Md., gift to Johns 

 Hopkins University, conditional on the erection of a 

 suitable building lor their preservation, his herbarium 

 and botanical library, having an estimated market 

 value of 35,000. 



Smith, Mary E., of Harris ville, R. I. (died Feb. 14, 

 1804), bequest for the establishment of a public library 

 in that village, the bulk of an estate of $100,000. 

 Contested. . 



Stanford, Mrs. Leland, of San Francisco, Cal., pro- 

 puM-d -rifts to Leland Stanford Junior University as 

 soon as the litigation over her husband's estate is 

 settled, a library building to cost $150,000, a duplicate 

 of this building for a natural history museum and lab- 

 oratory, a memorial chapel, a girls' dormitory to cost 

 $250,000, and a building for the chemical department 

 to cost $50,000. On the distribution of her husband's 

 estate the university will receive about $3,000,000, 

 and she has authorized the announcement that she 

 will bequeath to the university the remainder of the 

 estate. 



Stevens, Thaddens, of Lancaster, Pa. (died Aug. 28, 

 1808), bequest for an industrial home for boys in Lan- 

 caster, the residue of his estate, provided it aggregated 

 $50,000. After a litigation of twenty-six years, in 

 which a local court ruled that the estate, having 

 reached the sum named, should go to the object des- 

 ignated in the will, the Supreme Court of Pennsyl- 

 vania, on Oct. 2, 1894, affirmed the decision of the 

 lower court, making the bequest operative. 



Stever, George W., of Philadelphia, Pa., bequests to 

 Grace Church, the Church Dispensary at Southwark, 

 and two local charities, for equal division, $100,000. 



Stokes, James, and family, of New York city, gift to- 

 ward the erection of the \ oung Men's Christian Asso- 

 ciation building in Paris, France, more than $80,000. 



Stone, Mrs. Amasa, of Cleveland, Ohio, gift to the Old 

 Stone Church of that city, $15,000. 



Stout, Julia C., of Philadelphia, Pa., bequests to the 

 trustees of the Nashotah Theological Seminary, $1,000 ; 

 for missionary work in South Dakota and Minnesota, 

 $15,000; and conditionally to the latter work, a part 

 of her residuary estate. 



Strong, T. P., of Plainville, Conn., bequest to trustees 

 instructed to apply the interest to the relief of the 

 poor of the town, $78,000. 



Taylor, Mrs. Bayard, gift to the Public Library of 

 Westchester, Pa., the books, drawings, manuscripts, 

 herbarium, and traveling knapsack of her late hus- 

 band. 



Tennant, Miss Margaret, of San Jose, Cal.. gift, in 

 trust for a sanitarium for sick and infirm, irrespec- 

 tive of creed or sex, at Pacific Grove, Monterey County, 

 property in San .lose, valued at $100,000. 



Thayer, Edward 0., of Keene, N. II., gift to Oxbridge, 

 Mass., a public library building, cost, $30,000 ; and for 

 books, $5,000. 



Thum, Cornelia 0., of Philadelphia, Pa., bequests to 

 Drew Theological Seminary, for education of needy 

 atudente, $5,000 ; and to other Methodist Episcopal 

 institutions and to homoeopathic benevolent work, 

 $4,800. 



Trevor, Mrs. John B., of New York city, gifts to Riv- 

 erside Hospital, in Vonkers, N. Y., $13,000; and for 

 endowment of a ward, $40,000. 



Tyler, F. L., of Kansas City, Mo., gift to the miner- 

 alogical department of Northwestern University, a 

 collection of cryMals valued at $8,000. 



Underhill, Mrs. Elizabeth, of New York city, bequest 

 for a I'l-otcstant Kpisc-opal church with free sittings, 

 $75,000. 



Vanderbilt, Cornelius and Alice OK, of New York city, 

 gift to Yah- University, a new dormitory, completed 

 in July, ivij ; cost, between $',11111.0110 !m j $1,000,000. 



Vanderbilt, Mrs. F. W., of New York city, gift to 

 Newport i li. I.) Hospital corporation, a sum sufficient 

 to erect and equip a surgical building. 



Vansant, Lbraham L., of Philadelphia, Pa., bequests 

 to the Board of Home Missions and the Board of For- 



eign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, each 



$8.000. 



Wait, Orin Joseph, D.D., of Fall Kiver, Mass., be- 

 quests to 7 educational institutions of the Christian 

 Church, endowments aggregating $r>,500. 



Waterman, Nathan B.. of Hartford, Conn., bequests 

 to Trinity College, for scholarship endowment funds. 

 $5.000. 



Webster, 0. B., of New York city, gift, a building 

 for a free library on Seventy-sixth Street near Kast 

 river; and Edward C. Spofford, a selection of neurl\ 

 o.ooo books. 



White, Stephen Van Culen, of New York city, gift to 

 Knox College, $5,000. 



Whiteford, Mrs. Celinda, of Baltimore, Md., bequests 

 to the Catholic University of America, to endow a 

 chair, $50,000 ; to St. Agnes's Hospital, Baltimore, 

 $50,000 ; to Little Sisters of the Poor, $10,000 ; associ- 

 ated professors of Loyola College, $10,000 ; St. Joseph's 

 Passionist Ketreat, Baltimore, $10,000 ; Cardinal Gib- 

 bons personally, $10,000, and for St. Mary's Church, 

 Govanstown, $20,000 ; and to other institutions of the 

 Eonian Catholic Church, an aggregate of $50,000. 



Wiloox, Mrs. George, of Brooklyn, N. Y., gift for a 

 chapel at Mount liermon, Mass., for the boys ot 

 Dwisrht L. Moody's school, $'25,000. 



Willard, Catherine and Georgiana, of Auburn, N. Y., 

 gift to Auburn Theological Seminary, a stone build- 

 ing for a chapel, dedicated Oct. 24, 1894. 



Willard, Charles M., of Auna, 111., bequests to the 

 Academy, $50,000, and to the Presbyterian church, 

 $5.000. 



Williams, Horace, of Augusta, Me., bequests to Shel- 

 tering Arms Society of New York city, $10,000 ; St. 

 John's Church, of Clinton, Iowa, $5,000; St. John's 

 Guild of the same church, $5,000 ; Old Ladies' Home, 

 of Augusta, Me., $5,000. 



Wilmerding, J. C., of San Francisco, Cal., bequest 

 for a school of industrial arts in connection with the 

 State University, $400,000. 



Winthrop, Bobert Charles. See OBITUARIES, AMER- 

 ICAN. 



Woodward, Mary E., of New York city, bequests to 

 Protestant Episcopal institutions in Maryland and 

 New York city, $5,300. 



Wistar, Isaac Jones, of Philadelphia, Pa., gift to the 

 University of Pennsylvania, a building (cost, xlon.- 

 000) and an endowment ($150,000) for the preserva- 

 tion of his father's collection of medical objects and 

 also the Homer Museum. The building was com- 

 pleted in 1804. 



Wright, James Hood, of New York city, bequests, 

 conditional, to the Washington Heights Library, 

 $100,000 ; Madison Avenue Depository arid Exchange 

 for Women's Work, $10,000; Manhattan Dispensary, 

 the residue of a third part of a trust fund, of which 

 residue $100,000 may be used as a building fund. 



Zabriskie, Mrs. Sarah Titus, of New York city, gift 

 to the Protestant Episcopal parish of St. John the 

 Evangelist, at Newport, R. I., Zabriskie Memorial 

 Church, dedicated Nov. 22, 18V4. 



GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, a 



monarchy in western Europe, formed by the 

 three kingdoms of England. Scotland, and Ire- 

 land. The legislative power of the United King- 

 dom and of the British Empire is vested in the 

 Parliament and in the sovereign acting through 

 constitutional ministers responsible to Parlia- 

 ment singly and as a Cabinet. The Prime Min- 

 ister, who selects his associates, is chosen on the 

 advice of a retiring minister or by consultation 

 among the leaders of a victorious party as the 

 man in whom the majority have confidence that 

 with the aid of his selected colleagues he can 

 shape the legislation desired and pursue in im- 

 perial matters the policy approved by the party. 

 Usually he is the leader of the House of Com- 

 mons. Legislative projects that have been made 



