UNCLE SAM'S FARM. 77 



The last time I visited Boston, Jenny Lind, the 

 " Swedish nightingale," was holding her nightly con- 

 certs. $600 was paid for a single ticket. 



Jenny Lind gave in the Tremont Temple in Boston 

 her first charity concert in this country, the pro- 

 ceeds of which were $7,255,09, and appropriated as 

 follows : — 



Boston Port Society, $1,000 



Association for Aged and Indigent Females, 1,000 



Musical Fund Society, 1,000 



Farm School for Indigent Boys, 500 



Charitable Orthopedic Association, 500 



Boston Female Asylum, 500 



Howard Benevolent Society, 500 



Young Men's Benevolent Society, 500 



Society for Prevention of Pauperism, 500 



Parent Washington Total Abstinence Society, 500 

 To Messrs. Charles & J. M. Spear, to be appropriated to 



the Reformation of the Prisoner, 255 

 To a poor Swedish woman, the mother of nine children, 100 



To a poor woman of Boston, 100 



Total, $7,255 



Jenny Lind also contributed large sums of money 

 for benevolent objects in the other American cities 

 which she visited. 



It is said Jenny Lind pays .£4,500 annually under 

 the English Income Tax. She has invested in the 

 British three per cents, about $750,000. Her 

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