Where to Invest
Collis P. Huntington, of New York, directed his executors to invest funds in bonds of the United States, or in bonds, stocks or securities of any state north of the Potomac and Ohio rivers, and east of the Mississippi.
A Big Undertaking
Amos R. Eno, late of Connecticut, made a bequest to the Chamber of Commerce, of New York, to provide for, and assist, such of its members as might be reduced to poverty, and their widows and children.
The Term “Miss Nancy”
The term “Miss Nancy” is applied to a man who is over-fastidious in his dress, or who has effeminate manners. The expression dates back to 1730. There was a celebrated actress known as Mrs. Anna Oldfield, and she was buried in Westminster Abbey: she was familiarly known as “Miss Nancy,” and was noted for her extreme vanity and particularity in dress. Not only did she devote much thought to this during her life, but she was careful to provide for her proper attire after death, and, according to her instructions, she lay in state attired in elegant garments and the rarest of laces. She has had many eulogists; one poet says:
“Engaging Oldfield, who, with grace and ease,
Could join the arts to ruin and to please.”
And the poet, Pope, also credits her with saying to her maid:
“One would not sure be frightful when one’s dead,
And,—Betty,—give this cheek a little red.”
She died in 1730 in London, and left the royalty and half the town in tears.