Notes and Events.
A millionaire of New York, Mr Lazarus Morenthau, has found a new and romantic way for distributing some part of his wealth. He has founded a society to give dowries to young girls who are fatherless and of irreproachable character and anxious to marry steady men with out sufficient incomes to maintain them. Although the millionaire is himself a Jew, he generally extend? his benefactions to all religions ; and one of the mementoes of hi* long busy life, it is said, is a letter from the Pope commending his liberality and declaring he wae the first of his tribe he had ever known to give mon?y to a Catholic institution Ons of the conditions upon which the dowry is given is that the intending parties submit themselves to a meiical examination and are pronounced healthy.
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Manawatu Herald, 17 July 1897, Page 2
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138Notes and Events. Manawatu Herald, 17 July 1897, Page 2
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