The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-11-09
Eoreisn News Items.

Foreign News Items.
The Prince Of Wales weighs 224
pounds, but his higl4ness sass that every
Morning his head alone seems to weigh
q ton.
The Prince of Wales has no fear OF
death. The nihilists have again voted
the removal of the car, and these
two distinguished p%ersonages a,e hunt
ing together in the forests Of Sweden.
No joke flourishes anywhere on this
planet where the British flag waves. At
Kingston, Ont, John Coulter, ofBattery
Il OF the royal army, and Henry Movers,
a sergeant of United States artillery,
traded uniforms. Subsequently Meyers
was arrested for having in his posses
o g uniform belonging to the Queen.
No humiliation is so crashing to a
Mexican gentleman as to be seen on the
street with yer the most i~nfnitesimal
bundle in his hand. He considers it
u~ndignified to carry u letter home from
the p~ost-ottice. The Mexican gentleman
probably doesn't mind being called a
darned fool.
Prince Teck, the worthless and profit
gate nephew by marriage of Qreen Vic
toria, is wandering with his wife on the
continent icog., seeking to dodge cred
i.ors. The Princess has again applied to
her aunt. Queen Victoria Tor assistance,
but her Majesty, who is evidently tired
of these opportunities has refused.
Prince Ieck, 1t appears, hes 80 disguised
tie Queen by his extravaganza and the
niaHnerin which he has conducted him
self that she has at last determined not
10 encourage him further by paying his
debts.
At a swell dinner given recently at
the Star and Garter, Richmond, Eng
land, by Lord Londesborrough to a
number of the ladies' of the ballet, one
Of these charming ]personages declared
she would not eat a guinea pigs egg for
anything. Some oticious guest, under
pretense Of informing her that the gui.
6 fowl, and not the guinea pig, is the
oviparous animal, drew the attention of
the table to the poor girls mistake. and
there was unsympathetic laughter which
brought the tear to her and the mis-
sile to her hand. It Was the heir TO an
ancient English ~baronetsy who received
the saltcellar in his mustaci,e, aud it
took the united efforts of three tilted
guests and a couple of horse guards to
smooth, out the trouble.
Lord Derby. speaking at the prize
distribution of the Liverpool University
College recently, passed a high eulogium
on Charles Darwin, who, lie said, was
one Of half q dozen men oil this century
who would I've remembered q thousand
years hence. lie enjoyed Mr.. Darwin's
pc rsonal acquaintance during his latter
lays, and was v more impressed by
the extraordinary modesty and digni.
fed simplicity of his nature than by the
great work he had done. Though Mr..
Darwin could not help knowing he had
made an epoch in the history of human
thought, there never was in any human
being a more entire absence OF egotisIn
and seif-assertion.
An Englishman named Graham, who
has been making accents of the Hima-
layas, has ~disprovedth the generalimpres.
sion that life at an elevation of O,OM
| feet is almost impossible. He has de-
monstrated the possibility of bot.,
breathing and living at an elevation Sc
veral thousand feet higher than Mont
L DldIC tlu III tiuSGSDllIE Gllc IhIlSut Ol
much, longer and more trying ascents
than those from Chamounix or Zefmatt
The prince of. Bulgaria, the most in
significant of European ,sovereigns, a
young man of twenty-six, who never
commanceda regiment intheifeld, poss.
esses thirty-seven decorations. many OF
them of a high order, and originally in.
| tended only for those who had distin-
guished themselves in action. 81,
Prince William, of Prussia, is about to
take command of a battalion, and thus,
after serving in the cavalry and srtille.
ry, to return to the main body of the
army-the iniantry-there, like all Prus.
sian Crown Princes, to continue his
military career. He will probably not
be raised to the rank of colonel till next
year. Even princes of the blood are
not promoted 80 fast in the Prussiar
his Swenty-fitth year, and is now major.
The reading OF newspaper accounts Of
hangings in France recently led to the
death Of the Young Vlcomte Louise de
Lorgero, heir apparent to one of the
oldest titles and largest estates in Brit
tany. He had been pursuing these de-
scriptions, and took it into his head tc
:righten his little sister by an impromp.
tn ILLUSTRATION Of the horrors of hanging
The Vicomte slipped the loose about his
own neck, passed the end of the rope
over the door in his fathers library, and
| with childiike mlmicry went through all
the preliminary forulalites OF hanging
himself. Unfortunately, his boot slip
ped on the polished oak floor, the rope
got damned in the hinges of the door,
and the weight Of his falling body so
frightened the moose that death ensued
from s%trangulation before anybody
could come to his assistance.