Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-04-20
Personal Gossip.

Ex-senator David Davis recently said
he should stay away from Washington,
and not follow the example Of SO many
politicians who have ceased to be mem-
bers OF congress, and yet hang around
the capital for the rest of their lives.
Miss Huldah B. Loud, of Rockland.
Massachusetts, lately attended a town
meeting in that place, asking that the
salaries of teachers might be raised. She
made two speeches, one in answer to
her opponent, with such effect that the
meeting voted a thousand dollars addi-
tional for the purpose she desired.
Within the asttwelvemonth four men
have died, who, at one time or another.
filled the office of postmaster general
namely, Marshall Jewell, of Connecti-
cut; William Dennison, of Ohio; Horace
Maynard Of Tennessee; and Timothy O.
Howe, of Wisconsin.
When Judge Taft last summer left Gin
cinnati for his post in Vienna he did not
understand a word of German. He now
delights his German friends in Cincins
natl by corresponding with them in
their own language. Minister Sargent
also went to Berlin with no great &C.
q%uaintance with the language. "A liter
airy friend recently sent to him for a
chapter in a reconcile German book,
and received from the minister's own
hand a graceful translation, with COM
mentS.
Rev. DR.. Collyer, OF New York, says:
"I have nourished the conviction for
years that a should do anything
which she felt called upon to do as the
helpmate of man, not only in the home,
but also in the great world, from being
soldier to being a preacher, a priest of
the most high God. She must answer
for herself what she does as we men do,
and she must be tried by the results
which she achieves. I wonder how
many of us would stand that test??"
There isa bright and intelligent news
boy in st. Louis who is a great favorite
among the members of the Cotton Ex-
change. A few days ago, some of the
digniied old members brought him up
IN the floor of the Exchange, and pro-
ceeded, after the manner of dignifed
old members, TO give him some good
advice and to tell him what be might
accomplish, citing several notable IN
stances Of great men who had risen
Iva aAo II wy ilStCI-
ed attentively and modestly, but as he
went out, said: 'tOh. pshaw! Wind is
cheap, and Virgins deals in it. I get
lots of advice, but I'd rather sell a doz-
en- papers, and then / know my bank
account will grow"
Frank Miller, said to have been the
inventor of shoe blacking, died at War
saw, New York, recently He was
born in Wallingford, Vermont, in 1904.
He went to Warsaw when fifteen years
old without a friend. He engaged in
tanning and shoemaking, and about
1858 invented backing and be-
gan its introduction on a
very small capital, peddling it from a
small. Frank Miller'a blacking is now
known in every hamlet in the United
States and in foreign countries. The ex-
tensive mandatory is 0 in New York
city and managed by his two sons.
A correspondent of the Cleveland
Leader called on John Mccullough, in
Washington, last week. The tragedian,
not noticing his visitors card and sup
posing him to be an aspirant to histri-
onic honors, intimated that his time was
limited and his charge for talking one
dollar a word. Then he demanded Of
the correspondent: "Are you studying
for the stage?" "No.n "Haye you
written a play?" NO photographer
''No!" "Life insurance? Book agent?"
"No!" "Well, WHAT" Newspaper.
See ca I'D. Health! Cleveland anxious.
Fayorite actor. Much interest," "oh,"
Quite we'll! Tell Cleveland, Good town!
Here all week! Go to Cincinnati! BIG
time! Previous engagement. Must 20.
Sorry. Good-by!n