The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-08-17
Personal Mention

Ex-Governor Hartman, or New
Hampshire, who has just been stricken
with paralysis, was Universalist preach
er before the war, and gave up his
church 70 command a regiment in the
army OF the Potomac. He used to be
the ablest stump speaker in the state.
Nine. Jenny Lind oldschmit has
written a letter to the London Times, in
which she declares that the report of an
interview with her, printed in some
American papers aed copied into Eng
ilsh papers, was fabricated. Nosuch in
terylew ever took place.
General F. s. Spinner, ex-United
States treasurer, who spends his winters
In study and peaceful pursuits of science
In a cosy home at Jacksonville, Fla, has
returned north for the summer at Lam
caster, N. H.
Discussion having rearisen as to Mr..
Tilden's age, it is settled by reference to
the American Cyclopedia, which says
he was born in New Lebanon, Columbia
county, N. Y, on FEBRUARY 8, 1914. He
is, therefore, in his 10th year.
The Troy Times thinks Jay Gould
showed a lack of sound sense in paying
100000 for his yacht and only $50, 900
for his tomb, as his residence in the
tomb will be of longer duration than all
his yacht cruises. On the other hand,
it strikes us that our friend Jay did Just
right. A $500, 900 yacht will afford him
heaps of fun and be the envy of the
yachting world. An $4,000 tomb will
afford him no enjoyment at all, and is
a good enough tomb for any dead man.
Miss Ada Parker is a girl of nineteen,
who lives on a cotton plantation two
miles from Monroe, La. For the last
four years she has had exclusive charge
Of the place, upon which her widowed
mother, sister, and two younger brothers
reside, supporting them all by her in
dustry. She is her W overseer, super
yisine all work done in person, and no
brawny sol of Ceres knows better how
to raise a crop or handle labor.
Hurbe, father of the three great Mex
lean millionaires who own the most val
liable estates in the city of Mexico, be-
gan life as a mule driver. Senores. the
eldest son, lives quietly with his family.
The second, Don Manuel, is a bachelor
and spends most of his time in New
York and Paris. The third, Don Felipe,
married Senorita Elens Muruaga,
daughter of the then Spanish minister
in Mexico.
The amer in which Barnum first in
troduced Tom Thumb was ingenious.
The Snowman had a large pocket made
in his coat, and at q certain hour every
day Tom would get into it. Then Bar
num would enter the museum halls and
mingle with the crowd. People would
press about him soon and ask where
Tom Thumb was. Barnum would pre-.
tendto be astonished and inquire: "VVhy
isn't he here?" Then he would call out:
General! General! where are you?''
Tom would instantly pop his head out of
the pocket aud shout: Here l am, Mr..
Rarnuml"
The Hartford Times relates that as
long ago as l84l a daughter of John
Knickerbocker, of Waterford, N. Y,
was visiting Mrs. L. Fl. sigourney in
Hartford, and one evening she said:
when I was in Bridgeport last week 1
saw the finest, funniest little fellow
in the world. The friends whom l was
visiting wanted me to go to a children's
school to see the smallest boy that ever
attended any school. l went, and the
schoolmistress called up ''Charlie,"
when a little mite Of fellow came and
stood or her held.out hands and recited
his letters" That little fellow was
Charles Sherwood Stratton.
1t is not perhaps, generally known
that Pope Leo XIII is not only a writer
but a poet. With becoming modesty,
however he has confined his poetic efu-
sions entirely to the Latin tongue. The
st. James Gazette is not very enthusias.
tic over these productions. 1--WE have
looked through the volume of verses
just published" it says "and We gan
say with absolute certa inty that an
average Elton boy could give points to
his holiness in the matter of Latin yer.
ses. But Of cours as the work Of a
Pope it will have certain circulation,
and it is at least as we'll worth perusing
as the little volumes which formed the
stock of the Milan and Florence book.
sellers in the last ceutnry.n