The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-11-30
Personal Gossip.

Personal Gossip.
Mr.. Keehle, the noted English tenn
perance advocate, has just completed his
self-imposed task of walking 1000 miles
in 445 hours, walking an average Of 9 IA
miles an hour 10 show that the physical
system of a man who er uses alcohol
IS capable OF sust aiming greater and
more protracted fat igue than is the ply
steal system of all equa lily sound In &c.
customtd to its use ever in moderation.
Nine. Je my Lind still suffers much
from a neuralgia affection of Ter throat
and chest-the same which wears ago
lsed to cause her an agonizing headache
alter every appearance on the stage.
Senator Don Cameron, who is now in
Paris, writes that he is going to Ger
many, Italy and Spain before returning.
He adds that he will rot be back until
congress has finished its president max
ing. This is construed to mean that he
viii return next summer. Senator M.
Q. Butler viii maintain his pair with
Camerol except on political questions
and Senator Malone is ITO decide what
political questions.
q The sCKevalier sWikoE who is well
known in this country is reported by.
the English papers to have been striek.
On with paralysis, and Iris case is re.
tarded as u ~.veryfserious one. He has
mad Il remarkable and very brilliant
;areer, having always been engaged. in
ONE enterprise requiring diplomatic
XIII and the expenditure Of much
nergy. He was the dear friend of Ed
win Forrest, the actor, and travelled with
hlm through Europe. He took Miss
tannle ia!ser to America, and was often
'he conidanJ of princes,
Ex-Governor Stewart Of Vermont, a
member of the new congress on
the republican side, is said to be aphe-
nomenal orator and the most eloquent
man in the state. He passes two sum
mer months each year under canvas on
an island in Lake Chanplain with a
party of Mlddlebury ,rolessors and
keeps open house for multitudes of
visitors. They live on Lake bass and
good Old wine. He is immensely rich.
The Philadelphia Times a that one
of the clerks employed inthe postofice
Of that city r eceived recently this, letter
rom Postmaster Huidekoper: 81 am
| form ed that there is considerable dis
sussion OF political and other matters
whichtl not pertain in any way to post
office business during the time when
YOU are on duty. and that yousare one
of the principal d%isputants. This being
the case, | do not consider that your
services are worth $500 per annum, and
unless | am satisfied that you totally re
traln in the future from discussing all
matters not connected with the regular
business which may arise in the course
OF your duty you may expect your sal
AIRY to be at h rate OF $500 per annun."
A famous old soldier died in Water
ford, Ne, on the 2Sd ult., Alexander
Mills. aged eish ty-two years. He was
on board the Government transport Col
umbia, in The Seminole war, and also
WAS in service on board the United
States revenue cutter Jackson, situated
at New Orleans and Newport. He was
IN board a United States ship on the
Toast of Africa, and was one ofthe crew
who landed and riddled with bullets old
King Kraka, an African king. Soon aft,
er this ne visited Arabia and the Holy
Land. He was in the war between Tex
as and Mexico, where he, was severely
wounded. He assisted in the lombard
tnent. of Vera Cruz and other places in
Mexico and has been a sailor on board
the Macedonian. Saratoga andoYork-
town.
A work recently publishedin England
contains the following letter from the
Late Charles Darwin, the naturalist,
penned not long after his death: at
seems to me absurd to doubt that a man
inlay be an ardent Theist and Evolution
list. You are right abouS Kingsley. Asa
Gray, the eminent b~otanist, is another
Case in point. What my wnyiew VS. may
be is a question of no consequence TO
any INT but myself. But, as you ask, l
may state that my Judgment often fluc-
tuates. Moreover, whether a nan de-
serves to be called a Tiieiss depends on.
the definition of the term, which is
much too large a subject fora note. In
my most extreme fluctuations i have
never been an ATHEIST in the sense OF
denying the existence of D. God. I think
that generally, (and more and more as ]
grow older, but not always, that an Ay-
nostic would be the more correct de!
scription of my state of mini"