The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-12-14
Personalities.

Within period of two weeks, major
the Salvation army was fined for kick
ing boy, captain for savagely thrash
forming a similar operation on a jackass.
According to the newspaper reports,
the sentences we're received by the
army with shouts of "hallelujah," as
though to kick boys and to beat ponies
and donkeys were deeds worthy of
praise.
now on his way to China to assume
command of the Asatic station, has
been appointed an acting rear admiral.
This is the first instance since the rebel
lion where an officer of 10 Her rank has
been designated to act as a rear admiral.
Benjamin Fitch's last gifts to the city
of Butftlo were checks for sums aggre-
eating $4,000. The checks were mailed
IRON New York last week, with note
pointing out certain improvements to
be made in the Creche building. His
gifts for the benefit of the poor in Buifa-
10 aggregate about $45O,OOO. The Fitch
home at Darien, cost S2OO, 900.
Condolences inevitably form one of
the newspaper topics of the London
SILLY season." and Canon Venables
makes public through the Times one
which he considers as wonderful as any
of which he has heard. Forty years ago
he was riding with party OF friends
from Palestrina to Frascati, when he
dropped his eye-glass. They were about
giving up long search when one of
them remarked that the glass ought to
reveal itself by the reflection of the sun.
light, and to illustrate this he threw a
coin into the air. A sharp click was
heard and there lay the coin on the eye
glass.
A London clergyman who does not be-
lieve in offering to bride the "alterna.
tive of slavery or perjury" and who al
ways omits that wicked expression"
"obey" from the marriage.service, writes
to the Pail Mail Gazette about we'd
ding in a nelghborilg church which was
attended by an omlnous incident. The
bride being dumb when she should have
uttered the dreadful word, the bride
groom bade the clergyman continue:
''for." said he, shaking his fist, "we'll
settle that ere among ourselves after
ward"
Seventeen United States Senators are
worth, in the aggregate, $55,35O,0oo.
They are: Fair, of Nevada, SIS, ,000,0 900;
Miller, of California, $4,000 900, Sawyer,
of Wisconsin, S7,00O,000; Brown, Of
Georgia, $3,OOO,OO0; Palmer, of Michl-
gan, VI, 800, 900, Sabin, of Minnesota, So.
0OO,OGO; Bowen, of Colorado, $1,000, 1000;
Hale, of Maine, 81 ,Ou0,0Do; Miller, OF
New York. S3,oO0,0O0; Don Cameron,
(fl nt0. pt,,,,h of Ero,oc,c 0Sun 1nH,
Pendleton, of Ohio, 10000; Sherman,
of Ohio, $250,000, Van Wyck, of Nebras-
ka, $250,0u0; David Davis, of Illinois,
$4,000, 900; Bayari /, of Delaware, $l00. 900;
Mcpherson, of New Jersey $3.50, 900.
General George w. Jones, one of the
first senators from Iowa al the time of
her admission into the Union in lS4S,
the collegue of the late ex-senator A.
c. Dodge during his entire service in
the Senate, is still living at Dubuque at a
greatly advanced age and in the enjoy
ment of excellent health. General
Jones was the second of Jonathan Gil.
ley, member of Congress from Maine,
who was killed in a duel near Washing.
ton city Feb. "a, 1888, by w. j. Graves,
me nber from Kentucky. General
Jones at the time alluded to was dele.
gate, from the Territory Of Wisconsin,
and, with the exception of James Wat
son Webb Of New York, is the only par.
ticipant of the memorable duel now liv-
ing.
Alexandare Dumas lived to see the
first reverses of French arms in 1870.
For several weeks before his death, in
December, his reason fickered, and
during his lucid intervals his friends
kept the truth from him. A few days
before his death he looked at twenty
franc piece, which constituted the
whole cf his fortune, and observed; !;
People ought not to call me spend.
thrift; started in life with twenty
francs and there they are" He had
earned ut different times no less than
te3UO,UO0. Dumas died at Puys, near
Dieppe, in December, 1870. The Prus-
SLAMS marched in to Dieppe on the very
day that he died, and his son, unwilling
that the hearse should be saluted OH its
way to the cemetery by the invading
troops, caused the burial to be performed
at the little village of Neuville.