The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-12-07
Popular Persons.

The following advertisement recently
appeared in Pesth paper. ''To please
my wife, I, the undersigned, declare
that from henceforth 1 will not put my
foot in cafe or brasserie, and beg my
friends and acquaintances never to ask
me to frequent those haunts of perdi.
ton, and authorize any one finding me
III cafe Immediately to demand from
me the sum of fifty forms, which will be
given to some public charity"
Dear. Mr.. Lowell: l observe that you
are still gathering in those British ahon-
ors. l will continue to quietly absorb
good American ducats and free dinners
| myself. Matthew Arnold.
"Some friends Of mine,' says the cor
respondent of Glasgow newspaper,
"who visited CarIyle's house few days
! ago informs me thatit is standing emp
| ty, very dismal looking, rather dilapida-
| ted, ticketed to be let or Id. viii
tScotchmen allow this to continue-will
they allow to go to wreck and ruin this
house in which for seven and forty years
| he lived"
Earl Fitzhardinge, the popular hunt
ing earl of Berkely castle, wherein King
Edward II. is said to have been killed,
chiefly signalized himself by giving $20,-
| 900 for bull and redeeming much land.
Tie Severn is very broad near his es-
tates, and he gave orders that stone
| wall should be built in a line parallel
with the shore, but so far away that
when the tide came in it washed mud
over the stones, but could not wash it
back. In this way he added many acres
to his land.
The Boston Herald tells of a remark
able feat of memory accomplished by
DR.. Hedge, in that city, Saturday. He
delivered without notes, and repeated
word for word with all the energy of
| one engaged in eXtempore speaking, a
| discourse which makes thirteen pages
of closely printed matter in the De-
cember Atlantic: Macaulay might have
done this &. week before his DEATH, but
he did not pass his sixt eth year. DR..
| Hedge wrought this surprising feat
when within month of his seventy
eighth birthday, which falls on the 18th
| of next December.
Prince Edward of England, while at
Cambridge university, will have special
tuition in place of the ordinary lectures.
He keeps chapels and halls, but in
chapel he and his suite occupy the mas.
ter's pew, and at dinner seat is reserved
for him at high table. Instead of the
ordinary gown of the Trinity undergrad-
uate the prince will wear one OF
silk. Several London journalists criti-
else these arrangements sharply, and
says that the prince is not likely to see
more of real university life than the
Prince of Wales-his father-.di6.
Mr.. Lewis David Cohen, Jewish
tradesman in London, declined to serve
on coroner's jury, on the ground that
he was forbidden to do so by the Jewish
law. AS regards the descendents o.
Aaron, the high priest, the twenty-firs
chapter of Leviticus says: 'Neithel
shall he enter into my house where
there is dead body and Mr.. Coher
said he was direct descendant of Aar
| on. He was fined by the coroner. bu
appealed to the court of quarter session
where Mr.. Cohen's objection was de
Tended by his chief rabbi, who had him
self declined tJ attend thanksgiving il
st. Pauls over the recovery ofthe Prince
of Wales on the ground that dead bodies
we're inferred there. The cou remit
Ted the fine excused the plaintiff from
future service on coroners luries.