Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-06-22
Pleasant Personalities.

boroughs have sent addresses to Kos
suth on the occasion of his SOth birth
day. They all breathe spirit of enthu-
siasm, inspired by the contemplation of
the glories of the past; but his replies
are full of melancholy forebodings for
the future, as from the mind of one out
of haramony with the present.
General Miles, whose wife is General
sherman's niece, has bought the old
"stone mansion" on the nights just out
side the city limits of Washington
Their first son was born to them last
winter. who is twelve years younger
than their eldest child, a daughter.
Gen. and Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont
have returned to New York to reside,
and are living in one of the beautiful
flat houses, owned by a married daugh-
ter, on Fitty-ninth street near Seventh
avenue, and overlookiog Central park.
Mrs. Fremont is in excellent health and
goes about great deal. Mrs. Fremont
IS anxious to obtain information as to the
whereabouts of q marble bust of her
father, Thomas II. cod Bullion") Ben
ton, which was mistakenly sold several
years ago, along with other household
effects, III her absence.
The ex-Empress Charlotte of Mexico.
ister of the king of the Belgians, is in
more tranquil state of mind than former
ly. Her splendid black hair has whiten-
ed, but her health is good, and she has
recovered from the attack of madness
which followed her being told of the ex-
cution of Maximiian. She is very fond
of music, spending many hours in play
ing duets with ore of her ladies of hon
or, and also shows much interest in her
garden. When the weather is iine she
walks great deal in the park surround
ing her Chateau de Bouchant, and plays
with dog which the queen Of the Bel
who were tormenting it, and gave it TO
her sisler-in-law.
Sunday, June "a, is Henry Ward
Beecher's 10th birthday, and his friends
are planning to celebrate it, He says
"they tire geese. Why should they
make fuss about my 10th birthday.
They didn't make fuss when I was 10
years or 80 years old, or when | was go
years of age. Why, now. for l am lust
as young as ever was?" Mrs. Beecher
was engaged to Mr.. Beecher when she
was Is years of age and he II.
Seven years afterward they married,
when Henry was pastor in Inlianapo-
lis and Lawrenceburg, Ind, on salary
of $500 year. yes" she Says, sswe
lived Oh less than one dollar per day,
and we did not live on bread and water
and one dollar per day has caused NV
husband to make five thousand explain
ations. We lived on less, and l should
like to live those days over again, for
then | had my husband with me!'
Speaking of DR.. Holmes at the Uni
tartan festival in Boston, the Rev. DR..
Hedge said: owe were schoolboys to-
gether. The only difference was that
he was quick and | was slow, and so he
mas kept ahead of me all through life.
Friends, you have no idea, although
considering. his subsequent career you
may imagine, what snap there
was to that boy. Talk of his sleeping in
church. | don't believe he ever slept
at all. Physically Re was not formida-
BILE, as boys estimate bows, but he con-
quered us all by his superior gift of
speech. and even then in those younger
years he dispensed his wit and humor
in no homeopathic doses. And, in fact.
he has never taken kindly to home
opathlc doses atany period of his life,
once ventured to speak iavolably of
homeopathy, and he was pleased to say,
i haven't much respect for your intelli.
gence.' Immediately said that home
opathy held very humble rank in the
scientific mind: that the old practice in
view of scientific men was the royal
road, was the path to glory; but thought
TO- myself didn't dare to say it-that
often, unfortunately, the paths of glory
lead but to the grave"