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

Tho Orphans court of Philadelphia has
been asked to grant an allowance Of So, 1000
a year FOR the educ ition and support of
Mary Louisa Baird, a child of ii years.
The child inherited S64 900 from her
father, who died in 1871, and S1O4,-
600 from her grandfather, the late Mathew
Bnirf. Her estate has accumulated 10
$500 oO0. She Is now receiving 81 Coz
yearly.
Mr.. Henry Thornton. a London banker,
who has been one of the chief promoters
of the agitation to give sist rs-in-law the
right to marry their tr Tiers. in-law, has
RECENTLY died. He gave lrg.1y to secur4
favorable legislation, and was called the
endowo1 general of the movement. He
leaves @ family vfich, in the eyes of the
law, is Legitimate.
Old Uncla Aleck Keeling, colored, saws
the Suffolk Va.) Hernld, who was probably
born IL the year 1873 died near Suffolk on
Monday morning. The old man was a
preacher under the oil slave dispensation.
and belonpei to the venerable Parson Keel.
Ing, from whom he learned rs much scrip.
ture as is usually found in the head of the
most erudite. He was pictured by Psrte
C%iayonin Ha,pea's Weekly, about twenty
five years ago, while on II visit to Dismal
Swamp, and thus rendtre famous.
The pleasing story is told, says the Bos-
ton TRANSCRIPT, that when the invisible
New Hampshire contingent charging for
their share of the spoils ut Washington up
on President Arthur, informed him that
Judge Gray was Objectionable on account
OF his becoming another man" when upon
the bench-a stickler for the p-opensilies
and for the etiquette of the relations he
tween the bench and bar-the president
thereupon and in'mediately decided that
Jndge Gray should be appointed.
The widow Of Work Hopkins recently
purchased two paintings belonging TO tie
avid Leayitt California estate, If Great
Barrington, in Berkshire county. David
Letyltt WAS FOR tutny Years presli ut ut H.,
old American Exchange Bank of New YORK.
The order given 20 Leu'z. for one of the
| pictures had a limit of $40 900. They wsr,
both historical lone representing Wash
ipston al tine Battle of Monmouth" and tn.
other Washington at Valley Forge
They are very large canyAses aud have
great merit as hist ,rlcal paintings.
Queen Victoria his made a doaation Of q
thousand pounds for the relief of distress
ed IRISH ladies' whose incomes have beer
greatly reduced or totally destroyed by tn
i~naptltty or refusal OF the ten tuts to pu
their rents. This. if we ara not inistak4,
ia our remembrance, is cx,ctiy i've titn
tue sum TINT vas gwen from the rpyn
purse for the relief OF tho STA wing tenant
during the famine of 1879 The contra-
Is not likely to b. extrrlnel, favorable t.
the popularity of the English s%oyereig
among the Irish people
"Some istle time ago. writes Moncnr
ID. Conway in n letter to the CincnunI
C0mIaeTCiGi, when an mt exhibition wns
about 10 DE opened in Glasgow, Mr.. Rus
kius was applied to for some OF his risture,.
ii replied that he would only be willing TO
lend LIS pictures VIXEN G asgow waf In Il
lit condition { enjoy them, und that woair
not be IN il it had pulled down every one
of its hldeons louses. / Gnote from til,
Information Of one who saw the silly let
lei.
Prof. WIllerd Fiske of Cornell Universi.
ty is now msiinga tour IF the principal
eastern cities for the purpose of visiting
their ihrari,s in order to note wherein
G ,rneii's may be wisely and suitably auS
nicuted. After the close of the presel.i
college year. Prof. Fiske will deliver no
further lectures and have 40 class duties,
but will devote his whole time to the inter
estS of the universtty's growing library.
The fund left by his wife fer the inltGrov:.
nient ofthe library vii! be at his disposn),
subject to the saaction of the university's
executive committee.
Adelaide Ristori long refused to MARI,
the Mnqnis Cspranica on account OF the
opposition of his family, one of the OH
roman nobili y. Sna- was playing in Rome
once and had declined seeing her lover. Ii
was before the days Of the railway to Civita
Necchia. When she was whirling along the
dusty road to Civita Vecch'a where she was
o take the steamer for MarseIlles, u car-