The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-10-12
Personal Mention.

Whittier is in his rooms at the Hotel
Winthrop, Boston, for the winter.
Bartholomew Tarney, of Bath, steu-
ben county ,signalized his one.hundredtb
birthday the other day by walking three
miles.
Madame Ristori has aged rapidly of
late, but she will appear at Bath, Eng
land, shortly, and play in English.
Professor Brooks, of the Red House
Observatory has been awarded the
Warner prize of 5000 for his recent dis
covery of the comet of 1872.
Rev. Albert Donnell, of Berlin Falls.
N. H.. has in his possession two seven
leaved %clovers, one eight-leaved and
one n~lne-leaved, all picked from the
same plant.
,spurgeon is well enough to sit in a
chair while preaching.
General Lees daughter, Miss Mildred.
is to live in Washington next winter.
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson will also be at
the national capital for some weeks.
The Duke of Argyll has been staying
for a few days with Mr.. Iennyson at
Aldworth. Professors Tyndall and Hux-
ley were included in the party during
the Dukes visit.
Caleb Stockwell, of London, Ont, was
exceedingly surprised the other morn
ing when Mrs. Stockwell presented him
with two sons and two daughters, all
new. Subsequently, when asked what
he'd got, he sorroWfully said, "Onlv
two small pair" The little ones are
thriving. +,
1t is gravely announced that Col. Mike
Sheridan will write a book on the Vel
lowstone park excursion.
Mary Anderson has returned with
thanks a play which Oscar Wilde wrote
for her. Wilde's career as a playwright
seems to be not more successful than his
season as a dude.
W.. S. Chamberlain, father of the
young lady who is receiving SC much at
tention from the Prince of Wales and
other London society, appears in a card
denying that his daughter is engaged to
Mr.. Cairns, the Wyoming cattle dealer.
This is important, if true, but as Cairns
is a bad man from way back, and would
as soon rip Fan editor up the back as
twist a refractory steers tail, we prefer
to hear from him before having anything
to say ..about his love affair with the
Cleveland belle.
Lieutenant-G General Sheridan will as
sumo command of the United States
army on the first of November. Gener-
81 John Pope will succeed Sheridan as
commander of the Military Division of
the Missouri.
Mr.. Jonathan Norcross, whose name
betrays his Yankee origin, but who has
resided in Atlanta, Ga, for the past fif-
ty years-so long, he says, that he has
become a native-has writtena book en-
titled Democracy Regarded as a Party
Name and Organization" which the
Putnams have now in press. Mr.. Nor
cross was the republican candidate for
governor of Georgia in 1876, and has
had a chance to learn something of de-
long observation, and his book promises
to be as readable rs "The Fools Errand."
Judge Kelley will sail from Liverpool
for home on Oct. IA. He writes to a
friend in this city: "The platform of
no convention, mol the d~ictation of any
would-be leaders, will prevent me from
promoting, by every means in my pow
err, the abolition of the internal tax sys-
TEN, the demorallz'ng effects OF which
are even more apparent in England
than in the United States. My motto
for the campaign will be, "The internal
tax system must 60"
The general committee of the British
Association for the Advancement OF
Science has elected Lord Rlleigh presi-
dent of the association for 1874. Among
the vice presidents selected are the Mar
quis of Lorne, the Marquis of Luns-
downe, Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir
Charles Upper. Sir Alexander Gait,
William siemens and Professor HnS.
ley. The date ofthe nextmeeting, which
will be held at Montreal, has been fixed
for August 81, 1884. The programme
will include a free excursion to the
Rocky Mountains and trips to Quebec
and Philadelphia.