Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-07-06
Popular Personals.

The roof ofa poor widows house in
CorValils, oregon, was burned off few
Sundays ago. All the town turned ont
to assist the only engine and the hook
ana ladder company in extinsuishnp
the flames, and before they were fairlv
out the crowd made up a fund of SGo1
which it was thought would be sufficient
to repair the damage done.
lord Dufferin, it is said, was allowed
TO choose between marouisate and the
blue ribbon of the garter. He chose the
latter. Either honor is expensive, the
patent and stamp fees in the case of the
marquisaie costing $4,000, and in the
case of the order of the Garter the
expense is fully $500.
Says the London Queen: "lhe nret.
tlest woman at the private view of the
Royal Academy in London was the wife
fan artist; the handsomest the wifa
OF a well-known Journalist; the worst
Crossed, lady who has written book
to teach how to dress; the best dressed
from an artistic point of view. Mrs.
Jopllng. The tallest man was Corney
Grain"
The oldest commanders of German
corps darmee are General Tumpliug.
Baran Barnekow and Baron Manteuffel,
each of whom has attained the age of "a
years. Among the French generals on
the other hand, the oldest, Lecomte and
L'liemand. are only 6G. Indeed, the
average age OF German generals go is
seven years greater than of the French
(6O) Lord Nepier, the oldest English
general, is IS and the average age of his
compeers is about 63.
John G. Whittier often writes i'm
promptu verses, in albums and else
where, bright withIa gayety that does not
often appear, in his more important
works. Not long ago he wrote in the
album OF q young lady-who with her
friends had been rallying him on his
bachelorhood-the following lines:
"Ah, ladies' you love to levy tax
On my poor little paper parcel of fame;
Yet strange it seems that among you all
Not one is willing to take my name
70 write aii rewrite till the angels pity
her.
WHITTIER"
Chester W. Oh apin, the millionaire,
who died at Springfield, Mass, on Sun
day was the New England Vanderbilt.
He began Life as stage driver on
rough country roads, and when the age
OF steam came on, naturally turned his
attention to the construction and opera
ton of iron ways for transportation. Mr..
Chaplin was for many years president of
the principal New England railroad
the Boston and Albany-a contempor-
ary and crony Of the elder Vanderbilt,
and man after the commodore's own
heart.
A Paris correspondent writes tina,
Edwin Booths daughter has taken part
in private theatricals in that city, but
shows little talent for the stage. In an
other generation there will not be a
Booth in ''the profession, p
unless some Of the grand
children of the late Junus Brutus Should
come to the, fore. 1t would seem
strange, indeed, to find this illustrious
name no longer on our play-btlls.
George W. Cable, the novelist, is a
very quiet little man, who was formerly
clerk. His life has been spent in New
Orleans; he is pious man, who attends
largely to the official business of religi-
ous corporations, he does not read
French novels, although one might
from his style think that he does, and
he has never attended the atre. He IS
about AZ years old, and he does not
think that he writes novels when he is
describing Creole life. He does not
know what alcoholic liquors taste like,
and has lived in New Orleans all these
years.