The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-11-02
Personal Gossip.

This time it is a mysterious RUSSIAN
princess, of remarkable beauty, but as
| vet without a name. who is to make her
debut in Washington society THIS WIN
ter. What theater will make her Its
leading attraction is not yet announced.
Herr Lasker thinks that America in its
infancy, particularly in politics, the par.
ties seeming to him in comparison, OF
course, with those of Germany, to be
ill-defined and crudely organized.
Mr.. Garrett, the railway president,
SAYS that during his last European trip
he was impressed with the Importance
of places of amusement. He IS satisfied
that no city can thrive as 1t should with
out theaters, gardens, parks and the
like. "Wnile the old folks are tradlng,
he says, ''the young folks are seeing fun.
Every city should make itself attrac.
tive"
Rev. DR.. Albert Nicholas Arnold died
in Providence, r. l., recently, He had
been for eleven years a missionary to
Greece. He had also been u professor
at Newton Theological Institution, Ham
ilton Theological Institute and Chicago
Baptist Theological Seminary.
The late Colonel George Knapp. the
wner of the st. Louis Republican, left
all his property to his widow and ten
children, In his will, dated 1867, Col
onel Knapp requests that she Republic
can be kept in the family. A codicil
made in 1870 substitutes a son in pace
Off brother as the executor.
Miss North, the English artist who is
studying the flora Of Africa, writes with
enthusiasm of her discoveries, every
fresh place showing her fresh flowers.
In one place she had a sight of one OF
the largest aloe trees III the word, or,
rather, three standing to ether, forty
feet high, with hundreds of heads on
the ends of their branches, each OF
which, when in bloom. has a bunch OF
"red-hot poker" flowers coming out Of
it, forming q mass of flowers which, it IS
said, could be seen thirty miles off.
Several hundred citizens of Raleigh,
N. c., were caught in an awkward pre-
dicament a few nights ago. There was
a fire on the penitentlary grounds, and
an old building Was destroyed. The
tremen and citizens turned out gallant
ly and did good work. When they had
finished 1t they We're ready to retire,
but that they ioundn no easy task. Sew
enty-two guards with Winchester rifles
were on duty, and no man was let out
except Il reporter and two pressnen.
-Four hundred others were kept in the
man building and not released until 6
O'Clock IN the morning. They were,
however, treated to refreshments.
President Willard, of the Northern
Pacific, was comparatively poor in 1866.
Northern Pacific stock Was down to 8
and 10 cents per share. He examined
the road, the country through which it
passes, and saw the crops it waa capable
OF producing. He resolved to buy not
only all the stock he could get, but the
franchise as we'll, which he and his
associates finally did. ut less than q mil
lion dollars. Since then he has sold
$50, UUD.uCO worth of land and has
500, oo,o00 worth left. AT tina, time
eco he wa a newspaper reporter; now
he is one of the richest men on the
globe, and has really but just got started.
"A French medical journal has been
amusing ITSELF" says the London Graph
ic, "by prescribing for the ailments OF
illustrious people who have been long
dead. but VINO, according to this aulhor-
ity, ought not to have died as early as
they did. 1t seems that Moiiere could
have been saved by a few grams OF
ca ieine; Racine's neurosis would nave
yielded to bromide of potassium; while
any modern doctor could have cured
Napoleon of his biliousness, and altered
the course of history by making the
great emperor live, to q green oil. age.
All this brings such satisfactory evidence
as to the progress of science that our de-
scendents may wonder how Gambetta
was allowed to die in the prime Of life,
and why the most expert physicians
of a knowing age have found it 80 ditti.
cult to understand the Conte de Cham
bord's Illness. This makes no account
of Garfield and his surgeons.