Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-08-10
Personal Gossin.

| PERSONAL Gossip.
Miss Whinnery, school teacher at
Benton, Ind, pointed out to Fred Plen-
gle, one of her pupils, the folly of falling
III love with her. ''You're a good bow"
she said, 'and I would like well enough
to be yaur mother. butt couldn't think
OF becoming your wife, Fred thereupon
attempted suicide.
The daughter of an earl stopped dane
ing with the Prince of Wales, and openly
refused to 60 on, because he was hold
ng her too closely and otherwise misbe-
having himself in large ballroom.
She left him in the middle Of the floor
, AMI asked an acquaintance to take her
to her mother.
Mr.. Morosini, confidential secretary
OF Jay Gould, says that Mr.. Gould has
abandoned the projected yacht voyage
around the world. Mr.. Gould will, ho
says, spend next winter cruising in the
Mediterranean, but the date of his de-
part2re from this country has not been
decided upon.
The CnrDte de Chambord, who is said
TO be dying from intestinal troubles, has
been terrible gormandizer all his life,
A gentleman who saw him dining at q
notel IN Bruges some years ago saws that
the divinely-appointed count ats two
roasted chickens, two large dishes of
salad, no end of vegetables, and lot'ef
dessert, and washed the whole down
with two quarts of Burgundy. Oflate.
years he has been so fat that locomotion
was at times next to impossible with
him.
An intelligent young Engishman, of
good family, a baronet's son, who has
been investing largely in lands in Tex
as, was asked how it was that so manv
of his countrymen were buying land in
this country just at this time. 81 will
tell YOU" he said "There is a very
general feeling that there will be- q
great change in England soon, equal 10.
that made in the south by your civil
war. Although they would laugh at the.
idea ii you suggested it, nine out of ten.
men in England believe that Albert Ed.
ward, prince of Wales, will be the last
king England will ever have"
anecdote ofChopin's magical charm
in music appears in the life of George
Sand. 1t is evening in George Sands.
salon. cat the piano is Chopin; and
she, her son Eugene Delacroix and the
Polish poet Mickiewiez sit listening
whilst the composer, in an inspired
mood, is extemporizins in the subllmest
manner to the little circle. All are III
silent rapture; when a servant breaks
in with the alarm--the house is on fire.
They rush to the rooms where the
flames are, and succeed after time in
extinguishing them. Fben they perceive
that the poet Mickiewiez is missing. On
recurring to the salon they find him as
they had left him, rapt, entranced, un-
conscious ofthe stir around him.
Many of the great English lawyers
have been very uncultivated men. This
was pre-eminently the case with Sir
William Po,lett, the most brilliant ad-
vocate of the century. He knew moth
ing but law, to which he gave almost
all his time when student at Cambridge.
In regard to the dismissal of r.. Mary
Walker from her position in the pen
sion Office, Washington Star reporter
who inquired at that Office was informed
that neither her absence nor her pecu-
liar manner of dressing had anything to
do with the dismissal. At the beginning
of the fiscal year it becrme necessary
under the law to make number of
CIihHRSs, IWeuIy-i Ol one class OF
clerkships having to be abolished. Dr..
Walker was selected, among others, for
dismissal because ele was inefficient.
A gentleman in Paris who was in the
habit Of bestowing five sous daily upon
blind beggar, by mistake one day gave
him Napoleon. Afterward, discover.
ing the error, he hunted up the beggar's
residence, and called to recover his gold
piece. A tidy maid opened the door of
q comfortably furnished suite of apart
ments. Monsieur was requested to take
q seat. and in a minute or two the beg.
gar made disappearance, neatly dressed
and with laultless shirt-front. The
obj ect of the visit was stated. My clerk,
is just making up the days account" he
observed; eff a Napoleon has been
70 nd i'll the box, it shall be restored to.
you.' The piece Of gold was found, and
t beggar handed it back to his visitor..
AS The latter was retiring, Che beggar,
called out to him: II beg your pasden,
sir. but you have forgotten to give me,
the half-pe my out Of it."