Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-06-29
Personal Gossip.

1ne Wlte Oh Ex-Governor II. U. NC
Cormick, of Arizona, who is the daugh-
ter of ex-senator Thurman, of Ohio,
narrowly escaped death from an over
dose of patent medicine, which she took
for nervous complaint, on Thursday
night last, at her home In Jamaica, L. l.
The following expressive poetic prose
was found on the interior of box car at
Chicago depot by NJ. 7. Streeter. The
reader will be convinced, after reading
it, that there is at least one honest mind
ed tramp in the world: BARNS and box
cars is my bedroom; rob hen-roost
when / can; take shirt off the close
line. am the stuff they spread on land
Counting ties is my occupation, hunger
gives me many cramp; work and am
no relation, l ANA Pennsylvania tramp"
Mr.. La Fetia, of the Postoffice Depart
ment, has collected from the official
correspondence of the department
seventy-one distinct ways in which post
masters, members of Congress, and
others, have spelled the word "sched-
and s'skudgl" are few of the speci-
mems"
l. Bishop Potter has quashed the New
ton indictment, and the world will hear
no more about it from him. 1t was rep
resented to him that the secular press
would side so strongly with New ton that
| only harm could come Of the discussion,
| and although the venerable bishop is
understood to have replied with much
warmth that he did not care a rap, OF
words to that effect, about the secular
press, he agreed to put the indictment
away and forget where he put it.
Mrs. Norton asked permission of the
| Duke Of Wellington to dedicate to him
some verses on some military men. He
| replied that he was very sorry to e
| obliged to refuse. but had made it rule
| to have nothing dedicated to him, and
had kept it in every instance, though he
| had been chancellor Of the university
OF oxford, ana in other situations
much exposed to authors" No better
anecdote of the Duke of Wellington was
| never told.
German newspapers report that the
| Shah Of Persia has become a ravine
maniac, and the question of his success
| or is being seriously discussed. His old
est son, Prince Selli, is an able and popll.
lar man. but is disbarred from the sue
| cession by the fac. that be is the son of
g peasant woman. The legitimate heir
who is now minister Of war and governor
of Teheran, is, on the contrary, incapable
| and unpopular, SO that in case of con-
fiict of claims the public would probably
espouse the cause of the eldest son in
| spite of the flaw in his title.
Ella Wheeler, whose love poems have
been severely censured on the ground
of their supposed immortality, in the
course of spicy reply to her critics,
says: my friends have advised me to
wait and not have my poems appear III
book form until lam, to use their words
married or dead" But SO long as
| all, do not feel the need Of husband
or tombstone to shelter me from furth.
| er criticism"
In 1870 Benjamin Franklin wrote a
letter to Noah Webster protesting against
the introduction into the English Ian.
guage of the newly-formed verbs ''tc
notice. ''to advocate" ''to progress
and ''to oppose" employed in the sense
| IN which they are now commonly used
| To-day we are protesting against the in
PRODUCTION of the verbs "to suicide, "tc
cable" s'to dynamite" etc. One hun.
uFeu years from no" VIII! THESE words
have become classic? The latest addi-
| ton to their number, by the way is the
| New York Truths verb "to confidence. y
used thus in head line. "A Catholic
Priest Contidenced," i.e., swindled by d
confidence man
AT the conclusion Of the first number
on the Damrosch programme at Denver
a stout miner in the gallery bawled ou,
three thousand cheers for DIR. Damrosch
| who has come out here all the way to
give us some good music" There was a
! great sensation in the audience, and DR.
Damrosch was somewhat embarrassed
! for moment. The man continued to
express his admiration in loud tone
and wound up by saying: Doctor, you
must excuse this bad weather; it isn't
the kind we usually have in Colorado;
it is what is keeping folks away from
your concerts" By this time the ush-
ers and bouncers had hustled up into
the gallery and had seized the man and
were dragging him out. Contrary to
all expectation he proved entirely 80,
Der, and he complained bitterly that he
was not permitted to express his ''hum.
BILE admiration Of the music"