The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-01-11
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H4nALn PAINTING co. Rubaisherz.
sKxMRALL, DAKOTA.
Rcrsonai Gossip.

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Rorsonal Gossip.
Hahn Russell Young. American min
jstersto Chinx, wrote % Afriend in Hart
fofd rccsntly, saying: stTho rumors
ab0ak my Wife''s health are exaggerated.
Nfho&k4S tendencies which require care
i her paft--no more"
no Bourbons arc ali very wealthy.
Thevii!aeAt Cannes Of the Count de
Bsrdi, ono of the Parma branch Of the
kk11iiy, ID 10 expensive that the late EN-
pres did not feel justifetsjn renting 1t
~ The price asked.
The highest sum realized by George
Eliot Tor any one Of her later works was
10000, wsliie the lowest she received
sNvaS $4,000. Scott obtained only $500
fos Wayerly. while Miss Burney was paid
{ only 500 for aEveiina."
Al gentleman Of Enterprise. Fla, has
epfcad muslin under many of his orange
tteestO collect the orange blossoms when
they fall. He will mako perfumery out
of them.
Washington Irving's former rector, in
his address at the Tarrytown celebra-
tlon, said he remembered meeting his
famous parishioner, who was a parish
warden, after q service, when Mr. Try
ms remarked to him, with q twinkle
ia his eve: II have passed that plate
40 often up and dewn the aisle that I
begin TO feel like a highway man. l
feel an though l could stop a man on
the road and say: "Ycur money or
your lifel"
April 8, 1865, was the concluding day
ofthe battle of Shiloh. On that day Mr.
j. 9. Hammond OF East Tennessee was
% b confederate army. and stoutly
~centending against the Union. Sixteen
years later he was appointed q United
States district Judge for the westtrn
district OF his state, and the seventh Of
this month, exactly 81 years after the
battle of Shiloh. Judge Hammond nd.
ministered the oath of Office to Judge
George Il. Sage, recently appointed for
The district of Ohio.
Some fortnight ago, Mrs. Gladsto ne
received q letter from Sir Henry Pom
sonby, the Queens Secretary. written
by her direction, advising her to urge
her husband to accept a peerage. The
Queen has Of late frequently publicly
expressed her wish to visitors that he
should accept Q peerage,. which, while
~lessenlng his tabOrs, would enable him
TO continue Prime Minister. He prefers
to remain in the House ofCommops, but
rctires from Office.
~ am an eutire stranger to University
life in the University sense" said John
Bright in his address on being installed
~ Lord Rector of Glasgow University.
81 may be said to be . man who never
had tho I'D vantage Of education. I had
the teaching Of some French-as En-
Glishmeu teach French; and I had the
advantage of a years instruction in Lat
IN by q most admirable tutor--a country
man Of yours from the University
OF Edinburgh. But there WIS not much
Greek, not SO much that any trace of it
y ieit. There was nothing in the shape
u mathematics or science Looking at
education. as You take it, ! am q person
who had the misfortune to have almost
none Off in my youth"
The sword of John Hampden has been
sold at auction in London for IS guineas.
Itis the sword he wore during the civil
war, and 10 q long rapier with a hilt
and scroll guard. 1t was made in Ger
many, and had always been in the pos
session OF the Hampton family, when in
1881 a second John Hamlpden died Ieay-
ing hesword among his possessions. His
brother, the Bishop Of Hereford, then
ordered that it sbe sold. 1t fell into the
possession Of Mr.. Robinson, who had OF.
ten seen this John Hampden point to
the sword proudly, sayiny: stThisi is the
sword of John Iainplen, my great an
cestor.s Mr.. Robinson gave it to a Mr..
FrisweM. who recently died, and with
whose effects it has now been sold.
Rear Admirass j. w. A, Nicholson, who
ON March 10Iturned over the
of the European Station to his relief,
Rear Admiral baldwin, and went on the
retired list, after forty-five years of ac-
tive and patriotic service, was the last
representative in the United States Navy
ola family n or more Of who Sc mem
hers had been prominentin That branch
of the public service ever since the foun.
dation of the government. His grand
father, Commodore Samuel Nicholson
one Of the three brothers, Commodore
in the Ilavy-was Lieutenant under Paul
Jones IN the action between tile Bon
Hotnme Richard and the Serapis. He
was also the first commander of the
Constitution (OM Ironsides,, and was
senior officer of the Navy at his death.
He left u son-Admirhl Nicholson's faith
er--wlio was an officer in the Navy, and
served ga.lantly during the last war with
Great Britain.