The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-16
Personal Gosxir

The Current announces two very
pleasant art facts-one is tfNt John
Donoshne, the promising young .sculp-
Tor, now in Europe, is enabled to prose
cute his studies by the liberality Of MI
Franklin McVeagh, of Chicago: and
the other is that Mr.. Frederick Layton.
OF M~llwaukee, is about to present to
that city an art museum That viii cost
from $780, 900 to 500, GOO.
George P. Rowell, che we'll known
advertising agent of New York CITY.
has an e5sgant country seal, upon which
hehas expendeda lafgea amount Of money
among the hills If Lancaster, ii.
native town Recently lie was
ed highway surveyor for the district IN
which his property is located, and, IN
stead of Sinking the honor and respon-
slblllty, he accepts them both, and next
summer is going to Lancaster to per-
form the duties of his new position.
Lewis, the funny man of the, Detroit
Free Press, has interviewed Frank,
james in the Alabamn Jail now honored
with his presence, and finds himindeed
as mld-mannercd person as ever cut
a throat. He has a Keen sense,of his
" claim to consideration, however,
and "complainsGl Chat many leaaingnews-
papers have persecnted him, and that
iive-siStlls of the reporters who have
interviewed him nave grossly
ated his conversation.
General Butler has the faculty that is.
also attributed to. De Lesseps, the
French engineer; of going to sleep
whenever he desires to. regardless oil
time, place, or circumstances. Sleep
with him is as much a matter of will
power as writing o y walking, and il said
he can wake himself up whenever he
wants to. He looks at his watch. finds
that he has fifteen minutes unoceIpied,
shuts his eyes, takes ~ snooze, and
wakes up at the end of the time i
promptly as if he had an alarm clock.
Decide him.
General Jubal A. Early publishes q
saying: "Some n has inclosed
to me a communication clipped from,
q newspaper, which is headed: AN
Interesting Letter from the Wife Of
General Early To prevent all mis-
conceptions, especially on the part Of
my lady friends, / wish to state that she
is a lady whose acquaintance I have,
never yet made, and whenI do find her
she will not make herself known to the
public through the Newspapers
MI, George Augustus Sala thinks that;
black stockings for she small gentle sex
are overdone. He says: when a lit
tie girl has shapely lower limbs, the
ebony '%pianoforte legs look symmetri-
cal enough, but a little girl in q narrow,
many killed yoke dress, very short, and
a pair of supporters resembling two
sticks of black sealing wax, is tome the
reverse of q lovely spectacle"
Lesseps is devoted horseman, and
may be seen daily %galloping through
The Bots de Boulogne, with his eight
children by his second marriage, boys
and girls, mounted on ponies, in nautical
costumes, their hair streaming on the
wind, their large collars turned oven
their sholders, and their caps hanging
over their backs-a little tribe, with
their dark hair and compilations, around
their white haired chief.
Rev. j. g. Wood, the English natu-
ralist, who has spent qr,ite q successful
season in Boston, has returned to Eng
land for his family and will live in this
country q year or two. He has six
daughters and is very much devoted to
ponk rna which orc hio for-nr;to IN.
sect.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Bloodgood are
conservatives, and occupy different wards
IN the New York Hahnemann Hospital
The wife is bedridden and in the last
stages Of the disease, but SHE is trying
to get . divorce from her husband, with
300 q month alimony, to enable her to
go to California for her health. The
husband has an income OF $4,000 per
annum, but says he is in debt and can-
not give her the money she wants.
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