The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-02
Personal Paragraphs.

Miss Gabrielle Greeley will occupy
the old Greeley homestead at Chap
paqua during the coming season. She
is still lovely young woman, exceed
ingly retired, and has, it is said, refused
many ambitious suitors for her hand.
Lately at dinner party given by
some homeopathic doctors in Paris, af-
ter the memory of Hahnemann had been
toasted and the health of various cele-
brities drunk, Alphonse Karr was asked
to propose n toast "Your patients,
gentlemen" he said.
Charles Barrett, of Ashburnham
Mass, now 96 years old. had his life in.
sured for $1,000 in 1916. Having
reached the extreme limit of life. accord
ing to the table of morality on which
the insurance company does business,
the president sent him the other day o
check for the amount of his policy. It
is believed to be the only case on record
where a man has beaten an insurance
company by outliying a death policy.
The son of J. r. Trowbridge, the
novelist, who recently died, was a young
man of 20, of fine promise He had
overworked in his studies, and went to
Colorado Springs to recuperate. A
sudden cold arrested his progress of re-
covery, and in a few days terminated
fatally.
President Arthur is an Episcopalian,
as are Secretary of State Frelinehuvsen
and Attorney General Brewster. Sec
retary Folger is Presbyterian. Sec
retary Chandler is Unitarian. Sec
retary Lincoln attends the Presbyterian
Church, as does Postmaster General
Gresham; who, it is said, is of the
orthodox stamp, while Secretary Teller
is a Methodist of the Rocky Mountain
quality.
A remarkable case of longevity Of q
family has come to light in Westville,
o. The family is named Cave, and con-
sists of eight men and four women.
The children, grandchildren, great
grandchildren number 1877. The res
pective ages of the twelve are as follows:
Renjamin Cave, So; Thomas Cave, 93;
Joseph Cave, 104; Jonas Cave, 100;
Rebuen Cave, rs; Noah Cave, 50; John
Gave, 97; William Cave, 96; Nancy Jen-
kins, SO; Lucy Jenkins, 81; Polly Kizer,
So; Sally Price, 95. Their combine ed
ages are 1885.
Mr.. Charles Barrett, of Ashburnham,
Mass, is 95 years old. In 1916, when
he was 5S years old, he was insured for
81, 600 i'll one of the best known life in
surance companies. The policy was
payable OF s'eath only, but within few
days Mr.. pp.rett has received from the
company check for the full amount of
the policy, together with the divisend
for the current year. In transmitting
the check the president of the company
writes that Mr.. Barrett is the only
member of that company who ever out
lived the mortality table, and that there
has not been similar instance of lon
gevity in any other company in this
country.
Two promising young men have lost
their lives from too ardent devotion to
athletic sports. A son of Oliver Dyer,
the New York journalist, died sudden
ly at one of the eastern universities few
days ago from the effects of over train
ing and over eXertion, and recently
Lewis w. Seal, a studentin the uniyer-
sity of Philadelphia yielded up his life
from the same causes.
The Journal des Dehats continues
the publication of M. Darmsteter's pa
pers on George Elliot's letters. The
papers deal largely with George Elliots
religious opinions. A notable passage
i'll one letter is as follows: II have
faith in the marking of higher possibili-
ties than the Catholic church, or any
other church, has presented. Those
who have strength to wait and endure
must accept no formula which their
whole souls and intellects, as we'll as
emotions, do not embrace with entire
reverence
did you reveal your identity ?" asked
a New York politician OF one of his
minions. "Well, you bet I didn't.
Just told him who / was and it broke
him all ."-Merchant Traveller.
A life-insurance sharp reports as the
result of his observations that habitual
(temperatel beer drinkers, aftera while,
die off, generally with typhoid symp.
toms. They seem to be all gone in.
side, and the conclusion is that total
abstainers live longer than moderate
beer drinkers.