The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-07-11
Personal Paragraphs.

Mrs. Frank, of Chicago, who recent
" fell heir to $50, 900, a sum unexpect-
edly bequeathed to her by the late
Michael Reese, of San Francisco, has
given the money to establish in the
former city q home for Jewish orphans.
The descendants Of the family of Will
liam Penn now living bear, il the vari-
Gus branches of the family, the names
OF Fell, Rawlins, Newcombe, Barrow.
Comm, Gaslill, Baker, Coates, Hall.
Read, Alexander, Walker, Goh, Clay
ton and Raynter.
Mrs. Mary j. Pillow says that the
proceeds of the biography she is pre-
pairing OF her late husband will be de-
voted to the education of her three chill
dren. Their father, General GideonJ.
Pillow, was impoverished in the war,
! and died almost penniless.
A couple Of comely German girls were
standing, when q sudden jolt threw one
of them into the lap of young man.
He expected she would start up and
blushingly. apologize; instead, she calm
" turned round, faced him, and said,
you don't mind, sir, I'll stop here"
Gretchen kept her seat, and the poor
gallant tried to look as unconcerned as
possible out of the car window.-St.
Louis POST Dispatch.
Capt. George H. Perkins of the navy
is the wealthiest officer in the United
States Navy. He possesses, through
his wife, a fortune of 81 900, 900. Mrs.
Perkins was a daughter of the late Will
liam T. Weld of Boston, the wealthiest
man at the time of his death in New
England. He left s2S, 900, 900 to four
heirs.
Governor William Hale, of Wyoming
Territory, has returned to Cheyenne
after a '~land-and-sea voyage to the
Sandwich Islands. He left about two
months ago in a very ~precarious condi-
ton of health and as a last hope. He
returns five pounds heavier and quite
robust. The people of Wyoming are
rejoieed at his recovery.
Owing to the recent retirement of
Captain Leitch, of the Inman steamer
City of Chicago, there have been several
changes of the captains of that line.
Captain Leitch made $40 ocean trips,
and has been made shore superintendent.
OF the members of the United States
Senate at the commencement of the late
civil war, and who took their seats at
the memorable first session of the Thir-
~ty-seventh Congress, July. 1861, but
twelve now survive, as follows: Will
lard Salisbury of Delaware, Lyman
Trumbull of Illinois, James Harlan of
Iowa, Samuel G. Pomeroy of Kansas,
Morton S. Wilkinson and Henry NJ.
Rice of Minnesota, Daniel Clark ofNew
Hampshire, James w. Nesmith of Ore
gon, Edgar Cowan OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Henry B. Anthony of Rhode Island,
John Sherman of Ohio, James r. Doc.
little Of Wisconsin.
Representative Budd, Of California.
who was nominated by the Democrats
merely as a practical joke and was most
unexpectedly elected by a handsome
majority, eve tires of telling how at
first he only laughed at the joke HIM
self but q few days later made a big
stencil plate bearing the words, "Vote
for Budd," and then, with his pretty
little wife at his side, made a tour Of
the district, at first on foot and then on
q blackboard, applying the stencil to
barns, fences, rocks, trees, houses,
churches, and every available spot, I'M
til the entire country had literally
"budded" out into one tremendous cam
paign document, while at the same time
they shook hands with every man and
woman, and kissed all the children, and
thus rolled up q thousand majority.