The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-06-06
Personal Gossip.

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Mr.. John B. Tolman 3 veteran printer
Of Lynn, Mass, has given the Young
Mems Christian Association Of that city
an estate valued at $50 1000, stipulating
that the income shall be used in promot-
ing the cause of temperance.
The widow of the late Gen. Thomas L..
Kane of Philadelphia has donated to
the board of trustees of the
Presbyterian Hospital the Thom-
son House ut Kane, Pa, for hos
pital uses, in accordance with the inten>
ton of her husband. She desires that
it be not restricted to sick and helpless
paupers but that its policy be the most
liberal. The hotel property is valued at
800, 900.
Mr.. Adam lockwood, of Uptown,
Mass, writes to the Boston Traveller as
follows: ~ have been q member of the
Orthodox choir in this place for sixty
three years last fall, and have always
been treated with the utmost kindness
and respect by old and young, and
should like to hear from others of life
long experience"
On his recent birthday celebration.
Bismarck was offered the compliment of
an honorary membership in the Scien-
tiic Society of Berlin-a high distinc-
ton which Won Moltke was glad to ac-
cept. But the Chancellor curiously does
not approve of viviseetton. Nor has he
forgiven Professor Mommsen. So he
declined the society's offer. "Noth-
ing on eartliwould induce me" he wrote,
ito becomein any way whatever the col
league of Nirchow, or of Mommsen.
l am a Doctor of Laws of Gottingen
and an honorary citizen of Berlin. l
am satisfied"
Rev. Samuel u. Ferguson, a native
of Liberia and a full-blooded negro,
was chosen by the Episcopal House of
Bishops, in session at New York, to be
Missionary Bishop for Cape Palmas, in
Africa. He is the first colored man who
has been elected to this high Office, but
white men cannot live long enough in
the malarial towns of Africa to do n
effective church work.
Marie Taglioni, whose death at Mar
settles, France, was announced, was the
most celebrated dancer OF her day.
She was born on the 23d of April, 1906,
at Stockholm, Sweden, where her faith
er was ballet master and leading dancer
ut the theater. Her mother was a daugh-
ter of the celebrated Swedish tragedian
and singer Karsten. Marie began the
study Of dancing when 8 years Of age,
and on the 10th of June, 1922. made her
debut at the Vienna theater. From her
first appearance her success was phe-
nomenal, and within q few months she
became the queen of dancers. She
could never be induced to appear in
the short dress usuallyworn in the ballet.
She became the wife of Count Gilbert
De Voisins to whom she had o son and
daughter. The latter is Princess Mar
| guerite Trowbetzkay. In 1S47 while at
the zenith of her fame, she retired from
the stage,
The father of Mrs. Celia Thatcher was
a crank. He had been defeated for an
office by the New Hampshire people,
wherenpon he decided Is abandon them
to ther sius. In order that he might be
able to witness their torture he bought
the isle o Shoals and built bit of shanty
no it, where he lived in comparative
solitude for q number of years.
Gradually the cabin was enlarged until
it became a summer hotel, though con
Quoted in the most Indifferent manner as
to whether guests came or went. They
were never sought after. When tho
daughter Celia reached the age of Is a
young lawyer, at the island for his health,
fell in love with her. Duly and respect
fully he requested her hand of her faith
er wloirritablyordered him offthe island
Respecting the rights of proprietorship,
the young man removed to on adjacent
one, and, there erecting q little hut,
avowed his intention of remaining until
the daughter became of age, when he
would marry her. Recognizing, prob
ably, the fellows obstinacy and strong
will, her father relented, stipulating only
2 years delay. That passing they were
married.