The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-01-18
Personalities.

The late Eli Perry, OF Albany, ~. X.
loft nm estate valued at $556,soo. VI
that sum $4,000 go TO h New aon rn
pont;s, Educational Society and Slo,oooo
70 The American Baptist Home MISSION
S,ciety. Many thousand dollars are to
Le distributed also among some tWehty
ctber religious or charitable INSTITUTIONS.
Capt. Reesor, a well-known Southern
Manitoba farmer, has resolved to start d
% ono acre farm after the Style OF Vac
great Dalrymple farm in Dakota. lie
viii one or two other capitalists has
mprchased 10000 acres of laud near
Moos. Jsw, which will be put under
cultivation. He has now on the way
,rom Ontario 100 horses, 30 sulky piows
WAGONS. tents, &C., to begin farming
operations in the spring.
81 say, Featherweight.' said one
| "dude" to another, talking otthe Wander
bilt ball, "who was Marie Stuart, any
howe" "Oh," said Featherweight, she
belonged to the family OF stuarts IN
| Enyland-sugar %refners, or solhelhlhg
Of that sort, 1 believe"
At a dinner a few days ego in New
York, a young married lady, who iscele.
brated for originality in matters of dress,
appeared in a black satin dress with a
waistcoat or vest composed entirely OF
natural flowers. Only small flowers were
| used, and they were sewed on 8 1onnu'
alton ofnruslin. The effect was perfect
ly lovely"
Rev. Henry Clay Dean is now sixty
| years of age and is in excellent health
He says that he was wrong iii
ing President Lincoln for the enamel
pa,ion proclamation. He has lost hi
| bitterness and has made many new
| friends in Iowa and Missouri by his lee
lures on Christianity.
Young Alexander salvini, who !las
been performing with Margaret Mather,
will return to Italy soon, to be examined
for the military service, all young men
in that country lseing compelled to serve
three years in tie army. He will proba-
bly, be excused, on account Of the weak
ness of his eyes, hut it Is not proha-
bic that he will return to tho United
States.
The lord chancellor of England once
andibly muttering "Nonsense! non
%sense!." to one of Mr.. Benjamin's argu-
mcnts, the latter gentleman bundled up
his papers and mar he'd out of court i'll
a dudgeon. Owing to the Interruption
of business tn IS caused The lord chan
celor felt obliged to send a handsome
apology, but Mr.. Benjamin declined to
receive it.
Colonel William Craig, an officer in
the army, from 1858 TO "a. who married
n relative of Mrs. President Madison,
rad a vast tract in southern Colorado,
obtained from a French count, Vihil,
who got it from Mexico. -Four or five
wears ago he bon led it for q cattle ranch
at less than $4,000. 1t is snid that
Governor Butler, of Massachusetts, got
the bonds Mt about ten tents on the dol
lar, chiefly from law services to Craig
and a little money advanced, and is ex-
pecting to sell the tract in Europe,
where perhaps William +. Shaier is try
ing to "place" it. Craig had one bill from
Butler Of $4,000.
Patrick Taufe has beer employed in
Peter Cooper's glue factory in Brooklyn
for many years. On Wednesday, when
he heard of the death OF Mr.. Cooper, to
whom he was much attached, he quit
work ~despondent and went home. He
told his vile of Mr. Cooper's death, and
said he was broken hearted. lie refused
to 90 to bed, but sat up all night IN his
chair, with his elbows on his knees and
his head between his hands. In the
morning he was found dead in this pc
sition.
At the Washington Irving celebration
at Tarrytown last week, Charles Dudley
Warner said: sit was Irvlng-notH ud-
son-who truly discovered this river and
gave it to lis. The early %navga,ors used
to get around in it. Irving made it Il
highway of Imagination. Travellers who
never left their iiresides voyage up and
down on it. In the Indian summers
these shores are golden, these hills are
purple, the same stream flows as iii Il
dream. In all seasons to all the world
this region wears these hues of romance
Mat Irving gave it. His spirit abides
here. Here is his wild cottage. Here il
his grave. | come representing, i am
snte, many who cannot come to lay up
on it a wreath Of sincere Affection"
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