The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-09
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JudgeJ. F. Smith, Of Sheperdsville.
Ky, adjourned court on Monday long
enough to take f. P. Strauss, an insult.
ing young lawyer, out into the jail yard
and give him a good whipping. When
he resumed his seat he said the court
hoped there would be no necessity for
any more extraordinary adjournments
during its session, but that they would
occur as often as the exigencies should
demand.
George sumpter, of Georgia, had
Just finished a cyclone pit in his back
yard when q black and angry cloud arose
in the west. He hustled his family into
the pit and closed the trap doors.
They went to bed and slept in perfect
security, although the storm ragged
~furiously, but when they got up in the
morning the doors we're found to be
swollen SO that they could not be opened
from the inside at all. The neighbors
nd to come and dig the family out.
Gotham furnishes this little idyl: A
rich citizen accidentally heard some
young ladies' talking of him. One re-
marked, "He is so awkward, but he is
so rich" to which her companion re-
piled, well, I pity him. He Isl nice
fellow and would make agood husband.
1 wish he were not SO rich, and then /
could encourage him without being con-
sidered a fortune hunter" There could
be only one result. The sympathetic
damsel and the awkward (" fellow are
married, and live in a palatial mansion.
DIR. J. II. Zukertort, who has gained
the title of the champion chess player
of the world, is playing at present in
Pittsburg. He will visit the principal
cities Of the United States and then go
to China. After he has been in the
Celestial Empire for a short time he
will return to England. The doctor
combines profit with pleasure, and whilo
he was in New York sent home q draft
OF $1,000 as n of the results of his
American trip up to that time.
News has just been received of the
death, at Cordova, South America, on
the 18th of February, of Mr.. Stevens,
assistant to the well-known astronomer.
DR.. B. A. Gould, in chargeof the Ma
honal Observatory of the Argentine Re
public. While seated at the break
fast table he was instantly killed by
lightning during one of the sudden
thunder storms Of those ATTITUDES. He
was graduated from Dartmouth College
l 1877. When in 1878 DIR. Gould
wrote from Cordova for a competent
assistant to aid him at that observatory,
Mr.. Stevens was selected by professor
Newcomb.
Frank Rulette is a boy of nine years,
whose mother keeps q boarding house
on Seventh street, New York. Not
wishing to attend school a few mornings
since he notified the health department
That there was q case of smallpox at his
mothers house, after which he strolled
lelsurely to school and impaired the
same startling information in strict con-
idence to his school teacher, and was
hustled ofhome with very scant cere-
mony. Meantime his mother had been
scared out of her wits by the appearance
OF the health departments ambulance,
which came to remove the smallpox
sufferer to the Island pest house. Elk
plantations followed, and by the time
Master Frank reached the house his
parent was ready for him, and accord
ing to the police no roulette table was
aver turned quicker then was that smart
urchin turned across his mothers lap.
He says that he prefers going to school
to creating smallpox scares after this.
Ithas sometimes been brought against
Bismarck that he does not believe in
resting on Sunday" and that he is
rarely seen at church. This as DIR.
Busch shows in his recent book from
long personal observation, is partly due
to the great amount of work that press
es upon him. "There is so many a
mnst Is Be % o9nd liz tha i the would can
to his sister, and to the author he re-
marked that the day ought to be six or
seven hours longer for him. An0th er
reason for not going to church, he
gives In a letter to IL clerical friend:
" with regard to going to church, it is
incorrect to say that I never enter a
church. I willingly admit that T.
might go more frequently, but it is not
SO much from want Of time as from
consideration of my health that I do not
go, especially in the winter. To those
who feel themselves called to be my
judges i'll this respect / will with plea
sure give further information about the
subject"
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