The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-01-04
Personal Paragraphs.

PERSONAL Paragraphs.
Miss Phillips, 81 Norwood, & L, aged
100 does aN issr own homework and
Aws har own wood atter bringing it on
~ her back from The woods. Tosa young
gimlME3llo0king for y wife Miss Phillips is
csfsSsns.y not wishoutstbstantial attrac-
lions.
Some roughs At Connellsyille, pa, on
Saturday evening, threw stones at Mrs.
IAnGtYy,s private car when the train to
WhichSk was attached passed through
that town. No n Vas hurt.
TIE Grown Prince OF Portugal, who Is
only twenty is developing as a lingnist.
He Is said 10 converse in fourteen Ian.
ouages.
Mr.. Yoshida. Japanese Minister at
Washington, ii Is raid, can bow and touch
the t0p of his head to the floor without
q rush 81 blool to his face.
The Germen crown prince has been
seyarsly criticised for attending aSpan.
ish bull. fight. IL was an excellent OPP
portunity for him to make q firm stand
In the interest Of humane civilization,
/ but his duty as guest made his duty to-
ward humanity difficult.
The new lord mayor Of London, who
is credited with being a very level.head-
ed gentleman, declines to take out his
state carriage and sliveries on Sunday
because IL would give work to his ser.
wants. and he wishes to give them a day
of rest. s.
Mrs. Cs,isle, wife Of the now speak
ser ofthe house, IL q tall, blonde lady Of
great dignity, and courtesy Of manner,
and except in years, in which Mrs.
Robinson has the advantage in point of
youth. she is not unlike the wife Of the
Massachusetts go~vernor,elect.
Rev. Thomas Sherman, sono Of. Gen.
w. 4. Sherman, who entered the Catho-
lie priesthoods made his first appearance
before q congregation In 1T. Louis on the
10th inst, celebrating high mass
Justice Duffy, Of New York, is a
marked man, and when woman suffrage
becolnes general he will be the FIRST in
dividlIal to be retired to the obscurity Of
private life. Hear what he has said
Some people say mothers-in-law are
an abused class. but since I have been
on the bench Ihaye had before me owe
n thousand lcases Of abandonment,
and in almost every instance the afore.
said relative mad all the trouble"
Gen. "Bob"T oombs, Of Georgia, lives
in 9 big two-story frame house, into the
hail OF which aswason- load o fshay could
almost be driven. Helis rich, having re-
ceived for years q handsome income
from his law& practice. When he was
young he bought large tracts of land in
Texas, and it is saidEihat ne has cleared
100000 On portions thereof that he has
sold, while he still owns enough to turn
him two or three times as much more.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes birth.
place, the .OldIHolmes House," at Cam
bridge, is to go, the Harvard university
buildings %crowding it out of existence.
It sas built in the year 1888, or there
abouts. One of the owners, Jonathan
Hastings, who lived in it from 1857 to
7742,.; IS said to have originated the word
Yankee usinl EittO expre5Yexcellence,
seeAkiBg Of q "Yankce good horse" or
Yankee good cider and tlis students
are supposed TO have disseminated the
word.
Mr.. George w. Cable, the New Or
leans novelist, who is in Boston reading
oSfSNtiutS lLOLls1itS lUNctSs HAD uot eb-
capped the critics there. He prints q
card in the papers, saying: If you will
.confine our musical critic under
lock and key and deposit the
key In bank, or furnish any other guar
antee that he is literally or fguratively
chained up, will intersperse next Tues
days readings with half dozen more
ssnatches of African Creole's songs, ren-
dered with sufficient native skill to ena-
BILE any stndipus ear to pick out the
tune."
The father Of the brothers Drexel, the
well.known: bankers was a portrait
painter, probably OF German birth, who
conceived tie idea about forty or more
years ago Of going TO Mexicotog paint
the portraits Of the wealthy gentlemen
and planters there. and to decorate per-
haps, some Of the churches andconvents
with portraits. He returned to the
United States with respectable sum of
Nancy, which he at once put into circu-
lation, having a natural taste for bank.
ing, andlsefore he died was about equally
celebrated for his success and llssi!ss thrift.