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

A single flash of lightning last Sum-
mer struck an entire potato field, of
several acres, belonging to NJ. j. Wood,
of North Sterling, IN Windham county.
Ct. The vines turned yellow and
sprawled oyer the ground. When Mr..
Wood went to dig them a few days ago
he found not a potato on the whole
peice. It's the first instance on record
IN which q growing corp was destroyed
by the electric fluid.
One Of the most peculiar characters
in Conneticutis John Maher, of Ansonia,
known as John Who ever-Sleeps
John il an Irishman who is making for
himself q little fortune ut $1.5O per day
by working thirteen hours in the fac
tory. Thither he goes every day, rain
or shine, and he is never i'll. On the
remaining eleven hours he devotes sew
en- to labor and four to sleep. This
perpetual living without sleep causes a
great deal of annoyance to his neigh
bors and to everybody within a mile of
him who wishes to sleep when he is at
work. He is thin, nervous and as sup
pie as a Rocky Mountain goat. He is
only 40, but looks aged, because of his
devotion to money getting. He has
never made but. one losing speculation.
Lieutenant Greedy recently wrote to
a friend in New Orleans in response to
some cordial greetings from his old ar
my friends: mo words are more
grateful to me at this time than those
from my friends and comrades of the
war time. There is somewhere among
the e1peditionary property a Masonic
flag which I send by Lockwood's hands
to the Polar Sea, and which 1 hope
some day to send to my old lodge. The
active efforts of the louisiana delegation
for my relief indicate, 1 trust, that my
appointment to the army from Louisi-
n is not considered m unworthy one.
As o citizen of New Orleans my inter-
est has continually remained alive in
my old friends there"
The barons Alphonse and Gustave de
Rothschild, two of the chief members OF
the great European financial house,
have been unable to attend the French
races in which their horses were en-
tered. The illness of both these mon
ey kingsGis SAID to have been caused by
%overwork, the tremendous strain of their
immense financial operations having
told heavily on their strength. The
common idea that the great fnan-
cial magnates of the world have an easy
life, is refuted by the experience Of
the Ro%thscnilds, who are the hardest
working of men. Some one asked
Baron Alphonse Rothschild lately why
he did not give. up his business. His
reply was "It would take me IS years
to settle my affairs sufficiently to enable
me to withdraw from the firm
The common people of England,
writes the yeracious Eli Perkins, all
love the prince of Wales. There is no
monarch in Europe SO beloved as the
prince. The reason is this: The prince
is Very democratic. He doesn'tact like
q king, he rides in a simple carriage, he
goes everywhere, he sven dimes at the
Savage club with o lot of Bohemians.
He is now visiting around the country.
He has been a bad fellow amongst the
women, but the common people rather
like that. He was intimate with Lady
Mordaunt, but lied about it like a king.
He's been mixed up with Langtry and
o dozen actresses, but it has all added
to his popularity. He is now about As
years old, his wild oats are about all
sown, and, as he settles down, the peo-
pie all vote him q jolly fellow. He will
succeed to his mother without any OPP
position. Everybody wants him to
slide into the place, and everybody will
be glad when he is there.