The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-09-05
Personal Matters.

Personal Matters. i
The late Paul Morphy. played several
games of chess with the great monarchs
of Europe. He gallantly allowed Queen
Victoria to beat him. but treated Napo-
leon III. and King William of Prussia
very differently, giving them at first an
over him and then sweeping
them from the board numerically. He
was, before his health gave way, a bril-
liant conversationalist and o favorite
member of society.
Ensign Reynolds Of the Greedy relief
party is recalled to mind as the hero OF
the rescue of the men Of the Austrian
bark Olive in mid-ocean in November,
1879. He was then on the sloop-of-war
Constellation. He stood in the lifeboat
all day in o binding storm, rescued
twelve men and swan from his boat to
the Olive after dark and set her on fire.
His bravery was acknowledged in agold
medal voted him by the Austrian gov
eminent.
U. s. Senator Hill Of Colorado il
said to be the richest man in that state.
He went out there q poor chemist a few
years ago, and by some good chance hit
upon q process for reducing refractory
ores, and no one to this day has the Sc
cret. He built a great smelter, which
is bringing him in a great fortune. His
yearly income, it is said, cannot be less
than $500, 900. He lives in great style
in Colorado.
Mr.. Rodgers, one of the electricians
of the Capitol, the inventor of the Pan
telephone, was seriously injured the
other day by the explosion of mercury
with which he was conducting expert
ments. 1t is feared that he will lose
the sight of both eyes.
A novel mode of paying a visit occur
red the other day at Albany <the Duke
of Northumberland place., when Mr..
Baden Powell, of the Scots Guards.
accompanied by q brother officer, des-
cended in his balloon in the park, hay
ing come from Aldershot just in time
for lunch. .
At Montbrison, in France, a young
mar OF good family named Bertheaud
has been convicted of numbering his
grandfather with remarkable premedi-
tation. He had squandered a fortune
left him by his mother, and concealed
himself for several days IN his grand
fathers house, watching his opportuni-
ty, while waiting he had almost
starved. He first found it necessary to
knock senseless an old woman who was
his grandfather's h~ousekeeper. He
then killed his grandfather and ran
away with the money he found. 1t was
a long time before he was found out.
He has been sentenced to death.
Mrs. Agnes M. Derkheim has been
chosen lady principal Of Sage College,
at Cornell University, and the immediate
care of all the students at the college,
so far as social and personal regulations
are concerned, is to be intrusted to her.
By a recent vote of the trustees, all
lady students of the university will
hereafter be required to room and
board in Sage College. There has been
such a rule heretofore, but it mas been
disregarded. It is understood now
that an effort will be made to enforce
it, with the possible exceptions of lady
students whose parents have their
home in Ithaca.
"Gath," who is an interminable gos-
siper, speaking in the New York Trib-
une of ex-Lieutenant Governor William
Bross, of Chicago, says he is "the own
er Of the second greatest in
terest in the Chicago Tribune,
and has his life insured for $145, 900,
all the policies paid up. He is also be-
lieved to be worth a million in this life.
Ali his property will go to his daughter,
Mrs. Lloyd, whose husband is a gradu-
ate of Columbia College, in this city,
and son of a Dutch Reformed clergy
man from New Jersey. From that state
Mr.. Bross emigrated."
The mother of Commander Schley,
of the Greedy relief feet, Mrs. s. NJ.
Schley, is q resident of Baltimore.
Mrs. Schley says, "Scott was always
fond of the sea from boyhood, and never
seemed at home upon land. He loved
his wife first, and his ship next. I
remember hearing him say the last time
I saw him, 'On board ship I feel at
home; on land I feel as if I was good
for nothing He wa very anxious to
go on this expedition, although he had
never been in the arctic region before,
and he seemed to be confident that he
would find the Greedy party. He did
not, however, expect to find them AZ
soon as he did, but told us to look for
him in October. He is, therefore, home
several months ahead of time