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

The heirs of an old lady in Louisville
who was in her 9lst year, being in need
of money, sold their chances to a man
Three years later the old lady was still
alive, and SO we'll and hearty that she
got married. At this time there ID not
the slightest indication that she is to
pass over the river sooner than anybody
else. and the man who bought the heirs
is quite as likely to make the voyage as
She.
The clergymcn of Indianapolis met
yesterday and adopted recommends
tons that funerals should be private;
that there should be no public exhibit
tons Of deceased people, and that minis
tiers should not be re luired to attend
at the grave.
Oratory is becoming an i~rrevocahly "lost
art" in the Eng ish Commons. OF Lord
Hartington's address, an English critic
impatiently says: at was not go much
a speech as a %soliloquy; but a soliioquy
IN which the speaker rehearsed the ar
guments which he intends to use here
after"
People who abroad durin.th. next
twelve months will be compelled to for
felt the pleasure of seeing the Venus of
Milo. Owing to the dampness of the
room which the statue has occupied. al
teratlons are necessary, and meanwhile
the statue in three fragments reposes
upon Il bed of straw, The Louvre will
seem uesolate without the VEINS.
Buckingham Palace is kno wn AS the
Queens London home. Yet, according
to Mr.. Labouchere, she has only slept
beneath its roo one hundred and TWEEN
ty nights during the last twenty years.
You may have heard this before, but
it wilt do no harm to remind you-iear
reader-at this season of the year, that
when you return home fatigued or be-
numbed with cold, q glass OF hot milk or
a bowl of hot soup VIII do as well to re-
vlve your strength and diifuse warmth
through your body as a glass of hot tod
somewhat coming INTO diSrepute in "our
best families Foote's Monthly.
A short time ago a London pawnbro-
ker was aroused about l a. m. by a.vigor.
GUS pounding ut his street Goor. Hasti-
ly throwing on a dressing gown, he
rushed to the window and demanded,
who's there?" 81 want to know the
time," came the response from
the pavement in the famil-
lar tones of a frequent customer. "What
do you mean by calling me up at this
time Of night to ask such Il question as
that?' replied the irate ~pawnbroker.
"Well, and to whom else should Gomez"
was the r~ejoinder, in husky accents;
you've got my watch!!"
Two sledge dogs from Siberia, which
arrived at San Francisco q short time
since on q whaling vessel. found the eli
mate too warm, and were sent to tn
Sierras to keep cool. 1t was necessary
on the trip to Frisco, when they reached
warm weather, to feed them on cracked
ice.
A Washington correspondent writes:
The wife of a far Western member APP
piled for lodgings for herself and her
husband at an uptown boarding house
this week: she said her husband was in
Congress. She was asked which branch
the p or lower. Tins ne Wy
hedged officers wife said she believed
her husband was a Senator, at le st the
people VIII elected bin meant for him
to huve the best place he could get.
The landlady, who was a keen, shrewo
woman, said with a touch Of mild sar'
casm in her voice, thai if her husband
should get up very early next Mon.
day morning and go up to the Capito,
before the crowd arrived he might Sc
cure a seat in the upper house, and the
members wife actually tha"ked her fol-
this kind information.