The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-07-31
Personalities

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Some idea OF theextent OF Queen Vic.
toria's private correspondence may be
gathered, it is stated, from the fact
that the account for kilograms DIES.
patched on her private affairs alone
during her stay at AK and Darmstadt
amounted to 1855.
The death is announced of Rev. H.
A. Stern, d. D., at the age ofsixty-four.
Mr.. Stern, who had beenformorethan
forty years a missionary among the
Jews, and was one of the Abyssinian
captlves, who, afteryears ofprotracted
and cruel Imprisonment, wasdelivered
BY Lord Napier, ofMagdala, in 1.-THE year
1865.
Marriage on the installment plan is
an ingenious scheme, for the invention
OF which a Massachusetts, town claims
the honor. A Weymouth couple that
didn't have enough money for the par.
sons fee agreed to pay installments OF
81 a week for five weeks. Under this
agreement the knot was tied.
A country correspondent writes o!
how the average farmer spends the
summer Sabbath. The good mar
walks out after breakfast, looks over
the stock and his broad acres, and
then comes i'll andlands himself on the
couch with the caution to his wife to
keep the children quiet while he
sleeps"
Mr.. Hamilton Cole. the w~ell-known
New York Lawyer. who bought acopv
OF the Gutenberg Bible in 1881 at the
Brlnley sale tor S., 200, sold it recent.
ly for $4,000.
A man named Bowen died in Brook.
lyn thirty-two years ago, leaving AT
estate valued at $500, 600. to be di.
vlded between three heirs by two trus.
tees. 1t has been i'll the courts ever
since, and now all OF the heirs. two OF
the lawyers and one of the trustees
are dead, the surviving trustee being
morethanninety years ofage. An Eng
fish Chancery Court could hardly have
done better.
B. p. Cheney, OF Boston, who will
present a statue OF Daniel Webster to
the state OF New Hampshire, has been
consulting the trustees, and the foun-
datlon work will soon be commenced.
The statue will cost $4,000 and the
base $1,000, all OF which will be given
by Mr.. Cheney.
The poet Whittier oncelent a volume
OF Plato to one OF the neighborine
farmers, and when the book was re.
turned asked: well. friend, how did
thee like Plato?'' ''First-rate," said
the farmer; Il see he's got some OF my
idees."
Captain Ephraim D. Ellsworth and
wife, the parents OF Colonel E. E. Els.
worth, who lost his life in thatfamous
staircase at Alexandria. at the out.
break OF the war. are livingat Mechan.
lcsvllle, n. y. i'll a comfortable little
cottage. adorned with numerous me.
mentoeS sacred to the memory OF theil
son, whose monument can be seen from
one OF the windows.
The Russian soldier in the field is a
man OF many virtues. At home in
peace, indeed, he has but one vice to
2pNNN W. AiN Will ScG dItilh Niicil lie
can, and keep drunk as long as hecan.
He is docile by nature. and he obeys
his officer. whom, indeed, he addresses
as %"lirtle father" as if he were a child.
HE'S contentedi in hardship, heat takes
no effect on him, and he has become
well Injured to cold. His weakest
point in campaigning is his suscepti.
bllity to homesickness, Of which nal.
ady thousands of soldiers actually died
Will: the Russian army was living be.
fore Constantinople waiting for the
ratification of the treaty ofBerlin.
The versatile Ellen Terry, Infamous
English actress, first married Mr..
Watts, the artist. That gentleman,
having obtained a divorce, was sue.
ceeded by Mr.. Wardell. Not satisfied
with her second choice, Miss Terry di.
vorced him, and setting her affections
upon Charles Kelly, became his wife.
lncompatibility soon separated them.
and now death by the removal OF Mr..
Kelly, has severed all entangling al.
l%iances. The London papers are say.
ing that Mr.. Irving will marry Miss
Terry now that she is free again. He
will prove himself a venturesome man
if he does.