The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-03-06
Personal Paragraphs,

Judge Poland, the venerable Yer
mont statesman, has discarded the
ll~ght-hrown suit which made such a stir
IN the House the first time he wore it.
last session, and gone back to the spike
tailed blue coat, ornamented with brasD
buttons, that he has Worn ever since tie
time of the Wilmot Proviso.
John Vivian, a miner near Nevada
City, said to one of his companions: II
had a dream last nj hit that makes me
feel very uncomfortable. I dreamed
that an accident happened in the nina
to me and l was killed. The whole
thing seemed SO real that it left a strong
impression on my mind. IwishI could
forget it this morning, but l can't"
Vivian was suddenly killed at 4 o'clock
that same afternoon.
A distinguished ex-confederate officer
10 a resident of Washington, used to
drink a great deal in his wild and gilded
youth. He reformed, and is no a sober
business a He married the other
day a prominent society lady, who is a
devoted Roman Catholic. The groom
in speaking of his marriage said to one
of his club friends: II have tried Rum
and Rebellion. / am now going in for
Romanism.
Mile. Marie Colombier, the author
ess of the infamous memoirs of Sarah
Barnum," having been condemned to q
term of Imprisonment which influence
and protection have reduced to fifteen
days, is now purging her Imprisonment,
not IN a dungeon or a penitentiary or q
house of detention, but in a hydropathic
establishment at Passy, where her
predecessor not long ago was Plon-
Plon.
A beautiful and most sensible mem
orial of the late Emma Stebbins, the
biographer of Charlotte Cushman, has
just been erected at Lenox, Mass. It
is described as "a bowl of gray granite
four feet six inches square, supported
on q base of unhewn Scotch red gran
lite. The four sides of the bowl have
polished tablets bearing inscriptions,
and on one side at the base is a small
basin with the head of n dog carved in
high relief. Above it a horses head in
relief also adorns one side of the large
bowl" Emma Stebbins passed the last
summers of her life at her home in
Lenex, and this tribute to her memory
vas suggested to the three friends who
erected it by her marked fondness for
animals.
DR.. Settlements house at Athens is
said to be the most costly house in the
city, though he calls it q cottage. 1t is
m imposing square mansion, of the best
Pentelic marble. crowned with marble
statues of the whole Olympic host, in
groups of two or three. The front has
a deep portico, set to each story, while
the plain moulding between the two
stories contains in large Greek letters,
the inscription, "Ilion Marathon" The
interior consists of lofty, spacious
rooms, with marble floors and ceilings
frescoed richly with illustrations from
Grecian mythology. Part of the col
lection Of antiquities dug up at Troy Is
within this marble Cottage" the re-
l1aii4uci pelilS III 1tIulduy. .U..
Robert Stevenson left no family be-
hind. His wife died many years ago,
and he remained a widower, so that the
direct line from George Stephenson, the
eminent engineer. has died out. James
Watt, the noted inventor, left no de-
s%cendents. 1t appears that the men
noted for mechanical genius, like many
of those famous in literature, science
and government, leave no children to
perpetuate their names. Shakespeare,
Milton, Bacon, Newton, Harvey, Pope,
Mansfield, Pitt, Fox, Grey, Cowper,
Collins, Thompson, Goldsmith, Con-
greve. Hume, Bishop, Butler, Locke,
Hobbs, Adam Smith, Bentham, Davy,
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Thomas Law
rence, Byron, Lord Clyde and others
well known to fame have no representa-
tives now living.