The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-02-06
Personal Paragraphs.

Englishmen eat at much shorter in
tervals than Americans are accustomed
to. The farm laborer eats four meals a
day, and IN some of the baronial halls
in England the tables are spread for
meals during intervals of four hours
during the day and evening.
David Dudley Field, the eminent
New York lawyer, will be eighty years
of age on the 18th of February next,
and has an income from his law prac-
tice and inventions of over 500, 900. "
The agricultural classes of France
have 5000, DOC, 900 on deposit in the
Government Savings Bank, on which
they are paid four per cent. interest.
They are also. in the aggregate among
the largest investors in Government
bonds.
The late DR.. Maceadam used to tell
of a typsy Scotchman making his way
home upon a bright Sunday morning
when the good folk were vending their
way to the kirk. A little dog pulled a
ribbon from the hands of a lady who
was leading it, and as it ran from her
she appealed to the first passer-by. who
happened to be the inebriate, asking
him to whistle for her poodle. "Wom-
AM" he retorted, with that solenlnity
of visage which only q Scotchman can
assume, woman, this is no day for
whustlin'. "-Philadelphia Record.
Robert Bonner, writing OF the groom
who takes care of Maud S., says: "He
sleeps on a cot in her stall, and one
night recently, when the weather was
warm, but threatened to turn cold, he
purposely went to bed with very little
clothing on himself, knowing that if it
turned cold during the night he would
feel it, and would wake up, when he
could put additional clothing on the
mare. If the men who figure in divorce
suits would treat their wives half Us
kindly as this, our courts would not
have SO much to do"
An aeronaut named Price was half a
mile high when his balloon burst, at
Nevada, Mo-, and for most of the dis
lance he fell with awful velocity; but
the bag happened to fill with air in
such a name that the decent wa re-
tarded the rest of the distance, and the
man was not fatally injured.
The Prince of Wales is thus hit off
by q kentuckian who writes from Lon
don to the Courier-Journal: "He mix.
es a good deal with the masses, and is
very democratic in his manner He re.
members names and faces SO well and is
so pleasant that if he were living in
Kentucky he would be elected to the
Legislature. He knows which side his
bread is buttered on. He seems to have
sown his wild oats, and has been be-
having himself first-rate for five years.
The salary of Mr.. James G. Lathrop,
the new trainer for athletics at Har-
ward, will be 81, 900 year. The salary
of a regular college tutor is generally
from $500 to $1,000. Muscle before
mind.
Mr.. Ruskin touched q sympathetic
chord when he remarked in one Of his
recent lectures: II do not speak of the
Celtic race because I should now be ex.
pected to say Kettle, and | don't mean
to, if only for fear that l should next
be- required to say st. Kekilia."
Lord Randolph Churchill has been
dealing with one of the London news
agencies which processes to collect and
supply anybody with newspaper cut
tings of any and every kind. He ar
ranged with one concern to supply him
with cuttings Of everything said against
him. "At the end of a month";" said
the Lord, II found that l owned them
about 30 guineas, 100 cuttings a week
being a fair average of abuse. It would
have been much cheaper and pleasanter
If | had arranged with them for only the
| good things said about me-"
Harry Moss. o weIl-known journals.
of Pascagoula, Fla, died lately, leaving
a will. in which was the following: II
desire that my body be dressed in sea.
sonable apparel and placed on its back
with q pillow under its head, ETC., etc,
in q sapling pen sufficiently close to
keep out a mink and with a good roof
standing but one way; bottle of water
on each side tightly corked, Il door in
the pen fastened on the inside with a
latch without any string to 1t. There /
wish to be leftfor forty days and nights.
If, after that time. any one chooses to
bury me they can do so if they are Ger
tain 1 I'M dead, beside my father or in
the graveyard at Bermuda, but I don't
enjoin it upon any one to bury me at
ALL" 1t is evident hat the t~estator
wished every %precaution to be taken
against burying him alive.
The duke of Hamilton.s library sale
is declared to be the greatest book sale
on record. 1t continued over about
forty days, and realized a total OF
$3.50, 600. The Sunderland collection
brought only a little more than one.
fourth rs much, and the Gosford only
$45, 900. The American demand 70,
rare books in London is constantly in,
creasing.