The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-01-02
Personal Paragraphs.

Lord Ampthill, the English Ambas-
sador to Berlin, has always spent from
so 500 to $50, 600 o year more then
bis salary in keeping up his position.
May Edminster, aged 10, daughter of
William Edminster, a rich farmer Of
Erwin, Steuben County, is slowly re-
covering from an illness with typhoid
fever. One physician gave her up. DR..
Brown, of Addison, took her case.
Edminster told him: IF you will
save her I will give you a hundred
acres of my best land" The promised
fee is as good as 5000 in cash.
The grandson Of Patrick Henry, who
has made IN unenviab1e reputation for
himself in the South by his dissipation,
is described as q cripple but a remarka-
bly, handsome man. He is brilliant,
finely educated and On entertaining
talker. His voice is singularly power
full and resonant, such avoice, perhaps,
as that with which his great grandfather
thrilled his hearers when he delivered
his GIVE me liberty or give me death"
speech, Such q voice might be heard
with ease by 10, 600 people. According
to all accounts the great orators de-
scendant is too brilliant to be good for
anything.
Not long since ex-Judge Black
in examining a witness who had
been in the army, said: stCome
soldier, tell US what you know of this
matter" II am no soldier, I am an Of
%ficer," haughtily responded the witness.
Whereupon, the old lawyer camly said
Well, then, officer, who is no soldier,
tell us what you know" The win fell
low was crushed.
Admiral Porter told a New York in
terviewer that his novel which is to be
published by subscription, has nothing
in it about the sea except in two pages.
In six mouths he ground out 2.49O
closely written foolscap pages to soc
cupy his mind" The book, which is in
the hands Of the Appleton's is, accord
ing to the interviewer's statement,
wonderfully sanguinary without con
tanning a word of fact. The title is
ALLAN Dare and Robert le Diable. "
There is certainly no salt water flavor
about that.
According to the France there is a
woman living ct st. Just-de Claix, in
the Department of Isere, who was born
in 1761, SC that she is now in her 124th
year. Her name is Marie Girard, nee
Curand. She was married in 1779 at
st. just, and had two children, one of
whom died q few years ago, aged 81.
Sir George Rose Sartorius, the SEN
Tor Admiral of the British navy, has
just completed his oath year. He has
been upward Of elghty-three years
in the navy, which he entered in
June, 1901, and rose to the rank of
Admiral of the Fleet in 1859. He is
the only surviving officer who took part
in the battle Of Trafalgar in 1905.
The Tichborne claimant is to be re-
leased from imprisonment on October
"a, and will at n 9 take up his res
idence in Hampshire, Eng, in a house
already selected by. Mr. Quartermain
East, though the exact house is as yet a
secret. During the Imprisonment of
their father, Mr.. East has taken upon
himself the responsibility of maintain
ing and educating the claimants two
daughters. The young girls have had
all the advantages enjoyed by the chill
dren Of their protector, and the elder
will, upon her fathers release, go to
live with him and keep house. In or
der that the claimant may not, at any
rate for some time to come, be worried
by pecuniary matters, Mr.. East Ii
poses making him an ample weekly al
lowance, and will further place a consid-
erale sum Of money in his hands on the
day Of his release.
Aten-year-old boy in Wallingford,
Conn, wrapped worsted round the head
Of pin and fred it thr ough o blow-pipe
at various objects With more or less sue
cess. At last he sucked it back into his
throat. Sixteen doctors tried to get ii
out and failed, and the boy was sent to
the New York Hospital, where the OPP
GRAFTON OF tr~acheotomy was successfully
performed, but the pin was not found
because it had gone too far to be reached
with any OF the usual instruments.
They kept the boy alive, however,
while q special instrument was made at
Philadelphia, and when it arrived they
captured the pin. The boy returned to
his home, after being nearer death than
he is likely to be again until his end
actually comes.