The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28
Personal Mentioning.

IA CRUISE aiOuS Uuo icuautlc I1uuSUu,
from New York to Albany, will be
made in June in an eight oar shell, by
twenty members of the Nonpareil Boat
Club of New York. The voyage will last
six days and the voyagers will camp on
the banks at night and spin yarns
around their camp fires.
Henry Wheeler, one of the. Oldest of
the residents of Cherokee county, Ind,
has lived on the same land for half
century, He has never had to buy a
bushel of corn or pound of meat in
his life. The first dollar be ever earned
was silver one. He punched a hole
in it and fastened it in his clock with
screw, where it now is. He has nine
teen children and 102 grandchildren
and reat-grandchildren.
Mrs. Ferdinand Ward is said to be dy-
ing of nervous prostration at her moth
er's home in Brooklyn. It is conf
IDENTIFY expected that Ward will make
startling confession, and then blow out
friend that he would never face Grim
inal trial.
The Oldest Postmaster in the United
States is Roswell Beardsley, of North
Lansing, N. Y, who was appointed in
1928. John Wilson, Postmaster of Pla-
to, ILL.,, has held the office since 1856, and
seven other incubent Postmasters in
State were appointed under Presi-
dent Pierce.
Lars Olsen Smith, the great brandy
king" of Sweden, has been converted,
and will give up liquor selling. "I
think it is BETTER" he says, "to use the
money I have gained in demoralizing
and poisoning the people in undoing, as
!, far as possible, the mischief that unwit
tingly 1 created"
The Philadelphia Call notes that ga
young Philadelphian lying at deaths
door, given up by his physicians,
mourned as already lost by his friends,
gasped but desire to be married, and
the ceremony was very quietly per-
formed. ''Instead of dying he sank in
/ to sweet sleep, and is now getting we'll.
The remedy is not patented"
| A Bridgeport, Conn, man well ad-
vanced in years, was married few
months ago. He found that his wife
was the reverse of comfort to him, and
set out to apply for divorce, but when
he had arrived had forgotten his aife 5
name and had to appeal to the clerk who
issued the marriage license. He seems
to have married too late or too soon, ac-
cording to the point of view one takes.
While Joseph Knight, Of Brush
Creek, Mo-, was plowing, the earth sud
denly gave away and precipitated his
valuable span of horses, valued at $500,
into cave, some l5 or 20 feet deep
Being unable to extricate them they dice
at s o'clock that evening. The felt
had been in cultivation for 12 years anc
no one knew of the existence of the cave
beneath it. Mr.. Knight was plowine
with the lines over his neck and cam,
very near being dragged into the pi
and losing his life.
Henry Irving tells good story apro
pos OF American respect for the sex 0
, and Miss Terry visited a county jail
The jailer took them through his birt
i cage, and was vastly gratifed by thei
praises of its condition and management
Finally Miss Terry asked him wher
the female ward was: I'VE are in
>. now, MISS" said he, "but the fact i
there are no ladies in the jail at present
The only daughter of James Russell
Lowell, United States Minister to Eng
land, is the wife of Edward Burnett
son of the famous cocoaine manufac
turer. She is demure little lady, an
bears slight resemblance in looks t
! ! her distinguished father. She is note
: as one of the best horsewomen in Ne
England. Last summer she went acros
the ocean alone, in order to spend fe'
= weeks with her father, and returned q
l she went