The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-07-24
Personal Gossin.

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Prof. LOOMS, OF Yale, states that
with two exceptions the month OF feb
ruary, this year, was the coolest Feb.
ruary / n that section for 100 years.
Parson Newman's successor in the
Madison Avenue Church, New York,
Rev. w. +. Price, is only %, but
weighs $50 pounds.
A Maryland man has twenty-five
of his daughters living with him. Ii
he could give out the impression that
it is q female seminary, and that all
the young ladies are kept under lock
and key, he might work off some of his
surplus stock on some enthusiastic
but misguided young man. No young
man likes to visit a place whichhasn't
enough front gate facilities to 90
around unless there is a necessityfor a
little cover the garden wall" perform
ance.
A colored clergyman who had been
put on trial before a jury in Darien,
Ga, for some offence, was brought in
not guilty, the other day. The de-
PENDANT said: "Read that again"
"Not guilty." was repeated. With a
spring he bounded into the air, giving
vent to religious CALCULATIONS. The
colored women who crowded the court
room, set up a halleluiah chorus, in
which the preacher joined, and the
Judge had to sit still and let them
have tout.
A recent traveller in a Corsican
village says he saw a troop OF young
girls carrying on their heads jars con.
tanning five or six gallons OF water.
Before them marched their male reia-
tives bearing flaming torches to light
the burden bearers on their way.
Hon. James Oliver, of the New York
assembly, has been before the public
through an encounter with a Broad
way flower girl. The pleasant feature
Of the engagement is the fact that she
struck out from the shoulder and
landed the aspiring statesman into a
c%ongenial gutter. {
A surprised man is J. B. Ham, who
went to the New Orleans e1positionto
care for Names interests. He writes
to the Lewiston journal that rum
shops are plenty and teetotalars in
the minority, but in the whole six
months of his residence there he had
not seen six drunken men within
the city's corporate limits. Mr..
Ham. who is a prohibitionist, does
not attempt to explain this singular
fact. He says. at may be in the
quantity or the quality of the bever-
age drunk, and it may be in the eli
mate" But he leaves the solution OF
the problem to a longer-headed philos.
opher.
Sergeant Lewis Loffman, the Oldest
veteran OF the United States army,
died at Niagara Falls recently. Hewas
lightweight years old, and some years
ago vas retired on a salary OF ESQ per
month. He fought at Waterloo under
Napoleon and carried amedalpresent-
ed to him by that Emperor forgallant
conduct upon the field.
OF one Of the navy chaplains the
Christian Advocate relates thathehas
been on leave now for something more
than two years. For the past six
months he has regularly supplied a
pulpit in q certain church, and has re-
Gently accepted a callfromthat church
for one year. He makes no secret OF
his distaste for work in the navy, and
has often said that he only wishes to
keep along for eight ornine years more,
when he hopes to be retired, and to be
able, in the mean time, to draw his
pay without the liability to be called
OF duty. According to his own ac-
count he has not been at sea for four
years, and has been OH leave most of
the time. He is a robust man, in the
enjoyment of excellent health. He
draws $1,000 a year, and does moth
ing for it, while he is paid $500 $500
for preaching.
John Esten Cooke of Virginia has
made a searching investigation of the
Pocahontas matter, andheis satisfied,
from all the evidence to be had, that
Smith was captured by a party of In
dams in 1907 and carried to the In
diancapitalon York River, where Pow.
hatan ordered HIM to be lam. Poca-
hontas interfered to save him. She
took Smiths head inner arms, so that
twas impossible to beat out his brains
without hitting her. Powhatan con
sented to spare the prisoner, and
treated him kindly. Afterward Smith
released some Indian prisoners, stat
ing that it was for the sake Of Poca-
hohtas. He told his friends in James.
town that P%ocahontas had saved his
life. In a letter to Queen Anne hesaif
that he would be guilty of the dead.
ly poison of ingratitude" if he forgot
the goodness Of Pocahontas. In sew,
eral letters he gave to this girl credit
for his rescue from death. 1t was on
this account that Pocahontas was
hatteringly received at the English
court. After her marriage to Rolfs
she was baptized, and lived '~tciviliy
and lovingly With her husband"
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