The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-02-27
Personalities.

Personalities.
Little Ned-"What did pa mean when
he said sister Edith must stop getting
,urreptitious letters? What kind Of
letters is them?" Little Nell-"WhN
lon't you know, they is love letters.
Her beau leaves them in little box up-
der the shrubbery and Edith gets them"
Little Ned-"But why is they called
that" Little Nell-"Why they is
called syruptitious cause they's so
sweet you know-just like molasses."
Sergeant Bates has found friend in
need in the shape of an admirer, who
has just left him q Legacy Of $13, 600.
The sergeant did not find Showing the
flag" apaying business, and has lately
been in extreme want, SO that this
streak Of fortune comes in good time.
Henry NJ. Stanley, the African ex-
plorer, is not married. When he first
started for Africa he was engaged to d
pretty New York girl, who wept over
him for six months, gave him up for
utdo Ill u y Chl, 1lhlIiSu duOUliGl Alhu
within two years. and had a child be-
fore her plighted lover returned from
the dark proved continent.
Gilbert P. Cook has disappeared from
Havana, N. Y. He was a private
banker-very private. e. G. Sackett,
his partner, furnished the capital-said
to be $40, 000-ana Cook the expert
ence. 1t is thought that Sackett is
cleaned out" and that Cook is in Can
ada preparing to enjoy the ice carnival
and make himself at home generally in
the American colony of Z. F's-fast fell
lows.
B. P. Shillaber, the venerable Mrs.
Darlington, is one of the few friends of
the Rev. Adirondack Murray, who still
has a kind word to say for that notori-
Gus backslider: He is, as Father
Taylor said of his son-in-law, Judge
Russell, mot much of a saint, but a
sweet sinner The world has been too
harsh with him"
The London Land Agents Record
says. "Ihave not heard what rent Lord
Rosebery pays for Lansdowne House,
but | should imagine not less than
50 1000 Il year, which I am told was the
rent paid by Lord Palmerston FOR Cam
bridge House. The Duke of Abercorn
is understood to have paid e1 800, and
subsequently co, 200. for Chesterfield
House. l imagine that these are the
/ hirbncf rar{olo ,,k;o1, how, la., ,,,;l =.
London by the year. The highest
weekly rent l know of was paid by
Louis Philippe's widow for Chancellor
House, Tunbridge Wells. fifty guineas a
week, and the Duke of Abercorn paid
forty-eight guineas for the same house."
John B. Cough, in his wild and dis
sipatedyouth, fell in love with a girl up
in Vermont. She refused to marry him
on account of his dissolute habits and
gave her hand to a promising young
lawyer Of her native village. Cough
reformed and became a celebrated
temperance advocate. The lady's hus-
band went to the war, Whsle he &C.
CURED the vice of drinking. He oame
home, reformed and fell, reformed and
fell again, and finally died a complete
wreck, the victim of whiskey.
Mrs. Howgate, the wife of the fugi-
tive Captain, says a Washington tele-
gram to the Boston Herald, is keeping
a small clearinghouse in Washington,
and Miss Ida Howgate, his clever
Daughter is an Instructor in a military
academy OF Cleveland. About a year
ago she passed a fine examination be-
fore the civil service board of examin-
ers, and was recently awarded q 81, 900
position in the department. under it but
she declined it. She has made friends
in Cleveland, andpreferred to stay there.
An Albany correspondent of the
Tribune tells a story about Mr.. Tilden.
He complained one day that his med
icine hurt his stomach. "Oh, but, Mr..
Tilden," said the physician, "the medi-
cine is doing you q great deal of good"
I presume 80, but 1 shall not take it
hereafter" SIN sorry to hear you say
that; but if you are determined on this
course I would warn you earnestly that
you must stop using it gradually"
"You doctors don't know everything.
l quit using that medicine three weeks
ago."