The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-01-08
Personal Gossip.

The late Mrs. Charlotte Piflnt, who
kept famous toy-house In New York,
bequeathed So 10 to the Typographical
Union OF Il. at city. The typos consider
it one of the --latest" cf fat takes"
Mrs. Pitfet also left $1,000 to the News
boys Home $1,000 to the jewish Wild
ows' aud Orphans Home, and S. $50 to
the Charity Hospital. Her estate is valued
at $4,000, and gees to her descen-
dants.
Mr.. james Tissot has returned to Par
is, and is said to have definitely settled
there. His first work in his new or
rather old home has been to design ten
etchings to illustrate Goncourt's Renee
Maurperin.' 1t is said that the effect Of
M. Tissot's stay and work in England
shows itself prominently in these new
designs.
A curious law suit Is now awaiting
trial in New York. Some ten months
ago Miss Annie Petit, a young girl of
unusually large proportions, was engaged
by dime museum manager to exhibit
herself as "the largest young lady in the
world" Miss Petit was given to under
stand that her position was a life one,
uuu IL piOUduly NOuIu dnNC DSCu huda y
nature interfered and reduced her size
SO much that she was no longer a curios-
| ity. The management promptly dis
| charged her and she now sues for rein
statement
Yves Guyot, the Paris journalist, tells
| how King Louis XVIII, when he re-
turned from exile, asked Fouche if his
movements had been watched by spies.
Fouche admitted that the Due de Blacae
+ had been so employed. "And how
much did you give him?" asked Louis.
1.-Two hundred thousand livres," was the
reply. Good" said the monarch, II
find he did not cheat me. We went
| halves"
"In France" says the Pail Mall Ga
zette, "the monarch or chief of the exc
cutive ha always exercised the prerog-
ative of mercy independently of minis
terial control. M. Grevy finds it pain
full privilege, and whenever a MALE
factor is dosmed to death he goes over
all the evidence on which he has been
condemned, and really in petto rear
CUES his case He does it so we'll that
few murderers have lost their heads
since he became president"
] Austin Blair, the war governor o'
Michigan, is at present in delicate
health. and his labors during the wa,
are beginning to tell on his naturally
strong physique. He IS paying strict
attention to his law practice, and taxes
only passing interest in politics. He
recently purchased six acres of land in
Orange county, Fla, where he intends
to reside hereafter in the cold winter
months, as he finds that, rs he advances
in age, he suffers from cold weather.
Among the clerks in the treasury de-
partment, at Washington, is youns
man who was found. buried among the
; dead on the field of the second Bul
, Run. When the burial squad pulled
him out from among the dead he ;ya.
found to have terrible wound in til,
side and his left hand was hanging by ,
| few tendons. These he bit off anc
threw the hand away, gave his canteer
\ to diving Confederate and crawled or
towards the hospital, preferring to bel,
himself so the squad could search fol
T; others who might be in the same fix
, The next day he received his commits
4 sion as lieutenant. He married the sis
a ter of the 'Johany" to whom he gav'
n the last drop OF water he mad, ana i've
3 happily on Capitol Hill,
: Sarah, tradition tells us, was 30 jeaI
, Gus of the preference shown by Abrs
n ham for Hagar that she took solem
a VOW that she would give herself no res
t until she h ad mutilated the fair face {
Q her rival and bondmaid. Abraham, VIII
had knowledge of his wife's intention
did his utmost to pacify his embittere
spouse, but long in vain. AT length
however, axe relented, and decided t
J forego her plan of revenge. But ho
e WAS she to fuliH the terms Of the vow sh
q had entered into? After mature reflee
, ,ien she saw her way out of the difficu
= ty, instead of disfgurins the lovely fet
n lures of her bondmaid, she contente
r herself with borinr hole in each Of th
Y rosy lobes of her ears. Turkish womel
If all of whom wear earrings from the
b seventh year. derive the use of thes
- jewels from Hagar, who is held in vel
u GRAFTON as the mother of Ishniael til
n founder of til cir race.
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