The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1890-05-23

A veteran of the - Connecticut
Regiment of Volunteers keeps at home
Il handsome uniform of a Confederate
officer which was never worn but by
himself, and to which he owes some
months or years of liberty, if not life
itself.
He was a tailor before the civil war,
and when he was captured on a South
crn battlefield this fact reached the
ears Of the commander Of the prison-
ers' barracks.
.Egad! I'll have the Yankee goose
| i,usller make me a new suit, said the
officer, gazing at his dingy uniform.
The fine gray cloth, gold-lace, and
bright buttons were brought to the
tailor prisoner. who worked checrfully
away at the welcome employment. On
the evening the suit was to be deliver
ed, however, a bright idea occurred to
him, and soon what WAS to all appear
anccs a spruce Confederate officer
walked past the guards, and was seen
no more i'll that part of Dixie. History
kindly draws the veil ovcr the en-
plrtivcs vented on the nutmeg Yam
kcen for not only gaining his liberty
he earned that-but for taking that
precious suit, which cost so many hun
lred dollars of good Confederate
money!-Ha1per's Magazine.
By the by, there are some things that
IRE good form.
1t is good form to be able to say a
pleasant word about whoever is spoken
Of.
1t is good form to refuse to listen,
.o,.l ~, t,,t 70 1ie,,rrann-
bic stories.
1t is good form to be polite to elder
~ people.
ii is good form to make room for
the stranger getting into the street
car.
1t is good form to have your skirts
Il graceful but not Il disgraccful length.
1t is good form TO show the white
throat OF Il young girl. but not to have
her aim to ouistrip an opera-boulle
dancer.
Ii is good form to call only your in
innate friends by their first name.
!, 1t is good form to pay your bills.
1t is good form not to mind if YOU
friends are IL bit shabby, but to be sat
, islied because they are your friends
and c~uriously enough, although richie:
are appreciated. it's good form no
to envy anybody their gold, but t'
make the most out of ones possessions
5 and in the matter of costly banque;
: and rich gifts to take the will for thu
: ,leed.-B0b.
4 There is no accounting for it, tn
men say, but somehow the clcctri
light stations swarm with rats. Bi;
rats and little ones gather III I'll
!. DYNAMO rooms and boiler rooms alike
5 and have great larks playing about tn
floors until the men get a little leisur
d for scientific experiments. The sin
d plest of these experiments is to so al
rage metal plates that the rats. i
D. scampering about the room. aomplet
1t the circuit through their bodies. Tina
a ends the rats larks instantly. Th
t current is sometimes modified. how
+ ever. so that it shocks without KILN
II the brute. 1t is said that when n
}; shocked and let go the entire gan
" leaves the premises for a day or Sc
~ but either they forget about it an
~ come back or a new lot takes the
- place, for the rat circus begins agai
II within forty-eight hours.
=. Juoge-"rrlsoner aG tne par, perol
20 / pass II sentence upon you, ! cann'
h refrain from expressing my surpri!
d that a man who has had all the advan
ages of a collegiate education shouI
IS be found at the head of a mob of DRUM
N en- rioters" Prisoner-''Whv, gre
snakes, Judge, that was a part of n
rs collegiate training,
= A Sunday-school teacher was giyiu
NJ a lesson in Ruth, She wanted to brir
I'd out the kindness Of Boaz in cominan
ing the rcapers to drop large handful
SC Of wheat. Now. chldpeH;,' SHE sal
le ':Boaz did another nice gthing for Rut
OF can ..yeau: tell me : what it was
to Married her" said one of the beYs.