The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-01-11
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A prominent tnrfman Is authority for
the statement that three or four years
more RiIl see the last of horse racing
in the United States. 1T may" he says,
five a little longer han that in Califor- |
MIA, but the handwriting Is OF the wall.
n the sport is doomed. / aye been ir
that line for years and kno what }
am talking about. Hostile legislation
and public sentiment are against 1t
Besides. there Is no longer any profit ir
II for anybody. The purses are too small
to recompense the owners of stables
II bookmaking has ~degenerated SO by
falling into the hands of the wrong PEG,
pie that there is nothing to be gained al
that end. Altogether the turf is in a bad
way and the con ia racing fails
into a state of innocuous desuetude. this
better for the country"
George Augustus Sala had a peculiarly
uncertain temper. Once at a Inner civ.
en- by him in honor of Henry Irving.
Lord Rosebery, who was among the
guests. made a speech gently bantering
the actor. Sala instantly took offense
and delivered a terrific TRADE which
began with Archibald Philip Primrose,
earl of Rosebery, you have dared this
night to insult a man who has served
his country in every quarter of the
globe And SC on at great length, with
tremendous vehennence. The table was
thunderstruck, but Lord Rosebery made
another speech. which soothed the fiery
veteran and finally reduced himt to tears
I.igonier. Ind, claims to have living
there the largest and the smallest man
In the state. George Washington Wal.
ker is 46 years old, weighs $50 pounds,
and his weight is steadily increasing
He is five feet ten inches tall, measures
seventy-six inches around the waist,
siXty-eight inches round the chest, and
his arm Is a trifie more h two feet in
circumference. During hot weather he
lives entirely in the cellar of the house.
Jesse Allen, a %neighbor of Walker, is IS
years old, his legs are exactly a foot
long, n he stands but three feet six
inches high. He weighs seventy-five
pounds.
A red dinner was given recently at a
London hotel by two gamblers who had
won $50, 900 francs at one sitting from
the bank of Monte Carlo by playing on
the red. The room was draped in red,
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lights, geraniums decorated the table,
and the walters Wore red ties, red gloves
red shirts M red buttons on their coats
and vests. The menus We're printed ir
red, with a roulette on one side and q
figure 8 on the other, that being thu
number of successive runs on the red by
which the money was won.
h faculty of Columbia college an
nounce that two prizes, the first of no
less than $1,000. inc the second of not
less than $400, to be known as the Lou
bat prizes, are to be awarded in 1898
and every fifth year after that, to the
authors of the best works on the history
geography, archaeology, ethnology
%philology or numisinatics of NORTH
America. The competition for these
prices will be open to all persons,
whether citizens of the United States
or not.
Says Yvette Guilbert: LAS soon as /
get back to Paris I'm going to have some
body write me a long which / have al
ready planned. The refrain of every
verse is to be Cash n in the first
stanza I will explain how in the Ameri-
a shops the girls all cry Cash In the
second verse it will be q little girl that
cries Cash. and SO on until when she
becomes older n is no longer a good
shop girl, she continues to call CASH
Miss Anna e. Ticknor, a daughter OF
the late George Ticknor, has presented
to the Boston public library the original
autograph manuscript of one of Lope de
Vegas best known plays, Eel Castigc
Sin Vengauza" ("Punishment Without
Revenge'), written in 1881. The manu-
script is plain, legible and well pre-.
served.
france is to have a new coinage.
The new gold pieces will show On the
face a head Of the republic in profile
turned to the right; above it an olive
tree, while in the background the roofs
of a French village on one side and q
minaret on the other. The diverse viii,
represent the French cock growing.
c. A. M~onkovsky, chief government
engineer Of the department of eastern
Siberia, is at present In San Francisco
studying certain features of American
railroading. His mission is said to DO
in connection with the proposed con-
struction of a number of lines of rail-
road in eastern Siberia.
Coquelin has carried Paris by storm as
the hero in "Fantan la Tulipe," an old
romantic military ~melodrama by Paul
Meurice. 1t is a one part play, a glori-
fication of the French cavalry soldier,
in the days of Louis XIV and Nine. de
Pompadour.
Echard Golden's historical drama of
Benedict Arnold" is mildly praised by
the New York critics. The playwright
has not succeeded, however, in present.
ing the courtship OF Arnold and Polly
Shipper in a good dramatic light.
Transportation both by land and sea
will be done solely by electricity. The
same power will run the mills, the furn-
aces and the factories.-Dr Chauncey
M. Depew, on the twentieth century.
Lecoca. the composer Of La File de
Madame Angot,' is trying to get O dl.
yorce from the wife to whom he has
been married for twenty years on the
ground of incompatibility OF temper.
Princess Marie, wife OF Prince Waldo
mar, Of Denmark. has just startled her
relatives by having her photograph
taken In a flreman's uniform, helmet
and all.
The worst vessel in the navy is the
Texas. the plans for which were bought
In England.
According to a Paris geographer, the
largest remaining forests are now in
central Africa, southern Siberia and
North and South America. With
proper management North America
would remain in this list permanently,
but it will soon drop out. A vast army
of men with axes is slashing trees wher-
ever they can make a dollar at it.
An interesting event in Los Angeles
was the recent dedication of a church
which was built by a minister, who also
pays his w salary. The Inference is
that he is preaching for his health.
A syndicate of farmers along the ILL
nois river bottoms has chartered what
Is known as the floating chapel 1t
is 14O feet long, 60 feet wide and 20 feet
high. The farmers will tow 1t to their
respective corn cribs and store in it corr
that is now partly under water. The
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