The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-01-07
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SStlrssiip1ll street, London, which Us to-
StG enlarged. was the scene of some Of
Mr.. IllskiIts earliest efforts in the
way of practical art teachings. Sub
ssealently, finding the work too hard.
Mr. RRuskin engaged an assistant, who
took charge Of the figure drawing
class. The assistant teacher, who
maintained for some years his connec-
ton with the college, was a struggling
Young artist, who vas afterward TIC
become famous MS Dante Gebriel Ros-
seth.
ST. Joints church At Eilicottyille, NJ.
~, has a great bell that was made
nearly two centuries ago in Spnin and
which for over 100 Years sounded
matin and yesper calls Mt 4 n
terry on the outskirts OF Malaga. The
monastery was burned during an in-t
t~ernecine strife and for years the bell.
lay among the ruins. 1t was finally
brought to this country by a New Eng;
land skipper and was purchased for
the Ellicottville church in 1898. IT. isl
four feet in circumference Mt the top
and over seven feet mt the base.
The American Legion of Honor,
which is composed exclusively Of those
to whom medals have been awarded
by congress for saving persons from
drowning and the perils of the sea,
has elected as honorary members
President Mckinley, because of his
official position, and King Leopold, OF
Belgium, because he is head of a sim
liar. organization in his w country.
Both Of the new members have writ
ten31etters of acceptance to the WASH
aington headquarters of the society.
Henry z~eigenheim, mayor of st.
Louis, is an illiterate man and proud.
of it. He got his start in life as a
carpenter and builder and became
president of a bank. He has come to
the front solely through force of
character. Speaking Of his lnck of
education he said: u could hire
plenty of men to write speeches for
me, but I won't do it. What say
comes from the heart, and | mean IT.
i don't have to pay no money for ane
words"
The attorney general of South Caro-
linn has Just made a ruling relative
to what the size of a graveyard may
he. He says the size is not limited by
law, and may be a mile square or
more. The land must not be used for
any other purpose than as a burial
place, and the graveyard must not be
held with a view to profit or specula-
ton. The case came up in the matter
OF the seizure Of the old Maverick
plantation graveyard, in Pickens
ty, for back taxes.
Miss Emily Vanderbilt Sloane,
granddaughter of the late w. II. Van
derbilt, and John II. Hammond, son OF
the late General John H. Hammond,
whose engagement to marry has just
been announced, are both altruists,
and the young lady,, who is very
wealthy, has compiled several books
*devoted to the furtherance of such
ideas. Mr.. Hammond is a successful
New York lawyer.
Massachusetts is the only state in
the union in which the judges are ap-
pointed to hold their Offices during
good behavior. There r seven states
in which the judges are appointed BY
the governor, by and with the advice
and consent of the senate or of the
council; five in which they are'elected
by the legislature, and thirty-three in
which. they are elected by the people.
A man named William Smith robbed
the railroad depot at Hunters Creek,
Mich, of some express packages re-
Gently. The agents name is Smith,
as is that of the express company's
representative at that place. The lat
ter succeeded in running down the
culprit, who was brought before Judge
Smith, of the circuit court, and sem
fenced to the p~enitentiary.
The Spring Valley waterworks, a
corporation supplying the city Q san
Francisco with water, recently exc
cnteda mortgage in favor of the Union
u Trust company as security for q loan
of $4,000,o00. Tie mortgage deed carr
ries n little more than $4,000 worth Of
revenue stamps.
A chance to make n fortune is of
fered by the champagne house of
Heidseck, which will give 1000 francs
for a method of rendering corks per-
manently imperyious to liquids and
gases, including air, while retaining
their elasticity and other good quail
ties.
"Old Man Hearst the veteran pros
pector, who was Mark Twain's partner
in the days when the material for
.Roughing 1t" vas gathered, is still a
miner and is working a claim near the
Black range in New Mexico.
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Sam Jones says that he finds that
thatt the devil is just before him in ev,
cry city that he visits. The craze
among public entertainers for sensa-
tional advance agents has about
reached its limit.
Prof. Edgar w. Bass, of the United
States military academy at West
Point, who has been retired, has held
the chair of mathematics in that in
stitlltioni since 1878.
A woman in Toronto, Ont, who
strangled her three children for The
purpose, Qs she explained, of making
nngels of them, has been detained for
life on n charge of insanity.
A famous musician says that so per
cent of the Germans understand nu-
sic, 16 per cent of the French and 2
per cent of the English.
The dictator of fashion among tho
jeunesse dorees of Picking is Jung LII,
the most popular general in the Chi
nese army. His horses are finer even
than those of the emperor and he is
II fearless rider. He is the new Nicero.y
of Chih-Li.
A bicycling lawyer of Potsdnm, who
presented himself in court with his
client and witnesses all in "knickers'
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