The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-07-08

Anderson, OF Ham,, re-
Gently received a letter from Andrew
Carnegie, requesting permission to
have a bronze bust of the colonel made
by o French sculptor and putin one
OF the free libraries which the writer
Of the letter has endowed. When Mr..
Carnegie was a poor boy, with no re-
sources at his command wherewith
to procure an education. Colonel An-
derson extended to him the use of his
library. Mr.. Carnegie now wishes to
show his appreciation of this kindness.
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Yale divinity school students have
hit upon a novel way for assisting
themselves in paying their expenses
through the theological course. They
have opened a tailoring establish
inent in one of the rooms IN West Di-
yinity hall and have sent out circulars
stating that, owing to the fact that
they have no rent to pay, they can
make Q suit Of clothes from s. to $40
more cheaply than ordinary tailoring
honses. They state that they guaran-
tee for n year all suits against rips,
loose buttons, etc.
Not long ago a charming Washing
ton woman called on Secretary Long
and urged the appointment of a dis
tant relative as a marine lieutenant.
MI. Long promised to do SO, but alb
systematically put her name on. the
list instead OF the candidates. The
society woman was astonished a few
days later to receive from the depart
ment a letter directing her to appear
at the Office of General Haywood, COM
mander of the marine corps, and I'M
dergo the necessary physical examine
ton.
The residents of Gloucester, Mass,
are to hold q memorial service in the
city hall in memory of the lost fisher
men Of Gloucester. Statistics COM
piled by the Gloucester Relief associa-
ton, which provides for the families
of those who lose their lives at sea,
show that In the past twenty-five years
no less than 2.413 seafaring men from
above named port have been
edrowned. Last year the rate of lives
lost at sea was 1878 per 1000 of sea-
sfarers; in 1897, Fl per 1000.
Two hundred men have refused to
work at cleaning Brooklyn streets be-
cause they did not wish to wear the
white Wings uniform, They were
hired under q new system and all Of
them are Americans. They say they
will not clean the streets until the
legislature changes the law that COM
pels them to wear the white wings.
w are men," they say, mot mon
keys" Great efforts were made to
have the strikers reconsider their ac-
ton, but with no result.
Captain G. Melville Boynton, who
started to 60 around the world two
years ago leaving San Francisco with
cut clothes or money and travelling
eastward, only got as far as Spain
when the war broke out. He man
aged to pass through the country aft
er several exciting escapes and then,
when safe beyond the Spanish border,
gave up the trip and returned to Dub
lin, where in passing through he had
fallen in love with and married q
young Irish woman.
The London Chronicle says: "By
far the most picturesque figure at En-.
eter hall has been llt. Rev. Henry Ben
jamin Whipple, d. D., bishop of Mime
sofa. Known in the Red Indian Ian
guage as Straight Tongue Or the
Truthful One and variously In the
United States as Apostle of the In
dams, ! he has taken a conspicuous part
In the centenary celebrations of the
Church Missionary society. His life
has been spent among the Indians and
he Is u years of age"
Henrik Ibsen. who has completed his
list birthday, is q German by descent
and speaks that language fluently,
but, curiously enough, he has not writ
ten any of his important works in
hat18:tanSt IL was originally In.
tended for the medical profession, but
he was not long kept from his proper
bent, for at the age of 20 his first
drama, "Catilina," was produced.
Samuel J. Randall, IT., Of Philadel-
phia, has beer appointed special
agent of the department of internal.
revenue for the eastern district of
pennsylvania, with headquarters in
philadelphia. The salary is SO per
day. The appointment was made by
the secretary of the treasury upon.
the personal request of President Me-
Kinley.
The current London make joke is
about the emperor Of Germany andit
has a point. 1t is to the effect that
the kaiser, having expressed the hope
during Kipling's illness that the life
55of the writer might, in the mercy of
providence, be spared, has now, since
Mr.. Kipling's recovery conferred the
Order ofsthe lac Eag'eeon Proyi-
denee. -~SsM
Charles Nelson, a veteran farmer Of
Floyd county, Iowa, is raising coffee
this year. His plants grown from seed
put in the ground last spring. are now
six inches hight. The seed was grown
by MI. Nelson last year by buying his
seed i n New York. Out of thirty-fye
lunches he got five. pounds Of coffee,
which he has been using since last
fall. The seed is planted early in rows
three feet apart and covered one inch.
When Y II is parched and prepared
the same as other coffee. The plant
grows about twenty inches in height.
Er. Temple, archbishop of Canter-
bury, is much opposed to the Sunday
papers which recently made their APP
pearance in London. The archbishop
rather runs to hobbies and is famous
as an advocate of total abstinence, in
which he does not find many followers
among the English clergy. His SER
monsSare hard and cold, but full Of
logic.