Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-05-04
Facts and Fancies.


Sala, in his "America Revisited" says
of the Sunday clangor of bells: sThey
boom and bawl from sunrise to sunset,
as though they We're SO many hotel
gongs calling guests to theological
meals"
Snow has repeatedly fallen all over
southern Europe, once or twice as far
south as the streets of Palermo. 1t is a
curious fact that both in the Northern
and Southern h~emispheres and on the
Eastern and Western continent the
last twelvemonth was one of heavy snow
fall.
Twenty graduates of Dartmouth Col
lege, New Hampshire, had reunion and
dinner in San Francisco, CAL, on the
evening of March 81. There are sixty
five Dartmouth men on the Pacific coast,
representing classes from '43 TO rs.
A South Carolina Judge, in passing sem
tence lately, remarked that ninety-nine
out OF every n hundred persons upon
whom he had had in his circuit to pass
sentence were comparatively young peo-
pie. Especially in crimes of an Infamous
character the criminals were in near
ly every instance quite young, and al
most always of the colored race. 1T was
rare that he had to pass sentence upon
those who had experienced the restraints
of slavery aud who had been made free.
There has been several failures of late
at Winnipeg. Rents are very high, and
it is said there are $4,000,dh Al worth of
buildings under contract this spring,
and, as already 1000 emigrants have ar.
rived, while thousands more a.e on the
way, these failures are considered but
~exigcncies of frontier town building. The
] resent advance in tho duty on agricultu-
raj implements and the increased freight
rates on the Canada Pacific cause great
indignation among the farmers, who as
usual, when things 90 wrong over the
border, talk about annexation.
\ st. Petersburg telegram says: GA
statistical report On suicides in Russia
! has been issued. 1t appears that some
1900 persons in each year make away
with themselves. The greatest number
of cases occur in The district of Moscow,
after which comes st. Petersburg, War
saw, and Irdkursk. During the last
five years 7,713 cases have been re lis
tered. Suicide in the Russian army, as
in that of Germany. has been on the in
crease during the last few years.
The Lancaster New Era says that a
citizen of Pennsylvania may leave 81 ,O0C
or 81, 100000 to his family, Wife, or
children, and the law takes no cogni-
zance of it, but if he leaves so much as
$lOO to a public charity the laws of the
state promptly dock the requests five
per cent.
The auction sale ofseason tickets for
the forthcoming dramatic festival in
Cincinnati has closed. Twenty-fou,
hundred and fifty-three seats have been
sold for a total sum ofS64 ,625. OF this
sum the premiums amounted to $50 ,2S3
The average premium is $l2.35. The
sale has produced several thousand dol,
lars more than any previous auction fol
Music Hall, and there are still 1867 seats
to be sold without premium.
The DEVELOPMENT of fossil remains at
the Nevada state prison quarry contin.
ues to be more and more interesting
Scarcely a blast is made which does no
disclose new and strange tracks, Gaseous
remains of fossil ivory. The vegetable
indications are numerous n interest
ing, as are the many specimens of clans
and other muliusks.
The wives Of some Of the most promi
nent men of Condersport, Pa, have
formed a society in opposition to thu
Masonic order. They have determined
to hold their meeting on the same eve
ming as the Masons, at rs late an hour
and will endcavor to reach home in tn,
same state of set-em-up-ativeness a
their lords and masters.