The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-08-17
miscellaneous Matters.

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recent date says there are now not less
than $4,000 Cinnamon i'll British Column
bia. and the number is increasing fully
100 per month by the arrival of ship
loads in Victoria.
Our consul to Brazil has telegraphed
the department of state that DR.. Friez
and other eminent physicians report
that after the various microscopic and
other tests of the blood of yellow fever
patients they have fully established the
theory that the yellow fever germ exists
in the blood. They claim to have found
various evidences in every subject oper-
ated On.
The Trenton, N. j., editor who spoke
slightingly of factory girls and their mo-
rails raised a hornets nest, and the buzz
zing of fifteen hundred factory girls,
coupled with threats at m elaborate dis
play of %boycotting methods was so fear
full that he had to come and say that he
wrote the offensive article ina hurry,
and didn't mean it.
A trial of the Sl-ton gum at Dover, a
short time a ago, resulted ssfully.
The ground trembled perceptlbly from
the effects of the explosion, windows
dllU siOoIS Idtlltus ANU ScFtfdl ZtIllck
panes Of glass in the lighthouse We're
shattered. -Four rounds were fired, the
proiectiles being all of the same weight
j 700 pounds-but the charges of pow
der varing from 225 pounds to 45O
pounds, the latter being a full charge.
The prolectiles struck the water at dis
tances varying from 1900 yards to four
| miles, according to the elevation, and
the recoil varied from four 10 seven feet.
The carriages and aiming apparatus
worked admirably.
M. de Lesseps breaches that the chill
dren Of the rich are over-dressed, over
fed, and underexercised. He was
brought up in many respectes like a
young savage-just as he is rearing his
little folk-and he thinks that had it rot
been for his fathers appreciation
of the unadorned beauty Of
infants and dislike of
finely clad and pampered habyhoGd. he
M. de Lesseps) would not have pre-
served his vitality so far into old age as
he mad done. The basis of a strong co IL
stitution were laid in q free and natural
childhood. At the age of five he was
no more afraid to ride a mettlesome
horse than an Arab of the desert. Be-
fore his boys and girls We're old enough
TO play marbles ana dress UoiIS he gave
them ponies and took them out 10 ride
in the environs of Paris.
The corner stone Of the Garfield mon
umentin San Francisco is to. be laid in Au-
gust %, and il is expected that the cere-
monies will +. very impressive. The
governors of all the Paci tic
coast states and terrific
ties, King Kalakana of the Sandwich
Islands and his staff, the entire militia
of California and Nevada, and delega.
lions from all the coast ports of the
grand army of the republic will be pres
ent, and the direction of details will be
given to the Knights Templar. The
monument will stand in Conservatory
valley of Golden Gate park.
|. In l.apland the sun never goes down
during May, June and July, but, in win.
ter, for two months, he never rises al
ali. His place, however, is somewhat
supplied by the wonderful northern
lights, which flash and flicker in the
gray skies. They look like fires of q
thousand shapes and colors. Now like
clowns, and now like domes; now like
flashing nets, and now like streamers of
silk: now like banners, and now like
arches-these welcome guests make 6
night beautiful.