The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-09-28
Interesting Topics.

Fogs have been so heavy upon the
California sea coast that streams OF wa
ter have formed under trees where
large amount of moistu re had concen
trated.
Twenty years ago Mr.. Frank Buck
land was ridiculed for predicting thst
the day would come when salmon would
be cheaper than meat in England, but
the day has come and his foresight is
confirmed.
A careful examination Of the ruins in
Ischia shows that the great destruction
vas due in part to the tlimsy name in
which the houses were constructed.
The National Board of Health reports
that Dayton, Ohio, is the healthiest city
in the country. 1t is below Is in every
thousand, while the average for the
whole country is over Is. New Orleans
and Memphis have the highest death
rate-27 to the 1000. Brooklyn and Bos-
tons are % per 1000 each.
The cod-tishing in Iceland this season
has been almosta failure. Several smacks
tried to force their way as far as North
Cape, but were prevented from doing
go by barriers of ice. The Shetland flee
is expected home about the end of No.
vember.
The number of letters despatched by
the British post Office department last
year gave an average of 40 for each in
habltant in England and Wales, 80 in
Scotland and l6 in Ireland. In the
United States the average is 81, in
france 10, in Germany, and in Italy
The Chinese soldiers, who may soon
face the French troops, have one fight
ing advantage. They wear a light, airy
uniform, which consists solely of a cap,
a thin linen Jacket and a gauze pair of
pants, while the Frenchman are attired
IN a thick blue Uniform, solid red trous.
ers, a thick shirt and hard leather
boots.
1t il predicted that Washington will
be gayer and more dissipated than aver
the coming winter. The session of con-
gress is the long one.
Railroads on the continent in Europe
are not friendly to dogs; they refuse to
carry them in the passenger cars, and
declare that they must be transported
as freight. Notwithstanding this rule,
women are to be met with their pet ca
mines packed into a sort Of a valise, which
Is covered when they enter the car, in
order to elude inspection. When they
are once seated. however, they lift up
the slide of the valise, under which ther
is an open wiring, which enables the dog
occupant TO get air. Conductors wink at
this.
Galveston merchants hope to solve
the problem of deep water Tor that port
by forming a company with S5,O0O, 600
capital to build wharves ont through
Galveston Bay to deep water in the
Gulf of Mexico. They will endeavor to
induce the state, which has a surplus of
S3.0po,00O in the treasury, to lend the
money on bonds bearing 6 per cent. in
terest and to run thirty years.
Kansas City is profoundly excited ov
er the professional engagement of
Mdlle. Rhea. The papers come out
with the stern demand that during that
an.lable actresses season in their midst
full dress snail prevail. This has natur-
ally occasioned widespread consterna-
ton. Heretofore Kansas City people
have been in the habit of doing opera
and theater in the same calico gowns
and blue overails with which they pur-
sued their daily vocations of LAUNDERING
and pQrk-packing. 1t remains to be
seen whether Rhea and the Kansas City
papers can accomplish the social reform
they have undertaken at kaw's mouth.
The latest way of making a raise
comes from Clinton, Mass, where it is
said a lady mixed a batch of bread
which failed to rise, even after DELAY
of twenty hours. She did not wish her
father to see the waste Of flour, SO she
barred the dough in the garden. The
next morning her father called her out
to see an enormous white mushroom of
an unheard of variety that he had dis.
covered. He was calling his neighbors
TO see the curiosity, when his daughter
enlightened him as to the nature of the
plant.
An English tailor in Paris uses for the
purpose Of advertisement several req
carts. Some of these are driven by in
visible %coachman. others by coachmen
seated IN the roofs OF the cars. Three
years ago the project of police issued a
warrant for the suppression OF the carts
with invisible coachman, as they fright
ClItd IoioGs. phb IpIh ~ OilS, vi tut
petition of the English tailor, interfered,
and the execution of the warrant was
suspended for three years. The pres
ent prefec. of police went to work the
ether day and had all the red carts inn
pounded, and the English embassy once
more conc to the rescue of the tailor.
Gentlemen are at Saratoga this season
who knew the place in the olden time,
when all corners travelled on horse back,
with ladies on billions behind the sad
die; the "Spring" was in the midst of
the woods, when a little shanty On the
site of the old United States was the sole
hotel, and board was 81 we k; when
tin cups W re used for drinking, and
when the table WAS better than low
lucious drop cakes, genuine cream, de-
licious butter and broiIed chi .kens that
were chickens, graced the board; when;
when fashionables were few, and the
real invalid, halt, lane and leprous
"a m q IN stav and IN he baalu1