Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-08-03
Current Notes.

Current Notes.
The cost of keeping, in tirst-class style,
horse and carriage in New York City
is from $40 to $46 a month. 1t takes "a
mint of money! to rnn Robert Bonner's
l70-horse'power stable.
An Englishman, writing from London
to the New York Tribune, says that all
the royal family, except the queen her
self speak English with ridiculous
German accent, and that idiots in Eng
lish society initiate the gutteral accent OF
the Prince of Wales and his brothers, of
whom the Duke of Edinburg is the most
intensely German in speech and man
ner.
Lordsburg, N. n, is a frontier para
disc 1t has 5OGiiIhabitants and thirty
seven saloons, besides choice collec-
ton of dancing houses and gambling
dens. Since July 3, 1882, fourteen per-
sons have died in the town, and the
causes of death may be classified as fol-
lows: lynched one murdered, three;
suicide, six, smallpox, three; doubtful,
one.
Chicago has wise institution in float
ing hospital, or boat which takes sick
infants out upon the lake for breath of
fresh air. This is the eighth year Of the
Floating Hospitals existence, and thou
sands Of little ones have been benefited.
The effect of this inyigorating breeze is
instantaneous, as children who are pee
Wish and fretful at the dock become quiet
and sleep peacefully as soon as the boat
is out Of the harbor:
Bishop A. Cleveland Coke, has writ
ten again about dreams, citing his own
and others curious experiences witt.
alfwaking visions, and concluding his
article as follows. "My conclusion is
that there is much of the preternatural
too; much that implies variations from
law and a law of variations. These vari-
iations are such as intimate, if they do
not demonstrate, that the mechanism of
the universe does not run itself. There
is engineering somewhere, and an engi-
neer who makes his hand felt, though
invisible.
1t is said that few persons who really
try to learn how to ride the bicycle fail,
but for the gentler sex and for timorous
men the tricycle. is a preferable vehicle.
Mr.. Lowndes, the noted English wheel
man, has performed a remarkable feat
by driving his thre e-wheeled velocipede
ten miles in 50 minutes 80 2-5 seconds,
or at nearly the rate Of speed of a rail-
way train. His performance will doubt
less cause the tricycle. to be regarded
with greater favor than heretofore. 1t
is suitable. for the use of every able
bodied person, and the exercise its op.
Grafton affords is SO healthful that it's
more general Introduction is much to be
desired.
The Galveston News CONCLUDES an ar
ticle on Texas horse thieves as follows:
:'rhe News has nothing to. say against
that magnificent spirit which was at the
last session OF the legislature exhibited
in the substantial contributions of cash
for monuments, historical works, the
university. colleges and schools, but
suggests that small amount from the
cash balance for production ofthe sweat
ing producer against these bands of
horsethieyes should have first been al
lowed, The farmer is sometimes
obliged to sell his COW to pay the tax on
his stolen work-horse, and he has the
right to ask that the tax be used to catch
the thief rather than to build monu.
ment."
The famous packet-liner Great West,
ern, now sailing between San Francisco
and other Pacific ports, is already twice
as old as ships generally get to be. She
first sailed from New York to Liverpool
forty years ago, and remained in the At
lantic fleet twenty-nine years. She
crossed the Atlantic ll6 times, brought
30, 600 passengers to the New World, has
had 500 births and 200 marriages on
board, and in all her experience never
lost one OF her crew or so muchas spar
in gale of wind.
A pine floor laid in a goldworker's
shop in ten years became worth $50 a
foot. A Syracuse jeweler once bought
for less than $50 some sweepinps that
gave $20s worth Of gold A tub in his
cellar into which is blown the dust from
polishing lathe accumulates $50 a wear.
A workman in his shop carried of on
the top Of his moistened fingers $50 of
filings in few weeks. Workmen some
times oil their hair and then run their
fingers through it, leaving a deposit of
gold, particles, which they afterwards