Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-06-08
miscellaneous Matters.

The new residence portion ofWash-
ington is very handsome. The houses
are mostly of brick. Each house has its
own style and individuality, stands apart
| from its neignbor. and is surrounded by
green turf, with pretty beds of flowers
here and there. The result is broad
street after street of houses, all varying,
and many of them beautiful, present.
a marked contrast to the monotony of
the streets Of the close built cities.
A temperance movement has opposed
itself to Sabbatarianism in Washington
by n demand for the opening of the
| National Museum, the Congressional
Garden, the conservatories of the
Agricultural Department, and the Med
ical Museum on Sundays, because ''it is
shame there is no place open for visi-
tors onSundays except bar.rooms."
The phrase 'They do these things bet
ter in France" is not by any means al
ways true. 1t row appears that even
the much.vaunted methods of burial
that obtain in Paris are open to criticism.
The employees of the Pompes Funebres
are said to be SO poorly paid that it is a
| common practice for them to poster the
mourners for contributions while
standing at the grave. 1t sometimes
happens also in the case of poor people
that the funeral officials will stop for
hours on the way to the grave, to car
ouse in some tavern, while the corpse
stands on the bier outside.
The Rev. S. w. Dixie, Secretary of the
Divorce Reform League, states that in
1882 ratio of divorce to marriages in
New Hampshire was one to about ten.
This is the record of Maine for her worst
year. and the worst ever made in any
state where statistics have been given.
He calls attention to the fact that, though
50 divorces were granted for adultery,
l33 for orabandonment, and 10l for extreme
punished for adultery and none for
| cruelty or abandonment
Viscount Middleton, ina recent speech
in the house of lords, gave some strik-
ing facts concerning the position today
of Irish landlords. One large landlord
in the west has had his estates-the
| rents were very much as he found them
| reduced 40 per cent, and as there are
| charges on the property, the landlord is
now left penniless. The smaller gentry
| he said, were for the most part ruined.
| Four years ago a school of which he had
some knowledge had sixty scholars. 1t
now has seven, for the smaller gentry
are quite unable to give their children
| an education.
There are produced annually in North
! America 100000 barrels ofhemlock bark
extract, Of which a single Boston firm
producesl $4,000 barrels. They own
nine extract works and operate % tan
neries. All the tanneries of the United
States consume annually 1880, 900 cords
of hemlock produced in nine states. AS
| the yield Of bark is about seven cords to
an acre Of hemlock timber, the yearly
consumption implies the clearing of l7S,-
| 600 acres. In the main, the bark is
stripped from trees cut for timber; and
| as the demand for this timber exceeds
the supply, the supply of both timber
and bark is threatened with speedy ex-
| haustion.
The London correspondent of the
Philadelphia Times has talked with Mr..
Judah P. Benjamin, who was attorney
| general under the confederate govern
nent Mr.. Benjamin is reported as say
ing: $50 far as it split the bad blood
which had always brewed between the
north and south, and brought about a
final settlement Of those quarrels, which
could have been concluded in no other
way, it was for good but it is not to be
SO readily admitted that had the result
been different the prosperity which the
north enjoys would not have been pos
sessed by the south. 1t is folly to say
that North America, or that part of it at
least which is embraced in the federal
states. is not large enough for one na-
ton. On the contrary, there is room for
rs many is are in Europe. and prosperi-
ty for them all. l believe from my heart
| that the structure called the federal
states of America will fall apart some
day from its own inherent weakness"