The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-11-16
miscellaneous Matters.

suits nave DcSn instituted involving
the title to 500, 900 acres of land in South
east Georgia, in the interest of the heirs
of the original owners Hundreds of
small plantations are involved ia the
issue Of the litigation.
To the long catalogue of ails that flesh
is heir, to an English doctor has added a
new disease which he calls "exam fc-
veri" and which he says is develope ! by
the severe strain which boys and girls
undergo in competitive examinations.
The social science congress-, before
which the statement was made, has re-
solved to memorabilia the government
to take steps against its extenHion.
In New York oyster shops, stabbers,
as tile openers of oysters in the Boston
style are called, are taking the place of
crackers, whose fashion is to lay the
bivNe on a block and break off a piece
ofthe shell at the thin edge. Still an
other kind of workman is the sculler,
who holds the oyster in his left hand and
gives a kind OF sideways sculling motion
&c the knife, differing from the direct
stab. @
A florist in Boston furnished 10000
roses, 10000 carnations of different col
ors, 1000 spikes of tuberoses 500 punches
OF violets, 1000 sprays of heliotrope,
2 BOO strings of smilax, and 1900 yards
of English laurel for the decorations for
the bail to the Marquis of Lorne AMI the
Princess Louise in Montreal.
AS IN incident of the earthquake there
the other day, the San Francisco Call
relates that one gentleman is particular
ly grateful for the shaking up. He Is
the possessor of a fine French clock,
which suddenly stopped one day about
a,yearsa ashnlf ago, and all his efforts
to make it tick were i~unavailing. Not
having a small fortune at his command
by which his could get the necessary re-
pairs made, he placed the, obstinate
tine piece in a closet, consoling himself
with the reflection that "some day" he
would have it fixed. WHAT was his sur
prise on Wednesday, last on opening the
! door of the closet to hear the old TAMIL
lar tick, tick of the Iavorite clock. The
earthquake had accomplished in less
than Il minute what he had failed to do
in q weeks tinkering, and he is truly
grateful.
Two OF the most mysterious and hor-
rible tragedies of the year-the murder
of Rose Amber in Connecticut and the
butchery of Fora Burns in Illinois
were rural in scene and actors. Great
cities are wicked enough, to be sure,
but it is a mistake to suppose that all is
goodness and peace and love wherr the
grain n golden in the harvest ield
and the mild-eyed kline chew the cud of
innocence in quiet pasture lots.
A Nashville man received a piece of
wedding cake recently, and foolisiily ate
it. It@nesrly killed him, and the doc
tors pumped Inn out, and bfaced him
| up and walked him around, and at last
! saved his life, although they declared he
had all the symptoms of pvamia ,strych-
nine poisoning; normal temperature,
Asiatic cholera, morphine poisoning,
rapid pulse, and terrific respiration, and
several other awful things However,
an analysis of the cake showed that it
contained no substances absolutely
poisonous in themselves, but having
been made by the bride, to the best of
her ability and inexperience. the cake
was enough to kill q River and Harbor
bill. The man was very young or he
would ave known better, and would
have saved the cake to kill tarantulas
with San Francisco Argonaut.
Auxiliary rocket consists of a light
iron cylinder filed with a composition
much resembling gunpowder, rammed
under high pressure. When the COM
position is lit the gas generated rushes
nut of three small holes in the base of
the rocket, and drives it rapidly through
the air. Their advantage is that they
are SO portable, and car be used in the
bnsh where guns could not be taken.
They proved very effective in the Abys-
sinian war, and, in tact, their only utility
is against native troops. the fiery streak
they emit from their tails, and the loud,
Missing sound they make in transit, hav-
ing q very terrifying effect on the mind
of the. colorsd man. They have valso
been, instrnmental inAffies birth. of the
only bit of hunor which Eliminates the
who e range of official military manuals.
"Rockets are said" says one of these
text books, Ito frishten cavalry very
much. They certainly do at the firing
end"