Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-07-27
Things in General.

Things III GenSral.
A simple and inexpensive Jail is that
belonging to Naples County, Idaho. 1t
| is a hole in the ground ten feet deep.
into which the prisoner is dropped, and
| out of which he cannot climb, as the
| hole is larger at the bottom than at the
ton. When the prisoner is wanted the
guards drop line and pull him up on
Tobacco caddies, or plug tobacco
| boxes, are made almost entirely OF
sycamore Throughout the country, and
in Boston about 100000 feet were used
for this purpose last year. This wood is
valuable for this purpose, as 1t Wi! not
| impart any smell or taste 10 the tobacco,
and AS il will not abs ,rb moisture readl-
| w. This appears to be about the only
use which can be made ofsvcamore lum
| ber. which has the very serious defect
of wrapping badly.
Prof. Young, of Princeton College
thus illustrates the distance from the
earth TO the sun: Take a railroad from
the earth to the sun, with train run
ming forty miles an hour without stops,
and it would take about two hundred
and s!xty.ive years and little over to
make the journey" He estimated the
fare, at a cent mile, to be nine hun
dred aud thirty thousand dollars.
Marshal, Texas is excited over the
! filing of a claim by Mr., Brown for
seventy six acres of land, situated in
the principal part Of the, city. The
property includes several business houses
| bll Do p,;l
road shops, yard, and depots. The
whole amount involved is worth over
halfa million OF dollars. His claim has
some prospects Of being gained, as his
mother wiled away the property after
his fathers death, and he claimed the
right ofa minor.
When the New Orleans military COM
! pany were iii Boston they We're taken
on a steamboat excursion by the clty of.
ficials. There were no invitations tc
FOUNDERS" aud ''heelers," and failure
to provide sufficient police force or
| board to keep these roughs i'll subiection
| The tables were spread i'll the grand sa-
| loon, and the military We're in line, un
| der escort, passing through the gang
way, when the politicians made an ir-
resist ible rush by the procession and
surrounded the tables before the COM
mittee had time TO seat the guests.
| There was not force enough at hand to.
| eject this mob of a thousand or more.
An orgie followed. The wines were
| drunk by sobbletfuls, and even whisky
by primming tumblers. The mortitica
| ton of the entertainers may be mag
ined. They had to individually cal!
their guests aside. try to explain, and
provide for them informally and on the
sly.
There is to be "a narrow gauge railroad
from North Conway, N. H., up the
steep summit Of Mount Kearsarge. The
summit of that peak is 2,760 feet above
the level of North Conway, itself an eie-
vated mountain town. And it is very
steep and difficult to climb on horse
back or on foot. 1t is too steep, proba-
bly,, at one part Of the ascent, for rail
roading-eyeA for cogYheel railroading,
and the projected road up Mount Kear-
sarge is to be like an ordinary traction
railroad except in two particulars; it
will be but two feet wide, and it will
wind around and around the mountain,
making a total journey of nearly fifteen
miles and gradual rise in this spiral as
cent. This rise, it is calculated by the
protector, will be but 2O0 feet to the
mile.
| The commissioner of patents, in de-
cision just announced says: ''He who
uses reasonable diligence and first re
duces an invention to practi embodv-
ing it in practical form, must be regar-
ded as the first stinventer, and entitled to
patent as against one who, although
prior in time in making it, by
negligence allows it to remain
unknown. Where inventors withhold
their Inventions and confer no benefits
upon the public there is no reason why
protection should be afforded them #
other and more diljgent inventors pro-
!, duce the same thing and do confer such
benefits. The lie is we'll established
that an applicant cannot have a patent
for that which has been patented to an.
other, unless he shall make out suoh a
case as would defeat the patent"
Although but little is heard of the re
public Of Liberia it appears to be maxim!
substantial progress and promises to be
an agent Of great good to the native Afri
cans. Two negro professors, Mr.. Stew
art and Mr.. Browne, recently made AZ
appeal in Exeter Hall. London, III be
half of the College of Liberia, which
t was founded in 1868, with view to th
higher education of the colored inhabi
tants Of Liberia, and the civilization and
evangellzation of the native tribes o
Western Africa The college Is about t,
t be removed from the coast to the interi
or, in order to secure land for cultiva
ton and industrial purposes, that tech
nical instruction may be given, and t
be in the midst Of the native tribes
whose chiefs desire tl.eir children to b,