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

Things in General.
The proposed Florida ship canal is to
be thirty feet deep, SO that the largest
sea-going vessels can pass thro gh it.
A butter dish factory at Vincennes.
Ind, turns out $4,000 to 10000 dishes
per day.
President Seelye said at Amherst that
Mr.. Gladstone is King of England in a
truer sense than is any one who only
wears crown, because he stands out
the best inter prefer of the English peo-
ple's will. $50 with Bismarck, he said.
'sFor the last fifty years the instinct of a
German unity under Protestant lead
| ership, coupled with vague desire of
| some strong power III central Europe,
has been disturbing the different Ger
man states. More than thirty years ago
Bismarck saw, what no one else then
saw, the uniformed impulse, and to this
he submitted"
Even the lively city of New York has
begun to lose its brilliancy under the
summer dust. Already it has the Au-
gust sleepiness and languor, and large
part Of its population who are not set.
tied at a summer resort are either
crowding excursion boats in the harbor
and river or are lounging under the
trees of Central Park and the Battery.
Trade in Japan is represented as de-
pressed and discouraging. The high
hopes formerly entertained that the
country would rapidly develop as COM
mercial nation are fast dyingaway. The
aYrnrtS nf fny IN tho ".
ports of to-day, and there can be no
progress until the governments restric-
tive policy is abandoned.
The cell in La Roquette, Paris, in
which Archbishop Darboy was confined
previous to his murder by the Commun-
lists in 1871 has never since been en-
tered by any prisoner, and remains
Just as it was when the august prelate
was led forth to die. The Iron cross
over the spy-hole still bears in pencil
the words "Vlt9 robur, medtis salus, !"
traced by Mgr. Darboy, who occupied
his weary time by sketching the instru.
ments of the Passion upon the walls of
the cell, together with various notices
and texts.
Sir Alexander Gait announces that the
right of Canada to make her own COM
mercial treaties haslbeen practically con-
ceded by England. The modus operan-
di is that representative ofCanada..s shall
be associated with the British minister
and the proposed terms shall be submit
ted for approval to the British govorn-
ment. To these conclusions England re-
serves the right of Judgment, espec-
tally in cases where treaties are consid-
cred Objectionable, OF likely to produce
national complications. The independ-
ence question, says Gait, is not only a
dead issue, but never has been live one.
Four New Workers wishing to amuse
themselves few nights ago and finding
the theatres closed happened to go to the
self at a small able, and after an interval
became acquainted with the others. In
the course OF the evening it was discov-
cred that one was from city in Oregon,
another from Montreal, another from
New Orleans, and fourth from Boston.
The cosmopolitan of Few York was
thought to be we'll illustrated.
The spirit Of dudism, which is the es-
sence Of snobbery, has permeated, it
seems, into.all orders. Of society. In the
serving order it was observed recently,
in one instance. fully developed. Sam
is "colored gem'len," whose we'll
known proficiency as waiter brings
him into constant demand at
weddings, parties and other festal gath
erings. He has formed scale Of prices
quite peculiar. For attendance at wealthy
and aristocratic houses he charges
one dollar an evening; but Of less well.
to-do families he asks two dollars, the
extra dollar presumably being COM
pensat;on for his sacrifice of dignity.
Mr.. S. v. White, the Wall Street bro
ker, has twelve-inch telescope which
is in all respects the most perfect one in
the possession Of an amateur on this
continent. The tower it stands in has
its walls of heavy masonry carried far
down into the earth, SO that passing
wagons cannot disturb the instrument.
Up in this tower, above the roofs of
Brooklyn, "this busy man of affairs goes
at nightfail, and, turning the great glass
| upon some brilliant star of restful color
or upon some strange object like Saturn
or on one Of the curious twin stars whose
contrasted colors, as seen through his
glass, seem to dye the earth with their
hues, he gazes on the far distant noun
tains, seas, and valleys, the mex plicable
| rings, the tiny moons, and all the won
ders that are denied to the gaze OF q
man unaided by 80 powerful glass, and
as he looks Wall Street fades from his
| BRAIN"