Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-06-22
Miscellaneous Matters.

California steps forward with the
champion mule story. At Pescad ero
the other night jack that was in cor
raj kicked a grizzly bear to death, that
had comein from the mountains to make
a meal on the stock. A reward of $50
had been offered for the killing of the
bear, and the owner Of the jack has
sued the ofterer of the reward for the
um mentioned. 1t is a mean man that
would hesitate to pay $50 in such
case.
During the year 1882 there were 1869
scholars taught in Doughe-ty county,
Ga. Of these 1876 were, colored, and
only 1893 were white. Twenty-seven COL
ored and seven white teachers were en-
ployed. There are about seven colored
men to one white in Dougherty county,
and evidently in this case at least the
colored people cannot complain Of any
partiality in the distribution ofthe school
fapd.
Newstead Abbey has thrice changed
hands since it became the property of
Lord Byron. 1t was sold, with the es-
tate, by the poet to Mr.. Clawton for
500, 1000, and resold by the latter in
1918 to Col. Wlldman for S475, 600 The
! colonel left no issue and the estate was
sold after his death to Captain Webb the
present owner, who it is understood
would entertain a reasonable offer of
purchase. The place has been vastly
improved since ByroD's time, when It
was in miserable plight
The electricity generated by the ma
chinery in one of the great Harmony
mills, at Cohoes, owing to peculiar con-
| ditions which are not perfectly under
stood, has Of late go charged the atmos-
phere as to affect the employees unpleas-
antly. Various attempts were made
without result to remove the nuisance,
but at last network of wires running
through the mill has been successfully
employed to collect the electricity an d
conduct it to the ground,
1t is still custom in some of the back
| towns in New England to auction off the
poor Of the town annually. Each name
is called, and the person who makes the
lowest bid has the care and keeping of
such person for the year. 1t has the sole
recommendation of economy, but we
| hardly think the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts will even for that reason
adopt the auction system for the mainte-
nance of its insane and invalid poor
Boston Traveller.
The London Illustrated journals make
merry over the Vanderbilt ball-rather
the newspaper stories about it. Thus
one says: ga well-known lady repre-
sented cat. Her overskirt was made
entirely of white cats tails, sewed on q
| dark background. The bodice was
formed of rows ofwhite cats heads, and
the headdress was stiffened white cats
skin, the head over the forehead of the
wearer and the tail pedant behind. A
blue ribbon, with "Puss" inscribed upon
it, from which hung a bell, worn around
the neck, completed the dress" The
comment of the amused narrator is:
"And these are the people who worthy
Mr.. Herbert Spencer thinks work
amusement"
A little book is circulating in England
entitled "Illustrous Abstaners. among
whom the author claims Sir Garnet
Wolseley and Dr. Samuel johnson, Lord
Wolseley has written letter to a teeto.
taller in which he says he takes deer
interest III temperance, etc, but | ar
not a total abstainer, and have never
claimed the character for myself, but
whenever l have found it necessary tc
enforce on the troops under my com
mand total abstention from alcohol,
Those who forgetth "Who' sfor poonch.'
Of DR.. johnson, cannot help KNOWN,
that he drank wine when no one was t
be injured by it.
The oysters-erowers on the coast o
France have discovered that oyste
shells which are thrown back into tn
sea produce thirty or torty-fold in tw
wears. The theory is that the young oy
sters attach themselves to the old shells
in preference to any other object on tn
bed ofthe sea.