The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-10-12
Items of General interest.

calves and her own beef at the end Of
her useful life are thrown in.
Items Of General interest.
ATexas cowboy recently arrived at
New London, Conn, for a visit, having
travelled the entire distance from tbs
Staked Plains on horseback. ~
seventy-nine geographical societies,
distributed throughout the world, We're
ia existence at the. beginning OF the
wear. with a total membership oil 3e,0W.
The prisoners in the Jail at Gonzales,
Tex, charged Sam Ice, q eollpplre'd
mate. with some mfraction Of the rules
of the institution, tried him, found him
yp;lty. and then half killed him with AZ
knotted rope.
Iii is said that the ore of the Alabama
tin mines Yields from 2 ID to 5 per cent.
of pure tin. The ore of the Cornwall
mines in England yields from Sd to
. IA per cent. ,r re.ry,
A North Carolina woman, while dig
ging ginseng to obtain money for the
purchase of tobacco for her husband,
has lust discovered a mica mine in the
mountains, which is supposed to be
worth $40, 900. Her husband is too lazy
to work it, and 1t will be Sold. ~
There IS aman livingin Walton county.
Georgia who is 50 years old, and has
never ridden in a carriage or q railway
Cur, and has never ridden across a bridge
in any vehicle. lie lives in a house six
teen feet wide and seventy feet long,
and so low between floors tina: n full
grown mar cannot stand upright in it.
The fu.pituretof the sitting room consists
chiefly of a bed and a barrel of home-
made syrup. a
When Arthur Roberts and Laura
Longton stood up to be married at Du-
luth, Mian., a young lady startled the
spectators by Directing to the ceremony
on the ground that she was previously
engaged to the groom and the, .ensase-
ment was not broken off. She failed TO
make good her claim, and the ceremony
proceeded without further interruption,
A curious trade has sprung up Of late
years between New Zealand and China.
A brown semi-transparent fungus, re-
sembling the human ear, grows album
dainty in the North Island. This is col!
lected, dried, and packed in bags for
export in China, where it is highly
priced for its flavor and gelotinous quail
tiles as an Ingredient in soup. The val
he of the export in 1877 was over So, 900.
An inventor of a fying-machinpe, who
claims success, has at last appeared.
The apparatus is described as a steam
sailing machine constructed of light
wood and shaped like the frame of a
four-wheeled carriage, with two large
wheels in front and two behind. The
inventors idea is to propel the machine
by steam on land until it attains a velcc-
ity which will be sufficient TO lift the
machine from the ground, when it will
be navigated by sails. At first the trial
machine was lifted from the ground.
Perhaps the next trial will be successful
in the sailing. 40 sIgst-
Tie sensational story about the dis.
covery OF the diamonds stolen from
Lady Trevor, in England, on the neck Of
one of London's most fashionable host
/! esses, turns out to be a fiction, but it
has inspired great terror. Brides and
| other ladies who receive costly presents
ofjewelry live in awe lest it shall sud
denly be discovered that they are inno-
cent receivers of stolen goods. In many
cases Lady Trevor has received collec-
tons of brilliants from her friends with
A request that she would set the minds
of the fair owners at ease by seeing
whether she could identify any of the
gems as her missing property. q.
Sir Edward Reed, NJ. p, owns no less
than 1000, 900 acres in America; the
Duke ofSoutherland, 400. 900; Lord Dun
more, 100000, and Lord Dunraven, Co.,
900 acres. Messrs. Phillips, Marshall &
Co., own q farm of l 300, 900 acres; the
heirs of Col. Murphy, l,l00, 600 acres; II.
Diston, 10000, 900 acres, and the Stand
ard OIL Company, ]. 900, 900 acres. IT
appears that nine men own a territory
iequal to that of New Hampshire, Mass
achusetts, and Rhode Island combined.
Then there are the great railroad cor
poratlons. whose free gifts of land from
laVlsh congresses amount to upward of
POO, 900, 900 acres3 ELEVEN ofthese cor
poratlons have received 100. 600, 900 acres.
The Northern Pacific road l,.ts y RANTS
amounting to Al ,000, 900 acres, and. other,
Upward.
The municipal libraries of Tsris are
apparently q success. D6arlng the last
three months their readers used4l2z. 963
books, as compared with 1886 volumes
during the first quarter of this year, a..
Seventy-nine geographical societies,
distributed throughout the world, were
in existence at the beginning of the
year, with q total membership Of IS, 900.
Leading citizens Of Keokuk, Ia, in
tend to re the remains of Keoknk.
the Indian Chief, to "a point Eear, that
city, n ereta suitable mofiurnent to
his memory.