Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-06-01
Selected Varieties.

1nere areln LONDON nlneCy-tnree rec
ognized clubs having over nineteen
thousand members, who, on the aver
age, pay an annual subscription of $25
The total income of these clubs is esti.
mated to reach S. 100000 year.
An inventor has obtained a patent in
England for the manufacture of what
he dignifies by the name "wine." 1t is
mixture of cane sugar and glucose, col
ored with certain dyewoods, orchella
weed; soroel paste, etc, according to
fancy, and subjected to fermentation.
Similar mixtures are made abroad, and
made SO cunningly that upon analyzing
found in the genuine juice of the grape.
The Spanish army consists of 1874 900
men, of whom "a 900 are in Spain, and
the rest in the Spanish West Indies.
A disagreeable comparison is present.
ed to the English people by the Irish
Register Generals returns of illegiti-
mate births, which are but 0S per
cent. of the total number in Connaught
Is in Munster, and 90 in Leinster,
while in the strong Protestant county
of Down the highest figure, over per
SC4t.y 10 1CUSLICN. LII Ill
England, the pes centage Of illegitimacy
is over 20,
To show that country people may be
too sharp for city folks, the Richmond
(Va:) Religious Herald adduces the fol-
lowing; "The other day pastor and
several Of his head men went out to
take q collection at country church
for the new church lin the city. Pret-
ty soon after the city clique reached
the country church some of the coun-
try sisters besieged them for contri-
button to buy q new suit of clothes for
their pastor. The upshot of it was that
the finely dressed city brethren had to
borrow money to get back home"
81 had one insane man under
nearly incessant observation" wrote the
late DR.. Leserques. the famous French
doctor. "He was cultivated patient
seemingly quite sane and highly intelli-
gent. visited HIM three times day
He implored me to have him set at lib
erty. One minute with the most persua-
table logic-so irrefutable that at the end
of eight months l gave the certificate of
freedom. Two days after with one
stroke of the knife he killed his wife"
The value of the chief art collections
of Paris is estimated as follows: The
Due d. Aumale, Sl5,00O,0OO; the Baron
de Rothschild, $l0,O0OO 900; Sir Richard
Wallace, IS, 900 900; NJ. Secretau, So, ,OOD.-
900, including thirty pictures by Meis-
sonier; NJ. Defoer-BeY and the Count de
Greffuhle, each $500, 900; Madame Cos
sin, ST 900, 900; and M. Edouard Andre
and Mr.. William Stewart, 100000 each.
The mayor Of Chicago is perfectly sat-
isfed with that city. He said in speech
lately that Chicago is one of the grand
est cities in the world, and is yet des.
tined to be the centre of enlightenment
as well as of industry, The various ma
,ionalities present by intermarriage
uneaased woad ye5 pr Se ao tPs o mnhG0
the idea Of Cficagos wi wickedness, da,'iths the
mayor continued: "It is a newspaper
lie. It is the best and most moral city
to be found on earth, because its citi-
zens are so busy that thev have not time
to do anything wrong"
One of the most painful phases of
Washington life, according to a corres-
pondent, is the presence of cold, bat
tered wrecks. that the waves and winds
of politics have cast ashore from time to
time" Forced out of public life, these
ne'er do wells" settle in Washington
and drift from bad to worse. Ex-Sena-
tors, ex-cabinet officers, ex-gen-
erals are seen $50 seedy and dilapidated
that they will cross the street rather
than meet an old friend" so poor and
helpless that they are often hungry,
without cent to buy food" In spite of
the pathos Of the fact, one cannot help
feeling that men who are capable of
such degradation are better out of office
than in.
Cornell university resents the impu-
tation of some Of its alumni that it is not
expending its rich heritage for the pro-
motion Of "the higher education" etc.
The defense offered by two of the
trustees seems conclusive. The prop
erty of the university is said now to be
worth 81 100000, and its annual income
100000. Appreciation of western lands
has in very short period made it one
of the richest institutions of learning in
the world.