The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-12-14

bIu oOSGil ~ laiI. w liSI i uCCdult
conscious the balloon wa lying a lew
yards off in a heap, and tangled in the
cordnge was Leiebre. NV first ATTEMPT
was to pull open tie valve had been
successful. and when l loosened all
holds was only half a dozen feet from
the ground. Leiebre had become en-
tangled III he net work and tainted. I
never went up in a balloon again, and
my nerves are SO completely shattered
that never see one without the Old
feeling of horror %creepiny ,ver me-"
Miscellaneous paragraphs.
7, Q word "cops," as applied to police
mon, is said to have originated from the
copper badges they were first given to
wear under Fernando Wood in New
York. The officers were first called
''coppers," and this was contracted to
"cops."
/ paid $500 for those suburban lots.
and they were not worth a darn, but the
snoozer could Just as easily have caught
me for $500. OF course, | lost $40O, but
/ peal HIM ut Of $50 t',at he might as
we'll nave had as mt, so | consider that
| am Just 500 abe AZ n the transaction.
Merchant Traveller.
There are ! ,97l ,365 bee.hlves IN France
from which nave been taken thus au.
1nmn IS. 1897 .2S4 pounds of honey and
5.691, 500 pounds OF wax, the total value
. the product amounting to about ST.
800, 900.
Yale's class of 1873 loses its first mem
be' since graduation by the death of
Mr.. Yum Few Tan, at Coiebrook, Conn,
on the 10Th inst. He was the only one
OF the five Chinese students that en-
tered with his class who completed the
four years course.
The Thanksgiving proclamation of
Gov. Ireland, Of Texas, is shorter even
than G vernon Waller S, of Connecticut.
lie merely says that he makes the APP
continent in con ormity to a custom of
u fathers" aud invitef the people of
the state ITO q proper observance there
Of"
The fourth year of the Harvard An
mex has demonstrated that the under
taking may fairly be regarded as no
longer an experiment. The success of
this form of collegiate education for
women is said to be assured. A fund of
S67 ,OD has been obtained by the ladies'
OF the executive committee.
Owing to the sudden collapse of the
Egyptian war at Tel-el- keoer, the Eng
fish government had no use for the
mules it bought in the United States
and a considerable number of them
were sold in Lontlon at prices ranging
from $40 to $50. The testimony Of the
pure 'asers is stroegly in favor of the
nj 90 Anf{ " vr,N,,1J MT Eo "a =
demand sprung up in England for the
hardy hybrids. The English people
need not, howevr, expect to get any
more good mules at the prices of the
government sale in London.
In England as in America, CONNIE
tent light weight jockeys are very are,
the difficulty being to find a boy of l,sa.
weight who can handle a horse. The re.
suit is that wien one is found the pro-
fession of jockey is quite a bonanza to
the possessOr of the requisite Qualihca.
,lions. It is said that Martin, the cham
plon light weight of England, will close
The present year with the sum of e5,-
tM (a225 ,OoW as his earni. Us. Martin IS
between 10 and Is years OF age. goes to
school regularly, and is. therefore, not
strlckly a professional jockey as yet.
A writer in a London paper thus hint
at a dark future for the British Empire:
when | say that the future unity of
the empire is in danger it is not to he
inferred that there is unity now. The
fact is that, under the laissez faire or
hap-haztrd way in which, colonially we
have been drifting Tor many years past,
all our colonies stand 10 us now in the
relation of dependencies, and notin that
o Integral parts of the empire. We
must not deceive ourselves, therefore,
as to our being a united empire in any
sense worthy of the term-in the sense,
for instance, in which America or even
france aud Russia, are empires. Drift
ing along as we do now, our children
will wake UP some morning to fird from
the telesrams of their day that some
leading coionv or group has just SO acted
as to remove atlast the lingerlngdis uise.
Regrets there may be all round for VIVA.
has become the inevif able; out none the
less, the grandest OF empires, as well us
the most promising Tor the worlds good
will, by our amazing indifference, have
collapsed i'll our hands"
The example of the te~nder-heart d
Scctchimmigrant who brought he thistle
with him to Canada that 1T might there
bloom, scatter Its seeds, become a curse
aud remind him of his own dear barren
Highland wastes, prompted an English
lover of rabbit hunting to import some
of his hatlve rodents. The English rab-
bit has Alrea ~ become a great pest IN
Canada. 1t is, says a lecturer before the
CANADIAN Institute, particularly destruc-
tive to garden and other cultivated pro-
duets, unlike the American rabbit, whose
~sustenance is obtained almost entirely
from the wild products Of the soil, while
the t%ecuridity of tue orine Is much
greater than that OF its American cousin.
In the event of a n interbreedlng of the
spec es, the hybrid animal which would
result wonld no doubt be an extremely
troublesome Il to deal with, combining
the hardness and standardization Of the
one and tie fertility and burrowing
habits OF the other.
Ella Wheeler, the gifted young WON
an, who has been appropriately called
the poetess OF passion, is TIVE ntv- -four
years eid. has red hair, and wears
stripped hosiery and Langtry bangs.
When she gets fairly started at some OF
her hay-iever and fly.blleter poetry the
church bells rim. and the fire depart-
n.ent turns out. So, on the whole, she is
considered as dangerous Il party to have
around as a camphene lamp or q coal
oil can. 80
The 81. Paul b-arti oi trade are to be g
81, $40 for Accommodations in the new cham
Der of commerce building.
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