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

Oakland county, ILL.,, has spent $4,000
in trying man for murder three times
who was acquitted at last.
Atlanta is the capital of one of the old
thirteen original colonies, yet there is
not a male voter in the city who was
born in it.
Owing to competition, the price of
tickets from Swatow to Hong-Kong, 100
miles, is only 20 cents. Three dollars
carries a passenger to Singapore and
Bangkok.
The English death-rate, between the
ages of five and twenty-five, has fallen
from % to So per cent in the last thirty
years-a clear increase of human happi-
ness, if the early years Of life are the
happiest.
''If not called for in ten days, return
to H. H. Thomas, deaier in nitro-glycer-
ine,, dynamite, giant powder and high
explosives, Bay City, Mich" )" which ap-
peared on the envelone OF a letter on
general business addressed to an Ameri-
can travelling in England, cost him a
nights imprisonment.
A fac-simile copy of the London Times
for October 3, 1898, is in the possession of
President Tuttle of Wabash college. 1t
consists of four pages, being "a inches by
Il IN size. One of the news items states
as a great achievement the fact that Mrs,
Siddons performed at Brighton, Bath
and London, within the incredible short
space of 96 hours. To-day she might
play it she were living, in the three
places within the space of six cen hours
In the same paper Nelson's victory of
the Nile is the Fl rst announced, which
had taken place two months before.
The old story of the congressman and
the Lords Prayer is revived in story
aboutSenator Perry. ofthe Pennsylvania
legislature, who wound up speech 'vox
populi, vox dei," and sat down despair
ing. Mackin turned to Crawford, who
is butcher at home, and remarked
enthusiastically: Wasn't that grand
assented the other Philadelphian. "Tll
bet you $40 you don't know what it
means, though said Mackin. "1'll
1. just go you," said Crawford, eagerly
Everybody knows what it means My
God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
me-" Here's your ten-er," said
Mackin, admiringly, handing it over; i
had no idea that you were such e Latin
| scholar"
An interesting fact about Russia is that
many of its coldest provinces fruit
growing is an important branch of in
dustry. In the province Of Kazan
which is $50 miles farther than Winni.
peg, and where the mercury in winte,
sometimes falls as low as sixty degrees
| below zero, apples are grown in large
quantities at profit. In the province
of Vladimir, which is almost as cold as
kazan, cherries of excellent quality are
raised i'll great abundance. Both apples
and cherries are shipped from THESE
| provinces in large quantities. In these
high attitudes, fruit trees are usually
small, being not over eight feetin height
and are planted in clumps like stalks o
corn. Their low branching limbs are
| usually loaded with the most luscious
frlit.
The average weight of 900 men anc
| women weighed at Boston i'll 1864 was
Men, Ill l2 pounds; women, I24 l.:
pounds At the recent Cincinnati IN
dustrial Exposition the Department o
Scientific and Educational Appliances
detailed clerk to record the weights o
western men and women. The numbe
weished was -, ll5, and the total weigh
was s,O72, ,306 pounds. The men weighed
numbered 7,fG7, weighing l,l5O!o
pounds. The women weighed numbered
l4,66S, weighing l ,922, l9S pounds. Th,
average weight of each man was 15402
The average weight of each woman wa
l39.S77 The average weight ot al mel
from Ohio was l57 IS: the average weigh
OF la women was 1926. The average
weight of l24 men from Southern Indi
ana and Illinois was 1882 pounds; th,
average weight OF 1913 women WIS l33 81
The average weight Of ia men from
Kentucky was 1882 pounds; the aver
age weight Of lSS women was l33.76