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


The fact that only three of the 1855
couples whom the Rev. DR.. Miner OF
Boston has married have been parted
by divorce, leads him to think that,
the state Of mind which brings people to
Universalist clergyman for union is
that which will enable them to live hap
PLY together"
Four hundred and thirteen Mormon
immigrants landed at Castle Garden last
week. OF these 2l7 we're English, 1874
Swiss and German, and II Scandinav-
ian. Nearly all were comfortably clad,
and parents and children as rule
locked healthy. There we're no attrac-
tive women. They are probably more
fortunate now than they will be when
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of theMormon church.
DR.. j. E. Pollock considers that the
evidence furnished by the Brompton
Hospital, London-which has had by
far the most extensive experience with
the disease of any institution in the
world-proves that consumption is not
conveyed from one person to another by
contact or by breathing the same air.
At least, during the thirty-six years the
hospital has been in operation, the med
ical attendants, nurses and others en-
ployed about the establishment have
| been unusually free from this af-
| fection.
The white and colored people of the
South form churches without attempt
ing to bring the two races together. A
clergyman tells of one experiment in
uniting the white and colored members.
at went like oil for while. After six
months the old colored leader came and
said to the pastor, "We tanks you awful
that wees in wild you. It's mighty kind /;
but now we find we can join wild you,
we somehow don't want to. Wees
talked de thing all ober, and we ones
tink we'd rudder be by ourselbes. We
has better meetings alone, shure, and
gifts on more"
A marked feature of rural life in Eng.
land at the present day is the substitu-
ton Of permanent pasturage for tillage
Year by year the disproportion between
titled and untitled land becomes greater
In the whole of England there are up.
in 1870 upwards of 100000 acres were
laid out in permanent pasturage. In
1880 the untitled land had increased to
II 600, 600 acres, and tho increase is now
maintained at the rate of 4 100000 a, res
per year. Taking the whole of GreA,
britian the increase is even higher, l2,.
073. 600 acres only being untitled in 1870
as compared with l4,s2l 600 in 1882
whilst in Ireland the change is s:;}l MOI
marked. This is owing to foreign com,
petition in the cereal crops.
From observations made in New York
and neighborinc cities, DR.. A. A. Julier
concludes that the various stones usec
for buildings will retain decent ap
pearance in walls for the follo~in:
periods: Coarse brownstone from tx
Is years, laminated fine brownstont
from 25 to so years, compact fine brown
heat of the sun.
The Bessemer Steel Works in Bethle
hem, Penn, have made new depar
ture in mining operations, having bough
a tract in Cuba containing large de
posit of very pure and uniform speculal
ore, which they propose to mine and
import into this country. The mine:
are only fifteen miles from the port o.
Santiago, and as labor is cheap anC
the Spanish Government has with
drawn the export duty; it is estimated
| Niio1 VIZ oiS Soh DS ltht)ol tSN az littiS
above the cost of mining in Pennsylva
MIA. The iron-workers in Bethlehem
should not fail if courT,e in experiment
ing would insure success. They have
only lately established branch of their
foundry in Alabama, where the ore, fue
and cheap labor are all to be found to-
gether.
A Georgia paper cells of the expedi
ent of trader for furnishing whisky ir
a local option settlement. He bought s
lot of cocoanuts. and after drawing of
the milk filed them up with the covet.
ed liquor. Soon after a minister called
to buy cocoanut. The trader was ir
despair, but managed to tell the gent OF
the cloth that the nuts were unsound
The minister seemed anxious to procure
!, one, and told the merchant that if they
mac milk in them they were ali right
and shaking one was convinced of thei,
soundness. The merchant could dc
nothing more, and sold him one, hop
ing he would get out of the scrape ir
some way. In about hslf an bour aitel
the minister left the merchant received
a note saying, Send me six more cocoa
nuts exactly like the one purchased Of
you"