The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-11-09

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Then it is popular for each of them to
have a hideous god other own, the value
of which is regulated b. its hideousnesa
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Things In G neral.
1t has been estimated by competent
judges that the damage by frost to the
buck wheat crop alone in Sullivan coun-
ty, N. Y, is S20O,0eO.
Between the 18th and 3Oth of Sep
TENDER the Petersburg Va.) street cars
carried 30,315 passengers, or some 5000
more persons than the estimated popu-
lation Of the city.
The milk cure is one of the institutions
of Baden. People are supplied with
fresh foaming milk at any hour Of the
day by a man who has 4 quiet little
establishment, with a sunny garden and
tables ut the front. and ut the back stalls
stocked with goats and COWS.
Two mock weddings took place in IT,
ger,ille, La, last week, and to give in.
creased solemnity to the, proceedings,
n noted Methodist divine, who was ppres.
/ ent WAS induced to oficiate. Sequel:
One of the young ladies' mother holds
the opinion that it was a legal marriage,
and threatens the young man with q
suit unless he comes to time
Blessed are the peacemakers. There
is justice of the peace in Banks county,
Georgia, who has held his Office for
eight years, and has never tried q case,
always getting the litigants to compro-
mise. He is not in favor with the local
lawyers. some of whom clam that he is
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The receipts of the New York and
Brooklyn bridge for the nineteen weeks
it mas been open to the public have
been: From foot passengers, 1874, AGA;
from vehicles, $31 ,563; from cars, 81, 1898.
Total $69, 1853. The expenses have been
$5l AIS. The total number of pedestri-
ans crossed is l,S65, 500 from New York
and ] $4,000 from Brooklyn. Total, 81
$50, 400.
An attempt is being made at Sails
bury, England. to revive an old ecclesi-
astical tax originally levied in the twelfth
century by Bishop Poor, by which every
occupant Of land had to pay one penny
a perch. It continued to be collected
to the beginning ofthe century by the
Bishops officials, when it lapsed to the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Fourteen
years ago it ceased to be collected, but
now the Commissioners have notified
the six chief tradesman that unless the
money is paid they wllltake proceedings.
The Helena Independent tells of a
gulch between Helena and Virginia
City, New, whose waters cover all pol
ished iron and steel with a coating OF
pure metallic copper, as bright as the
FURNISHED metal. Pick and shovels
used there soon become copper-plated.
One Lav IN '67 a horse was permitted to
stand in the moist sand some fifteen
had a bright copper coating. The sands
in this gulch are full Of beautiful CRYSTALS
o. metallic copper. Sometimes we found
masses Of crystalized copper wei-hing
three and four ounces.
A lawyer Of Cohoes, being before g
court in Kingston, N. Y, the other day,
was privately asked what kind of a place
Cohoes was, when he returned the fol-
lowing answer. 81 will explain it by
telling you a little story. One time a
Cohoes oma was in Kingston, and
she went to an exhibition which was a
panorama show. One of the pictures
bLOSh WIS llLSIiuCu W IcpIcbCHl CildOSs
and the word Chaos" was written be-.
low the picture. The Cohoes woman
was a little near-sighted. and seeing the
word chaos, took q look at the picture,
and then remarked, to her companion.
it's Cohoes, and it looks just like
it, too"
General A. W. Doniphan, who is now
visiting the Idaho Springs, and is 70
years Of age, during the Mexican war
made one OF The longest marches on re-
cord. At the beginning Of the war, in
1876, he stepped from a large practice
into the ranks, whence he wal at once
elected to, the colonelcy Of the First Mis-
souri, Regiment of mounted volunteers.
Starting from Fort Leavenworth, the
corps marched to Mexico, then around
chihuahua and Del Norte, cenquering
New Mexico and other states. participant
ing in the battles of Drastic and Chihua-
hua, losing but one man in both but cap
turing $40 and killing the same number
OF the enemy. The hardy band of less
than a Thousand men, without a cents
pay till their return, made a circuit
of 5000 miles in thirteen months, ten Of
which they were constantly in the sad
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