Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-05-18
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Liquor sellers in Maine are put to
strange devices ia order to concea! their
contraband wares. On q recent police
raid in that state, in one house the bot
ties were found in the we'll, tightly
corked and with strings rounl their
necks for convenience in raising. Imam
other the bottles were under the cook
ing range in the ash-pit. One liquor.
seller, a woman, had two flat bottles
hooked to Il belt which she wore under
cea.ed his under a t%rap-door beneath q
pile of hay in a cock loft.
Wedding anniversaries: First, paper
wedding; second. straw wedding; third,
candy wedding; fourth, leather wedding;
fifth, wooden wedding; tenth, tin we'd
ding; twelfth, linen wedding; fifteenth,
crystal wedding; twentieth, floral we'd
ding; twenty-ffth, silver wedding; thir-
tieth, pearl wedding; thirty-ffth, china
wedding; fortieth, coral wedding; fitch,
gold wedding; seventy-tifth, diamond
wedding.
The famous Greeley farm IN Cappaaua.
Winchester county, N. Y, has been ad.
v%ertised to rent, and will, before long,
be sold under the provisions Of Mr..
Greeley's viii. Colonel Nicholas Smith,
who occupied the farms until recently,
has removed to Kentucky with his three
children, and Miss Gabrielle Greeley,
who, with these children, is heir to the
property, is living in New York. The
farm contains eighty acres, and has sew
eral buildings upon IL, including Mr..
Greeley's big stone barn. The old home
stead, where ''Busy Life" and the His
tory of the Rebellion" were written,
was destroyed by fire.
Chinese labor is becoming drug in
the California market, notwithstanding
the check on immigration. The Chinese
are being discharged from the mines,
and they fail to obtain employment
when they flock to the cities. Recently
the largest contractor on the Northern
Pacific railroad said that he did not con-
slider Chinese labor really cheap, and
could employ Scandanavians with more
profit. 1t is also said that the contrac-
tor who is building the western end of
Inc Canadian Pacific has concluded to
dispense with them and employ white
men.
The American consul at Vienna gave
a sheet and pillow-case" party to cele-
brate his birthday, to the no small
amusement of the Viennese mind.
Kobed in sheets, with head covered with
me pillow-case, and wearing masks, &
host Of Americans" joined the consul
at supper, where the center ornament
was q cake supporting the traditional
c!erry-tree, so inseparably connected
WIN W~ashington's boyish inability to
tell a lie. The tree was finally felled
with a hatchet?) to symbolic the fate
OF Its ancestor, and the cherries were
soiemnly distributed. Behold some
thlng truly American! must have been
the comment of the onlookers.
Some one in France has followed up
the recent statistics concerning wild
beasts and snakes in India with further
bartlculars: be says that as many as 90
wv deaths occur annually in India from
snake bites, and that since 1870 from
io,O0o to 10000 persons have persisted
IN TINS way. India possesses more dead
y snakes than any other country. In
iooo, 2l2,776 serpents of I'll kinds were
u~estroYed, and rewards amounting in
az TO 1853 rupees were paid to the de-
stroyers. In 1881 wild beasts caused
dne death of 2,557 persons ms against q
aiu IN 1850, and the number of animals
Kllled by them any year is enormous.
Leopards are, he thinks the farmers
worst foes. and tigers rank next; but the
wolves are but little less destructive. In
killed.