Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-07-20
General Gatherings.

Inc texture of the paper of the notes
of the bank of England is SO firm that
fire itself is scarcely able to destroy it,
The bank has one of them which went
through the Chicago fire, and though
charred and black, the note is sufficient
ly legible to establish its claim to recog-
milton and was cashed. tits framed and
occupies post of honor in the bank.
There were some staid old members
of a Reformed church at Athena, N. j.,
who did not want an organ, but the ma
jority ruled and organ music was intro
duced into the religious services. The
other day lightning made a hole in the
roof, and, descending, Knocked the Or
gan into splinters. No other damage
was done, and the anti-orgaI people are
saying, "We told you So"
One of the best evidences of prosperi-
ty is the large number of marriages.
There are thousands more who should
seize the golden opportunity and begin
to live. When man passes the Thrift
eth-mile post and has loved no good
woman, he has lost his best chances of
life for happiness, and the sooner he
calls halt and thinksit over the better.
The Hartford Comm Times says that
it has been found that worm-eaten and
partly-decayed logs make the best
sounding boards for pianos, and within
few years piano firms have sent agents
through Connecticut to find fallen and
partly y-decaycd chestnut logs, and such
timber has been sold at good prices after
the owners had considered it entirely
useless.
The New York Bullion publishes di-
gests of trade on l,09S railroads. These
digests show for the first six months of
1883 wonderful vitality in the roads, con-
sidering the depression in the prices of
securities or the means OF building and
improving. The increase III gross earn
ings is nota Die, and sufficient to fairly
sustain normal increase in net income
despite marked decrease ia rates,
which are daily becoming better estab-
llshed, making income more regular and
certain and enabling lasting economies,
A novel scheme is projected in Lon
don to construct another tunnel under
the Thames for foot passengers and car
riage traffic. The chief novelty intro
duced into the scheme is the method by
which the great difference in level (about
80 feet between the streets at each end
and the roadway under the river bed is
proposed to be surmounted. Hydraulic
hoists of sufficient magnitude to accom-
modate the traffic are to be erected at
each end OF the subway. By means of
these, vehicles as we'll as passengers
will be rapidly lowered and raised. and
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pensive inclines will be avoided. The
estimated cost of the work, INCLUDING
hoists, land, ETC., is given at about ST.,
100000.
The Hartford Courant, detailing few
of the many annoyances man suffers
in the matter of dress, instances those
pertaining to his chief end, as follows:
"You buy your hat when your hair is
long, and get one that fits. A week later
after the hair is cut, the new hat blows
off at the first puff of wind on the corner,
and meanwhile comes down over the
eyes like horses binder. But, if YOU
get your hair cut first, and then 90 and
buy your hat, in q couple of weeks your
head is bigger than your hat, and it
blows Oft because it is too small. In the
other case it blew off because it was too
big. You can't tie it on as a woman
does, it has to come off in church and
at the opera house. Hence, being
made to come of, it comes, and there
are few more comical sights than a man
and his hat going in the same direction,
but with the man after the hat, instead
of under it,"
In 1892 occurs the anniversary of q
notable event, the discovery of America
by Christopher Columbus four centuries
ago. From the present indications both
in Europe and in this country the event
will be celerated both appropriately and
magniticently. The king ofSpain who
believes that his own country should
take the lead in the festivities, proposes
that all towns connected with the life of
Christopher Columbus should be the
chief seats of celebration. Another view
is to summon not towns but countries
to join in making the festival the most
brilliant ever held in the history of the
world. Then the great nations, Spain,
Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, Eng
land and the United States, would be
united in giving honor to the great dis
coverer, who, if he was not the first to
set foot upon this continent, was at
least the first to make known the new
to the old world, and to open land for
other discoverers. There are nearly
ten years before the anniversary takes
place--time enough for extensive prep
arations. The proposal to unite the ma
tions of the world in the celebration is
most noble and worthy, but the United
States should see that her part is per-
formed with the enthusiasm due the oc-
rasion.