Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-07-06
Current Notes.

DuTlnS Tie mOnLl OF May the total III.
crease in the star mail service amounted
TO $39,6l5. During the same period the
amount saved from the decreased SER
vice was $50, OPS, making the net in
crease in the service during the month
$3.50. In the steamboat service the
net increase during the month ar cunt
ed to So, ,l39.
1t seems proper and natural to see
men calmly going about with bald heads.
Nobody questions it. But imagine the
uproar it would create if women ap,
ing parties or at home with their heads
bald and shiny like ostrich eggs. It
would be utterly impossible for women
| to carry about bald heads with the un-
ruff1ed serenity and cool indifference of
bald-headed men. 1t would be unbeara-
BILE to them. So it would be to the men.
Hartford Times.
According to the Saturday Review,
! the revenue of Paris in 1882 amounted
in round numbers to $50, O,00O 900, and of
this amount just three. ffths, or $50, ,OOO,-
900, are raised by octroi duties. These
are kind of internal customs duties
levied upon articles of consumption i'm
| POllI'A ldlo lAlC SltSs LlQuOI-llldI Is,
wine, cider and alchol-yield $l3,ooO,-
900, and food yields very nearly SC, ,OOO,-
600; while liquids other than spirits,
such as vinegar, yield $3,00O,OO0; build
ing materials yield something over 81
00O,0 900; fuel nearly $500, 900; and forage
$l,250,00O.
Far from being discouraged, the pro-
gressive men and women of Nebraska
are at work with renewed energy in the
cause Of woman suffrage in Nebraska.
Mrs. Clara Colby reports the recent
"midyear convention" convened at
| Grand Island, as ;the most successful
one that has been held in the history of
| the association, both for the amount of
business transacted and for the cordial
ity and earnestness of the delegates.
plans are being perfected for a systema>
tic and united educational work through
out the state.
A military empire possesses manifold
advantages, when it comes to the con-
struction of public works. The expert
ence of Russia in building railroads has
repeatedly illustrated this fact, but sell
dom in more striking manner than in
| the construction of the Jabinsk- Pinsk
railway. The road is one hundred and
twenty miles long, and it was necessary
to erect no fewer than..sixty nine bridges
but military batalions accomplished the
entire work in five months at cost to
the government of only ST., 900 a mile.
In the opinion of the Scientific Ameri-
can there is possibility that the won
derful comet of 1912 may make its reap
pearance before the year closes. Encke
computed for this comet a period of
about seventy years. If this compusa-
ton be correct it may suddenly flame
forth in the heavens at any moment. A
more rigorous investigation of the COM
cts path has recently been computed by
MN. Schulhof and Bosseri that gives
. period of seventy-three years. They
have fixed on the third of September,
1854, for the next perihelion passage.
But comets, with their perturbatons, re-
tardations and accelerations are the
most unreliable members of the system.
1t is not impossible, in spite of all the
wise calculations of the mathematicians,
that the comet Of 1872 may steal marc Ii
upon us before the year closes.
There is to be a gathering of all the
Roumanian gypsies in the country at
Utica, N. Y, in July. to do honor to their
queen, whose name is Lowell, and who is
now with band in camp at Philadel-
| phia. At least this is what her son, who
| is chief of the band, says. According to
his story, Queen Mary, who has
just arrived in this country to look
| after the welfare Of her subjects, is
recognized by all the wandering tribes
of Romania. She is sixty-six years old,
ana succeeded to the sovereignty upon
the death of her mother, Queen Ann
many years ago.
To one foreign lady who visits the
! United States at least huRdred Amer
can ladies visit Europe Probably not
ten British or Irish nobemen's wives
have ever been in this coAptry. The
two best acquainted with it ARE Lady
Dunraven and Lady Milton. Non the
other hand, large percentage of peers
have been here. Very few Frenchmen,
and still fewer Frenchwomen< of dis
tinction have crossed the Atlantic. Not
one in million knows the country as
do the Prince de Joinville, Count de
Paris, and Due de Chartres.
The Ministers Wife.