Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-06-01
Things in General.

The largest block of stone ever trans
ported. not excepting those in the Chi
nese wall and the Pyramids, was that
from which was cut the pedestal of the
statue of Peter the GREAT, in ST. Peters
burg 1t was block of granite weigh
ing 1900 tons, and was found isolated on
marshy ground about four miles from
the Neva. Its shape was that of an IT.
regular prism, twenty-four feet high,
forty-seven feet long and thirty feet
broad in its largest dimensions.
man in Chester, Conn.,, found one
of the old George Washington buttons
while digging near factory few days
ago. The button is of copper, u little
larger than an old-fashioaed cen, and
bears in the centre the letters &c. w."
with "God Bless our President" around
the outer edge. 1t is valuable relic.
Mr.. Perry Belmont and Miss Marian
Langdon are to be married in June.
Mr.. Belmont has purchased the re.
sdence of Mrs. Admiral Stanley, on the
corner of Rhode Island avenue and
Seventeenth street, Washington, for q
winter home. The price paid was $27,-
600.
The newest agony in note paper is a
sheet with ragged edges and of dun hue,
gradually shaded from the edges, s7here
it is quite dark, to the centre, where it
is pale yellow. It is said to look as
though it had mellowed in the tempered
sunshine of centuries behind the stained
glass of an ancient temple window, or as
though dipped in Il preparation of
spoiled ink, mouldy cheese and drip
pings from brown cotton umbrella. 1t
suggests olden days and fading memor-
les; also mummies.
The st. Albans (Vt.) Messenger records
this incident: During the recentterm OF
country court gentleman from neigh
boring town who had some court bus
mess on hand put up at the American
House; and, as he was not accustomed
to gas, the clerk went to the room with
him in the evening to instruct him in its
use On the following night the gas was
thing in the burner caused the fame to
split and spread a little. This mystified
the occupant of the room, and after
studying on the matter while and try
ing in vain to solve the difficulty he went
down stairs and accosted the clerk thus:
What ails that light up there, any
how? The flame is all split up and
spread-darn it all: and Eve been trying
for the last half hour to pull up the
wick!"
The following advertisement recently
appeared in a London newspaper: "a
widow lady would be glad to hear of a
schoolmaster, of the old school, in Lon
don, who would undertake to punish her
son, boy of II, who though dociIe, is
H., I
would in return be willing to offer him
any reasonable compensation. Address,
stating terms, and when the boy may
that persons responding to this adver-
tisement requested to be informed fthe
measurement in stocking feeta fighting
weight Of the intended charge. 1t would
have been an unpleasant surprise
to lean and unmuscular pedagogue to
find an embryo John l.. Sullivan COM
mitted to his correctional care.
There is Il SAVIOR of pungent truth in
the homely and unsophisticated com
mentary which the editor Of Il Cinncin-
natl paper makes in discussion of the
performance of "Othello" at the recent
dramatic festival in that city. Says he:
"a young lady of high lineage and
Sfcdt dCC0ui iplSliiielllS WHO GlOpGS
with a colored man, after doing the
main part of the courting herself, is not
a pleasing picture to any father of "a fam
lily who has bestowed vassar advantages
upon his daughter" It would have
greatly cheered Brabantio if he could
have heard OF this sympathetic express
sion from a later-day moralist.
At the cornerstone laying of new
theological seminary in New York Mr..
Evarts gave this good advice: "We law
yers read much of Justinian when he
came to try case. So the learning of
the clergy, the lives of the sain.s and the
deaths of the sinners should not be pro-
duced in sermons to the poor and weak
and wicked. The learning should be
assimilated into the growth of the mind
and into the final worth of the words of
your tongues. Let your winged words
be sent all at the foe in front, and none
scattered among the squadrons beside
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