The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-11-02
General Paragraphs.

General Paragraphs.
The property of the Princeton 1nt%
logical Seminary is estimated at 81 1885,
696.
There were recently shipped to Eng.
land $4,000 worth of cattle from Hart
ford County, Md,
Massachusetts, heads the list of states in
wealth per capita, averaging $500. Tho
individual wealth of Great Britain is the
highest in the world, France coming
next and the United States third.
Nashville has passed a city ordinance
against fortune telling. An astrologist
told an alderman that he was to marry
Il widow worth $3.50, 900. He married
one who is in DEBT to tie tune of $1,000,
and he dosen't want to see any II else
baseiy deceived.
Our national paper currency is COW
cred with poison. Half IL dozen women
in the Treasury department are suffer-
ing from poisoning by arsenic, aB a result
of handling the new greenbacks. They
moisten their fingers to facilitate the
counting, and the moisture brings out
the arsenic in the green coloring.
Fully one.half OF the visitors to STRAIT
ford on-Avon are said to be from the
United States.
At one of the colored churches in
Charlotte, N. c.. on a recent Sunday
evening, d woman shouted SO energeti-
cally that she dis!ocated her jaw. max
ing her mouth stand open to its fullest
,o ,on;t, Sla laft Sbn ,I,r,I orl ,rn,%
through the streets with her mouth
wide open. followed ny the greater part
of the congregation, in search of a doc
tor. and II being found the unhinged
member was forced into its place.
The New, ort correspondent Of the
Boston Transcript tells and says she be-
lieves this story: ga circular has been
sent to very many clergymen, BY a New
York wine firm, setting forth the merits
OF lis liquors and wines, with prices by
| the case, etc. At the end OF the circu-
lar it reads: n. BIO avoid suspicion,
every case sent you will be plainly
marked Canned Peaches"
The Russian minister OF instruction is
being petit!oned for the restoration O F.,
corporal punishment in the schools OF
| that country. The reason 70: that is
that, corporal punishment being forbid
den, boys are confined for "a hours on q
bread and water diet, and subjected to
| other like severe and degrading pun
ishmcnts.
Chicago is much inclined to observe
the advice: look up-not down." Ac-
cording to a correspondent, in the
course of the next three years Chicago
will possess the taliest rs we'll rs the moSt
imposing business structures of the
world. In the past year ten six-story,
SIX seven-story, two eight-story one nine.
story and II len-story structures have
been erected. At present the highest
building is a sugar refinery of twelve
stories, While five or six more OF that
hight are prOlecteu.
1t seems as if the hight of Jenkinsisn
was reached in a newspaper account of u
chillren's party at Saratoga. The Sum
mer Season, a pink sheet, gave an &C.
count of the costumes in the folio wing
style: "Roslin Belts of Philadelphia,
one year and Il half old, wore blue satin
and Eva Southgate was han dsome ly cIat
in pink satin and white Spanish lace,
black slippers and pink stockings"
"Ah. here are some interesting statis-
tics" said Mr.. Job Shuttle, as he wiped
his eye glasses. at seems that twins
occur only once in every eighty.nine
births, and triplets occur only once in
1910 births, while bankruptcies only once
In 371.l26 births. Great Jinks, what a
family a man must have before he can
be the happy father of quadruplets!"-
Hartford Post.
The River Witham IN England has Just
been the seen of a novel contest. More
than 500 Anglers entered the lists to
compete for valuable prizes, the fisher
man who caught the largest fish within a
certain time to obtain the first prize. AT
a given signal all tie anglers cast their
lines into the water, and the keenest
rivalry was shown by the contingents of
fishermen from different town. Several
OF the contestants presented abnormal
ly large fish. on which they based a
claim for the prize, but it was easily
shown that they had resorted TO the old
trick OF buying them, and they were ig.
ANONYMOUSLY debarred from the contest.