Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-07-13
Things in General,

The total receipts of the Thomas con-
ceTts in San Francisco, just ended, we're
Sl, GOO; total expenses, S3S, 900. The
attendance was $4,000.
General Roger A. Pryor says New
York Is the strictest state in the Union
in regard to divorce proceedings, and
Rhode Island the most lax.
The pay of a cade at West Point is
$3.50 year to commence with his ad-
mission into the academy, and is suf-
support. No cadet is permitted to re-
ceive money or any other supplies from
MS parents or from any person wnomso-
ever without the sanction of the super
intendent
The bank of France employees l6O fe-
male clerks, who receiveBo centsa day TO
begin with, and after year or two an
annual salary of $3.50. They sit in rooms
apart from the men, are superintended
by officials of their own sex, AMI their
work Is of the best quality.
The highest bridge in the world is
said to be the railway viaduct at Cara
bit, in France, now being erected over
river IN the department of Cantal. The
bridge has total length of about $50
feet, and near the middle of the great
centre arch, which is one of the note
worthy features Of the structure, the
height from the bed of the river to the
raj! is 4l3 feet.
A beautiful exhibit at the London
Fisheries Exhibition, and one that has
ctfrarfoS
mother-of.pearl suite of bedroom furni-
ture-wardrobe, table, washstand and
chairs, valued by its exhibitors, Messrs.
M. Samuel, at the high price of 81 800
g.tineas. Perhaps the most curious
point in this costly set is that it con.
talns no less than AZ 900 separate pieces
OF pearl laid on wood backing, and a
dozen or more men were working on it
for upwards of nine months.
Carving in ivory is carried nova days
to high degree of excellence in Paris.
There is in London at present bust of
lady of the time of Mary Queen of
SCOTS, executed in Paris'by A. Moreau
Vauthier, which is said to be the finest
piece OF ivory carving ever executed.
The Pail Mall Gasette states with grim
irony that so high a price is demanded
for it that it will, most probably, be
purchased by Rothschild.
A Brooklyn girl thus "gives away" an
important secret to the New York cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer:
"All summer long, and whenever else
we 60 away from home, we all of US al
ways say we're from New York. Our
father and brothers are there in busi.
ness, you know, and everybody knows
New York, and altogether it's much
easier and pleasanter to say We come
from there than to go to explaining all
about Brooklyn, and-and-well. Beech,
er,"
A Michigan school teacher went to
Tennessee last winter aud engaged to
teach in a district where the big girls
were to proud to 60 to common school.
He soon began to kiss the little girls
freely, and in less than three weeks the
house was filled with big ones, and old
ones, too-even widow discovered her
early education had been neglected.
The only drawback was that the young
men kept constantly challenging him TO
fight duels, and finally threatened to
waylay him. He says he did not prac-
tice kissing for the fun there was in it,
bat in the interest of education. He
has been employed for next winter, and
the big boys have stgnifed their inten-
ton Of attending school in body.
The Carson (Nev) Appeal says that
for some years there has been bank in
Lake Tahoe which in clear weather has
generally been taken for moss formation.
1tlooked as if lot of trees had sunk to
the bottom of the lake. and that moss
and slime had collected there until the
whole presented wavy, transparent
appearance about fifty feet below the
surface. During the past few weeks the
moss and debris have disappeared, and
now when the water is clear, forest of
pine trees can be plainly seen, with ev-
cry limb and twig perfect. Some fisher
men, by lowering graphing irons, have
recovered several splendid specimens
of the petrifaction. Que is pine branch
about three feet long, which, when held
few feet from the eye, has the exact
appearance of pine branch Just taken
from living tree. and annarentlY fresh