The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-02-29
Things in General.

Worlds Medical Congress held in this
,ountry-in Philadelphia if possible.
The congress will meet in Copenhagen
This year and the American delegates,
who will be selected at the May meeting
Of the American Medical Association iii
Washington, will doubtless be instruct
ed to urge the claims to this country to
the congress of 1885.
Newcastle is celebrated TO its exten-
sive colliers and vast coal productions.
Hence to carry Goals to Newcastle
would be very foolish and useless pro-
ceeding, and the expression is used to
characterize any similar unnecessary
transaction. 1t is North of England
phrase, and has its parallel in the Per
sian saving; Carrying pepper to Hin
doostan," and in the Hebrew, "To car
ry oil to the City of Olives"
While making improvements at Coles
Hill, near Plymouth, Mass, last week,
the workmen discovered the graves Of a
number of pilgrims who came to Amer
lea in the MayAower, and who we're
buried during the first winter of their
arrival. One of the graves was opened
and contained the skeleton of middle
aged man five feet nine inches in height.
These are the only graves of the first
settlers which have been positively iden-
tilted, and tablets will mark the exact
location.
The following fresh statistics, in re-
card to the ownership of land in Great
Britain, will prove interesting reading
Twenty eight dukes in the United
Kingdom: possess 1853 separate estates,
comprising nearly 100000. The other
members Of the peerage, 497 in number
hold 1,435 separates, embracing about
| 10000, 900. OF 33,000,000 acres in
| England and Wales, more than II 900,
900 are owned by body of men which
probably does not exceed 1890.
More than fifty patents for the max,
ing of ammonia have been taken Out
within the last two years in England
America, Belgium, France, Austria,
and Germany. Many of the schemes
have been patented in all the countries
at once. The patents apply to ga'
works, blast furnaces, alkali works, ane
sewage work. Ammonia seems to share
with electricity the present attention O
the patented world.
Among the passengers of a crowded
steamboat was man with delilrlm tre
mems. In the midst OF his frightfu
visions and cries for help he turned tt
his attendants and begged piteously fo
g. Bible One was carried to the state
room of the frantic sufferer and eagerly
seized by him. Then, laying it on TIN
bed above his breast, with wild laugh
he exclaimed: ''There, devils, you ar
beaten now !; You can't get over tina
book" A strange calm came over hin
as he lay with his wild eyes fixed in
tently on the book. The Congrega
tionalist tells this as a true incident O
travel on the sound.
Mr.. Nathan II. Merwin, churc
) member aged about SO years. and sal
J to be the richest man in Woodbridge
Conn, is made defendent in three suits
| all arising from the same cause. Georg
| Paige, o farm hand, wants 5000 dam
ages for alleged slander and libel. H
charges Merwin with reporting that h
is the father of the infant child of Jen
ME r. Downes, aged IS, who has bee
five years in Merwin's family and is hi
ward. Suit number two is by the tow
/ authorities, Of Woodbridge, who hay
= had Merwin arrested as the author {
), Miss Downe's ruin The third suit
. brought in the Probate Court to remoy
r Merwin from the guardianship of Mis-
3 pownes.
The period of most rapid growth
: the British Isles is from birth up to Fl,
: years OF age, and then both sexes gro
a alike, the girls being q little shorter an
e lighter than the boys. From five
y ten the boys grow little faster tina
the girls, but from ten to fifteen tt
girls grow the fastest, and at betwee
|, eleven and half and fourteen are a
tually taller, and from twelve and a ha
IS to fifteen and half are heavier than tt
): boys The boys, however, take Il
i lead between fifteen and twenty year
N and grow at first rapidly, but afte
=, wards slower, and complete their grow
# at about twenty-three years, while gir
) grow very slowly after fifteen and 6
| tain their full statute at about the tive
10 tieth year.
- The society reporter if the New Yo
=. Sun states in his weekly bulletin til
>, >, the ceaseless round of ''gayety'' in t
y metropolis has told seriously both on I
lie maidens and their costumes, as seen
Of last weeks balls and receptions. Th
lie look bleached and faded. ''T'
)5 months ago." he says, there were sc
t. eral healthy, rosy, wholesome-looki
in Young women to be found who mig
re have indulged reasonable hope
matrimony even witaout the priyilee
that leap year grants, but in the lene
end breadth of Delmonico's rooms
RS would be difficult now to pick out mt
than one or two sensible men would w
: to have the care of the remainder of tn
-, lives"
~ The evils which results from irr
~ ponsible individuals setting up as
M vate bankers and swindling unsuspe
n ing people out of their money, has
tn to q rather extreme proposition in
ial New York Legislature. It prohil
ar any private person, partnership
w association of persons from using or
ew posing to public view the word ba
by either on sign, or on check or b
sx- head, under a penalty of 81 900. "
lot law would hit very reputable bank
ice as hard as the wildcat establisnme,
'ed In every city in the land there are
to vate bankers whose names are syno
ers nous for integrity and soundn
ich Legislation to prevent weak bank
zen should not be framed so as to hal
the best representatives of the husin