The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-09-19
General Coudeusations.

General CONVERSATIONS.
The existing craze for highly colored
houses consisting almost entirely of chin.
neys and roof will probably soon die
out. There are symptoms that the pub
lie is becoming wearied of red tiling
and dormers, and that inmates of "cot-
tages" with every bedroom partly in
the roof and every sitting room so low
that q man standing on tip-toe a al
most touch the ceiling, are signing for
lofty parlors and airy bedrooms. In
those modern monstrosities which are
considered old English because they do
not fulfill the requirements of English
speaking people of the present day it is
considered a beauty to be ugly.
The latest novelty in the show bust
ness is an exhibition of noses, which has
recently been held in Austria. Eighty
persons competed for the prize offered
for the most extra ordinary nasal pro-
tuberance in form, size and color. It
was awarded to a competitor from Wen
ma, who is the possessor of what is said
to be a gigantic nose of deep violet
blue. If this novelty should become
popular in this country, the dime muse
ums would not be large enough to hold
the Democrats who would be put on
exhibition.
In Nevada there are hundreds of ar
tesian wells, averaging less than 200
feet deep, and costing, in Guiding boring
and piping, less than $500. Each of
them will flow $4,000 gallons of water
a day, and will irrigate five acres of
ploughed or fifty acres of meadow land.
All the wells are on the top of the bed
rock, and there is shown to be a stratum
of water underlying the whole State.
The water from the wells is quite cold
in the summer and very warm in winter,
neve freezing, making it very desirable
for stock men in feeding their stock for
market, as cattle seem to relish it and
thrive we'll on it.
The following extraordinary circular,
which has recently been issued at st.
Petersburg by tho department of roads
and communications, curiously illus
trates the reverence with which the car
and all his belongings are regarded by
all good Russians. "The owners of
passenger steamers who have been
granted permission to name their YES
sells in the names of the imperial family
are bound to keep their boats in excel
lent order and repair. If, however, any
such named steamer, consequent upon
commercial operations, should be en-
ployed in any likely to make
the CARRYING out of the above instruc-
tons difficult, the owner are hereby
notified that they must rename the YES
sci and declare this change of name to
the inspector of marine"
A Florida pilot tells big stories of the
sharks which abound in the sea between
Pensacola and Fort Pickens, and the
unfortunate sailors and soldiers they
have eaten. "Td just as soon try to
swim a lake of red hot pitch as to swim
over from Pensacola to Fort Pickens."
The sharks would be sure to get him.
"1ve seen 'em moving around on the
bottom like drove of hogs. They gen
orally swim slowly when not chased,
but they can work up a tremendous
race when they are chased, and I've
seen one jump twenty feet into the air"
He further remarked: "Some time ago
a Spanish gunboat dropped in there
and the officers amused themselves
with shark fishing. They had quite a Cir
u s They would take a small dvna-
mite cartridge, bind a piece of pork to it
and fix it to a float and wire and send it
200 feet astern. pretty soon a shark
would take it and they would fire, and
the fish would fly into a thousand pieces.
If II vas wounded the others
went for him and ate him up
A somewhat sensational incident
marked one of the performances, the
other day, at the Cape Menagerie at st,
Etienne, near Paris. Agop, the we'll.
known trainer, had scarcely entered the
cage OF one of the tigers when the Zero
cious brute sprang upon him and be.
gan worrying him tooth and claw. The
audience screamed with horror, and Q
general rush for the door of the TEN
began. Agop, however, kept cool, and
in spite of some fearful decorations al
over the body and great loss Of blood
fought with such determination that he
finally overcame the tiger, which
crouched at his feet. Not content with
this victory Agop was foolhardy enough
to force it through its usual exercise, to
the wonderment and admiration Of the
crowd who had stopped ~monentarily il
their flight. The tanner then left the
cage; and all torn and bleeding as he
was, proceeded to that containing {
lioness-which had formely made
meal of Pernet, n of his predecessors
in the perilous situation. Ee entered
the cage totally unarmed, and succeed
ed in putting the lioness through hel
: habitual jumps, after which he left tn
cage-this time ut least. Agop the1
: had his wounds dressed.