The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-06-20
Notes Of the Day.

Bishop Clark says: ga student in i
the Andoyer Seminary. whom L we'll !
knew and who afterward became q very
useful minister, was suspended FOR a
while because of the offense that he
gave when it came his turn to ssreturn
thanks at the close of the commons
dinner by venturing to suggest that, if
1t We're consistent with the divine pur-
pose it would be gratifyingto have some
Improvement in the fare"
Henry Bergh believes chat on hv-
gienic principles the cemeteries should
be gradually removed and abandoned.
The water flowing through the earth
should be u~ncontaminated and not car
ry the refuse of decayed and ~lifeless
humanity. AS we advance in progress
and civilization the cremation problem
will be solved Just as the relief OF suffer-
ing animals has been solved"
From a list of the fortresses and
strongholds of France, recently issued
by the War Minister, the Fortress of
Sedan, which once ranked high among
French fortresses, is absent. The town
is now judged to be of no military i'm
p%ortance whatever, and its great keep,
with its lofty walls and subterranean
passages, is in process of demolition. :.
The climate of Melbourne is said to
be very trying to q person with weak
lungs. Mornings of bright, hot sun
shine, with scorching wind, change
within a very few hours to afternoons Of
really biting cold, when the strongest
ale thankful for ulsters and sealskin
jackets. The whole southern coast of
Australia is subject to like alterations
of temperature.
M. Jules Claretie says that a high
medical authority told him lately that
he attributed the great increase of
drunkenness among ome in Paris to
the war. During the siege, especi tally,
they contracted the habit, when there
was little to eat and they wanted to keep
themselves up. Fifteen years ago, he
says, habits of intoxication were rare
among Parisians.
The late Professor Gross, of Philadel-
phia, vas one of the earliest American
users Of ch%loroform as al a~neSthetic
and he adhered to it all his lie, prefer,
ring it to either, which in general prac
tice has largely supersededit He mad
use of chloroform in more than tiv,
thousand important operations withou
a single accident resulting therefrom.
The churchyard at Stoke Pogis, neal
Windsor, England, is the scene of Gray't
famous elegv. The village Of Horton,
the home of Milton, is near by. 1t was
here he wrote his first poems in 1882
The church is an irregular little build
; ing, with a picturesque old UNCOVERED
tower; inside is a fine old Norman arch
and on the pavement of the isle we reat
on the memorial stone: Here lyeth the
. body of Sarah Milton, who died April
, 3, 1897 After his mother died Milton
turned his back on Horton. .Aremnent
of au old apple tree, which belonged
to the house where he lived, and the
, stone that marks his mothers grave
art tiIt Uplo lclilllllttlS liz lHcIC Astil
the author of I'll Penseroso" and Para
disc Lost.
The general tendency now is in tn
: direction of too much of that which
$ good. The motto of the times is any
/ thing but abridgement. 1t is the da
of big things-big ~circuses and menag
cries, big minstrel shows, big fairs, bi
festivals. A performance for entertain
ment nowadays is nothing if not by
grand aggregation of talent" But j
g is possible to go too far. We may have
we say, too much of agood thing. Th
: appetite may not be tempted, but b
sickened at the sight oftoo great feast
e Enough is enough, though the very hes
!. in its way.
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