The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-10-03
Current Notes.

Plans have been prepared for a shif
canal cross Ireland from Dublin t.
Galway distance of 1877 milca. Tile
estimated cost for ships of various sizes
IS as follows: For ships of 1900 tons,
$4,000, 900; for ships of 9 800 tons, 500.
600, 900; for ships of 5000 tons and up.
ward, 800, 900 900. The plans have
been prepared by q London engineer
assisted by Captain Eads.
An English firm of potters has pro.
duced the largest vas in the world. It
is of china and is spoken ofas a beauti-
full work of art. The chief feature OF
the vase is a globe representing the
world, which is supported on a pedestal
and surrounded by y number of mytho-
logical figures. There are four panels
around the globe in which are represen-
tatlons of the four seasons. The color
OF the globe is a subdued green, and the
figures are china bisque and other de-
corated and white glazed china. The
vase is IL feet high and six feet four
inches in diameter. 1t cost g3,5OO.
The project of making a grand inter-
national park at Niagara Falls is pro-
crossing. The commissioners have
just devoted 90 days to the taking of
testimony on which the appraisers base
their valuations. The principal items
are these: Goat Island, containing about
eighty acres, 81 900, 900; Prospect Park
about fourteen acres, S 1000, 900; Cat
araet House, lands, ETC., $377 900; Hill
q Murray. $3S0,0o0; Thomas Tugby,
SlOS,O 600; while the gross value of the
lands required is expected to mount up
to $3, 500, 900. 1t appears from the evil
dence that Goat Island during the past
ten years has yielded IN annual revenue
OF about $15, 900, and Prospect Park,
during the same period, $18,500.
The Barnard comet is still receiving
attention at the Cambridge Observatory.
1t Is visible in clear weather in the
southern horizon, and will SO continue
until some time in October. From the
popularity of its orbit it will remain
during all the intervening time at about
the same distance from the earth as at
present. that is, about $50, 900 900 miles
from the sun. 1t is not yet fully de-
termined that the comet is q periodical
one, rs the opportunities for observa-
ton have recently been unfavorable at
the early evening hour.
A London dispatch says that the
crowd of pleasure tourists, including
many Americans, has been turned aside
this year from the weli-worn routes of
European travel by the dread of chol-
era and the disagreeableness of fumiga-
ton and quarantine. Favorite Italian
resorts are deserted, and there are few
visitors in Switzerland. The tide of
travel has turned in the direction of
Norway and Sweden, and the railways
and hotels are taxed to the utmost to
accommodate the unwonted throng of
visitors. The steamboats, on the favor
lite route of the Gotha Canal ore crowd
ed to an uncomfortable degree.
Among other American visitors Miss
Emma Thursby has selected Norway
for her summer tour.
Sliced cucumbers, an English paper
states, if placed over freckles will in
due time eradicate these annoying
blemishes. This bit of information
will be welcomed by the unfortunate
being who edits that column in the
Lovers Weekly known as the cores
pondents' column. Three-fourths of
the queries that reach him weekly ask
for q lotion that will wipe out freckles.
He has probably published q dozen rec
ipes week after week, but these are
ignored by the Constant Reader" the
anxious Inquirer" and the rest of the
fiends who want an answer all to them
selves. To write and write and write
again a formula that has boone aggra-
vatingly impressed upon the mind by
constant REPETITION is a monotonous task.
The cucumber discovery gives him q
chance to write something new on the
tiresome freckle question, and thus the
monotony of his toll will be somewhat
relieved.