The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-02-08
miscellaneous Matters.

Enlistment, which paws its men weekly,
says men thus paid are better satisfied,
their credit at stores is be ter, and they
are able to make ,helr money so fur
ti,er in supplying their families with the
necessities of life than those are whose
wages are given to them only a dozen
times a year.
There were IS, $50 patients in the lun.
attic asyluns of France last year, oil
whom about 1900 were men and 81, 600
women, showing that females are the
most Fable t o Insanity. That they arc
less influenced by treatment is shownpy
the TACT TINT the average duration of
treatment for men is 2T6 days, while Ior
women ii is eos days.
The oldest and largest match factory
in the world is at Joukoping, in Sweden.
1t was established one hundred years
ago, and there are to be seen spec
linens of the matches used at the
begi ming oithe present century, con.
sisting of nig fagsots OF wood furnished
with q handie and a tip 10 dip ina bath
Of sulphur.
Australia bags for more ~colonists
though it is receiving nearly 10000 a
year, and advertisements for labners
"HeAithlui climate, good shooting, and
free schools 80 E.
A M~eriweather Gao farmer discov-
cred one of his mules feeding upon his
geese. The flock had been diminishing
mysteriously, and the loss had been at
tributed to foxes. One night recently,
hearing a disturbance among his geese
in the horse lot, he seized his gun and
rushed to the lot to investigate the cause
OF the commotion. Getting as close as
caution allowed, he fred in the direc-
ton OF the noise made by the struggling
goose. AT the report OF the gun his ears
were greeted with a most terrific squat
ling from ne OF the mules. A light be-
mule had received u part of The load in
his nose. 1t was the mule that had
been eating the geese.
Cinnamon in this country, and espec-
tally in the west, have been quick to see
the Increased value OF their services,
caused ny the enforcement OF the re-
striction act. Soon after its passage the
Chinese Iaborers in California demanded
and received at least third moro in
weekly wages, and now many of them
are agitatins for another increase. In
the Sandwich Islands Cinnamon are
noted for their propensity for strikes.
If drugs were thrown to dogs-and
dogs were fresh enough to take them
it would be greatly to the advantage of
humanity and the sheep business. And
there is mor occasion for this reform
with us than anywhere else under the
sun-as appears from the Siglo Mndico's
owa statistics of the percentage of DOC
tors TO population OF different countries;
France has POI per 1880 peo:.le; Ger
many, 3.sl; Austria, 3.4l; England, g;
Hungary, 6.l0; Italy, GIN; Switzerland,
l.t6; United States, 1924. Happily,
however, We are not restricted for GEM.
etcry room, and crenatiorssm is on the
increase.
The Celestial Empire has long been a
favorite field for missionaries of the
Roman Church, which has established
itself in considerable force throughout
the country, as well as at Pekin. There
are no fewer than twenty-five bishops
and apostolic Wears in China. About
half Of these are French priests, two of
them being Jesaits, two OF the order of
st. Lazare, and the rest mostly apper-
tanning to the Missionary Society OF the
Rue du BAG. The Lazarites have a
large and important establishment in
Pekin, close to the Imperial Palace. 1t
is a convent, originally given to the
Jesuits by the Emperor Handy, but is
now governed by Mgr. Delaplace, Bish-
op of Pekin, who has been for thirty
Eve years a missionary in China. It is
noticed az a popularity Of this convent
shat every n admitted to it is required
TO swear. solemnly that he will not con-
nive ut Chinese rites, which it was once
sought to combine with the Roman
Catholic. worship, but were prescribed
hy a bull of Pope BENEDICT XIV,