The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-04-11
Pressed Bricks,

iwo bequests-one of So, 900 from Hart
ord, Conn, and the other of $24, 900
rom the late Mr.. j. +. Clark of Cleve-
and Ohio. /;
A Dakota farmer in 1881 planted q
single grain Of wheat in one of his oat
fields. From il grew % stocks each
bearing a full head. These yielded $50
grains, $50 of which were planted the
text year, producing one-tifth of q bush
II of splendid wheat. This was plant
I'd last spring, yielding II bushels, max
ng 1,O2G pounds of wheat from one
grain IN three years.
The use of the telephone has rapidly
increased in London. january /, 1881,
here were S1l subscribers to the Lon
don Exchange; in 1882, 1898; the 1ext
year, 1856; and this year, 3195. Iii the
last quarter OF last year there were
l,69I,47 messages sent through the
London wires. The proportion of tele-
phonlc to telegraphic messages is as
thirteen to twelve.
The modern railroad brakeman is not
the gentleman in neat uniform who
helps ladies and children on and off the
train, and rides in q comfortable seat in
the parlor car. The real brakeman, is
on top of a freight cor, shether it be
covered with ice or not, who is only at
the place lie calls home long enough to
catch three or four hours sleep, fill his
dinner pail and then go off for another
night.
The Pennsylvania railroad maintains
at Philadelphia aschoolfo for persons who
want to become conductors. Candi-
dates are tested as to their ability to
write, their knowledge of mathematics,
etc, and are theu instructed as to the
rights OF passengers, the uses of differ
ent kinds OF tickets, thesituation of sta
tons, etc.
A singular coincidence in connection
with the late cyclone in Alabama is that
one occurred twenty-five years ago in
the same month and on the Same date,
and very nearly at the same hour, in a
part OF the recently afflicted section. 1t
WAS much o severe this time, how
ever.
An anxious father writes in the
London Times that instruction in geo.
graphy is gradually dying out in the
English schools. We have for some
time noticed a lack of geographical
knowledge among Englishmen who
write on American topics. When a
man refers to the Mississippi river as
being a Rocky Mountain trout stream.
and Indiana as q suburb of philadelphia,
you may take it for granted that there
Is something wrong with his geography.
A snowshoer took u slide after enc of
the Nevada billiards. had subsidized to
see whathe couldtind AS he approached
q place where there was a running
stream before the five or six feet of
snow had been drifted, lie thought he
heard ducks squawking. Making a hole
in the snow with his pole he was sur
prised to find n large sized cave COM
pletcly filled with fine canvassbacks.
They began coming out one at a time,
and he knocked them down until he had
more than a hnndredi in a single pile.
debt of $4,000 on the new Prosby-
terian church ut Stamford, Conn, was
E%quidated by subscription within an
hour.
In Syracuse there is ahouse occupied
by $50 Italians, each of whom pays 5
cents a day, or ST. 0 a month, for his
lodging. All board themselves. At
the present time they live almost ex-
clusively on bread, q single loaf Il day
usually sutlicing fora man. They wrap
themrelves in their blankets or shawls,
and lie down on tho floor at night
huddled together like so many hogs.
The 4nores of the sleeping crowd sound
like the roar of Niagara. When thoy
are awake everybody is talking and
~gesticulating, and the house seems to
be a pandemonium.
A Vermont man has been married
six tires. and he's the citizen they al
ways get to go first in a bear hunt.
Boston Post.
At a recent meeting of the ST. Louis
Medical Society, Doctor Dean said
when l was n small boy 1 ate a rose
bud and was very sick from it, and from
that time on for fifteen years / could
not endurethe smell of a rose without a
tickling sensation over the whole body.
Afterward l. couldn't eat strawberries,
and my mother also could not. Vege-
tarians claim that any idiosyncrazy in
regard to vegetables could be over
come, and although L have no faith in
their doctrines, I thought they ought
to know if any one did: and I have
tried, perhaps for seven or eight years, a
single strawberry, but it affects me as
badly as if l ate a large dish. Ihave
been compelled to go to bed on account
of it several times. Ny face and eye
lids will swell"