The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-02-01
Current Topics.

Current Topics.
Only nine of the thirty.eight States
have sessions of their legislatures this
winter. as follows: Massachusetts, Con-
necticut, New York, New jersey, Mary
land. Ohio, Iowa, Kentucky Md 4sfiss-
issippi.
The retirement from the bench of thu
United States Circuit Court of men like
Judge Dillon and Judge McCrasy means
that if the Government wants to have
frst-class men in those places it must
pay them at least q fifth or sixth as
muah as they can command for their
services as private counsel.
Texas comprises Us organized coun-
ties and territory enough to form 100
more without violating the constitution,
| miles. There Is oae country 400 miles
| in length. A gentleman WHO has spent
| several years in the state says that the
l75, 59T $40 acres are susceptible of Il
high stale of cultivation.
Gen. Rasecrans, Chairman Of the
| House Military committee, is in favor Of
arming the militi, with the most an
| proved breech. loading arms. He re-
CARDS this as especially important in
| Washington, where the militia are, III
| his language, ia military posse conf
tatus,'' and quart an immense amount
| of government property.
THE president OF the London statis-
| teal Society has shown that Gin the last
| hunelrea years the population of the
! United States has multiplied Itself six
teen times. or, in other words, has
doubled itself in eech quarter Of II cen
tuTy." a corresponding Increase for
another hundred years will bring our
/! population to 500. COG, 600. History has
no parallel forsnch Wonderful 2rowt
Three weeks ago a young woman, aged
shout a5, was arrested in County Liner
;ck, Ireland, on a charge of numbering
her " mother. Investigations showed
that the two women lived together. and
| that some quarrel arose between them,
which resulted in the accused selling i,
Ratchet and chopping off her mothers
arm. As no assistance was available
during the night the injured woman
bled to death.
Here is another OF the North Carolina
stories, this being told by the franklin
ton Weekly: about . o'clock on
Christmas morning. it says. "a colored
man named Bob Terry. passing by q
we'll il the old livery stable lot, fell in.
The we'll Jig about 40 feet deep. Bob
water reached his shoulders. He gays
that he slept very well, but was rather
cold when he awoke. He remained
there quietly until morning, after two or
three buckets Of water had been drawn
from the well, afraid to say AZ ything t.
TIE one drawing lest he should be killed
by the bucket being turned loose"
On New Years Day, in Japan, there
is great emulation among the merchants
of sound credit to make the first sale OF
goods. According to law, all japanese
merchants are required TO settle their
accounts and pay their debts by the 3ist
| of December. and are rot allowed to
buy or sell goods until they have done
so. Ii gcodsare sold on the first OF Jan
uary, the merchandise is piled conspic-
uousiy on dlaps drawn by coolies. The
merchant receives the congratulations OF
his friends, and together they follow the
goods to their destination.
A comparison showing the relative ex-
tent TO which various nations are adj
dicted to the use Of tobacco gives the
proportion as follows: For England,
France and Russia. 5; for italy, 6; for.
Cuba, II; for Austria, 14;,for Germany
and North America, 10; for Belgium, "a,
and for Holland, %. Mexico, however,
even slrpasses Holland, for there every
one SIS smoker. The school children
who have done best in their studio are
rewarded by being allowed to smoke a
cigar as they stand orsit at their lessons.
The s~chooltnaster himself is seldom
without IL cigar in his mouth. In the
law courts all persons enjoy their tobacco
freely. and even the accused IN q Grim
inal trial is not denied the inGul-
gence.
A New York correspondent ofthe Bos-
on Gazette discusses at some length the
question, Does literature pay? at does
and it dosen't, this letter.writer says.
"The1e have been exceptional cases in,
which it has, but they are of yesterday
rather than Of to-day. If n could
write two or three successful novels a
year, q handsom remuneration would
result; but that IL impossible, inasnuch
as o man would have ali he could do to
produce one. George William Curtis
left book writing for journalism, 4. II.
S%toddard, q thorough man Of letters,
has to do other work to support him
self; i. C. Stedman took to brokerage
Ion. ago; George w. Cable has taken
TO lecturing, Bret Harte finds EN- by
mant as one OF our consuls abroad;
| Charles Dudly Warner would be out at
elbows if. he had to depend or, his
writings: while Richard Grant White is
about the only writer wiz gets a decent
living from his literary eis~rts."