The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-23
Current Notes.

One of the most curious customs that
attract the attention OF strangers IN
| Panama is to see the native women walk
ing along the streets smoking long, slen-
der cigars, in much the same fashion as
men do here. 1t is the custom OF the
people there, and especially of the wo-
men, to gather in the public markets as
early as sunrise to gossip, talk over af-
fairs while enjoying their morning
| smoke.
Recent Roman Catholic statistics show
that in England the numerical strength
| of that church haa nearly trebled dur
! ing the last forty years, wilhelm Amerl-
ca the increase is nearly tenfold. The
| United States is, in fact, the more
promising portion of the Pope's spirit
ual domain. There are 6,62S, 176 Cath
olics this year, against 636 $50 in 1910.
The large aggregate includes all NOM
inal Catholics and baptised children.
If the oleomargarine men do not look
to their rights, bad butter may drive
their goods out of market. A few
days ago a Brooklyn man bought for
butter something that was not to his
liking, so he sued the seller for giving
him oleomargarine. He might have
gainedhis suit, for two dealers pro-
nounced the stuff oleomargarine, but a
number of experts agree that it was
genuine dairy butter.
Emergency lectures have made a fair
showing. in the efficiency of the Phlla-
delphia police. AT u recent meeting OF
the Society for Organizing Charity,
nine members of the force were pre-
scented with medals for their service in
arresting hemorrhages, putting splints
on and setting broken limbs, distin-
gushing between drunkenness and
sickness, reviving persons who were in
sensible from inllaling poisonous gases.
The valuation of Boston property has
been raised SO, 900, 900 TO n total of
$685., 900, coo, and the levy for state,
county and city purposes reaches $l2,-
466, $50, an increase oven the previous
year of 81 ,57S,019, ornearly twenty-five
| per cent. This is at the rate of SIS per
81 900, or one and one eight-tenths per
cent.
GA pronouncing bee" took place at a
church sociable in this city recently,
which was both exciting and instruct
i've. The competitors were subjected
to severe tests. They were locked in a
room and brought out singly to read
eight sentences printed on slips Of pa
per, and which contained, among other
words, "soot, depot, babe, acclimated,
aspirant, Asiatic, disputants, conversant,
financiers, irretragible, alteration, in
d~isputable, irreparable, ~indicatory, bla-
tant, BLACKBOARD, complainant, coadju-
tor, incompatible, diagnosis, bronchitis
| gastritis, periostritis, menginitis, men
hits and morphine"
The following is given as a ready
method of testing water for sewage ON
Elimination: A clean pint bottle is to
be flledthree-quarters full of the water
to be examined; in this a teaspoonful of
pure white sugar is to be dissolved.
Granulated or loaf sugar is good enough
for the purpose. The bottle is then
Iorked and placed in a warm spot for
two days. If in tw%enty-four or forty
eight hours it becomes cloudy or mud
dy, it is unfit for domestic Use; if it re-
mains clear it is probably safe to use.
This method is known as Heisch's test
for sewage contamination.
Concerning bitters our excellent ex-
change, The Health and Home, says
"Under the sanity garb of medicine the
market has been flooded for years.
Men and women swallow them by the
tubful under the belief or pretext that
they are taking a tonic. When a man
stops openly before a saloon bar and
calls for a drink he knows that he is
taking intoxicating drink. But the Bit
ters are taken under the dim delusion
that they are taking medicine, and yet
to get n single dose of the medicine one
has to swallow a gallon of vile stuff"