The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-03-28

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Prayer, she said: "Now, Willie, ask
God to make you q good boy" The
child raised his eyes to his mothers face
for n few moments, as ifin deep thought,
and then startled her with the reply:
cts no use, mamma He won't do it.
I've asked him q heap O. times"
Miscellany.
Col. Gabe Wharton, of Kentucky,
who has made a thorough inspection of
Mexico recently, is not favorably i'm
pressed with the land of the Aztecs.
In the hotels of the City of Mexico he
found it impossible to obtain anything
to eat before the middle of the day ex-
cept bread and coffee. Everybody
CANDLES and nobody cares to work.
MIR. Wharton says he saw no Israelites
in Mexico, and he felt that it was a
poor country for business or trade. He
pointedly puts the question: "What
are you to sell to q nation with five
millions Of people within its borders
who never wore a suit of clothes?"
Naturally we ought to expect to sell
them some clothing.
An important precedent relating to
street fights has been established in Lon
don. Two boys were detected in such
an encounter by a policeman, and one
of them, who summarily judged to be
the 0 guilty, was taken before amag-
istrate. The culprit explained that he
was not the aggressor. The other boy.
he said, had been converted, "and struck
him because he would not turn relig-
ions" too. His mother, moreover,
confirmed her sons good opinion of
himself, but the Judge decided that the
converted" boy was probably the bet
ter behaved of the two, and fined the
unconverted half a crown.
A gum importer Of Gotham tells a
reporter: Gel Mahdi might sink all the
gum arabic in Africa into the Nile and
he wouldn't affect the trade in American
gumdrops. AS a matter of fact, the
dandy trade would not suffer appre-
ciabIy. There is not an ounce of gum
arabic in o million pounds of the ordin-
airy gumdrops like those which you see
sold from stands n2the streets. They
are made from the gkucose of the starch
factories, which is generally used, ex-
cept in the manufacture of some of the
finer grades Of confectionery, in place
of gum arabic. OF course, the candy
suffers; but there is no limit to adulter-
alton in the confectionery business"
A new and dangerous development of
mesmerism was displayed the other day
at Paris to an admiring and sympathiz-
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who ut the same time is alion-tamer in a
certain menagerie. A beautiful young
girl, on whom the spiritualist generally
practices, was brought into a cage of Ii
ons, and after being thrown into a cat
aleptic sleep, vas submitted to the most
frightful ordeals. In one of these the
head and arms of the girl were put into
the mouth of the lion, which had previ-
ously been Infatuated by lashes from it's
masters whip. But the apparently
dead body did not excite the animals
appetite. At the end of the scene
the girl was released and went
smiling away, while the mesmerist
earned rich laurels. Bnt suppose the
lion had eaten the maiden-wheS then?
The suit of Prof. Fiske against Cor
nell University is again before the courts.
A correspondent of the New York Post
says evidence taken some time since at
Eau Claire, Wis, in regard to the value
of the western lands owned by the uni
versity, tends strongly to show That the
university, at the time Of Mrs. Fiske's
death, possessed the So, 900 900 allowed
it by its charter. 1t looks at present
very much as though the university will
be unable to retain the fortune of near
" So, 900, 900 which was bequeathed it
by Mrs. McGraw Fiske, the daughter
Of one of its earliest benefactors. The
Fiske-McGraw mansion still stands
empty, and nearly all the rich tapestry
and works Of art were some time ago
taken to Italy by Professor Fiske. Ow-
ing to the present litigation nothing has
been done toward erecting the hospital
or the large library building which We're
contemplated.
The Rev. DR.. J. Parker, of London,
declares himself out of sympathy with
some of the common talk about the So
called out-cast poor OF London. He
says that many of the families which
are pitied for having to live in one
filthy ,unventilated room, neither ask or
deserve pity. In fact they prefer to live
in that way, and would do SO ifthey had
all heaven at their disposal. Dirt
he says, ."has its warm friends, even
amongst people not numbered amongst
the outcast poor. l say this to guard
benevolent persons against the notion
that dirt and ,poyerty are synonymous
terms. [ am given to understand that
even some Christians have a wonderful
likeness for anything slovenly and slip
shod; at least I have heard women
screaming to other people to hold the
fort and ring the bells of Heaven whose
stockings would have been the better
for q days darning.3
Chicago Times: The February earnings OF
the Chicago, Milwaukee d st. Panl and the Chi.
csgo a. Northwestern were greater than last
year, the former gaining ~ per cent, and the
latter15I per cent. But compared with 1SS2
the Eorthwestern's increase was only > per
cent, while the St Paul shows Il decsease of i
per conf These and most other we s.,,rn roads
had exceptionally large earnings ia ssarch last
year. Thus the St Paul earned 60 per cent
the Northwestern so per cent, the Omaha s.
per cont, the Burlington 46 per cent, the Hi
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