The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-10-03
Things in Genera !.

SeN Tim E
The new Italian war-ship, the Rug
eiero di LAURA, will carry four loo-ton
guns, ten four-ton guns, twelve large
mitrailleuses, and two guns Of htte cen
centimeters at the bow and stern. hef
engines will be of 5,000-horse power
Her keel was laid in September, 1851,
and she will cost 20,000,0OO francs.
| She il named after q celebrated Cala-
brian Admiral. the first of whose many
victories was the battle-.of Malta, 10
1888. t.
There is no demand for landed prop
erty in England. Recently the Mid
dleham estate, comprising about l,S7o
acres in the North Riding Of Yorkshire,
Rraithwaite Old Hall and the ruins OF
Middleham Castle, was put up Tor auc-
ton at York. The rent-roll OF the es'
tate is g2, 300 year, and it was first OF
fered as a whole. No one, however,
/ could be induced to bid e6O,Ooo, nj IL
was withdrawn. Subsequently the Prep
erty was put up in several lots, but not
a single field found a purchaser. The
| Boscastle estate in Cornwall, which IN
| cludes the whole town OF Boscastle,
was also offered for sale, but that too
was withdrawn.
The word fudge" has q positive per-
sonality underlying it. Such it is, at
least, if Disraeli's account be authentic.
He quotes from q very old pamphlet
entitled "Remarks Upon the Navy"
wherein the author says: "There was
in our time one Captain Fudge, COM
mander of u merchantmen, who, upon
his return from his voyage how i'll
fraught soever his ship was, always
brought home his owners a good crop
of lies, so much that now, aboard ship,
the sailors, when they hear q great lie
told, cry out, You fudge itr The ship
was the Black Eagle, the time that OF
Charles IL"
In Austro- Hungary every newspaper
appearing more than twice a month has
to deposit caution money if politics are
treated or mentioned. For Vienna and
surroundings this deposit is fixed at 3d.
900; for towns Of GO, 900 inhabitants, at
So, 900: for towns of 10000 inhabitants,
at So, 900, and for all other places, $1,000;
but papers only appearing three times
q week need only pay half the amount.
BY infringement of the press laws the
caution-money may be partially or who'll
ly forfeited, and all files are levied on
the amount, which has again to be made
up to original sum if the papers are to,
go On. s ..ItYnseG
The Lord Bishop of Rochester, Eng
land, who is now in this country en-
gagged in temperance work, frequently
emphasizes the fact that he is not q
Prohibitionist. 81 do not believe" he
says, "in laws which propose absolutely
to suppress the liquor business, but
which invariably fail of their purpose,
and only serve to bring all law into m
tempt. l an for restrictive legislation.
1 favor high License, because it Restraints
the liquor business and does away with
many Of its horrors"
Among forty-four American cities the
death rate of which is published in the
Sanitarian, Lynchburg, Va, leads the
list in percentage of mortality. In the
five weeks ending March 90, 1884,
the deaths in this little city were
at the annual rate of COS per thousand,
or nearly twice that of New Orleans
during the same time. In the four
weeks ending April 26. 1884, the
deaths were at the annual rate of SO per
1000, and in the four weeks preceding
May 81 had sunk to the rate of As. In
New Orleans, certainly the most insaln-
brious of the large cities of the Union.
the death rates for the same terms of
four weeks were 30.1 and 1856. respect
lively. Lynchburg is said to be finely
situated On steep declivity on the right
bank of James River.
A man in Forest Hill, California,
possessed what might be termed a pat
ent elastic stomach. He could not eat
anything without ~nauseating him, and
as for quantity it was never known OK
actly how much his stomach would
hold. On one occasion it is said, he
ate eight small cans of oysters, several
cans of peaches, besides crackers
cheese and bologna in proportion, and,
washed it down with eight or ten glasses
OF beer. and then %afterward, when
asked, to sing a song, he wanted to
know whether they expected him to
sing on an empty stomach. It is said also
TINT he would sometimes catch flies and
eat them down by the handful Just to
show what he could do. At one time
he ate a mouse, head. ears and hair, on
a wager Of 81. so.