The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-02-29
Miscellaneous Matter.


it to Germany last summer, asked the
professor of twelve German UNIVERSE
ties: "Do you think that too many
young men are Studying at the univer-
s%itiesl' Almost uniformly the answer
was: "Ihere is no doubt of it" Ger
many" said n of the professors, sis
fostering the growth of a class of pro-
~fessionally educated men for whom
there is no room in the professions, and
who are too proudto go into business of
any sort. Result-poverty or suicide"
Engine No. 1877, on the Boston and
Albany Railroad, which draws a train
between Springfield and Boston, has
made the exceptional record of running
255 round trips without going to the
shops for a repair of any kind. 1t is O
large, new-model, high-pressure ma
chine, and is furnished with the Miller
coupler and buffer on the real of the
tender, in place of the old-fashioned
link-and-pin arrangement which was re-
tanned long after the patented affair was
adopted for passenger cars.
At the battle of Manassas the uni
form of the First Louisiana regiment of
confederate infantry was blue. Anoth-
er confederate regiment, installing
them for the enemy, began firing upon
them. An order was Immediately Civ
en- to the L~ouisianians to shuck their
coats and put them on inside out, and
the comical spectacle Of 800 men with
their coats all turned wrong put an end
for the time being to the pomp of war.
This was the first great reverse" that
befell the Louisiana troops in the war.
As compared with the year 1882, the
exports of 1888 from Sheffield to the
United States declined in value 50, 25O,-
900. This was chiefly due to the falling
off in steal rails, which were imported
in the previous year to the value of 49,
100000, and last year to less than one-
third Of that amount. Steel itself de-
clined $500, 900 and cutlery 800, 900.
One of the Sheffield firms has received
from the government, a contract for
$4,000 files per year, which is said to
be the largest file contracts aver given
to a single firm.
In a recent minstrel parade at Hart
ford, one of the drum majors tossed his
stick over IN electric lamp wire, thirty
feet from the ground, and caught it
when it came down, without losing step
or jostling his lordly bearing.
The Wentworth Falls, in New South
Wales, are reported to surpass Niagara
in beauty and grandeur. At first the
water leaps a distance of 700 feet, as
though falling over the back to the seat
OF a great armchair cut out of the face
OF the mountain. Falling in sprays, it
gathers itself for another run and leap,
the second time falling over 800 feet in
to the great gorge below. The fall is
so far and the foliage SO dense at the
foot that the eye fails to see the second
gathering place of the clouds of spray
glittering in the sunlight 1900 feet be-
low. The valley below the falls spreads
put into a great amphitheatre so miles
and hemmed in on every side
but Il with perpendicular mountain
walls.
The following is sent to the s'gossip"
by a distinguished divine, who must be
held responsible for its publication:
There are thousands in the world to
whom religion is that Mathew Arnold
sweetness and light" but there
are some, however, on whose natures
spiritual influences seem to have quite
a contrary effect. Some are never SO
vinegary as when they are most reli-
Dear" said a religio-shrewish
wife to her husband, isn't it time our
Amanda joined the church
got to be a grown-up young wom-
"Heavens-no!' said the husband;
lit is all we can do to get along now,
with your religion. If we had two such
Christians i'll the house it would be i'm
possible to live in TT
FIFTY years ago." said Earl Cairns
at a recent meeting Of the Church Mis-
society, London, eff a man had
been shipwrecked on some of the is
lands of the Pacific, he would have
been killed, cooked and eaten; whereas
if a man were shipwrecked there now
he would receive Christian hospitality.
Miss Gordon Cumming, who is not O
missionary, and who did not write for
the purpose of crying up missions,
declares that while in 1885 the people
Fejee We're c%annibals, there are now
400 churches and 1,400 schools there.
Lady Brassey writes that anybody who
Nc IN 500 %1,o 1,c4 -, 1.all~n
ism in Japan had better go. soon, as
they are rapidly giving place to Chris
tianity.'
An exchange reports that while in
Washington an Illinois man remarked
that he only saw two classes of people
there dressed alike, the Judges of the
Supreme Court and the walters at
Hotel.
At last weeks meeting Of the Massa.
chusetts Historical society President
Winthrop exhibited a necklace of gold
beads, which had been formed into q
bracelet, and which was originally worn
by an African female, slave, who was
the first of that race emancipated by
process of law under the Massachusetts,
bill of rights in 1888. This Judgment
in her favor was secured by Theodore
Sedgwick, speaker and senator in con
gress and a judge of the supreme court
of Massachusetts,, in whose family she
afterward became q nurse, and in whose
house in Stockbridge she died. Just
before her death she gave the necklace
to Miss Catherine NJ. Sedgwick, the
author, and it has been presented to
the society cabinet by MI. William
Minot.
Here is the latest from the New York
banker whose impediment in speech
never interrupts the flow of his humor:
He was met at the club by q friend who