The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-01-25
Current Notes.

not long since the phenomenal tide Of
the Bay of Funday carried up the Avon
river to Windsor a shoal of black fish, q
large number of which were stranded
in the mud and fell q prize to the IN
~habltanss. They were estimated at Sl0,-
DuC in value.
Cato's remark is worth remembering
in these days, when the first evidence
of respect to departed greatness is al
most invariably a statue. IT would pre-
Ter" said he, 'that people should in
iuire why had not a statue erected to
my memory than why l had"
There is, it seems, SAYS the kleptoma-
MAC of the New York Sun, an umbrella
that cannot be stolen. A genius has in
vented a detachable handle, upon with
drawing which the ribs are automaticai-
y locked. Replacing it unlocks them.
No two handles tit the same umbrella.
Fish c~ulturists will be interested in an
enormous pond-the largest in America
on a farm in the town of Riverhead,
Mass. I~tcovers i've acres. About two
thousand eels were put into the pond
tive wears, and their number has now
increased to millions. They are fed
regularly every third day on "horse.
ieet," a peculiar shell-fsh, and at neal
time a crack from their owners whip
will bring thousands Of them te the sur
face.
The London Spectator, referring to
Arctic explorations, cogently asks,
what of the mothers. the sisters and
the wives who are left left behind, and
who have to wait with patient anxiety
for years without a word from those
whom they love? 1t seems that the
only way bv which a minimum of sor-
row could be insured would be to pass a
law that none but orphan widowers
without children should be allowed to
Start Tor the arctic or aIitartlc pOle."
That "the bonanza kings want to
shake the wives of their youths and
marry others" is thus explained by The
Boston Post: You sec it takes one
kind ola wife to help make a fortune;
another to help spend it"
The young men of Council Blu ifs have
not been taking the girls there to the
theatre lately, and SO twenty-seven OF
them went to a recent entertainment
unescorted, and glared in unison at the
unlrcky youths, who withdrew in
shamefaced silence one by one.
A farmer at Sedalia, Mo-, who fire.
quently missed small sums of money,
dreamed that one of his servants, a
it in the mattress of her bed. The next
day the mattress was opened and the
money found. The girl has been trans.
ferred to Jail.
The public schools of South Ca rolina
the past year contained 74,157 white
and 9S,93s co ,ored pupils, making a to.
al OF l73,0D5. This is an increase OF
27.l27 over the previous year.
The openics Of large cotton mill and
the introduction Of the cotton manufac-
| ture IN Venice VAS the occasion Of 4
ceremony of Inauguration q few days
ago. in which the religious, civic and
military authorities, several senators
n de46ties, and q large number of
otht< persons invited took part. After
10 guests had been shown over the es-
Z adjustment and their attention special
y directed to the 500 horse power n
CINE for moving the machinery, Cardinal
Agostira, Patriarch of Venice, delivered
3 brief discourse and pronounceia ples-
sing on The building and the undertake
ing.
Sir Charles Murray, who has lately
been in Washington, was there fifty
years ago as q secretary of legation,
when Washington was a strags Cling and
one-horse town, and when he was able
to hunt over TIE adjacent territory ol
Maryland and Virginia. He travelled a
good deal, visited eve,y stste, spent {
wear with the PaWuee Indians an,