The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-01-11
Offering Generalties.

The postal cards are made at Hol-
yoke, Mass, by forty men, who turn
out about 900, 900 daily. They have
diminished the consumption of writing
paper by from $l2,000,0O 70 to SIS, 600 COO
a year.
Lord Dufferin thinks he can keep the
peace in Egypt with 6,l47 soldiers and
$500 gendarmes, differed with asprink-
ling OF Europeans, at a cost of s., 500, 600;
provided it is clearly understood Eng
land will interfere upon Il row arising
with her fleet and batter down a city CT
two.
The last st. Louis story about the Chi
cago girl is really too bad. 1t says that
she insisted upon throwing her shoe al
ter a newly married couple. The car
rage is a total wreck, the bride is in the
hands of n doctor, and the groom was
with difficulty dug out from under the
ruins.
Eye peeping" is now the %favorite
games for evenings. Two holes are
made in a screen, against which some
person hidden behind places his eyes,
and the audience in front have to guess
to whom the eyes belong.
Great distances have been cleared by
some of the English horses. Chandler
cleared thirty.nine feet overa brook at
Warwick; Calverthorpe, thirty-three
feet over hurdles; King of the Valley,
thirty-five feet yer the Wissedine brook
in Leicestershire; Lottery, thirty-four
feet at Liverpool; Peter Simple, thirty
seven feet.
Judge Gresham, the new postmaster
general, used q crutch for several years
after the close of the war, but now he
can get along with a cane. A bullet
plowed a deep turrow in his leg at the
battle of Peach Tree Creek, before At
lanta.
In the Practitioner, a doctor relates a
history Of the course Of disease in a fam
lily, which illustrates, if it does not de-
monstrate the transmissibillty OF
Brieht's disease. A woman two of
whose brothers had died of this disease
in early manhood, who herself died of
it when sixty years of age, was the
mother of twelve children, seven OF
whom also died from it, and grandchil-
dren of whom two at least are effected
with kidney disease.
Eleven thousand newspapers and ne.
riodicals are published in the United
States. New York has the largest mum
Der of any stHte, viz: AL, and next
| comes Illinois with 1917. Peanssiya-
| nia ranks third with 973, and afterward,
in order,s.are Ohio, Iowa and Missouri.
Six hundred and forty of these papers
are published in German, forty.nine in
Danish and Scandinavian, and forty-one
in French. There are five Welsh pa.
pers, three Chinese, three Indian and
n in irish.
The Bath (Me.) Times tells this story:
"a middle-aged gentleman an ev-
ening or two since was passing along
the street when he met a young man
who TO- a moment lie thought was one
OF his acquaintance, bat on looking
more closely 1t proved to be some one
else. The diminutive youth was walk
ing with a lady, and resenting what he
tancied was u~nwarrantcd Starring, he
snapped out: Well, / hope you'll know
me the next time you see me- Don't
KNOW replied the elderly man, Knight
know you now, if had my glasses on.
If you hadn't spoken l wouldn't have
known You were there"
The proficiency attained by the col
ored gentleman who have charge of the
hat room in large hotels ia often sur
prislng. They will pass out two hundred
chapeauX without making a single kmis-
take. A young man from Buffalo saws
the Commercial was SO impressed with
the performance at a New York hotel
the other day that. in a tone of respect
ful admiration he asked the pheno,ne-
0 how he knew it was his hat. "\Ncli.
sab" was the brisk response, 81 couldn't
sswar de hat was yourn. sab. J. only
know it was de hat you gave me- The
bystanders smiled and the youthful Buff
%faionian stopped the invest iea,ion.
In ali the royal palaces in England a
most careful distinction is made between
state property, which descends from n
sovereign to another, and private prop
erty. At present almost ev cry thing
at Balmorai and Osborne belongs to the
Queen herself, but, excepting a few pic
lures and statues, she has no personal
property at either Windsor or Bucking-
ham Palace.
The main building for the Southern
Exposition, which opens at Louisville,
KY, OF the lst of August, is now in a
sufficiently advanced state of construc-
ton to give some idea of its proportions.
1t will be one of the largest of the kind
ever built, covering an area of 677 400
square feet, being inferior only to the
main buildings at the London Exposition
of 1851 and 1862, and the Centennial Elk.
position.