The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-04-11
"A Variety of Things.

& q a Variety of Things.
Jennie June says it takes $4,000 a
year TO live in any style in New York,
FdSnceofa all Eusopsafis countries has
The largest percentage of electors to the
papulssion. 1855 to every 100 inhabi-
ttnts Switzerland with %, IS, stands
secHEaS GermkHy third, with 20,08,
Denmark fourth, with Is, 16; England
fifth, with $50.
A son Of Senator Arkell of Canajoha.
RE, N. Y, has just effected the pur-
chase of the Albany Evening Journal.
The Psychological Journal gives the
increase of the number Of insane per-
sons in the United States at,..from 1850
to 1860, 8,432; 1860 to 1870, {, 1880;
1870 to 1880, 81, 565. The whole num-
IDIOTS, 70, ST. atsl More n ts saTeo oa 3 saispe
mot unaas icspitsIatreatfnent;
The. chemist o, tie PhiladssphiaGa Gall
aafgues Tat wVhile Gnbolted -four may be
harder to digest than bolted flour, a
boated meal certainly presents more di-
gestive difficulties than an unbolted
one.
An English tourist says that most of
the hard wood shipped from this coun-
try to Scotland is converted into pape
folders and other trinkets and sent
pack to us rs souviners from the house
III which Burns was born or died, or
the tree under which Walter Scott
wrote some of his most brilliant gems.
Treasury department statistics show
shipments of petroleum abroad during
tho month Of January Of the value of
$3,2S5, 1888. and for the seven months of
the fiscal year ending January 81 Of
$50 ,910,516.
II kas Isea demonstrated in Phila-
'NelThia thatstsleT1ost satisfactory elec
trio lights are those supplied by under
ground cables. The flame is steadier
and the illumination more brilliant.
This result must greatly strengthen tho
probability of an early removal of all
the aerial lines.
A steamer with a cargo of 5000 bales
of cotton, sailed from New York a day
or two ago en- route to China, by the
ywayf of-sha Suegx Canalsg This is the
.hists time sa. freightedA Ainerican ship
will have passed through the canal.
The roll of the British lords, temper
Ill aud spiritual, has Just been Issued, us
Is usual dit Tire beginning of new SEES
sion of parliament. 1t contains the
names Of 522, or rather SIT, peers, five
.Uf hesanembers of the government
being mentioned both in the places to
which their Offices entitle them and ac-
cording to the dates of the creation of
their titles. The youngest peers, in
point of creation, are Bramwell, Fitz-
gerald, Alcester, Wolseley, Selborne
%(earldom), and Tennyson.
Mrs. Daniel O'Conneu, wife Of the
Liberator's only surviving son., gave a
fancy dress ball in London lately, at
which her son appeared dresssd in legal
similar to that worrr by his grand
father, to whom she presented a mar
velcus resemblance.
A class in cooking has been formed at
Providence, and the Journal predicts
that the result "will probably be that q
goodly number of young wives and
housekeepers will discover II new inter
est in the common and to many hum
l,,,, m ,,,,+t1y, ~f lc,,,ahD AN,1,,.~ - -, =
that it is reallyfanart, capable OF almost
unlimited expansion, to the gratifica-
ton OF many q weary husbands palate,
who will perhaps thus discover a new
and hitherto hidden source Of attraction
in his home and in the wife who is so i'm
portant a factor in making it what it
really should be-" .
Railroad communication will soon
knock over any fancy ideas we may en-
terrain in regard to Mexico. Speaking
of Mexican women, a traveller says that
the daughters of the wealthy pass their
lives in vacuity those of the poor are
half fed and dressed, and nearly alllook
hunger bitten and badly DEVELOPED.
They are completely without shape.
The health Of the higher class Of women
is wretchedly poor. A plump, healthy
woman lisa rarity. The picture SC! often
seen on the cigar boxes Of 9 beautiful
senorita, swinging i'll voluptuons Ian
guor, in afhammock, Isl pictorial fraud.
The average Mexican senorita is SO
feeble tlmt she would break her neck
getting into q hammock. 'aH M'
Alice Stone blackwell, who writes in
the Boston Heraldthat tile services com
monty rendered by wives are considered
worth mach more thansboard and lodg-
ing when they have to. be performed
by q hired servant, further remarks
aIn 1880 there were i the United States,
according to the censris, 9,,945s9l6 fam
Hiss, and only 1,075,6 domestic ser
wants. Thus only about one family in
mime could keeps Servant, even if no
family Kept more than one. The great
majority Of wives do their own work"
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Dancing, in Philadelphia
The bellies Of Philsdelplia are what
are known as dancing girls" and not
on1y bapin yoI1no hut keen IL mn late