The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-06-27
Things in General.

C~alifornia's youth are going tothe bad
with alarming rapidity. Alloy of seven
teen, said to have been reared under
the best home influences, was n OF a
gang who lately robbed a stage coach
in Shasta county. and since then SIX
boy burglars, all sons OF respectable
parents, have been arrested IN Los
Angeles. They have probably been
feasting their i~maginations on dime
novels.
The Monitor Republican, of the City
of Mexico, commenting OF certain
criticisms of the Mexican government
by the New York Sun, to the effect
that it was republican only in form,
but not in reality, says unfortunately the
criticisms are true, and that the gov
eminent must rescue itself from the
marasmus into which it has fallen, and
return to the right path, if it does not
seek the death ofthe republic.
The other day a gaunt, hungry old
cat made her appearance on the plat
form at the top of Washington monu-
ment and went purring round among
the workmen. She had climbed up to
that dizzy height by the stairway. She
looked about her for q few moments,
and then gave a leap into space. four
hundred and thirty-four feet is a good
deal of aiump, but she landed on the
ground alive, making the greatest leap
on record.
Out of a total area of nearly 21,ooO,-
900 acres the woods and copses OF Ire
land are now less than $50 600 acres. In
Great Britain out of nearly 81 900, 00O
acres, $500 900 are thus returned.
Theforests of Europe are estimated to
cover 500 600, 900 acres, or nearly2 20 per
cent of the surface Of the Continent.
Bertram, in his Harvest Of the Sea-"
says that he counted the separate Eggs
in the roes of some of our fish. He
counted exactly$7 100000 eggs in q stur-
geon. In Goldfish he gives $4,000 0 in
founders, 1850, 900; in soles, 1,oe0, 500
and in mackerel, 500. 900. Where do the
fish go? But few of them go to the
tables as food. They have the delight
OF eating each other. The smaller pass
their time in guarding against the larger
fish eating them. Ii one-half survived
there would be no need of restoring our
shipping, as navigation would cease.
That lively old gossip, Mrs. Grundy,
finds abundant opportunity to use her
sharp tongue anent recent occurrences
in New York, as the following from her
sayings in the Mail and Express show
"That nowadays a good name is better
than great riches.n That it is very
difficult to find an sSpartmenthonse that
is not heavily mortgaged.' "That now
is u very good time to buy tirst-class
carriages and horses at second hand
prices" "'Tiiat hundreds of uptown
families have left town forgetting to is
sue their P. p. G. cards.
If a high functionary of the United
States were to visit Japan, or Siam, fol
instance, and the papers of those king
doms should refer TO the complexion OF
the distinguished visitor in terms of rid
icule, we should probably say that the
foreign press was not only ill-man-
nered, but licentious, in the sense OF
being unduly licensed. When the lead
ing American journals" get out to Siam,
if they eve do, and in some of them is
seen a description OF the complexion Of
the Sianlese Prince as being "a cross
between old gold and the color of g
brass KETTLE" possibly the Censo-
of the Royal Court of Siam, if there be
such a functionary, might report that
the press of the chief city of the Amer
lean Republic is semi barbarous.