The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-11-13
USEFUL AND PLEASANT.

ued at S., pa, ,02l.44.
Santa Barbara, Cal, is crowded with
winter pleasure-seekers.
The Current Fact is new republican
weekly started at Cincinnati.
Boston has thirty-seven residents as
sessed at over $1,000, 900 each.
There were fifteen hundred roller
skating-rinks built during 1884.
A league is being formed to restore
the temporal power of the pope.
The amount contributed to the Ga--
field monument fund is S132,399.
There is a great boom in rubber
shoes. The boom wears all sizes.
There are only 219 native-born pris.
oncrs in the California state prison.
Alaska is larger than all of the
United States east Of the Mississippi
river.
The new catalogue of Oberlin col
lege, o., contains the names of 1874
students.
The Civil- Service Retormer is new
and neatly-printed monthly paper in
Baltimore.
A Norwich, Conn, lady has ba-
mana plant on which several bananas
are now ripeniny.
There are 623 newspapers and peri
odicals published in foreign languages
in the United States.
A Panama Spanlard rubbed himself
with alcohol, lighted cigrette, and
burned himself to death.
The new pension building courtyard
will accommodate from ten to twelve
thousand guests at the inaugural ball.
just sixteen years ago the interest
on the national debt amounted to
S143,0O0,OO0 year. 1t is now $685.
100000.
A box of mortar from the walls of a
Catholic chapel in Ireland is effecting
(they say) many miraculous cures at
Wheeling, w. Va.
California has no asylum for the
blind, but the state legislature, at its
coming session, will consider the pro-
ject Of building one.
In America we call men who dabble
in dynamite 'dynamiters. Canadian
papers call them "dynamiteurs, and
the English press refers to them as
"dynamitards.
Things were made rather lively in
the San Francisco postofiice week or
so ago by the escape of number OF
bees from package which was re-
ccived in the mail.
Rents in New York and Brooklyn
will certainly, it is said, come down in
April. Overbuilding and dull trade
will be the principal arguments by
renters in favor of the reduction.
A bounty of 81 per head for each
wolf destroyed in northwest Cana ada is
now being paid by ranchmen in that
section, who have suffered considera
BILE loss lately by the ravages of these
animals.
In the last six years the native pop.
ulatiop of Hawaii has diminished foul
thousand, and the government is en-.
gagged in a frantic effort to save itself
from extinction by the importation Of
foreign races.
"Just year ago." said a New
hampshire man, my brother dropped
dead on this spot of apoplexv. Ton
was--' But at this point he wen
to join his brother, dropping dead Of
the same ailment.
A cattle-raser of Churchill county
Nevada. began business twenty year
ago with Durham COW, for which h,
paid $500. He has sold descendants
from her for $50, 900 and has $1O,OOt
worth of the same stock left.
A lemon tree at Marysville, Cal.
has on it buds just forming, buds part
ly formed, buds ready to burst will
bloom, and full-blown blossoms The1
: comes series of lemons. in regula
graduation, from the tiniest up to
mammoth in size.
The wine product of California il
increasing faster than the consump
ton, and though wine, unlike othel
products, does not deteriorate, but i'm
!, proves with age, says The Alta Cali
tornia, the disproportion can not con
tlnue a great many years without ex
citing serious fears.
, The books printed in the South dur
ing the war are now in demand among
collectors. One of these was spell
ing-book, pr.nted on common wall
paper. Another, more ambitious, wa
f illustrated with the old trade cut
, found in newspaper offices, producin,
Il comical effect. Upon the title pag
, is the legend: "Printed in the Fourtl
|: Year of the War of Independence.
The number of students in the scnoo
, of industrial science of the Massachu
, sets institute of Technology for tn
year lSS4-5 $40, against 443 for the pre-
t ceding year. The number has steadil
e grown from ~ in 1866. This yea
t the students are from SO states, ter
] ritory. the District of Columbia, G
: the British provinces, Scotland, Cuba
r Japan, South America and India.
The ileXibility of itacolumite "a re
: markable sandstone existing in Georgi
and North and South Carolina-seem
u u to be surpassed by that of magnesia
u limo stone found at the entrance of tn
> Tyne, in England. This limestone
reported to be SO flexible that thin lay
u ers three feet or more in length ma
be bent into circle while damp. re
' tanning that form on being allowed t
dry.
If piece of sheet iron is cut tn
;. same size as the inside of the CRATE
= and laid on the bars which constitut
that bottom, most fireplaces will bur
: Just as we'll. less heat will be drive
:. up the chimney, and less coal will b
y burnt. The chimney must, of cours.
:. not be one liable to smoke; the rool
:. must have fairly good draught, an
the treplaces which answer be.
= are those hich are the oppo ite sid
of the room from the door.
n A woodenware mandatory starte
: in San Francisco three years ago
n still the only factory of its kind on tf
;. Pacific coast, but it has managed ,
aimust wholly shut off the importatio