The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-05-15
PASSING EVENTS.
Nevada is to build a state prin!

DlegO, Cal.
The actual membership of the Nor
mon church is 1886.
The skating-rink fever has reached
the Sandwich islands.
Base ball clubs are being organized
throughout the country.
One ostrich egg makes a good pan
cake meal for three men.
There are %ninteen metals that are
worth about 81, 900 a pound
Tennessee farmers are at least one
month behind in their work.
This country controls three-quarters
of the corn-fields of the whole world.
Early fruit and vegetables in Missis-
sippi have been destroyed by a heavy
freeze. =
The value of wood used annually in
cooperage IN the United States is $685.
ia, TO.
Pleuro-pneumonia las broken out
among the cattle in the vicinity of
Marietta, Pa.
A poplar was feiled at White Fern,
Tenn, that made over ten thousand
feet of lumber.
There are $50 disabled ex-confeder-
ate soldiers living in the poorhouses
of North Carolina.
A Jacksonville, Fla, merchant has
disposed of ten thousand marbles with
in the past three weeks.
Thirty thousand writers are employ
ed on the fifteen hundred daily news
papers published in the United States.
A blue seal on a letter indicates love.
This is probably because when a man
is in love he is blue moro or less all
the time.
A Manitoba farmer who tills thirteen
thousand acres of land communicates
with his employees by the use Of the
telephone.
The legislature of Massachusetts re-
fused to permit \ woman preacher at
Nantucket to perform the marriage
ceremony.
1t is understood that, for several
causes, a comparatively small number
of Americans will go to Europe the
coming summer.
A Colleton county, South Carolina,
woman is Boosting OF the fact that
twenty-five hens Of her flock laid
forty-nine dozen eggs in ten weeks.
There are altogether some six hun
bred glaciers in Alaska, varying IN
size, but IN nearly every case having
dimensions far greater than any in
Switzerland.
Baltimore is to have an electric rail-
way between Huntingdon avenue and
the union passenger station. The cleo
trio conductor will be a third rail, and
the speed ten miles per hour.
Lawn-tennis is SAID to have brought
in, like rollcr-skating, a new and Pc
culiar disease. 1t is q rupture of a
muscle in the arm. The ailment has
already been dignitied by a name.
Western lumbermen are poking fun
at Tom Nast's picture in Harper's,
where a single span of horses are rep
resented as drawing a sled loaded
with fifteen large logs-a quite impos-
sible and improbable feat.
Near Chickasawhatchee, Ga, a line
OF earthworks can still be seen which
We're thrown up by Gen. jackson
(Old Hickory as 8 protection against
the Indians on his march to Florida
through that section in 1878. These
breastworks are scarcely %perceptible
on first sight, but by close observation
they a be traced.
The aggregate number of carloads
of peaches shipped out of Delaware
from 1867 to 1884 was SO 064, the
greatest year being 1875, with 9,O72
carloads, and the smallest. 1881, with
only IS. A carload is SO baskets.
The bulk of the crop is shipped by yes
sells to Baltimore. During the past
year evaporators have been erected
throughout Delaware and Maryland,
which are both profitable in them
selves and useful in preventing gluts
in the market. The crop for 1885
promises in both states to be large.
Hattie ketchum, a 5-year-old girl
living near Syracuse, N. Y. is said to
be hopelessly addicted to the use of
tooacco, and has been since she was 2
years old. When between l and 2
years of age the girl was afflicted with
what is known as wind collie, and at
the suggestion of a friend, tobacco
smoke was blown into milk and given
her. This remedy proved effective,
but created an uncomfortable desire
for tobacco, and by various subter-
fuges the child has ever since found
means to satisfy her craving for the
weed.
Every stop of a train costs money to
& railway company. Recent statistics
kept on a certain trunk line showed
that during a given year the $50
daily trains made 1000 extra stops
every twenty-four hours. the traffic
being largely suburban. Experiments
showed also that each stop cost AZ
cents, reckoned largely in extra time
to employees, who for that number of
stops put in the aggregate of $50 ex-
ira hours per day, making a total loss
to the company of nearly $780, 900 a
year.
The captain of a Mobile fishing
smack lately lost nearly all of his
catch in a singular tanner. He was
making for Mobile, and when twenty
miles distant encountered a large
quantity of drift timber, and while
passing through it noticed that the
water was almost crimson in color.
Shortly after he found that all the fish
IN his we'll were dead. Having a sup
ply of ice, however, he was able to
preserve seventeen hundred of the
rest of his fish. Whether the discol-
Grafton of the water was due to the
floating wood, and whether it was the
cause of the mortality, is a matter Of
doubt, but in 1873 the water in Mobile
bay was similarly affected, and nearly
all the fish in the bay at the time died.
How many persons have even a
rough idea of the average sun upon
which by far the largest part of the
citizens of the United States are fed,
clothed, and housedP A recent stat
istician estimates that 80 per cent.
of the population of this country is
supported by from As to so cents per
capita a day. At the latter figure