The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-07
PASSING EVENTS.
The total state school fund OF Geor-
u;a in 1884 ,voS S5nS AKA

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Nearly one-half the entire popula-
ton of Buffalo is of Teutonic origin.
Corn has gone up 25 per cent. in
Monterey, Mexico, in the last few days.
One-tifth of the legal voters of Mas
sachuset,s are vetrans of The civil war.
The construction of n hotel costing
$4,000 Is on the tapisin Washington.
The northwestern lumber resources
have decreased 25 per cent. in the last
year.
A dude has been defined in an At
lanta court as "a fellow who is mash
ed on himself"
Mrs. Black Bear, a Piegan squaw,
died at the Blackfeet reservation,
Montana, aged l24 years.
The first bee-tree ever found in east
ern Washington territory was discoy-
ed few days ago near the Touchit.
"a frisk," is the fashionable
name for a ball IN Philadelphia, and
a theater. party of buds is Il 'dove
party"
new industry in Portland is the
making of cigar-boXes from Oregon
lumber, instead of the imported Span
ish cedar.
A lawyer named Scipio Africanus
Kenner is under arrest at Salt Lake
City, charged with stealing ten thou
sand brick.
A statue of Moses in the Bullrushes.
by Herman Klein, is to be placed at
the lily pond in Paramount park,
Philadelphia.
Large tlocks Of blackbirds in Los
Angeles county, California, are prov
ing a check 10 the depredations of
grasshoppers.
The Dominion government has re-
duced the tax on timber in British
Columbia to Is cents q tree or 20 cents
per one thousand. .
Salmon at 20 cents a pound at Full
ton market enabled more people to
taste that choice fish than has been
possible for years.
The Washington territory Grand
lodge of Masons has declared retail
liquor dealers ineligible to member
ship in the order.
The population of Macon, Ga. was
$4,000 according to the United States
census in 1850, and is now 25, 900 ac-
cording to the directory census.
An Italalian ship has been sheathed
with glass plates, to take the place of
copper sheathing. The joints are
made tight by the use of mastic.
Bicycling isnow utilized for wedding
journeys. The bride rides the tricycle.
and the groom the bicycle, or, more
easily, both ride the sociable tricycle..
Next to Senator Stanford's large
vineyard at Vina. Cal, Los Angeles
claims 10 have the largest in the
world, covering three thousand acres.
The toy pistol has ended its deadly
Fourth of July work in Pennsylvania,
according TO the decree of the legisla-
ture. and the parents of small boys are
rejoicing ut the ban.
An elevated railroad train was de-
layed a minute in New Yord owing to
the fringe on 4 lady passengers dress
becoming entangled with the button
on q brakeman's coat.
A novel game of baseball Will be
played at Carlton, Yamhlll county,
Oregon, at an early day. Nine young
ladies will play nine gentlemen, who
must be over 80 years of age.
An exchange states that if a castor
oil plant is kept growing in a room,
mosquitoes. dies, and other pests will
not enter, or il they should they are
soon found dead beneath the leaves.
Fifteen tons of grasshoppers. com
prising. it is estimated, so, 900, 900
separate insects. were captured at the
Natoma vineyard, near Folsom, Cal.
by drowning in the irrigating bitches.
Strawberry shortcake has been
served out to all the prisoners IN the
Arkansas ~penitentiary, despite the
provisions of the constitution concern
ing cruel and unusual punishment.
One juror in Clarke county, Georgia,
has caused no less than twenty mis-.
trials, and now it is proposed to leave
his name and those OF other men who
have acted in the same manne out of
the jury lists.
The Columbia Indians in Harvey
valley, Oregon, are much incensea
over the recent killing by white men
of two Indian horse-thieves, and they
are reported TO be holding war dances.
The neighboring whites are alarmed.
In an account of the war between
the fishermen of New Jersey and Della
ware The Cleveland Leader remarks in
an otfhant name that New Jersey
had better annex the three counties Of
Delaware, that is to say,-the whole
state.
There IS q Hotel Boston in New
York, opposite the Central park, which
has alight sandstone front ornamented
with blue trimmings, as if to indicate
the blue blood which is proverblally
associated with the first circles OF the
Hub"
A New Hampshire court has lately
decided that a physicians horse and
buggy are tools" and as such are
exempt from seizure for debt when
they are necessary to enable him to
practice his profession with reasonable
success.
A curious statistical fact has been
discovered. There are twelve thous-
and stamp collectors among children
of the New York public schools. and
many dealers in stamps. The coilec-
tors Of buttons, old coins, and other
small bric-a-brac were not enumer-
ated.
According to BIZ Nye, the sign of
distress for a Maine man in search of a
drink is, close your right eye, hook
your right foot around and back OF
your left leg, with the left hand exc
cute the celebrated gesture of Sam'l OF
Posen, and place the right hand on the
stomach.
The Robbins family at Green's Land
ing. Hancock county, Me-, includes a
boy p years OF age. who weighs but
lhirty-three pounds. He talks, walks,
looks, and acts like a grown man, and
is about the height of acommon Swear
old child. His parents have had sever.
al offers for him, but they will not let
him go or exhibition for fear someone
| will steal him.