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The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-14
The first Watch.

At first the ~watchwas about the size
of a dessert plate. 1t had weights and
was used as q ''pocket clock" The
earliest known use OF modern names
occurs in the record of 1862, which
mentions that Edward VI. had zone
larum or watch OF iron, the case being
likewise OF iron gilt, with two plum
NETS OF lead" The first watch may
readily be supposed to have been OF
rudeexecution. The first great improve
ment-the substitution of springs for
weights-was in 1860. The earliest
springs We're not coiled, but only
straight pieces o~fsteel. EARLY watches
had only one hand, and being wound
up twice a day they could not be ex
pected to keep the time nearer than
fifteen or twenty MINUTES in twelve
hours. The dials were of silver and
brass, the cases had no crystals, but
opened at the back and front, and
were four or five inches in diameter.
A plain watch costmore than 81, 500
and after n was ordered it took a
year to make it.
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Avigorous Young Century Plant.

Sacramento Union.
At the residence OF J. P. Odbert,
the Sacramento County Hospital,
is q century plant-not one hundred
years old, but twenty-tiv eyears-which
has recently sent up its stem for bios
som, and marking the early termina-
ton OF the plants life. The stem is
forty-four feet in height and a foot in
diameter at the base. This is said to
be probably the largest snd tallest
stem that has ever been Len in this
vicinity, sent up by II of these
peculiar plants. 1t has been but a
short time since the preparation for
blossom first appeared, and a growth
in twenty-one days of nine feet nine
inches was observed by actual meas
urement.
The century plant (Agave Ameri-
cana) is aspecie ofaloe, and SO named
from its formerly being supposed to
live n hundred years before blossom
ing; that it then died, and remained in
dormant germ another hundred years,
and then grew again. Thislast idea is,
oscourse, a mere fancy, and the first
is incorrect, as the plant natures by
sending forth its stem, and blossoms
IN from ten to seventy years, accord.
ing to climate. In the tropics it will
often blossom and die in ten or eleven
years. Theheight given by botanists to
which these stems grow is forty feet,
but the n at Mr.. Odbert's has reach
ed four feet higher.
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Fargo special.-seems probable that

Fargo special.-Seems probable that
the territorial encampment will be
heid at Huron. Gov. Pierce has left
the location to Mai. Gen. Dennis, Adit.
zen. Free militia officers. Gen.
Free has, it is understood, made acal.
culation of the expense OF the gather
ing, and states thatit will cost 81, 900
Tess TO transport the militia to and
rom Huron than any other point in
the territory.
John Gilbert of Sioux Falls, who
went to Canton with a party to play
ball, attempted to get off the train
Whlle 1T was moving, vas thrown un-
der n trucks and so badly mangled
that hedied soon after.
George Grequrson, living near Can
ton, was killed by lightning.
Forty clerks are employed at the
capital at Bismarck, copying and
compiling census returns of North Da-
kota, under the superintendent OF
May. Edwards OF Fargo. The south
dakota returns are not all in yet, but
Edwards claims the total population
OF the territory exceeds 40O,O 900, OF
which upwards of $50, 600 is in north
Dakota-more than the population
OF all Dakota five years ago.
John Novoak of Bonhomm county,
a Bohemian, killed his wife and chen
blew his own brains out. Domestic
lnfellclty Is supposed to have been the
cause. He made his will beforehand
and meant business. He leaves chill
dren by a former wife and was incom-
PORTABLE circumstances.
Two men were drowned in the Mis-
souri, river, twenty miles north of
Bismarck. The men were John Wal
tiers n William Burton, who had
been living by hunting and wood chop
ping on the banks OF the river.
Thomas Gibson OF st. Joseph, Penn
bina county, whiletemporarily insane,
drowned himself in the Pembina river.
Arthur PICARD, aged eleven years,
was drowned at Jamestown by falling
from q boat.
Alfonso Gray, amalgamator for the
Homestake company, dropped dead
at Lead City.
The crop reports received from Nc
Pherson, Mcintosh and Campbell
counties Indicate favorable harvest
yields for the Russian colonists To-
Gated in that region, and an increased
immigration from the cars domains
next seaSon as a result.
Thecommissioners of Morton county
offer q reward of S1GO forinformation
leading to the conviction of any person
setting out q prairie fire i'll that coun-
ty.
The three fatal cases OF small-poxat
Scotland are claimed tohave exhaust
ed the disease in that locality, a thor
oush quarantine having prevented the
spread OF the c%ontagion beyond the
immediate locality in which it APP.
peared.
f. H. Wells, superintendent OF Indian
schools at Fort Berthold, was sum-
marily bounced a few days ago by In
dian Agent Clifford.
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Hornets and Honey Bees Fight.

Cosby Farmer, in the Baltimore Herald.
The most remarkable and exciting
scene | ever W itnessed was q fight be.
tween a swarm of bees and a colony OF
hornets. Hornets, as you may know,
build their nests out of q materialnot
unlike paper, which is nodded into
ccncentric layers. The nests often at
tain the size OF a mans head, and are
occupied by about 200 hornets. One
day a swarm Of beestook a hightfrom
a beehive of my fathers, and made
it's way through q peach orchard for
a piece of underbrush about 200 yards
from the hive. We pursued with tin
pans, ~andbrought the fleeingbees to a
stop. They alighted oman apparently
deserted nest OF hornets. 1t took
about two seconds for the 2OOhornets
to come out OF their den and attack
the invaders. The battle was hot and
furious. The air was filled with apro-
lonsed buzz as the combatants flew at
each other and triedt to use their stings,
A great many on each side were killed,
but the hornets carried the day.
After the queen had been killed hei
army was put to lout.
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The Markets..
DuLUrH;-whcat, No. 1 hard, esge

DuLUrH:-Wheat, No. 1 hard, 9sgc.
CHIcAGo-Wheat, No. 2 spring, sly
No. spring 10 to Soc No. 2 red, 80 to 93c.;
No. red 81 to S7Ec. Corn, cash, 454to45Sc.
Oats, cash ,25sc. Flaxseed, No. Mess
Pork, $1,000 to S1o,12. Lard, cash, S6.65.
MlLwAuKEE-Wheat, cash, SIC. Corn,
No.2, 45c. Oats, No. 2, 2Sc. Rye, No.
!, So. Barley, No. 2, 4oc. Pork, S1o.O7.
Lard, $6.57. Butter, dairy, IL to 13c.
Cheese, 7toSc. Eggs, IL to12c.
Observation-Disclosures, No. l hard, 92c.;
No. 2 hard, S9sc.: No. 1 regular, S2kc.
Corn, rejected, 44c. Oats, 30to31c. Bran,
$500 to 1928. Hay, No. 1 timothy, SIC
to S12.
ST. PAuI-wheat, No.1hard, e2c.; No.
hard, SEC; No. 2, 75c. Corn, No. 2, Acc.
Oats, No. 2, mixed, 3Ol5c.; Mop, white, 32c.
No. 3 white, 3lbc. Barley No. 2, 54c.;No
3, extra, 54c.; No. 3, 40c. Rye, 40. 2, 4Sc.
Hay, baled, $500; timothy $11.o0.
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Daring BurGlaries In st. Paul.

About one O'Clock, Sunday morning, the
End inst, the elegant residence on Summit
Avenue st. Paul of Thomas +. Oakes, vice
president OF the Northern Pacific Railroad
company was broken into by a burglar,
who cutting away the screens OF Il window
that WAS raised in the rear of the
house, made his way through the differ
emit halls and rooms OF the house into a
room adjoining Mr.. Cakes sleeping apart
ments. He had Just begun to ransack the
room for %valuables, when Mr.. Cakes awoke,
and hearing him, got up and come out into
the hall, where the invader met him, and
clinched him with a deadly struggle. The
burglar finally broke loose and escaped by
a door he had left open, after firing two in
effectual shots at Mr.. Cakes. Between IL
and l. Monday morning the residence OF
Hon. William r. Merriam, at the head of
Robert street was broken into by a burglar,
answering the description of the mar who
broke into Thomas f. Cakes house
on Sunday morning. The burglar
on entering the house by a window in the
rear, passed through helalls, until he came
to Mr.. Merriam's bed room door, where he
madea slight noise. This awakened Mr..
Merriam, who, upon opening the doorfound
himself confronted by a cleaning revolver
in the hand OF Il masked man. The burglar
commanded silence and possessed himself of
Mr.. Merriam's gold watch and diamond stud
and 50 in money and made good his re.
treat.
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Everybody's Air-Brake,

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lie same year alters comes on de same
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.aci " iilos1 H~lcfeluious person.
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The White House will be painted and re-
frescoed during the presidents absence.
The net profits OF the Canadian Pacific
railway from Jan l to June 80 were ST.
114,0O0.
The wife OF Senior Gomez, of the Brazilian
delegation at Washington, is q niece OF Mrs.
Congressman Hill.
About 1000 miners employed in thirteen
mines in the Massillon district, Ohio, strike
because OF II reduction in wages.
The recent fire at Cardenas. Cuba. de-
stroyed property to the amount ofS1, O0O,-
oo0 half OF which Was merchandise.
Twenty orthirty books about Gen. Grant
are in course OF preparation and printing,
ready to be hurled at the public after the
funeral.
Conductor King of Harvard. Ill.,, was ac-
cidentally thrown from a train, run over
and killed near Harvard. He wa twenty
five years old, and unmarried.
in Grants honor later in the year. and it
is probable that Concling, Boutwell, and
Logan will be the orators of the occasion.
Secretary Manning appoints n special
commission to examine into the habits of
clerks in the New York customs office, who.
in spite OF meager salaries, manage to live
like lords.
At Chicago, Mrs. Mary Ellen Cunningham
is sentenced to jail for contempt of court in
refusing to disclose the whereabouts of her
daughter, to be sent as a ward OF the court
to - Catholic school.
Latest reports from the South Yellow
stone cattle ranges say that g~rasshoppers
are sweeping over the country in greatnum-
bers. Their visit, however, has been too
late to do much damage, rs the grass is
well on the way to curing.
At Rock Island L. D.. Dimick, young and
heretofore respected livery stable keeper,
eloped with Il d~isreputable eharacternamcd
Maud ferret, taking with him property be
longing to his father, o. j. Dimick, who was
absent in Chicago, to the extent OF about
$4,000, such as landaus and horses.
The latest society sensation in London is
caused by the announcement that Lord
Chief Justice Coleridge is about to marry
an American LADY, whom he first met on
the steamer on which he returned from the
United States three years ago, and who
threatened to bring an action for breach OF
promise If he did not marry her. Society
is very much agitated over the approach
ing event, and his lordship's sons and
daughters are said to be very angry.
Stanley Huntley, n popular writer for
/ the press, and author OF the .'Spoopendyke
Papers," died last Friday night the
31st inst, at his residence on Forty-ffth
street New York. The deati, of Mr.. Hunt.
ley has for some months been anticipated
by his more intimate ~acopaintances. His
health, never at any time robust, had OF
late years been declining, and he vas forced
to abandon the journalistic work which had
wonhim no little reputation.
William Neff, employed at the Telephone
mine, at Georgetown, Colo, suiclded in n
novel manner. Complaining Of being III,
Neif went to his cabin, lay down on the
floor and placed a stick OF giant powder,
cap and fuse attached. under his head. lie
lighted the fuse, and the shot blew his head
entirely from the body.
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Pursuant to the order ofGov. Pierce,
t~hirty-fve convicts were removedfrom
the territorial p~enitentiary ut Yank-
ton and placed on board the train on
the Southern Minnesotaroad, enroute
to the Bismarck ~penitentiary. The
sheriffs OF several North Dakota coun-
ties participated in the removal.
Frank N. Harwood was sun-struck
in the harvest field at Huron, and
died in a few minutes. The mercury
at Huron was 1O3-at Yankton 1O4
Mitchell no, in some hot places.
Bismarck Journal: Manager c. NJ.
Cushman commenced cutting oats a
few days ago on the farm of ex-Presi-
dent R. B. Hayes, lying six miles north
OF Bismarck The farmcomprises 500
acres, of which 300 is in wheat, 24O in
oats and 60 in barley. The indica-
lions point to an unusually good crop
the best for many years.
Sioux Falls had a popNlation of
1927 in 1850 and the censusjust TAX
en- shows that it has more than dou-
bled, having, on June l, 5,OO5 people
within its corporate limits.
Sully county has an assessed valua-
ton OF S771, O29, OF which $3.50, TOT
is on real estate and S211,2S2 on per-
sonal property.
Many farmers in the vicinity Of
Brookings report serious injury to
barley from the severe frost in June.
Judge Edserton will hold a term of
court in Douglas county about Aug.
90.
w. A. Hallowell is the richest man
in Dawson county.
Stewards saw mill in Boulder Park,
four miles east OF Deadwood, was de-
stroyed by fire. Two million feet OF
lumber near by wassaved. Loss, So
600; no insurance.
Mr.. Dalrymple calculates on getting
II 1-2 bushels an acre from the 3d.
900 acres in which he is interested, or
atotal of $4,000 bushels. The har-
vest will in about two
weeks.
The published accounts OF the terri
BILE calamity which has befallen the
people OF Hyde county, have not only
not ~overstated the loss. but have
hardly given a correct idea OF it, SO
says a relief committee in st. Paul.
The village of Holabird with a popu-
lation of 200) was almost totally de-
stroyed. The town OF Highmore 1.-THE
county seat of Hyde county, with q
population 5oO,) was terribly injured;
the school building, q few residences
and two stores being all that was left.
The county for q distance of thirty
miles is badly damaged, many farm
houses, barns, etc, being destroyed.
Two hundred families are left without
homes, food or clothing, suffering and
helpless.
la Grace was visited by ahail storm
the local paper stating that stones
were picked up which measured eleven
and three-quarter inches. "A large
amount OF windowg glass was broken.
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is a beautiful present to give anylady. But
there is a little book publishedi in pamphlet
form, with no pretensions to literary merit,
that would be as appropriate, and might
be the means OF saving a life. 1t is called
DR.. R. V. Pierce's treatise on diseases OF
woman, for whose peculiar troubles the
'Favorite Prescription" is especially de-
signed. 1t is profusely illustrated with
wood-cuts and colored plates, and will be
sent to any address for ten cents in stamps,
by the Worlds Dispensary Medical Associa.
ton, Buffalo, n. y.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-14

Commissioner OF Agriculture Colmau, while
fishing wit Congressman Heard OF Missouri,
nearCape st. Vincent, n. Y, was ordered off
by keepers, told them the property was
covered by private leases. Heard started
to go, but Colman squared of and fought,
but was compelled to fly after his COM
panion, notwithstanding he swore he was
the agricultural commissioner.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-14
An Inventors Advice.

George Stevenson when advising young
men how to get on would finish by saying
DO as | nave done-persevere." For ff-
teen years he plodded and worked beforegiv-
ing the finishing touches to his locomotive.
In as many days those persevering in the
use OF DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
ery," have experienced great relief and
found themselves on the high road to health.
Liver complaints, impure blood, chronic
lung diseases and many others yield to it's
healing influences neverto return. All drug.
gists.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-14
The Erie IN OrarDn

Mark A. Miller, travelling agent for the
Erie Railroad, writes from Portland, Ore
gon, that an attack OF pleuro-pneumonia
lett behind it a severe and painful cough.
After trying several remedies without sue
cess, he began using Red Star Cough Cure,
and upon taking one bottle found himself
on the road to rapid recovery.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-14

Mensman's p ept onizei Beet Tonic, the only
preparation of beef containing It's ENTIRE SuTRI-
TIoUs PROPERTIES. 1t contains h~iood-masiig,
force-generating andlife-sustaiuing properties: In
valuable for Indigestion, Dyspepsia. nervous
rrostration, and all forms OF general debility; al
so. in allienfecbled conditions, whether the re-
suit of exhaustion. nervous prostration, over
work, or acute disease, particularly if resulting
from pulmonary complaints. C%AswELL HAz-
ARD 4 Co., Prcprietors, New York. Sold by
Druggists.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-14

The rate OF postage on letters sent from
the United States to Australia and New
Zealand val England, Brindisi and the Suez
canal, has been reduced from fifteen to twelve
cents, making it uniform at that rate via
a Francisco.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-14
CANCER OF THE TONGUE.
A cas. R~esen,b,ing that Of a.u. or.nt.

ACase Resembling that OF Gen. Grant
Some ten years ago i had a scorfulous sore on my
right hand which gave me great trouble, and under tho
oldrtime treatment healed up, hut 1t had only been
driven into the system by the use of potash and mer
curry, and in March, 1852, 1t broke out in my throat, and
concentrated in what rome OF the doctors called cancer,
eating through my check, destroying the roof Of my
mouth and upper lip, then attacked my tongue, palate
tircly and half my tongue, eating out to the top o. my
left cheekbone and up to the left eye. I could not eat
any solid food. but st,bsisted on liquids and my tongue
was SO far gone I could not talk. Such was ny wretch.
ed, helpless. condition the first. Of last October 1884.
when my friends commenced giving me Ewifts SpeciS
e. In less than q month the eating places stopped and
check has hecn closed ard firmly knitted together. 4
PROCESS Of q new under lip As progressing finely. and ths
tongue which wns almost destroyed Ia being recovered,
and 1t seems that nature is Simplifying a new tongue, |
can talk so that my friends can readily understand me,
and can also eat solid food again. II any doubt thcsa
facts ! would refer them to Hon. John H. Traylor;
State Senator. of this district, and TO DE. IT. 9. Brad
field, OF Lagrange, Ga.
LAGRANGE, Ga, May II. 1885.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed tres.
N. Y, 1877 w, %, st. f53 sag
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London society papers deny the reported
engagement between Prince Albert Victor,
son of the prince Of Wales, and the Princess
Victoria of Teck.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-14

Wells, Richardson & Co.'s Improved
Butter Color will be found to be the only
oil color that will not become rancid. Test
it and you will prove it. 1t will not color
the butter-milk; it gives the brightest color
of any made, and is the strongest and there
fore the cheapest. .
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-14

Perry Davis Pain-Killer is an excellent
regulator OF the stomach and bowels, and
should always be kept on hand, especially
at this season of the year, when SO many
cholera.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-14
Important.

Grand Union Hotel, opp. Grand Cent. Depot, N.
Y. city, 600 elegant rooms, 81 8 day d upward.
Travellers arriving at this depot save So car
riage hire and baggage transfer, European plan.
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II you are bilious, take DR.. Pierce's "Pleas.
ant Pursative Pellets" the original Little
Liver Pills" or all druggists.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-14

Keen observersinL society say the
princess of Wales is bald and wears a wig.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-14

Aliens Iron Tonic Bitters cause food to
assimilate. All genuine bear the signature
OF j. p. Allen, Druggist, st. Paal, MINI.
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Longfeuow,s Dirthday Book

1t is thought that cx-Justice Cooley will
succeed Prof. Adams as professor ofhistory
at Michigan university.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-14

Fred Gebhardt is a close attendant upon
Mrs. Langtry in London.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-14

years. said an old lady "and the only
remedy know of is DIR. GRAVES HEART
REGULATOR, which cures every time
Free pamphlet of +. Z. Ingalls,, Cambridge,
Mass. Sl.QO uer bottle.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-14
F~nrlncrs-Try It!

w. Childs declines to try to induce the
Grant family to reverse their decisica re-
garding the burial in Riverside Park.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-14

Joseph Harris, saloon keeper Of Chicago,
has been arrested for grand Larceny.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-14

The White House will be painted and re.
frescoed during the presidents absence.
The net profits OF the Canadian Pacific
railway from Jan 1 to June 80 were 81,
liza, 900.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-08-29
PREPARATION FOR WHEAT.

Farmers, to made profitable crops
of wheat the coming year, should be-
gin at once, if not already begun, to
prepare the land for the seed. At
times, as at present, the land is too
dry, but when it is in condition the
plows and harrows should move
briskly until every foot of land in
tended for wheat is well prepared.
Every available pound of barnyard
manure should be carefully gathered
and applied to such places as need it
most. After using all the barnyard
manure it may be profitable to use
artificial fertilizers of reliable charac-
ter to the extent of 100 pounds to the
acre. But whether the fertilizer is
used or not, apply all that can be
gathered about the barn or elsewhere
on the farm, and see to it that the
land is thoroughly pulverized and
prepared for the seed, and that the
quality of the seed is good and put in
in proper time with the drill. Wher
the crop is thus put in it will hardly
fail to yield bountiful harvest.