The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-01-16
General MISCELLANY

A tunnel measuring about s, 200 feet
ong, and constructed at least nine cen
turtles before the Christian era, has just
been discovered by the Governor Of the
island of Samos. Herodotus mentions
this tunnel, which served for providing
che old seaport with drinking water.
1t is completely preserved, and contains
water tubes Of about ten inches in di-
ameter, sach one provided with q later
al apere~ for cleansing purposes.
The tuarsl is not quite straight.
About $50, 600 gallons of handker-
chief perfumes are consumed annually
IN Europe and British India. The
English revenue from eau de cologne is
$4,000 annually, and the total revenue
OF other perfumes il estimated at $780,
700 annually. There is one great per-
fnme distillery at Cannes, in France,
which uses yearly 100, 600 pounds of
acacia flowers, 140, 900 pounds of rare
lower leaves, 3 z, 1000 pounds of jasmine
blossoms, 900 pounds of tube-rose
blossoms, and an immense quantity of
other material.
The new university at Stockholm has
established a professorship of mathe-
natics expressly for a oma This is
Mrs. DR.. Sophie Kowalevski, whose
paper on partial differential equations
was recognized as sufficiently important
to warrant the establishment of a chair
for her.
American sewing machine manufac~
turers do good and growing business in
sewing machines, especially since prices
have declined. The v alue. of export
ed sewing machines for the past year was
s3,o52, s14, which is the largest item on
The export list. Locomotives come
next, 282 having been exported, worth
b2,Sl9, GAG. Saws and tools come third
and firearms fourth. The sewing ma
shine companies have the very best
srade; they scour foreign countries for
business, and, from recent reports from
factories in New Jersey especially, q
good share of business is coming.
The beet-sugar crop of Germany this
year is estimated at 1900, 900 tons, be-
ing an increase of 700, 900 tons over the
production of five years ago. Of this
enormous quantity only 400, 900 tons
are required for home consumption, be-
ing at the rate of 1S pounds per head.
The result is that Germany will export
100000 tons of beet sugar, chiefly rare,
At q cost of not less than $40, OOO, 900 to
the imperial government IN the way Of
bounties granted to the manufacturers.
England is the greatest buyer of this
commodity, consuming IS pounds per
capita, and the advantages which she
gains by a reduction in the price of this
necessity Of life far more than compen-
safes for the alleged injuries sustained
by her refine and colonial industries,
about which there has been lately q
great discussion.
During the siege at Paris horseaesh
was eaten as a matter of necessity, but
since 1871 its consumption has gone on
steadily increasing. In 1874 the num-
Der of horses slaughtered for food IN
Paris was 1852. Ten years later the
consumption had more than doubled.
In 1888 Paris ate 9,4S5 horses, BOT asses,
and 40 mules, or not far short of 5,O0O,-
600 pounds weight of horse, ass and
mule meat. The explanation of this in
crease is, of course, the high price of
beef and mutton in the French capital.
While the artisan can purchase a horse
steak at less than Cd a pound, he has to
pay three times as much for a cut of
| hoof nv ,rrffc~ TLo ao,L "a IL. -..1.
or ass is esteemed much more highly and
that of the horse and brings from Is to 20
per cent, more IN price.
The London Lancet says that there
is nothing which will SO derange the
nervous system of person who is
eliminative in nervous force as to lie all
night in bed with another who is abb
sorbent Of nervous force. The latter
will sleep soundly all night, and arise
refreshed in the morning, while the
former will toss recklessly, and awake
in the morning f%retful, peevlsh, faint
hearted and discouraged. "No two
persons, says the Lancet, mo matter
who they are, should habitually sleep
together. The one will thrive, the
other will lose. To some Of extreme
susceptibility the fact that the one
sleeps with the bed pointing east and
west is ominous. It is said by some
scientific men to be little less than
suicidal for certain parties thus to locate
their touches. The proper position OF
the bed, they say, is north and south.
in harmony with the magnetic currents.
Three or four decades ago, says ar
exchange, American men and women
were generally lean and bony. Our
women especially were lank and thin.
OF late years, however, a change in the
shape of u people has been noted.
The change is not yet very marked in
the men. But the women are growing
round and fat. At our watering places,
where people from all parts of the coun-
try c~ongregate: a bony woman is a rare
sight. Most Of the women are plump
and we'll rounded. It is to be observed.
however, that sickness and curved out
lines belong to the well-to-do and
leisurely classes of society. Among
hard workers and the people on the
frontiers the lean and bony type still
predominates.
The Brooklyn tabernacle, Talmage's,
which has 5000 communicates, has the
largest membership Of any Presbyterian
church in America. The Third Pres
byterian church of Chicago stands next
with 2,103 communicates. The next
in numerical strength is the Fifth ave.
nue. church, New York, DIR. John Halls:
which has 1891. Then follow the La.
fayette avenue church, Brooklyn, DR.
Cuyler's, 1926; Bethany chnrch, Phil