The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-10-02
PASSING EVENTS.

The longest legitimate word IN the
English language is disproportionable-
ness.
1t costs only 20 cents to get drunk
in Japan, bat about $40 to recover
from Its effects.
California is to print and sell at cost
the textbooks used by the quarter OF
a million school-children in that state.
A young married mar in Waterbury,
Conn, has persuaded both his wife
and his mother-in-law to leave off cor
sets.
1t is reported that Cinnamon are be-
ing struggled from Victoria, B. c..
into Washington territory at Gray's
Harbor.
"Thls is my wife; she is very enter
tanning, and [ am highly pleased with
her." is the way n Natick, Mass, man,
just married, introduces his wife.
A New York maj is held in $500
bail for shooting three cats and break
ing up q feline concert at midnight.
And this is called a free country.
The United States and Germany
vessels, yet u navy cost us $17, 292,-
OOl uulluS 1oCf, Wullc llo 1Cl iJuuS VA
/ pended on theirs but So, 1852. O94.
A nice coffin is considered a very
appropriate present to send an old
person in China. You are, however,
expected to find out what size the
candidate will require without asking
him directly.
A man in Epson county, Georgia,
twenty-five years ago buried three
thousand silver half dollars, and did
not unenrth them again until last
week, when they were exhumed and
put into circulation.
A spoonfish weighing nearly twenty
pounds, and measuring four feet in
length, was captured one day recently
in Dooly county, Georgia. The fish is
rarely found in the streams of that
/ vicinity, and was sold for 50.
An immigrant who landed at Castle
Garden the other day had in his pos
session q $3.50 confederate note, for
which he had paid a London broker
420 marks in gold, under the impress
ION that it was United States currency.
The population of California is about
900, 900. The railroad has contributed
materially to this total, though some
of the net gain of SOC, 900 by rail IN
the past sixteen years has gone to
swell the population in adjacent states
and territories.
A large white bird Is on exhibition
in Sumter county, Georgia, which has
certain of the characteristics of the
guinea fowl, with Il neck in part like
that of a rooster, with long ornament
al feathers. 1t has q mere semblance
of a comb, but no spurs.
The steamship City of Toxic, which
arrived at San Francisco recently, had
on board 76S Cinnamon destined for
that city. OF these Up had Gus
customs certificates. There were Sc
who had no certificate recognized by
law, but who hoped to be allowed to
land.
A new penny paper was started re-
Gently in New York, and with its first
number appeared ''sandwiched men
on the Streets announcing that it
had come to stay" 1t has suspend ed
after five issues, being the fifth New
York paper that has gone under
inside Of twelve months.
An Anti-Cooly league has been
formed in San Francisco. Its mem
bers are the irresponsible %vagabonds
who followed Denis Kearney some
years ago. In their declaration OF
''rrinciples" it is announced that
earned resistance to the pagan ad'
vance is an memorable necessity"
Another step in the matter of public
support of sectarian schools is about
to be taken in Lewiston, Me. The
school board having voted to pay the
teachers of the st. Joseph Catholic
parochial school, they are now to be
called on to do the same for the teach
ers of the French Catholic parish
school. 3
The oldest soldier, measured by his
term of service in the United States
army, is Ordnance Sergt. Charles
LANCE, on duty at San Francisco
Serg. LANCE is few months over Sc
years of age, having been born il
Hanover, Jan. 81, 1927. He has beer
thirty-eight years and three months
in continued actual service in the
United States army.
A smart colonel of an Irish militis
regiment was lately found fault with
by the inspecting general for the indif
ferent shooting of his regiment. The
colonel replied: .'Sir, 1 must explain
that 1 stand before you in two posi-
tions, n as colonel of the regimen
and the other as an Irish landlord!
AS far as l am concerned, l consider
the shooting good enough"
Ross Brown, the traveller, in describ
ing Smyrna, remarks that he saw bu'
one person there who seemed to b,
doing anything, and he was falling
from the top of a house. Bob Mallory
of Kentucky, when in congress, wa
once asked If New Castle, the count,
seat of Henry, in his district, was i'm
proving. He replied that it was,
house had burned down there recent
ly.
The growing Indifference to the sub
ject of a picture, says a London exhi
bitor, reminds me that a very con
venient subject was found and fire.
~quently treated by the Italian school
If it was wanted for an al~tar-piece o
the gallery of an orthodox prelate i
was called '.The Martyrdom of st
Bartholomew" if for an agnostic
"Marsyas Flayeu by Apollo" l neet
not say that it was substantially tn,
same picture.
A Massachusetts veteran vented hi
feelings over the movement to reliev'
ex-soldiers from the operations of thu
clvil-servlce act as follows: ST re
gard the amendment as an insult t.
our intelligence. Many soldiers hav'
held and do hold offices, and so far a
L know they ask no favors, and l ca
not learn that this change has bee
!, made at the request of any consider
cradle number of soldiers. Good mel
voted for it, but the whole thing is thu