The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-02-13
FACT AND FANCY.

AAdoSss RuV VsV0ySOO lAJt
buildings last year.
In Tucson, Arizona, the restaurants
are conducted by Chinese.
Portland, Me-, fsh-dealers packed
5000, 900 Holsters last year.
Jeremiah Austin, of South Coventry,
Conn, says he is 102 years old.
Six to ten tons Of mail matter passes
the Augusta, Me-, postofice daily.
A citizen of Pittsfield, Mass, lately
invested $400 in an African gray par
.ot.
Vermont has 113 Baptist churches,
with 1896 members and LOG ordained
ministers.
A New Haven oysterman found ar
Did rubber boot upon which were 2.
500 young oysters.
The Agricultural society OF South
Carolina will celebrare its hundredtb
anniversary this year.
A Connecticut genius has been
granted a patent on a machine fol
harvesting potato bugs.
At Hill, N. H., a man makes a bust
ness of extracting skunk's oil, for
which he gets 81 per gallon.
Fruit trees and vines arc rapidly
taking the places of the redwood for.
EST in the vicinity of Guerneville, Cal.
Mrs. Ira jerks, of Lanesboro, Mass,
las a p%ork-barrel, tifty-four years old
which has preserved $4,000 pounds Of
,ork.
The frightful condition of many OF
he tenement-houses OF Boston is
lrousing the citizens of the Hub to the
necessity of immediate and radical
sanitary measures.
Apiece of paper placed between two
blankets is recommended by a phvsi-
,ian for q light and warm bed-cover.
ng. Paper is a poor conductor Of
leat, and obviatethe necessity of undue
weight of clothing.
A trout taken out of the water com.
oany's reservoir at Virginia, New,
las two heads and portions of two
bodies, these bodies ending in q sort
Of a bladder, and the bladder culmi,
mating in a sort Of tail.
The erection of cotton-mills at the
south has not been stopped by the
general depression. The year will
show q considerable increase in both
spindals and looms, according to The
United States Economist.
In a recent letter to well-known
Torontonian from o friend residing a
.cw miles from Los Angeles, CAL, it is
,aid: at took four of the largest
steam thrashers four and a half months
to thrash the grain on his farm"
Ants will forsake any food for lard,
md they can be exterminated bv
greasing a plate with that substance
md placing 1t in their vicinity When
The plate is well covered turn hot
Goals upon it. and a few repetitions of
The process will clean them out.
News letters, in manuscript, were
sold before newspapers were printed.
The Italian name gazette was first ap-
piled to these letters, and afterward
20 the printed copies. DR.. Skeat says
The word is either a diminutive of
gazza, "a magpie,' meaning q chat
;erbox. or else derived from gazetta,
, small coin perhaps paid for the
privilege of reading the news.
"What are you doing, petp" clam
studyin' my Sunday school lesson.n
'Is it hardp" .sIt's awful hard.
Here's a question l can't answer. 1t
says, WheDwas it said all men are
liars?' DO you know who it was, PAP"
Eyes; it was David" david! How
did he come to say that, PAP" '.Well,
don't know, pet. Maybehe was rum
ming for Office"
Little boy has been swearing, and
mamma, to punish him, washed thor
oughly the inside Of his mouth with
soapsuds, ''to," as she explains to him,
'clean away the nauty words" A
few days later, while passing the bath.
room, she sees the youngster with his
face one mass of suds, and his mouth
80 full that she barely understands his
spluttering EXPLANATIONS, "Getting
times yesterday"
The New York correspondent OF
The Troy Times, says the king of So
ciety reporters in that city is a natty
little Hebrew, who is facially as hand
some as a doll ana as stylish as a Paris
fashion-plate. He has entree to the
best society and a describe with
rare fidelity all she details of feminine
toilets, social innovations, and CASTRO
nomical delights. He also has a fac
ulty Of distinguishing a genuine aristo-
cratic belle from an imitation II in
any assemblage.
1t is claimed that England and
France a make a better grade of fine
paper than this country on account OF
the quality of water, which is here
injured for paper-making by frequent
changes in temperature. Acting upon
this idea experiments are about to be
made in Florida, where the tempera-
ture is more equal. If successful, it is
said a large mill, especially for the
manufacture of finer grades of stock,
will be built there by Massachusetts
capitalists.
The late DR.. Macadam used to tell
OF a tipsy Scotchman, making his way
home on q bright Sunday morning,
when the good folks we're vending
their way to the kirk. A little dog
pulled a ribbon from the hand of 8
lady who was leading it, and as it ran
away from her, she appealed to the
hrss passer-by, who happened to be the
lnebriate, asking him to whistles for her
poodle, "Womanp he retorted, with
mat solemnity of vissage which only o
Scotchman can assume: woman, this
IS no day for whustlin'n
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