The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-07-17
Miscellaneous Matters.

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, Miscellaneous Matters.
The longest bridge in the world is the
Maintenon Aqueduct, 16, 1867 feet; the
aext is Victoria Bridge, over the st.
Lawrence, 9,437 feet: the third, Parkers-
ourg Bridge, West Virginia, 7,045 feet,
Brooklyn Bridge, $3.50 feet.
The mountain of ice at Parker's Glen,
n. Y, is reaching colossal proportions
md is q remarkable sight. 1t is now
rom seventy-tive 10 eighty feet high
and III circumference it measures two
lundred aud fifty feet. 1t is similar
n grandeur to the famous column at
;he Katerkill Falls, in the Catskill
Mountains, and hundreds of sightseers
have visited it. The little stream OF
water ut its top steadily trickles down its
tides and as steadily adds to the column.
Among other wonderful things found
by a number of descriptive writer's in
Wyoming Territory are a mountain Of
solid hermatite iron, a mile wide, two
miles long and 600 feet high, a bed of
Ignite coal big enough to warm the
world for several centuries, eight lakes
of solid soda, and a great petroleum
basin from which oil is oozing all the
lime.
Experience has indeed shown that q
perfectly healthy community, main
tanning within itself pure morals and
normal habits Of life. may closely inter-
n,arpI- with ;,,,,,c,tr ,,I o.n, - ,~.zf
cases with positive benefit. But it is
equally clear that opposite conditions
will lead to opposite results; that is to
say, an unsound and morally depraved
people will transmit their weakness in
an exaggerated form, leading to final
legeneracy and ruin"
Through the death of Lord Cairns
there is now not a single law lord in re-
ceipt OF a pension as an ex-lord chan
cellor, a state of things which is unpre-
cedented in English history for nearly
sixty years, An ex- chancellor's pension
is $4,000 a year.
The sign of Libby prison is in the
possession of Edward j. Bartlett, of
Concord. Mass. He took it from it's
place on the building on the morning
of the first occupation of Richmond by
the Union troops The sign is u small
one, made of tin, and bears simply the
words, Libby s. Co."
President Cleveland at church." saws
a member of his congregation, lis an at
tentive listener. He prays in an audi
Bile undertone, sings in a clear baritone
voice. and is not addicted TO the habit of
turning in his seat to look at late Corners.
he is a modest churchman."
About a year ago an English gentle
man, travelling in Germany, came
across an officer s.nployed in superin-
tending some details Of military railroad
transport. He he'd been q captain dur
ng the Franco-G German war and allowed
lis company to IN surprised. After
being imprisoned fH eighteen months
1e was placed in Tho military railroad
transport service, aud told that he was
lever to receive promotion. Being sur
orised by an enemy is regarded as the
'ne objectionable SIN by the Germans.
United States Senator Warner Mil
er, of New York, has returned from
New Orleans, and the Syracus. journal
quotes him as saying: "There seems
% be a general stirring up of the South
IN country, i'll q business sense, largely
n consequence OF the Exposition. It
las been in the nature of a revelation
o the south of her own and
which she has never before real
zed. In this result alone it has been
vorth all them money expended on it by
he government.
"Onida" is the pseudonym of Louisa
lie la Rame, an English novelist, born
It Bury st. Edmunds, Suffolk n
about 1910. She is of French
EXTRACTION. Her pen name originated
n a childish mispronunci;.sio ion Of Lou
sa. She has written a great many nov
Is, among the best known being
S~trathmore, ""Cnandos, ""Uuder Two
Tags. Moths" In Maremma,"
Wanda"
One of the finest houses on the most
fashionable streets in San Francisco il
he residence OF Mr.. and Mrs. Porter
Ashe, who have just returned from
Europe, and, being new people on the
venue, their story has been raked up.
i've years ago, Porter Ashe was a law
er's clerk, and too poor to smoke. or
rink, or indulge in any of the gentle
1anly vices. He fell in love with Miss
my Crocker, and asked her mother for
er, but the old lady was opposed to the
latch. The couple ran away and got
larrled. The generous mother called
er children back, forgave and blessed
aem with a present of 500, 900, and
ent them off travelling. On their re-
i'm, lately, she made them a present
I a $780, 900 mansion, and told them to
in it and be happy. That's the
roper way to forgive and bless runa.
a:y children: The Ashes ought to glow
lth gratitude and never grow cold.