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away many a grain Of wisdom; the
young peoples column always too
brief and meagre-is read t6 tatJers
by the little ones before the week is
over.
Now since mere fame is such a fleet.
ing vanity, and the struggle for crown
ed publishers such a vexation, is not
the country newspaper a worthy field
toft the noble but re, cctcd authorp
Tho editor who waits there with tho
famous paste-pot and scissors will
gladly welcome something choice and
original, if not too long, and will per-
haps offer a modest remuneration
sufficient to cover the cost of ink and
paper, and the writer's time as reckon
ed by the MISUNDERSTANDING
standard. With this let the Rejected
bo satisfied, for, unless he is wealthy
as woll as Rejected, he cannot depend
upon tho country newspaper alone for
paid employment. Let his pure.wing-
ed genius soar above the sordid con-
siderations of both fame aud wealth!
Let him turn to farming. teaching,
housekeeping, sewing, bookkeeping,
stock-1aising-any practical line of
work that will yield a living-and
keep his pen sharp and clean for luxu-
lous odd hours. Even then there will
be q plenty of manuscripts in the
world.
Can the light of real but rejected
talent by any other direction so reach
and glorlfy and broaden the narrow,
stumbling way of everyday humanity?
Think of it! A general swcetcning
and enricling of the miscellaneous
departments of the rural press; n
driving-out of the tlashy romanccs scis-
sorcd from the t~irefics and will-o'-tho-
wisps of the swamp publications; an
inflow of natural and helpful and IN
spring stories; a sparkle OF sweet and
true poems for Miss Angcllne's scrap
book (she will take them if she can
find no otherD ;strong, bright sermons
for the soul-starved laborcr; choice
little fcasts Tor the children who new
er see q Vide Quake or Il 81. Ntchotns!
Surely it seems as if broad and broad
ly-neglccted fields were crying out for
the rich help of those who now loiter
and langu'sh around the closed gates
OF the Unapproachablc.- Emily HcWiU
Leland. in The Current.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-11-13
A Made Telephone.

To make a scrviceable telephone,
from n farmhouse to another, only
requires enough wire and two cigar
boxes. FIRST select your boxes, and
mako q hole about half an inch in
diameter in tho center of the bottom
of each, and then place n in each of
the houses you wish to connect; then
got five pounds of common iron stove
pipe wire. make a loop in one end and
put it through the hole in your cigar
box and fasten it with q nail; then
draw ittight to the other box. sup
porting 1t when necessary with a
stout cord. You can easily run your
line into the house by boring a hole
through the glass. Support your
boxes with Stats nailed across tho win
dow, and your telephone is complete.
The writer has one that il two hun
dred yards long and cost As
cents that will carry music when the
organ is playing thirty feet away in
another room.--Demorest's Monthly.
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A woman 116 Years Old.

Sylvia Du Bots is a colored woman
living on Sourland Mountain, the
range that separates Hunterdon and
Mercer counties, N. j. She is 116
years old. and probably the oldest
person in the United States. There is
no question concerning her age. She
was born in 1869. Her only daughter,
whom she calls her ''little girl' is IS
years old. Sylvia and her child live
in n little hut on the mountain top, and
once a year they come down into the
valley and beg. They nave been
making a tour this week.
Despite her extreme age Sylvia has
very few 1ntirm:ties. She walks for
miles carrying q basket for provisions
on her arm. An old clay pipe is al
ways in her mouth. She eats hearty
meals and apparently enjoys life. Her
profanity is continual, i%nterlarding all
her sentences. Her "reminiscences of
earlier days are extremely interesting,
as she remembers events in the last
century distinctly.
Until she was 80 years old she was q
slave at Great Bend, Pa. Escaping
from there, she tramped across tho
country until she reached the Sour
land. Slavery, strange enough, never
existed on the mountain, although
there we're several hundred negroes
residing on the ridge. Sylvia is con-
tident she will live to complete a cen
tury and a quarter of existence. That
she will beat the record for longevity
in this country is extremely probable.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
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A Wonderful City.

The City of London is the most won
derful place in the whole world, and
its frequenters the most wonderful
people. 1t is the smallest of cities, but
the most valuable. 1t has an area O.
one square mile, but that one quart
mile produces a rent of four million,
per annum, and its inhabitants pa
one-seventh of tho general rates of the
whole metropolis, which has an ares
of 120 square miles. Land is now
sometimes sold in the country at about
fl0 per acre, which is equal to one.
half penny per square yard. 1t has
been sold in the city at f64O per squar.
yard, which is equal to over So, 600, coz
per acre. In other words, the price Of
q square yard of land in Lombard
street has realized a sum that woulJ
purchase q nice little freehold estate
in Berkshire of not less than sixty-fou,
acres. II is calculated that 10, 900 PEG,
pie enter tho city daily, Sundays cx.
cepted, in hope of making money with.
out ''toiling or spinnins."-Londo
free Press.
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What is a Yankees

The Boston Herald, in headlining the
last victory of the Puritan over the
Priscilla, referred to the yankee
craft at least twice. What is a Yankee
boat and who is u Yankee? Across
the water this country is styled the
Yankee nation. 1t is not SO long ago
that everybody north of the Patomac
was a Yankee to those south; but if
one west of the Aleghanies we're now
so styled he would probably resent it.
In New York n New Highlander is o
Yankee. In Massachusetts it is gen.
orally somebody from Maine, and in
sections of Maine it is the man who
lives "way down East, where they pry
tho u up with a crowbar. Who
is a Yankee, Washington
Post.
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The Mexican Soldier.

The Mexican soldier. dresses il
white coat, pants, vest and blue cap.
The resemblance to a person in under
clothing is rather marked md conn.
cal. There are sad tales about these
poor soldiers. They receive only
thirty cents a doy, Mexican money. ano
out of this miserable pittance have
both to feed and clothe themselves.
Nor is this all. The wages of those at
New Laredo are paid by the collector
of customs; and only a short time age
the soldiers became mutinous, because
they had had no pay for three months,
and were starving. AS might be OK.
pected, their quarters are the mos
miserable; a stone wall, two feei
thick and twelve high, is built up te
form a square open enclosure called a
corral, there is no roof, but canvas i.
fastened to the wall inside at a height
of a few feet from the ground, while
the other side of the sheet is staked
out to tent pegs; and this affords theil
only protection from the cold of win.
ter so keenly felt by these children OF
the tropics, or from the glaring sun
and beating storms of summer weather.
Here they must q and drink; fol
armed centres guard the door of the
corral, to keep the army from running
away. On the march, o round trot il
kept up all day long, and should
either horse or man fall from the
ranks, and fail to regain his place, s
sabre cut or the ever ready bullet
closes his career. No wonder that
army service is looked upon with ter.
tor, nor that the ranks have to be re.
cruited almost entirely from criminals,
sent there as a punishment. At one
time great numbers deserted here and
came to our own army; but now the
shores are carefully guarded, and de.
serters promptly shot.-Wm S. Come,
in 81. Louis Magazine.
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Pms and Girls.

1t has always been a subject of con-
lecture as to where the old pins 60 to,
but a study of summer resorts and the
effect of the intimate association of
young people of opposite sexes sug-
gests tho inquiry where the old girls
90 to. The opportunities that a sum-
mcr or even I part of it afford two at
tractlve young people to fall in love
and become engaged seem to be utter
ly ignored by them, and a tacit under
landing that their lovc-making is to
be simply a summer idyl appears to be
understood and agreed to by both at
their friendships very inception.
This Is indeed fun for the man, but
death for the prospects of the girl,
when season after season she 'bobs
up s%creneIy' to go through the form
of being courted without an opportu-
nifty to make her Irritation respectable
by answering that question which
should be. but is asked, until,
like the last rose of summer, she is
left not blooming, but fading alone.
Now, the question is. where do these
girls go to? They must marry scme
one or else go where the pins do. for
every one can count on the fingers of
one hand the number of conspicuous,
hopeless old maids among his or her
acquaintance, while of the other class,
the foolish virgins" we all know
hundreds.
Keep a list of the debutantcs for
three years. See how many marry,
how many die. and account for the
rest if you can.--Telcgram.
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A Nevada Snake Story.

Alady in Coryville had for some time
been missing her small chickens. One
evening last week she went into the
chicken house, and, noticing a move.
ment under one of the stills, made q
search, which ended in the discovery Of
a snake. about three feet long, which
had probably been hiding there for q
long time, living OF young chickens.
Its head was about three inches broad
and its body averaged four inches.
The species is the common bull snake.
1t had accumulated flesh on its sides
to such an extent that nearly all re.
scmblanco to its kind was gone. The
confined space which it occupied kept
it from growing other than sideways,
and it rcsembled very much a section
of wagon tire in shape. Walker LAX
Bulletin.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-11-13
friends about the city chatting, laugh

friends about the city chatting, laugh
ing, and joking, as usual. He spent a
portion of the afternoon with his
friend, George Stahl. They loft the
Fay house together at noon. and drove
in 4 roundabout way TO Mr.. Stahl's
place of business on Third street. At
ter putting up the horse they visited
the dime museum. They then sep
arated. Mi. Stahl going to his store
and MIR. Wood to his boarding house;
he spent the rest of the afternoon
sleeping in his room. Tuesday night
Mr.. Wood stayed with his friend, Bert
Woillard, at the fremont house.
They attended the concert togather Mt
the opera house, and upon going to
MIR. VS. room, spent an hour or so
playing cards; but mover during all
this time did Mr.. Wood give the
slightest evidence of being a little off,
as the boys say"
Then the writer continues, giving
his history at some length, relating
that he was born in 1864, was Il son Of
Charles Wood. of Ellington township,
graduated at the high school in this
city, and served as a reporter or local
editor on several papers, including
The Herald and journal in this city,
and had written for The Herald as
Ellington correspondent. He detailed
his service IN this line, and stated that
lately he accepted the place Of city
editer for Tie onto, the new weekly,
but being placed Mt soliciting, and
finding himself not made for that
business. he resigned the day before,
or on the day of his suicide"
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-11-13
Notes of Silyersmiths.

The knife-edge bracelets are Otter
set around with small gems.
The story of Red Riding Hood tole
on q set of silver spoons is a novelty
Shells and seaweeds in all their beau
ty of form are copied in silver for ia
BILE service.
Tho Hungarian knot continues t.
find a place on wire bracelets and or
lace and scarf pins.
A very curious parlor clock is a birc
made in gold, enriched with ename
or precious stones.
An artistic pin is that of a lattice
work of gold OF silver. through the
openings of which appears blooms OF
wild rose vine.
There is a bracelet set round will
rose diamonds, the glittering circle'
terminating with a clover leaf of diff
ferent colored pearls.
Ladies and salad forks, with
handles of wood decorated with
silver trimmings, arc fashionable il
the drawing-room of the house beau
tiful.
A huge butterfly of jewels make!
a popular pin; so does a half moon
OF diamonds with a colored pear
or ruby swinging from the center.
A beautiful spray for the hair OF
low bodice consists of a piece of acacis
flower, in pink translucent enamel
with Il leaf OF diamonds set in silver
A gold spoon with q pearl in it:
bowl, Il gold shovel heaped full Of
small diamonds, a fan on which ap.
pears Japanese figures, are numbered
with other designs to be found in pins
cone exquisite trlnket," says a Paris
correspondent, sis worth description,
and tho watch it contained is of su0i
Gent size to render some service. l
is formed in the shape of a bcll-like
flower. with calyx OF wrought gold,
by which it may be worn pendent te
the neck ribbon or chatelain; the un-
der side is Il crystal bottle o.
vinaigrctte. The outer is covered
with curved rows Observation-Disclosures
ly rubies and misunderstanding, as
it We're, the edging of the folded petal
and set upon a convex gold case,
which opens i'll the center on a spring
being touched, and discloses a watct
face to view. '-NeW York Graphic.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-11-13
Ben Is Clear.

''Mister, will you please give mo q
solid cent for this penny with a hole in
itp' he asked at a fruit stand yester.
day.
"Tll take it for an APPLE" replied
the woman.
"But l can't do that. Unjust have
the money"
what forp"
"Why, my brother Ben was left ia
tend a peanut stand up here, and he
gottemporarily insane and embezzled
two cents. The man says he'll knock
off one on account of Ben's youth. but
he's got to have the other by 4 o'clock
or u family name will be dragged in
the mire. Please do"
She did.-Delroit Free Press.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-11-13
Popular Notion of Beauty.

Our popular notion Of beauty is dis
played with unconscious cxactitude in
the saws which declare it nonly skin
deep" q ''snare," and ~'.handsome is
that handsome does" The tendency
OF English people to moralize is not to
be repressed even in such a matter as
this. They refuse to grasp an abb
stract idea. Beauty must be allied
with some concrete quality of the in
dividual, as truth. or modesty. orgood
works, or what not, or 1t is merely
frivolous. A good many people truly
are content with it as such; in fact.
they prefer Phryne to Aspasia. But
the iron of moralizlng has entered all.
Il souls. and though a few dare
own to themselves that beauty is an
end sufficient, fewer dare to Y it.
The great masters of old would have
stared, then laughed consumedly
when they caught the humor Of the
thing, to hear the interpretation" Of
their works which some of our BROOD
ing authorities have hit upon. They
aimed at beauty and nothing else-it
was supremest beauty they found. be-
cause themselves were supreme.
There is grave reason to think that il
a great number of their masterpieces
survived, DIR fashionable critics would
be sadly puzzled to reconcile many
Inconsistencies. In that earlier and
happy day there a. a more general
agreement about principles than now.
by ! a ure, or habit. or circumstance,
personal tastes were more akin. il
seems. and great works appealed
more generally to the crowd.-London
Standard.
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An Improyinp Iime.

Agood brother of a country coagre.
CATION, who had just returned from q
trip lover the ocean," was asked by
his pastor if he had q pleasant voyage
home, 10 which he responded.
wall. I s'pose / had what you
might call an improvin' experience.
Struck a hurricane three days out.
All the women were on their knees il
the saloon prayin', an all the men In
the smokin' room cussin'.
Atween the two l haint heard SO much;
scriptooral Language sense / tended
church last here TO hum. n-Boston
Commercial Bulletin.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-11-13
Presence OF Mind.

Talking about presence of mind"
SAID the brakeman, ''let mo toll you of
a little incident that know something
about, cause l was there. We were
out one bad night, when we got stuck
in a snowdrift. l was head brakeman,
and had nothing to do with tagging
our rear. That was the business of
the other brakeman, but, rs he had
beer drinking n good deal, l felt q lit
tie alarmed for fear he would go to
sleep. So pretty soon skipped back
to see if he was attending to business,
and | found him lying flat on the track,
asleep. He had fallen on his lantern
the red one-and broken it all to
pieces. just then | heard the passen-
ger coming, and she was coming fast,
too. How to stop that ira l didn't
know. had my white lantern, but a
white light isn't just the thing Tor a
danger signal in 4 snow storm. The
only red lantern within reach was
broken into Il thousand pieces at my
feet. l suppose | might have stopped
the train with my own lantern, but it
would have been risky, as the drunken
cuss hadn't gone back more than half
as far as he should, and a white light
doesn't show far in q storm. But |
was mad, and as that darned tipsy
fool got up l suddenly concluded l
would make sure OF my work"
"What did you do?'
II hit him no the nose and held my
lantern to catch the blood. In thirty
seconds | had the daisiest rcd lantern
ever engineer set eyes oa."-Chicogo
Hgru(d.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-11-13
Brown Bread.
A mouse can scare a queen,
A fly may ruin a dinner,
A bug can make q preacher swea

o SN AS - PASAStCl oWGdIs t=
Aud a spider kill a sinner.
A three-year-old boy at Louisville
has iron gray hair. 1t is a shame te
make a child Sc young take care of the
baby.
1t is claimed that an able-bod,eS
whale a spout all day without get
ting tired. An able-bodled lawye,
can do the same thing, but it makes
tho jury very tired.
The poor man of to-day is said to
fare much better than a king could
have done a few centuries ago, and
yet a blister on the heel or q boil under
the arm makes him forget all this.
A Florida newspaper Office was re-
Gently traded in exchange for a mule.
from which it seems that the editor
was overly anxious to get hold OF
something that could make both end.
meet.
Many actors r obliged to wear a
button under tho tongue to keep from
laughing. but the man who comes
within one figure of scoop,ng the capt.
tai prize in II lottery finds no difficulty
in reprcssing hilarity.
An Eastern cigarette manufacturer
who employs several hundred gfrls
finds it profitable to have the latest
novels read aloud in his work rooms
while the damsels labor. If ANYTHING
short of downright paralysis of Jaw
can make a woman keep still and at.
tend to her knitting, tho reading of 0
love story will do it.
The special ten-cent stamp for the
extra quick delivery of letters is or.
namcnted with q bit of scenery that
''eye hath not yet seem in actual re.
atty, viz: A messenger boy on the
dead run A woman scattering bad
news would have been a much more
appropriate design, and one in full
harmony with the idea of excessive
tlcctness for which the stamp was
constructed.
We are assured by scientific author.
tiles that when electricity is loafing
along at the rate of not more than
forty thousand miles a second it is not
dangerous. and may be handled With
safety. 1t will therefore be we'll ia
always notice beforehand whether 1t ia
going at a jog trot or on n full gallop
before you undertake to stop it. At
%tention to this caution may preserve
the filling in your teeth Chicago Led
dp1. ----A-L -..--.l
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Wanted Two.

Several years ago there lived in
Little Rock a bright young man. but
who, like many bright young men Of
his day, was sadly addicted to the ex.
cessive use of whisky. One day his
brother went to him and said:
Brother John, l sec that you are
determined to kill yourself drinking,
SO l purpose to rent q room. put q
barrel of whisky and . barrel Of water
INTO it and shut you up IN it until you
kill yourself"
Brother William" the young man
replied, never mind the water. Put.
in two barrels of whisky."-Arkansass
Traveller.
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Not the Right Man.

Man to Governor Of ArEansaw-HA
have captured Jackson, the mnrderA
err"
"GOvernor-"Are you sure he Is tha
manP'
Mani know ii. and have some
to claim the reward"
Governor-.sThere is no reward..,.s
Man-"WeN. come to think 81 Ii.
he amt the right man."-ArkansosD
Traveller.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-11-13

1t is calculated that the water-power fur.
nishcd by the sutro tunnel is sufficient to rul
five forty:stamp mills, which could crush 81,
buHdred tons Of ore in twcuty-four hours
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-11-13

The gamblers are going back in droves to
New York city. They were driven away last
spring.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-11-13

The wealth Of our language is shown by
the fact that chang it up'' and 'chalk 1T
down. mean precisely the same thing.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-12
ORDINANCE No. sos.

ORDINANCE NO. 505.
An Ordinance Curtailing the Operations OF
Ordinance No. 433, can Ordidance to
Define the Fire Limits of the City OF st.
Paul" Being Article No. Goth OF Mu-
nicipal Code of St. Paul, 1884.
The Common Council of the City OF st.
Paul do ordain as follows, viz:
Section /. That the limits embraced and
covered in all that part of section OF ordi-
nance 433, '.An ordinance to define the fire
limits of the City Of St. Paul." and being
the particular portion covering and includ-
ing Dakota avenue from the north end
thereof, and extending southerly to Channel
street only, be circrlmscribed and confined
to just the property included between the
east and west lines, as in said section spec
flied. and not for distance Of $50 feet out
side thereof.
Sec. 2. This ordinance shall take effect
and be in force from and after its publica-
ton.
Yeas-Ald. Cummings, Dowlan, O'Connor,
Cullen. Otis, johnson, Van Slyke, Kelly,
Starkey, Lauderdale, St. Peter, Topping,
Mr.. Vice President-13.
Passed May Z, 1885.
W.D. CORNISH,
Vice President of Council.
Approved May 9, 1885.
c. D. O'BRIEN, Mayor.
Attest:
THos. A. PRENDERGAsT, City Clerk.
May IL.