The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-04-24
PASSING EVENTS.

The Standard Oil company employs
$4,000 mon.
Deer are killed almost daily about
Tallulah Falls, Ga.
There is fighting chicken at At
lanta, Ca, valued at $3.50.
One of the Indian chiefs in New Or.
leans is expressively named Hard
Gall.
There are six hundred Masonic
lodges in Texas, and sixteen thousand
Masons.
The pulse of hen is 140, of a cat ITO
to 120, of q dog 80 to 100, and of an
OK Is to AZ.
an election bet will publicly kiss mail
friend March 4.
Indians are used in place of pack
mules between Cour d'Alene city and
Murray, Indian territory.
An Ironton (O.) saloonist has cut
rates on his beer and whisky to 8 and
s cents a glass respectively.
Two local pedestrians of Poughkeep-
sic, N. Y, are about setting out to walk
from that city to New Orleans.
A lace factory is to be established at
one of the kind in the country.
The California treasury is in an i'm
poverished condition, and the state
has $S0O,O00 worth of warrants out.
For the first time in twelve years
the school committee of Boston will
meet with no women in its member
ship.
There is 80 much suffering in Troy,
N. Y, from want of food that efforts
are being made to establish soup
house.
At West Point. Ca, a fruit-grower
has sold since 1881 $4,000 worth OF
peaches off of not more than fifty acres
of trees.
George Winfield Scott Hancock Gar
field Patterson Yerks is an unfortunate
infant in an interior county of Penn.
sylvania.
The people of Shasta county, Cali
fornia, are boasting of ripe watermel-
ons in December. They are grown in
the foothills.
In Placer county, California, are the
only red dato palm trees in the United
States that bear fruit. The tree is a
native of China.
Miss Annie Boyer, an eccentric Eng
lish lady, has just died at Middleton,
Del, at the age of 80, with toe-nails
three inches long.
A German weekly paper of Now
Haven has been purchased by social
lists, and is to be used for the dissem-
nation of their ideas.
| Connecticut's contribution to the
New Orleans exposition contains lot
of wooden nutmegs made out Of the
original charter oak.
An artesian we'll in Tulare county,
California, supplies four cubic feet OF
water per second, or enough to irri-
gate GAO acres of land.
A St. Louis man has discovered that
cod fish skin, when properly tanned,
makes elegant leather. 1t is of a pearl
gray color, and very tough.
Young banaua trees are growing
finely, at Los Angeles, Cal, and in
some sheltered valleys there will be
quite large crop of fruit this year.
A Newburyport (Mass.) painter wa.
surprised, day or two since, to re-
) ceive from boy an order for ''3 cents
worth of paint the color of a frogs eye."
Francis 7iurphy, the temperance
evangelist, assisted by two Methodist
preachers, recently held very sue
cessful meeting in one of the largest
, saloons in Pittsburgh.
/ The great dam at Bear valley, il
!. | ~ Eo1if0rnSo
finished. It cost $4,000, and i'm
. pounds water enough to furnish con
. tinuous stream of $500 inches.
A bill pending before the Alabam,
( legislature compelling persons carry
:. ing concealed weapons to designate
), the fact on their persons by wearing
I badge inscribed II am armed"
A mineralogist has gathered from
2 several farms in Clermont county, 0.
specimens of rock and earth, all @
which yield 81, 900 in gold to the ton
! A company has been formed to buy tn
\ farms.
Two Oregon hunters caught bea
/, In trap, but he wrenched his foo
off, and next day the hunters foun
o tracks in the snow where the poo
), creature had walked on the broke
bone.
y There are but four national banks i
: Mississippi. There is said to be
\ movement on foot among Nashvill
= capitalists to establish one at Natches
II where there has never been nationa
:. bank.
- A 6-year-old child was found tryin
r. to keep warm at the pudding furnac
ie of tho Susquehanna rclling-mill
I Columbia, Pa, on Friday morning
He had been in the mill all night, an
his feet were frozen.
A Nevada miner and capitalist. r
|" Gently returned from Alaska, repor
q the finding there of remarkable ric
ID marble quarry, in which, strange
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