The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-12-11
Things in General.

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Hastings, Neb., with a population
OF 5000, has only S97 pupils enrolled
in the public schools.
Fresno county, Cal, is exactly the
size OF the State of Massachusetts and
is 500 square miles larger than the
State OF New Jersey.
According to the census OF 1850
there were at that time seventy-five
lawyers, 1G5 women clergy
men, and 2,432 women doctors. OF
the women lawyers, eleven were over
sixty years OF age; OF the clergymen,
twenty-five were over sixty, and otthe
doctors there were l64 past that age.
John Boyle o'Reilly says: "Women
are better than men because they are
spiritual, while men are intellectual.
The spirit follows what is true, gentle
and good; the intellect follows only
what is pleasant. successful, dominat-
ing, strong. Ii women could rule, civ
ilization would be Il poem"
A custom of the days gone by still
obtains in the District OF Columbia
courts. According to an old Mary
land law, the foreman OF each jury is
presented with u pound of tobacco
on rendering the verdict in each case.
AS this isfar in excess of the demand
for the weed, the cash equivalent of 81
amounts to a considerable sum dur
Ing a term Of court, and is usually
devoted to the purchase of a cane for
the foreman, bouquets for the Judge,
and minor comforts for the jurors.
Vassar college girls have anew freak.
They fall in love with each other, send
delicate little missives, baskets of
grapes and bouquets of choice flowers
to the objects Of their affection, and
act in all respects just as we presume
they hope one Of the now Objectionable
sex will act towards them some day.
The girls seemto likeit, but the Pough-
kespsie boys are real mad over this
peculiar turn of affairs, for the young
ladies 10Y pass them scornfully by
without deiening even so much as a
smile or a SLY glance.
A trader in Australia describes u
curious bird found in the %jungles OF
that country. 1t is called the balla-
dor ordancer, fromits jumping action.
Two of them were seen together and
carefully studied. AS soon as one
bird alighted the other jumped up, the
time being like clock work in it's regu-
larity. and each in urn uttering anotn
sounding like "~to-le-do," utterlng the
syllable ito" as he crouched to spring,
"le" while in the air, and "do" as he
aiighted-a regular song-and-dance
performance. The Sydney O%rnitholog-
ical society has offered q large sumfor
a pair of them.
The Queen of Great Britain and
Ireland rules over 31O,OOO,O 900 OF
people IAN increase in fifteen years OF
55,OOO,OOO,) occupying an area OF al
most 10000, 900, square miles. The
trade carried on by these 31O,OOO,O 900
amounts to $500, OOO, 900 q year.
Their flag floats over three-ffths OF
all the shipping on the seas. London,
their capital city, has with its sub
urbs) Il population Of five and one.
quarter millions! No civilized empire
has existed at all comparable to The
British empire, either in ancient or in
modern times.
A murder lately occurred in a we'll
known restaurant in San Francisco.
A French woman who presides over
the cash department narrated the
circumstances to a customer Will
great volubility and feeling, and ended
up, her voice trembling with emotion
with the following remark: "Yes, il
was very dreadful. The house wa.
full and everybody ran oat, and-oh
dear! l think we lost more thai
twenty dinners by it,"
A half-gallon jug, says the Atlants,
Constitution, if intrusted t6 oneoftl,
boys OF the neighborhood OF Picken>
will be returned filed with corn wits
key at a cost Of thirty cents. As tn,
Government is entitled to a tax OF for
ty-fye cents on that quantity Of Ii
quor, the Constitution fears that tn,
ruling price on the Pickeris market IL
dictates a .%ooseness in regard to Tia
legal requirements Of the case.