The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-04-24
FACT AND FANCY.
ronto has a water famine.

Harvard students complain that the
faculty give them mor liberty in their
studies than in their sports.
1t is said a pinch Of powdered alum
dropped into a pitcher of muddy water
will clear it almost instantly.
OF the 623 newspapers and periodic-
ais published in foreign languages in
this country 483 are in German.
On the LIST of February the sum Of
SIG, 343.53 remained as a balance In
the general treasury of Mexico.
From the various signs of Candle.
mas day it was inferred that there will
be six more weeks of winter weather.
Oysters are becoming SO scarce in
Maryland waters that several vessels
have given up the business as a bad
job.
Piano-tuning has been added to the
course of instructions for women in
the New England Conservatory of
Music.
It is expected that the subscription
opened in the City OF Mexico for
Spanish earthquake sufferers will reach
$4,000.
A New York letter says: ..The feel
ing against O'Donovan Rosa since he
was shot by Mrs. Dudley has beenvery
marked here"
The February moon fulls on tho 28th
at II o'clock in the evening, SO that we
come within an hour of having no full
moon in February.
Fall River roughs took the Saliva
ton army at its word, with a volley Of
stones, disabling several women, and
fatally injuring one.
Seth Green is probably the first fish
dentist in thesworld. He recently ex-
tracted a live trout's teeth without in-
juring the "speckled beauty"
Legislation against the sale or gift
of cigarettes to boys under 10 years of
age has already got through one
branch of the North Carolina legisla-
ture.
The Chinese government intends
making the expulsion Of Chinese from
Eureka, Cal, an International matter,
and will claim indemnity from the
United States.
A Maine judge recently gavo a pris-
oner a light sentence, saying he was
entitled to some consideration for not
taking the stand and adding perjury to
MS OEner CRIME.
A file and knife throwing artist
nailed a contiding Winnipeg youth to
to the back of the stage while illustrate
ing how near he could come to hitting
him without actually doing SO.
Good, cultured Boston is shiverinp
on the brink of a big social sensation
that promises ono or two divorce suits
and an interesting chapter n the ca
reer of at least one local literary idol.
A correspondent asks a Western ed.
itor why it is natural for women
to shed tears than it is for men, and
he replies that it is because women as
a class drink more water than men do.
1t is moro than suspected that very
many of the snake bites causing death
in India are caused by parents desiring
to put an end to superiiuous offspring
in u manner which defies discovery Of
guilt.
A person sleeping on his right side,s
according to a celebrated French phys.
iologist, will have incoherent and alb
surd dreams, but when sleeping on the
left side the dreams will be of an. intel
ligent nature.
Many southern railway companies
have this year placed their old cross
ties at the disposal of the mayors of
towns along the lines of their roads to
be distributed to deserving poor poo
pie for tire-wood.
In a dry-goods fight at Chambers
burgh, Pa, one firm put the price of
calico down to one quarter Of q cent
per yard, whereupon the rival concern
offered calico at one-eighth Of a cent,
or eight yards for q cent. J
Prot. Bauer Of San Francisco states,
as a result of careful research, that 8
sure remedy for phylloxera is to mix
half an ounce of quicksilver with its
weight of clay and introduce it into
the hole in which the vine is planted.
"What makes you SO late coming to
school this morningp" asked a teacher
in M of the New York public schools
of a tardy pupil. t'They arrested q
burglar on fifty-eighth street, and ms
sent me to the station-house to see il
1t was pa" was the reply. {
A steamship captain who was marie
ed in Boston recently was denied the
the pleasure of his wife's company on
his return trip to Europe, us it is
against the rules of the company bH
which he is employed for a captain to-
have his wife with him on his trips to
and fro across the ocean.
An extraordinary amount Of suffer.
ing among the widows and children Of
the lost Gloucester fishermen is res
ported by The Cape Anm Advertiser.
The fund subscribed for the benefit Oh
these people is nearly exhausted, and
the stores of provisions and clothing
collected for them are rapidly dimin1
ishing under the steady drain that Il
made upon them.
Bookmaking five hundred years ago,
was a costly business. The bill for de-
signing and writing in manuscript in
1902 has just come to light. Tha
parchment, the writing, the miniatures,
the silver nails, gold-plated and enam-
eled, ink figures, seventy smaller gold
plated silver nails, a gold-plated silver
clasp, sky-blue satin, and binding to-
gether cost, according to present
value, 1886, the miniatures alone cost
ing $50. The missal is now no longer
extant, but is called pulcherrinsum ct
elega,atisSi1num in the bill.
The Revista de Monterey makes
known a discovery that calls to mind
the prediction of Nostradamus that
the world would come to an end in
1886. There was recently found in the
church at Obervel, in the diocese OF
Trevera, Mexico, a stone upon which
is an inscription to the effect that the
destruction of the world will take
place in the year when the Passover
occurs on st. Marks day, Pentecost on
St. Anthony's day, and Corpus Christi
on St. Johns day. All this will hap