The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-05-01
USEFUL N PLEASANT.

"SiSho oIo S AaAA PooASSs
A project for starting Il large
public library is on foot in Charleston,
S. C.
The new Indian industrial school of
New Mexico will be ready to receive
pupils on April /.
Knoxville, Tenn, claims to sell
twice as much beer rs any 9TH
er town of the same size in the
south.
Pierre Duval, of Rutherford county,
North Carolina, is dead. He fought
under Napoleon and lost Il ley at
Waterloo.
1t is said that the ladies are very
much displeased at the change that
has been made in the state flag of
North Carolina.
The sea- is gentle and harmless, and
rarely retalistes when attacked, says
IN exchange. This is because it is q
fur-bcaring animal.
"Supposc,'' says an exchange, call
the world went TO bed every evening
at sunset" Oh, we'll, the worlds gas
bill would be just as big at the end of
the quarter.
Some farmers of Independence,
Ark, have a new variety of cotton
which they found growing wild in the
woods. The stalks grow ten feet in
height, and it yields five thousand
pounds per acre.
In Dooly county, Florida, a 14-year-
old boy runs a six-mule farm and plows
all of the mules himself. He uses a
c%ultivator which cuts a swathe six feet
in width in one through. He prepares
from six to twenty acres a day.
SIS your master busy p' asked the
tailor. mo, he is out" "But L just
saw him at the upper window"
well, l just asked him for money,
and he said he was out. "Oh, if that's
the case am out too"
Every dog has his day, the cat takes
the nights, the iceman and the milk
nan takes the early morning hours,
and the scissor grinder with his bell
and the fruitman with his yawp takes
the rest of a lifetime that is worth liv-
ing.
There is said to be a regular trade in
human skeletons in New York. There
are a great many boarding-houses in
the metropolis, and therefore there
should be no difficulty in keeping the
supply of skeletons fully up to tho de-
mand.
A man in Wayland, N. Y, runs a
bar in connection with an undertaking
establishment. By this means he Sc
cures money from everyone in the
town. If people won't %patronize one
part Of his business they invariably do
the other.
The state of Arkansas derives
S25, 1000 per annum from its peniten-
tiary by leasing the labor Of eighty
%convicts to cigar manufacturers, and
handing over 290 others to farmers,
the consideration being 1915 per
month and all expenses.
A scientist says thatin three million
years the earth will be one gigantic
iceberg. Unless the good book errs,
in three million years a large number
of the present residents of this earth
will have peculiar reasons for wishing
they were back here again.
There are 31,694 Irishmen in the
British army. The rest of the male
population of the emerald isle Gre
scattered over the face of the earth,
either acting as policemen, or running
the political affairs of the country IN
which they happen to find themselves.
A curiosity in the shape of a well
which produces warm water is excit-
ing no little interest among the resi-
dents of Quinton, N. j. The well is
situated in a w~indow-glass factory,
and it IS supposed that the water from
the springs feeding the well passes
under the furnaces and is thus heated.
DR.. Leland, a Georgia physician who
died recently, al for a long time UNI
conscious before death. Reviving, he
told his family and friends that his
soul, separate from his body, had seen
thom all weeping around his old frame
as it lay dead in the chair. He was
loath to return to it, but was forced
by an impulse he could not resist.
George Lewis, colored, of Dooly
county. Florida, has a tame gopher,
which has made its home in q hole il
his yard for four years. He has nam.
ed it lobe, and in warm weather,
when the children go to the hole and
call him by name, he will crawl out
and follow them all over the yard, eat
ing from their hands and doing other
funny tricks.
The sanitary side of our school sys-
tenn is examined in The Andovar Re
view, and the conclusion is reached
..that there are evils connected with
common schools which are more thar
the necessary incidents of a nearly
perfect system" The point insisted
OF is that the present school manage
; ment contributes largely to the increase
; of nervous disorders, and interfere.
seriously with he health of the pupils
: The pastor of a colored Baptis
church in Baltimore was charged b,
members with having run away will
money belonging to the congregation
never intrusted HIM with more thar
SIS at a time, intended as a fortrightly
installment of his salary, and Their
. crushedh his adversarics by asking some
! one to explain how he could supper
himself and run away upon such al
amount.
!; The writer in The st. Louis Medlca
y Journal advises young practitioner
never to make fun of an old woman!
remedy. lie will not only give o:
tense, but may miss a valuable aid Ii
his practice. The writer adds: '..Il
1880, while practiclng in Madiso
q county, Illinois, l was induced by th
d representations of an old woman t
;; make the trial, in dysintery and dial
rhea. of tablespoonfuI-doses of pur
' cidar vinegar, with the addition of sui
|, ticient salt to be noticeable, and
!, acted so charmingly that | have neve
y used anything else"
The baneful influence of the moder
s cooking academy will penetrate tn
= !. interior of our best households, j
spite of all endeayors to return to tn
good old-fashioned cooking of on
u l a.AaAlaonn = kil,la4 Lax.