The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-04-10
PASSING EVENTS.

Cravats and scarfs are made of pa
per by a Berlin manufacturer.
..The Hopping Disciples of the
Devil is the name of a dancing club
in Texas.
New York proposes to introduce the
London fashion of hiring empty houses
for balls.
Over three hundred dwellings have
been built in Montgomery, Ala, dur
ing the past twelve months.
Eight little bootblacks, who had
beat their way from New Orleans, ar.
rived at Los Angeles, Cal, recently. '
The Washington Territory Insane
asylum contains at present 149 in
mates-1l0 men and thirty-nino wo.
men.
The United States possesses an Ital-
ian population of ITO, 900, Of whom
over 10000 reside in the city of New
York.
Malarial fevers are greatly preva-
lent in Toronto, Canada, and there
have lately been numerous fatal cases
of typhoid.
OF the 275 students at John Hopkins
university 14O are graduate stu
dents" from nearly eighty different
institutions.
AT the New Orleans exposition the
electric lights alone cost about 81, 250
per day the music $3.50, and the po-
lice about $3.50.
An American caterer has introduced
''crab sausages," which are declared
by Ajacius of old to be dedicate and
tempting" History repeats itself in
~gastronomy.
The Methodist Episcopal church is
going to start another university in
western Missouri or eastern Kansas.
A Kansas citizen offers $500, 600 if they
will call it by his name.
There is great suffering and loss of
stock on the north and south sides of
the Red river, in Louisiana, caused by
floods from recent rains, At least five
thousand head of stock were lost.
A horse requires at least 400 cubic
fish army regulations allow in new
stables, to each horse, 1,6O5 cubic feet,
and 100 square feet of floor space
The Gem Social club is the cuphon-
ious name of an opium den of large
dimensions recently established in
Philadelphia. White men are the
godfathers of the infamous resort.
The haNseed crop of the past season
in this country is said not to exceed
$500 bushels. Prices have ranged
from $1.69 in May to S1.33 in Novem-
Der, and the average price for the
year was STAG.
When a house is to be let in Mexico
the owner sticks an old newspaper in
the window. 1t isn't very tasteful and
seldom improves the appearance of the
house, but it is economical and is I'M
derstood by the community.
Sylvia Duboicc, a negress aged ZIG,
lives in restitution on the bleak sum-
NIT of the Sourland mountain, in Hun
terdon county, New Jersey, in a little
frame cabin, with one room. hardly
large enough for the swinging of a cat.
In the New York pilot service there
are nineteen boats, with 1873 licensed
pilots, all but two of whom are in ac-
tive service. During 1884 6,O45 ves-
sells were piloted in and out of the har-
Dor at a total cost to the vessel owners
of S4l5, 513.45.
A handsome grotto, formed of rich
gold and silver bearing ores, has lust
been erected in the Colorado section
of the New Orleans exposition. The
walls are composed of specimens from
200 mines, some of the specimens hay
ing an assay value of $4,000 a ton.
Not long since the Anchor line tried
the experiment of a direct line from
Calcutta TO New York via the Suez ca
nal, and it has been so successful
that the fleet will be increased. The
cargoes consist of linseed, indigo,
hides, jute, and coffee from Ceylon.
A young married lady of upper
Manhattan" says The Mail and Er-
press, who has been addicted to paint
ing her lips as well as her cheeks and
eyelashes, is o under medical treat
ment to reduce the size of her lips,
when have become ''horribly enlarg-
ed" by chemical poison.
1t is o learned that the dcfalca-
tions discovered in the office OF tho
auditor of public accounts of Virginia
will at least reach 800, 900, and some
of those engaged in the investigation
OF the accounts say they will not be
surprised if the amount reaches Sl5O.-
600.
There is a charming absence of cir
cumlocution about the following YER
dict recently rendered by an Arkansas
~coronor's jury over the remains of a
well-known drunkard 1.-The Teller
conn ter his death by switchin' off
from one kind O. whisky ter another.
The moral O. this here verdickis is, don't
switch"
Texas is a great state. The Ell Paso
jail is out OF fix and there is no lumber
at hand to tinker it up with, and So
prisoners are chained by the neck,
An innocent man was tied ~ in this
way by mistake the other aay, and
waited thirty-six hours for the, easy.
going authorities to discover their
blunder.
,ia largest bridge in the world
.iosfes Lake Pontchartrain, at New
Orleans, and is twenty-five miles in
length. 1t is trestle-work, on ni,es
ana Is made of cypress wood, which
"as hrst saturated with creoske oil,
which renders it imperyious to moist.
ure and proof against the attack Of
barnacles.
Inc number OF plant specimens
known to botanists has been placed at
hundred thousand, but it seems
there are many still unknown. Last
summer an English botanist made an
excursion of but fifty miles into tho
mountains from Canton, China, and of
the $40 specimens he procured. II
proved wholly new to science.
a German experimenter, Prof. f.
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