The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-10-09

An estimate of the losses by fire in
the United States and Canada for the
month just ended makes a total of So,
SOC, 900 and gives the entire loss
by fire since Jan. l at $65, 900, 900.
The great nebula of Andromeda has
Just become an astronomical puzzle.
1t now shows a star-point in the midst
of its luminous tracery upon the blue.
black background of space.
In 1850 the insane in the United
States were in proportion of one to
l,4S6 of the population; in 1860, one
in 1,30S; in 1870, one in 1000; but in
1880 the proportion OF insane rose to
in 554 Of the population.
The total official number of deaths
from cholera in Spain is now about
$4,000, and there is reason to believe
that the real figures are much larger
The most destructive wars do not kill
SO many people in as short a time.
There are some $500, 900 acres I'M
der wood in England; in the Colonies
the forests are estimated to cover no
less than $40, 900, COO acres. Prussia
has "a, 900, 900 acres. France 22,OOO,-
600 acres, Austria %, 900, 600 acres and
Hungary %, 600, 600 acres.
The ruins of Fort Sumter are now
but one story high, and there are but
half a dozen guns, not one of which is
fit for use. The government pays two
hundred dollars per month for watch,
men, who keep lights burning for the
guidance of mariners.
Trichinosis is now said to be con-
tracted manly by those who consume
pork derived from the more carniyor-
Gus wild-sw NJ which abound in for
ests. Persons whose pork-diet is de-
rived from animals carefully fed on
large da ry-farms do not suffer from
the affection.
The mosquito crop of Florida is said
to be smaller than usual this year, ow-
ing to the discovery of q st. Johns ho-
tel keeper, who tried the experiment of
throwing oil into ponds and stagnant
bits of water. He found that it pre-
vented the insects from Matching, and
his plan IS coming into general use in
the State.
In an address on the water supply
of anc ent Roman cities. Professor w.
II. Corfield, of the Sanitary Institute
OF Great Britain, presented to that
body a strong argument against all
attempts to purify water that had once
become impure. and insisted upon the
wisdom of the Romans in drawing the
water for their cities from sources of
undoubtcd purity.
G%enev:eve Ward, the actress, who
recently completed a season in New
Zealand, says she was annoyed by the
assiduous attentions of the Maori king.
He attended every performance and
finally secured an interview and asked
her to marry him. She declined the
honor as he had several wives al
ready, and he offered to kill all the
other wives if she would only consent
The south rejoices in a new industry.
The canning of oysters. shrimp, ETC.,
has been begun along the gulf coast.
and there are already five establish-
ments engaged in the business between
New Orleans and Mobile. They have
all tiourished from the start and have
rapidly extended their operations. The
gulf oyster now finds its way into all
parts of the south. and has driven the
Baltimore oyster out of much of its
territory.
The theory that there is a direct re-
lationship between scarlet fever and
d~iptheria finds some support among
English med cal men. At a recent
meeting of the Northwestern Associa-
ton OF Med cal Officers of Health one
speaker related facts tending to show
that scarlet fever had been contracted
from pat ents suffering with dipthe-
ria, and diptheria from scarlet fever
patients.
1t is computed that c ca year tn
NJ ssissippi river pours into the Gulf of
Mex co $50, 900, 900 tons of solid mat
ter, which it's waters hold in solution.
At this rate one foot of land over its
basin would be removed in four thous-
and years. Similar calculations APP
piled to the St. Lawrence, the La Pla-
ia and the Amazon reach the result
that one hundred tons per square mile
is removed from the entire continent
every year.
The English Wesleyans are much
concerned about the persecuti ons to
which Their members are subjected a
the hands of State Church landlords