The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-21
FACT AND FANCY.

churches and ten colored-
Guests worth $3.50, 600, 900 were at
the San Marco hotel, st. Augustine,
Fla, one day last week.
One of the curios;tics of the New
Orleans exposition is Il pair of trousers
which had been worn for more than
fifty years.
A harpoon of The pattern made over
forty wears ago was taken from a
whale caught near Goes bay, on the
Pacific coast. recently.
OF the eighty-one wholesale liquor
dealers in Nashville, Tenu., siNty-eight
are church members. The rest may
be presumed to constitute a thirteen
club.
During the past two or three months
between thirty and forty Chinese
boys have been sent from San Francis
co to China by their parents to be cdu-
Gated.
The female chimpanzee at the Phila-
delphia geological garden has begun to
shed her teeth exactly in the same
manner as the human child at the
same age.
On the southern front of the white
house at Washington, quinlne is the
principal food of those on night duty,
and the %watchman learn to like it us a
daily tonic.
Francis Turner is the name of an
old and ~impccunious seaman who re-
Gently started off from San francisco
behind Il wheelburrow, which he pro-
poses to trundle to Baltimore, his
former home.
\ writer from Fiji asserts that when
1locks of tern and othrr fowls rest up
on the sea the water becomes smooth,
an effect which he ascribes to oil emit
ted by the birds. o
A tame squirrel, released from cap
sey, family while moving, came back ~
when the household returned after an
absence of six months.
An undertaken of Tucson, Arizona,
has held the embalmed body of a man
since 1882 as collateral for the cost of
the operation, which his relatives in
the eastrefuse to pay.
The average maple-sugar crop OF
Vermont. is in the ncighborhood OF
twelve million pounds, but this year it
will exceed that mount. The Green
mountain state produces one-thlrd OF
the maple-sugar crop of the country.
The specks of beads which float be-
fore the eyes are due to slight defects
in their tissues and fluids. They are r
generally present to some extent in
all eyes. and are not necessarily a
symptom of disease.
1t appears from the Cornell u%niver-
sity register for 1SSi-S5 that the Ii
brary of that Institution contains
about $1,000 volumes and Is, 900 PAM
phlets, and receives additions now at
the rate of about 5000 volumes annu-
ally. The library has a fund, not yet
available, of about 800, 900.
There is so little demand now for the
famous sea island cotton of South Car
DINA that few planters have sold their
last years crop. 1t was formerly used
to adulterate silk, but the demand has
ceased without any apparent reason.
except that by means of improved
machinery, ordinary cotton may be
used for thread and other purposes as
well as the long staple.
A harvest was reaped recently by a
peddler in Marietta, Ga, who painted
the rlumage of Il number of birds and
disposed OF them like hot cakes and at
very fancy prices to unsuspecting buy
ers. Inc fraud was finally discovered,
however, by one of his purchasers,
who dipped one of the birds feathers
in water, when its beautiful tint dis.
appeared.
a writer in an English journal saws
that anyone may be cured of stammer-
ing by simply making an audible note
on expiration before each word. STAN.
merers can sing as easily rs other per
sons. Jacky Broster, of Chester, who
made a large fortune by curing STAN
mering, simply made his pupils say
cher before each word beginning
with n %consonant.
In the early days of the war of the
rebellion Nathaniel KlmbalI, of York
county. Maine. a brick manufacturer.
contracted 4 debt of 80 cents. To nav
it he produced from his pocket a var
nished brick inscribed Good for rs
cents-Nathaniel Kimball," and a
pumpkin-seed marked Good for 5
cents-N. kimbaD. This currency
was accepted. The brick is still in ex.
istence, and kimball is ready to re-
deem 1t, but the present owner, who
paid 81 20 for it, will not sell it.
The editor of a Buffalo newspaper
recently asked the subscribers to name
the ten most important inventions Of
all time. More than eight hundred
answers were received, and the ten
inventions receiving the most votes
were: Tho telegraph, printing press,
steam engine, cotton gin, telephone,
mariners compass, gunpowder, sew
ing machine, telescope, and p%rotogra-
ply. Iwenty-one votes were in favor
of the steamboat. six for manor ,uo
for timepieces, and only one for the
ocean cable.
The attention of photographers has
lately been called to an ingenious
device known as the air brush. A lit.
tie holder is charged with India ink.
, and by a bellows operates with a foot
pedal after the manner of a sewing.
machine, the fluid is blown unon =
faintly-outlined portrait, the result
giving a picture superior in MANY re.
spects to the best crayon drawing. A
l~ife-size portrait NAV, ACCORDING to
this method, be produced in a faw
hours, whereas formerly by the use al
: Inc stump n pencil Is many weeks
, were required,
AS a rule, hens are not noted for
their wisdom. There is one in San
Francisco, however, that deserves
| more than passing mention. Her name
IS not recorded, but her feet is de-
scribed at length. Having lost sever.
al OF her brood of tender chickens bv
the d~epredations of some hungry rats
she seems to have laid a plan to catch
one OF the sly robbers. Feigning in.
difference, she waited until one of tho
rats became holder than the Others.