The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-09-04
CONVERSATIONS.

Condensations.
Figure-heads for ships are going out
of use. Where, in 1860, there were, in
Boston, six carvers of these heads. now
there is only one. Sailors are fond of
poking fun at them, and often q ship
comes into port with q pipe in the
mouth of the winged cherub on her
bow.
The healing power of earthquakes is
being discussed in the Spanish medical
press. The statement is made that in
the recent shake-up at Malaga most Of
the patients forgot their diseases and
took to the open air. The change
agreed with them SO we'll that a few
only have returned to the hospital.
The exodus to Europe promises to be
light this year and the proprietors Of
home resorts are expecting to reap q
harvest. But the same cause that pre-
vents people from going to Europe
where they a get the worth OF their
money in one way or another may keep
people at home.
Professor Olozeski has produced the
lowest recorded temperature, 1893 be-
low zero Farenheit Ply vaporizing liquid
nitrogen under low pressure. Liquid
carbon monoxide gave 265 below zero,
and liquid oxygen 246f.
The largest gun yet made for the
United States Government has been
completed by the South Boston Iron
Company, and shipped to the ordnance
proving station at Sandy Hook. It has
been in process of construction since
last August, and was o mate of the one
destroyed last September during the
moulding. This gun is 80 feet in
length, weighs "a tons. andi Of 12-inch
calibre, carries an S00-pound shot, and
uses $50 pounds of powder in n dis
charge. 1t is rifed with 80 grooves,
and it intended for an experiment long
range rifle gun.
Philadelphia Times: The climatic
conditions of America are apparently ia
vorable to the development of red hair,
and there is more than one reason to an
ticipate that we shall become o nation of
strawberry blondes in the not very dis
tant future. The diverse foreign ele-
ments that are gradually fused INTO o
new national character are such as cor
roborate rather than weaken this ex-
pectaticn. We have, on the one hand,
the blonde type of the Saxon races, and
on the other the brunette type of the
Latin races, with Celtic reinforcements
of both types. What is more natural
than that the union of these types in a
nation, as in u married couple, should
result in red headed progeny?
An English shipbuilder has prepared
q model of fast cruiser for the British
admiralty, which is worthy the atten-
ton of our own naval board. This ves-
sci will have o speed of twenty-five
miles an hour, with coal carrying ca
pacity sufficient to take her from Liver
pool to the West Indies and back at the
speed of twelve knots. The engines are
safe from shot being protected by tough
steel walls. She carries two no .ton
guns in barbettes plated by thirteen
inches of armor, and will carry torpe-
does to be elected from her bows. The
cost will be not less than $500, 900.
The speed is the paramount recon-
incubation, if the programme of the
English builder can be realized.
Twenty-Five miles an hour is o very high
rate of speed. 1t is average railroad
speed, and will make such a vessel the
most formidable craft atioat.
The increase of luxury among the
officers of the German army has become
30 marked as to be made the subject OF
an article in one of the reviews, and has
led to the PRONUNCIATION of the following
order by the Emperor William: "The
more that luxury and high living gain
ground in other quarters the more does
it become the duty of the officers of the
army not to forget that it is not worldly
goods which have gained them their
high and honored position in the state
and in society. Not only is the military
fitness and ability of the officer injured
by an effeminate manner of life, but the
basis on which the officers class stands
is shaken" The Emperor has always
lived in accordance with these maxims,
and led a simpler life every way than a
majority of l1eutenants.
The first steamer through from New
York to Albany reached that city We'd
nesday, April 8, the latest date since
1875, when navigation opened April
10. The only other years in which the
river has been closed into April, for
fifty years back, we're 1873, 1863, 1856,
1S47, 1S43 and 1886. Since 1890 the
river navigation has been opened forty
one times in March, seven times in
April and six times in. February,
while during the year 1870 the Hudson
was not closed at all. The latest open
ing was in 1S43, when the channel did
did not become clear until the 14th OF
April. The earliest opening was in
1912, when February 4th was the date